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This is Catoosh Island, the most northwesterly point here on the lower 48th United States. It has a lighthouse on it. It's unmanned. It's all automated like they have been now for about 25 years.
It's a nesting area for gulls and cocklecks, mers and very unique.
Yes, this is the pillar over here. Oh wow, look at that. 160 feet high. Indian folklore story has it that young Indian
kids climbed it, got on top, was afraid to get down and ended up dying on there.
The other rocks over there is Skagway Rock, which is a very famous king salmon
fishing area, probably the most famous in Nehobah. People come from everywhere to
fish Skagway.
That's when your salmon season is over sometime too. This bottom fishing will be fun.
Yeah, I love bottom fishing. I just get excited about it.
It's just that excitement of not knowing what it is you're going to get when you put your line down.
Yeah.
Guys, I think there's some fish here. I think we can get them.
All right, great. I'm going to stick out an old faithful man jig here that I've caught a lot of fish on.
Al, that ought to work more like the one you're using. Oh, I like that.
Yeah, I think you'll do all right with that one. That's a good one.
Larry, I'm going to use this blank. We call them metal jigs. For a name, it's the Dungeness Stinger.
Oh, okay.
Just a blank. They hit little rubber worms and stuff like that too.
Yeah, we use shrimp flies, rubber worms, the whole word.
When you're out in this deep water, why it's nice to have this kind of allure, like that or like this,
because it's a little bit more toward their food fish that they're out here feeding on.
How far down do you fish?
Well, they're stacked all the way from here down to the bottom. It's what, 19 ponds here, John?
Yeah, how about 163 feet or 165 feet on the hump here and you just keep it moving.
Just hit bottom and just keep it moving up and down.
It takes a lot of concentration here, Larry. You've got to pay attention to what you're doing.
Okay.
Actually, it's probably the least concentration fishing that you need to do. It's really pretty fun.
Hang on to your rod.
Hang on to your rod. That's about it.
There we go. I've got one.
Oh, it looks like a good one.
Looks like a pretty good one.
Boy, they're right on the bottom, Larry. Right on the bottom.
Okay.
Okay, there he is, coming up.
Here, look at this, Larry.
You got him.
You got one, a fairly typical type of a bass here. Let me show you this.
Oh.
How's that, huh?
Pretty good size.
I've got a book on them, but I can't...
There's so many of them, it's hard to keep track of them.
Your black rockfish is a pretty common fish.
Yeah, this is our most common variety in the sport of fishery.
There's 65 different varieties of rockfish.
Right.
And there's blues, there's yellow-eye, china rock, vermilion.
All of those are a variety of rockfish.
Good eating, you know, there's a variety of ways to cook those things, so that's absolutely delectable.
They're so mild, you can fit some about anyway, I think, can't you?
Most recipes are made with rockfish.
Exactly, my wife marinates them in lemon juice, and then fry them in a very light butter and...
Oh, gosh. Just marvelous.
Or fish and chips.
Sure.
A lot of people like fish and chips.
Just marvelous for that.
Okay, there we go, I've got one.
Oh, I've got one too.
All right, nice double, nice double.
Oh, mine's going around pretty good.
Kind of thought maybe it might be a little Tommy Kukod down here, but it might be just another black.
I know it's bringing them in too quick anyway.
All right, oh, this is a little bit of a tussle.
I wasn't down too deep either.
I got this one on the bottom, so...
Oh, that's a good one.
I got this one on the bottom, so there's just a few scattered here and there.
Mine's coming up here, I've got another black.
I think I probably have a pretty good fish here too.
Like you've been getting.
This is just a little bit bigger one here.
Yeah, nice fish.
Uh-huh.
Okay, I've got a black here.
This is a blue.
You've got a blue.
Now you can tell the difference by the size of their mouth.
Right, this is a very small mouth.
Right, uh-huh.
And he has a little smaller head, and this guy you can see is kind of massive around the head, and that guy's very small, but they have a deeper body.
And notice this is just a little bit slimmer.
It is for his size.
Uh-huh.
So are the blacks a bigger fish normally than the blue?
Normally they are, yes.
A blue this size would be a darn good size fish.
Very similar shape with their...
They have exactly the same when it comes to...
Pins and spines.
All the spines and the pins, right, they're exactly the same there.
The pre-opercal here, it comes back to back of the eye on the black, and on the blue it just comes to the front of the eye.
So like a small mouth and large mouth.
Exactly, you got it.
I'll be darned.
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Oh, I got a birdie.
Alright, there we go.
That's great.
Coming to fish.
Oh, hey.
Might be halibut.
Is that right?
First we've got a nice light out there.
