Billy V Report - May24th - Fair Haven

[Billy V]

In a word...SLOW. We had fantastic color and temp in tight but after 2 hours of trolling in that great looking water we hadn't moved a rod. So I made the decision to head out in search of silver fish and within 15 minutes of turning us out we were rewarded with the biggest fish we've taken so far this year:

The King weighed in at 16 lbs and took a Northern King seasick waddler fished down 25' off of a rigger. We had the spoon stretched back 50' and we were pulling 2.2mph out over 70FOW. The fish really put up a great fight and we had quite the time bringing him to net. Kudos to everyone on board for pitching in to help land the fish.

We worked our way out as far as 200 FOW and we found a small pocket of water out over 170 FOW that held some fish and we looped it for most of the rest of the day and that's where we managed to take this small King. While we were out over 170FOW we had a new Siggs Rigs Glitter Glow Pulse fly/Green Spinny fire twice while fished behind a wire diver out 180'.

It didn't sound like anyone in Fair Haven set the world on fire on Saturday as we listened to the vhf, and we confirmed that back at the dock.

I sure wish the catching had been better, but the fishing was a lot of fun and I was happy to at least put a nice King in the boat.

[Priority1]

GJ Capt. Bill. Even if the catch was down, it's always good to be on the water. Your biggest King so far this season, makes up for the light cooler.

[Billy V]

Given that we didn't take any kings at all last year till late June, we've been delighted with taking 10lb + kings each trip out so far this spring. And having that 16lb beauty in the box certainly eased the pain of having too few others in the box!