Hate tapatalk now. Homer Oct 11 one more time with a PC

Ok.  Try this one more time.  I can't se my tapatalk posts. I will delete other post.

Sunday was on the water y 1:30 pm.  Off by 4pm.  6 for 8 during that time.  released two, kept 4.  Nothing huge but enough to make it worthwhile with a proxy.

All fish caught on a silver horde coho killer spoon.  If you are looking for better hook  sets and maybe more fish, you can probably fish bait.  Very few pollock. 

Interestingly, the baitfish still are not sandlances.  Look like small smelt.  Not sure what to make of that.  I am hoping it just means the good fishing lasts longer once the sandlances move in. 

The video:


A few pics:

Great report and video, as usual.

What do you do with the heads?

Great report and video, as usual.

What do you do with the heads?

Thx

My parents as well as my Native friends use them to make soup.  Whenever I post fish pics, the heads are always the first part of the fish to be claimed.  lol.  Smaller ones I also save for halibut bait though i rarely use them since herring seems to work! 

Nice video - so totally jealous.   Time to get me butt down to Homer I think...

nice salmon indeed! Just curious why the centerpin reel and not the release? Dont know much about them but they look interesting.

nice salmon indeed! Just curious why the centerpin reel and not the release? Dont know much about them but they look interesting.

Just something different.  My two main rods right now are both seekers.  One is more of a halibut rod (Hercules 260) at 6ft  the other is more like a salmon rod Blue Lightning II Inshore at 8'. 

I have always preferred shorter fast action sticks off a kayak and when i am fishing both Halibut and salmon I favor the Hercules.  I wanted to try out the more typical salmon rod and it just happened to have the Daiwa Mooching reel on it.  For some reason I thought it would be more fun...it's not.  All you do is freak out because it just can't pick up the line as fast as the spinning or conventional reels.  90% of the fish I catch run towards the kayak so it just creates anxiety. 

For meat fishing, I think I will stick to my release/truth  Sg and most likely keep it on my hercules.  Hook sets are more solid, and the fish is much easier to control around the net.   I might move the Release to my Seeker Inshore rod.  I think if I am going to have fun, I will fish my ultralight gloomis rod with a spinning reel.

I use 12 oz sinkers and divers so you need a rod with some backbone.