Well, that adds to the fun of it.
I think I got 15.
Now this is fun, fish.
You know, it doesn't feel like it's really heavy.
I can't do anything with it.
Oh, you got one.
Got one.
That was fast.
You're hanging down there like a halibut.
I've got it up some.
It's not going to come.
And then once in a while it'll just take off.
That's a good one.
Well, this is fun.
This is a day's fishing and we've just gotten started.
What have you got?
I'll call that a canary.
This is a canary rock, right?
Great.
Probably the better eating of all of them in my book,
although I don't know if you can really tell them apart.
A lot of people call these red snapper, but of course they're not.
They're a true red snapper being a warm water fish,
and these are rockfish.
It's a misnomer, but you know, people like to have a red snapper on the table,
and so what the heck?
They taste the same.
Sure.
They're just as good, if not better, than the red snapper.
In my opinion, I've eaten both and I like them both real well.
So look at over there, that salmon right there.
Oh, salmon's grilled?
Uh-huh.
After a piece of bait, you can see it jump out.
That salmon is pushing the bait around.
Right.
Well, that's neat.
That's interesting that you catch halibut quite often on these.
There it is.
It is a halibut.
It's a nice one, Larry.
I'll just have you step back here.
All right.
Just have you step back.
About 15 pounds of line.
Oh, good.
All right.
Hey, look at this.
It's halibut.
OK.
Good job.
Boy, look at that.
Hey, that's a dandy.
That's a dandy.
Boy, what a dig.
Just on that little jig, yeah.
Isn't that amazing?
Boy, I tell you, we've caught so many big fish and so many halibut on those little jigs like that.
We had that 165 pounder on that same size jig.
Amazing.
Just amazing.
You kind of wonder why we use the big stuff for halibut when you can catch them on those little ones.
You know, it's shallower here, and you can use those little ones.
When you get out on that deep water stuff, you just can't get those little guys down.
If you could, you could certainly catch them on the little jig like that.
Those markings come from sitting on gravel beds on the bottom.
And they make an attempt to camouflage themselves by being similar to the bottom.
They look pretty good.
They've got some pretty good teeth on them, too.
Oh, yeah.
They've got raked by those, there's sort of a petite or sharp objects along their gills on the inside, too.
Yeah, their gills are very sharp.
I grabbed one one time and picked it up.
I just got it all raked along the back of my hand.
Called gill rakers.
Yes.
Uh-huh.
Larry, there you are.
There's just a taste of the fishing here.
We really didn't want to catch this halibut here, although we do get some here occasionally.
We're just going to show you some bass fishing here.
And now, of course, what we want to do is go to where we normally catch our halibut.
All right.
But that's, we got a nice variety of fish here.
And, you know, I think that that shows you some of the stuff that we've got here.
Oh, boy.
We've got so many kinds of stuff.
We'll get some halibut.
Okay.
And we still have a chance to fish for those lingcod later, you think?
And hopefully we'll get into that good lingcod hole here.
Wow.
You guys have got a good...
Oh, we do.
We're pretty lucky out here.
So hang on.
John's about ready.
Okay.
Larry, this is what we use out here for halibut.
Looks a little cumbersome, but actually it's a pretty good deal.
Coathanger.
Yeah, coat hanger.
It's called a spreader bar.
And it was originated, I think, initially to help keep your line from tangling when you
let it down in deep water.
But they have found that there's been some additional features of this thing that really
makes it worthwhile.
And that is that when you jerk on your line, it makes your herring kind of jerk around
and give it a little bit of live action to it.
Boy, that's a hunk of lead.
Yeah, that's a hunk of lead.
And we're in a deep bit of water here, and that's why.
We're right about 55 fathoms.
And that's a good bit of what?
That's right, 330 feet of water.
Now this is a wire...
Wire leader, 140 pound test in this particular.
Seven-odd, eight-odd hook.
Seven-odd, eight-odd hook, right.
And then we use an 80 pound Dacron as main line.
Okay.
Want the opportunity to be able to get a big one in the event that we get him on.
So we're going to put a herring on?
Yes.
Put a herring on it.
No real special way to put the herring on.
What you do want, however, is to have it with less drag so that you don't have a lot of
drag.
Pretty straight.
Pretty straight if possible.
I guess what we ought to do now is to just put them down there and see if we can catch
one.
Okay.
What do you think?
Yeah.
Okay, well mine's rigged up here, looks like.
Yeah, yours is all set right there.
Okay.
Which side of the boat should I fish from?
Oh, I think maybe the same side here until we find out which way our drift is here.
Just got to put her down.
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How do you guys like that?
Wouldn't be without one really out here in the fog or just making a course.
