Pacific City Tuesday July 21st

Had a good time but I had to get off the water early for family plans but I took 5 blacks home biggest 18 inches.

Biggest of the five

Nice work, Mojo!

Fred "True" Trujillo

You suck dude.did any have worms?

Got lucky and ran my bait into the nose of a 9-10
Lbs chinook.  90 fow and about 20 feet deep.  Overall it seemed the coho are a bit out still.  The dories seemed to get into them.

Nice to meet you Scott & nice work. I paddled 3+ miles out & went South. Marked some great Halibut drifts, but no one was getting into em. Saw a good amt of coho jumping but no biters. Some guides threw back 2 natives. H20 temp was 59 at 200 FOW. Late limits on the norm casting 2oz lancers & retrieving. This is much more fun than Jigging & lings slam it.
A word of caution. In 180 FOW I was trying to gently release a large copper when he went crazy & I felt him stick me through my gloves to the bone of my right thumb. It messed up my whole day & made paddling back very difficult. At one point the muscles in my forearm cramped up & I couldn't paddle. I made it bleed good...but for reference the fish checker told me to rub fish slime on it or better yet the fluid from the eyeball.
Hugh

Nice to meet you Scott & nice work. I paddled 3+ miles out & went South. Marked some great Halibut drifts, but no one was getting into em. Saw a good amt of coho jumping but no biters. Some guides threw back 2 natives. H20 temp was 59 at 200 FOW. Late limits on the norm casting 2oz lancers & retrieving. This is much more fun than Jigging & lings slam it.
A word of caution. In 180 FOW I was trying to gently release a large copper when he went crazy & I felt him stick me through my gloves to the bone of my right thumb. It messed up my whole day & made paddling back very difficult. At one point the muscles in my forearm cramped up & I couldn't paddle. I made it bleed good...but for reference the fish checker told me to rub fish slime on it or better yet the fluid from the eyeball.
Hugh

Hope your feeling better now Hugh. I know how bad it is to paddle with a cramped muscle. Hope to hit it with you guys again when I can stay out longer.   

Kwik, you are the champion! Way to go on that salmon. Nice seeing everyone out there, what a great day! Sorry to hear about that copper venom Hugh, that sounds painful. You ever noticed how much stronger they are than the black rockfish? All the salmon talk on the radio started pestering me so I went back and dropped off my fish and picked up salmon gear but didn't get any action. I felt "very new here" once I started trolling out in the ocean, having never done it before.
The beach was a zoo in the afternoon and nobody seems to care where anyone parks anymore. Doesn't bother me but I can see how the dory dudes get pissed.

but for reference the fish checker told me to rub fish slime on it or better yet the fluid from the eyeball.

It works! You won't believe it until you try it, but it works. It has to be the eyeball of the exact fish that stuck you, not just the same species. I have had some very painful spikes before that took weeks to fully heal. After I found out about that trick the next time I got jabbed I tried it and I couldn't believe it - almost immediate relief and within 5 minutes it was just like any other small cut. It's worked both times I've tried it.

but for reference the fish checker told me to rub fish slime on it or better yet the fluid from the eyeball.

It works! You won't believe it until you try it, but it works. It has to be the eyeball of the exact fish that stuck you, not just the same species. I have had some very painful spikes before that took weeks to fully heal. After I found out about that trick the next time I got jabbed I tried it and I couldn't believe it - almost immediate relief and within 5 minutes it was just like any other small cut. It's worked both times I've tried it.

Want to know how to get rid of stinging nettles? Pee on it go figure

but for reference the fish checker told me to rub fish slime on it or better yet the fluid from the eyeball.

It works! You won't believe it until you try it, but it works. It has to be the eyeball of the exact fish that stuck you, not just the same species. I have had some very painful spikes before that took weeks to fully heal. After I found out about that trick the next time I got jabbed I tried it and I couldn't believe it - almost immediate relief and within 5 minutes it was just like any other small cut. It's worked both times I've tried it.

That sounds like some crazy medieval witch craft...   

Me: Help me, I've been stung and I can't feel my hand.

Witch:  Ah.. been stung by the evil canary rockfish, have you?  Now you must go on a quest to capture that fish and make a tonic of it's eye's vitreous humor.

Me: Can't I just use some of that fish eye juice you have in that amphora on your shelf.  I'll pay you well for it, cause this really hurts.

Witch: No! No! You need the exact fish that stung you.

Me:  What?  Crap.
 

Did someone say, a quest?

We mock what we do not understand.

The proof's in the puddin'. It works whether you "believe" or not. 

Awesome!

We mock what we do not understand.

The proof's in the puddin'. It works whether you "believe" or not. 

We're just messing around, of course. That's a remedy many of us have known about for a while.