San Juan lings

I'm still planning on it.  I can always find a lee shore somewhere on Sucia to fish.  Hope to see you and Z. 

anyone seen or heard from Zee? 

anyone seen or heard from Zee? 

Yes.  He's busy this week.

-Allen

too busy to go fishing saturday am???   

anyone seen or heard from Zee? 

Yes.  He's busy this week.

-Allen

I heard he got caught sticking his gum to the underside of the pew at church, and that the pastor is making him clean ALL the gum off ALL the pews in his church.  Church seats something like 1000 holy butts. 

so the question is:  if he is cleaning gum off the church pews on saturday does that mean i wait for him or take someone else along? 

yeah, i am not liking this  

Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo.
Strong wind warning in effect.
Wind northwest 10 to 15 knots diminishing to light near noon then
 becoming southwest 10 to 15 early this evening except 15 to 20 south
 of Tsawwassen. Wind becoming south 10 late this evening then
 increasing to northwest 15 to 20 near noon Saturday. Wind increasing
 to northwest 20 to 30 Saturday afternoon.

SAT..S WIND 10 TO 15 KT...BECOMING SW 15 TO 25 KT EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND RISING TO 20 TO 30 KT LATE. WIND WAVES 1 OR 2 FT BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT. CHANCE OF RAIN.
SAT NIGHT..SW WIND 20 TO 30 KT...EASING TO 15 TO 25 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 5 FT.

looks like the wind shifts on wed. and things should improve.....for my trip dates....5/4-9

J

well, i am officially abandoning my plans for tomorrow at sucia...too windy for my taste....Zee, i hope you are too busy cleaning gum of the pews to make it tomorrow at 6am 'cause i dont seem to be able to get ahold of you to confirm anyways....mabe next weekend guys?

andy is probably already out there and i hope he got a mooring bouy for the night

Sorry for the absence HBH et al. I've actually been a good boy. Work has been really great lately! I probably won't be able to check in as much as normal because of it but I will be around to hand out an ass hat or two if needed.. BTW my church doesn't have pews.. just the one padded seat.. that's in my yak.

Z

BTW my church doesn't have pews.. just the one padded seat.. that's in my yak.

I see see we attend the same church. Just a different denomination.

"Church of the Yellow Yak"   
awaiting a report from Deep Color to see what actually happened at Sucia this weekend

Judging from the winds, he may have won the midnight wakeup call you got last year    Hopefully he bagged some decent lings for those of us that didn't make it out.

Something about rough seas makes fish bite.  I'll post a full report after I untangle and dry out. 

The weather on Saturday was surprisingly nice compared to the marine forecast.  Calm winds and sun for most of the day.  Sunday was a different story but still plenty of good fishing water on the North and East side of the island.  And the big winds forecasted for today chased us off the water Sunday night, instead of the planned departure of Monday.  I'm glad I'm not out in those 45 mph gusts right now. 

I hit big lings right away each day on the money bait - a root beer split tail with shrimp fly ganion.  After that, I switched to my lighter rod with a Burkley Gulp Ghost Shrimp (new penny) and tried for Cabezone.  No cabbies but the rockfish bite was insane.

I remember last year being in a panic because I had no rockfish the entire weekend.  I finally managed one in the last few minutes of fishing.  As is always the case, when you don't want one, they go crazy.  This year, I probably caught 40 rockfish, some pushing 16 inches, but most 10 to 12 inchers.  During one stretch, I caught them on every cast for a stretch of about 7 casts.  All swam back down to the deep unharmed because I was never deeper than 60. 

I even spent some time bouncing shrimp and Gulp minnows around the bouys trying for flounder.  No flounder but I did net a surprise Greenling.