You just can keep on course and it saves you on fuel and economy and everything.
Different points where you hit a fish and get right back to where you caught fish before
different waypoints, different locations.
When I used to first come out here, when the fog wasn't here, I'd line up hills over on
the island, over on the mainland, different hills just to let me know kind of that I was
out far enough and you know I could be off a half a mile or more probably.
I've been tough today, wouldn't I?
Yeah.
It would roll in on certain days out there and I wouldn't know where I was after a while.
You got one John?
Alright.
Let's go halibut.
Okay, halibut.
Good one.
Hang on to him.
You know Larry, when our salmon season started to slow down, is when we started to get a
little bit more interested in this halibut fishery and we didn't know much about it.
We'd only caught halibut by accident while salmon fishing.
The best time for our halibut fishing is actually in the spring of the year, in May and June.
That's when we catch the most and this year we caught well over 10,000 halibut.
Just an absolute incredible number for us to catch.
Well the way it's going today, we really haven't fished very long.
This is quite a halibut ground.
We had a halibut derby 5th, 6th and 7th of June and we caught 1600 halibut in those three
days.
Okay, I think I'm tangled with you maybe.
Yeah, John, I'm totally wrapped up.
Okay, come on John, come this way and I'll get out of your way here.
Okay.
Get around him there.
Yeah, I am tangled with you.
Okay.
Okay, maybe that's enough.
Yeah, yeah, I'm still tangled.
All right.
I've got the gaffer for you, John.
Thanks.
Give me a rod.
Okay.
There's the halibut.
Yeah, there's the halibut.
Let's see here.
He's in the net.
Where do I put it?
I'll get you some
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Bval ensaihe.
He's a nice one.
Yes he is.
Way to go.
All right.
Good halibut.
Can you just cut that line and see?
Yeah.
Take the gaffer.
Come on John.
I learn something every time I go fishing from him about
him there.
Well, I tell you, I do too, you know.
Well, I tell you, I do too.
You know, it's an interesting thing.
And if you look at them all, like this
is a long, narrow, tapered guy.
And some are little, short, fat, chunky guys.
And you get all kinds of varieties.
You get left-handed and right-handed halibut.
You have a right-handed halibut.
Uh-huh.
Sometimes the right eye migrates instead of the left eye.
Oh, I see.
You have the stomach on one side, then the other.
But most normally, it's the left eye that migrates over.
Right.
That's what I thought.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
There we go.
Got him?
Yeah.
All right.
Ling cod?
Must be.
It isn't kicking much, but it's got some weight.
Feels like a fish.
Good.
All right.
So if we need it, one more fish.
Sometimes it's not as much work to catch a fish.
Yeah.
All right.
They like that pipe cheek.
Yeah, they like that little little worm on there.
That's the secret to it.
I thought you were going to tell John about that.
Thank you.
I think it just hit that.
You just get it down there.
There you go.
You had some way of getting it down there.
I think that's probably true.
How heavy are those jigs?
40 ounces.
A little weight to it, but it isn't kicking a lot.
Ling's come up pretty.
Yeah.
They do?
Until they get up right up there.
OK.
Yeah, now he's kicking.
Probably a ling cod, right?
Yeah, it's that business I was telling you about.
They come up, and then pretty soon they decide that.
And that's usually where you'll lose them.
It's right there when they start shaking.
They start deciding, hey, wait a minute.
I don't want to get this far off the bottom.
And then they.
There it is right there.
Hello.
That's a ling cod.
Oh, yeah.
Don't lift his head.
Oh, beautiful.
That's what we're after.
Look at that mouth on that critter.
One of the most effective ling cod lures there is
is a plain old pipe jig.
Right.
I've caught ling cod before on just a rubber worm, too,
so it has to have something to it.
Well, I think so.
The little worm thing does give it a little bit more flounce,
and I think that's what you're looking for.
They're sure good eating, aren't they?
Oh, they are.
That's probably the place of the fish world, I think.
I'm impressed with the way you guys go to a spot.
You say, now we're going to catch black rock fish.
And then to another spot, now we're
going to catch ling cod, and another spot.
Now we're going to catch halibut, and that's what we get.
Now you're doing that with your Moran, aren't you?
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That's what it stands for, and that's what it does for us.
Some of these spots are little spots,
and you have to be able to pinpoint yourself.
And it'll do it within 50 feet.
Well, Al, thanks for the day.
I never fish with anybody more knowledgeable on their fisheries.
Thank you.
You know your stuff, too, John.
Thank you.
Thanks for everything.
Well, we really had a lot of fun.
Thank you.
You bet.
Thank you.
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