GCLA on the Sea Biscuit

We were very excited for this trip with scores of Seabass and Halibut filling the counts as of late.....but weather, as usual, was throwing us a bad hand. We boarded and hunkered down for what was promising to be a rough ride out..... And it was, but I kept thinking...It will be beautiful tomorrow....at least thats what iWindsurf was saying

Woke up to glass conditions and not much current, but the bite started off with a short Seabass and a couple of missed bites so we were hopeful...Fred caught a big log of a slime and Marion hooked a nice 32 pound flatty and that kept us amped up enough to stay there trying for a while. Fred ends up coming through with a decent Seabass on the lead head, that would be our only one for the day.

After a while we got bored with no bites and took off to Bobby's whitefish honey hole. This spot bit and what a blast we had....Huge whitefish ripping drag and tons of hootin' and hollerin' erupted as the girls and a few guests put the wood to a great variety....Ling cod, sheephead, whitey, and even a few big reds ate the squid....

We tryed to go out and fish the deep spots for rockfish, but we gave up on that quick as the seas were just too gnarly out of the lee of the Island. Back inside for a few drifts that did not produce much and we wrapped up a gorgeous day on the water..

Sounds like they killed them today...Freakin seabass....always better the day before or the day after....

Great time and great company made for a great day on the water. Special thanks to Capts Bobby and Matt, Scott and JJ on deck and of course Jonathan in the Galley for taking such great care of us as usual.

Kingfisher, Craig Alaska July 2012

immature bald eagle

view from condo

Haida carvings in Hydaburg

new carving to replace 90 year old ones in totem park

getting ready to go fish

Our fist day on the water was a 1/2 day and we left at the liesurly hour of 9 am
Biff and I were on this trip with his cousin Robert of Utah. ( Robert was best man ot our wedding)

Haida carver and me

On the first day the kings were slow so we decided to go and get the rock fish limits out of the way,  our buddy Nils was on board and hooked this nice halibut and handed it to Biff to bring up- turned out to be 125# a new pwesonal best for the Biff!

We were jigging off the bottom mostly for the Yellow Eye, Lings and Halibuts,  I thought this was a nice  Ling about 20#or more.

 Then the kings started to bite, there was a lot of pressure on the salmon grounds, so getting our limits was not easy, it was drizzly and cold out and there was an army of commercial trollers out too.

That is why we were smiling so big to get the kings, felt like reall success against the odds

Here are the size hooks used for rock fish with some of the herring used in mooching for the salmon on the table behind my hand

This is the nice stinky salmon guts used for the halibut and rock fish.

This is Robert, Biff's cousin and a 40# Ling Cod

 Here is one of the group shots on the dock back at the lodge.  the smaller fish we are holding are silver (coho) salmon.  They bite like firecrackers and jump all over the place.
We fished 3 and 1/2 days in all, each uf us came home with 3 boxes of fish a piece

Kingfisher lodge- the Hady's home looking back from the dock

Starfish - shot looking straight down from ramp walkway

July Birthdays!

The Gold Coast Lady Anglers would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to the lovely ladies who celebrate their birthday in JULY!!!!

Patty G. - July 2nd

Lori S. - July 3rd

Babsie S. - July 23rd

Candy S. - July 24th