| Shelter Cove salmon and a big suprise
Was gonna run for tuna but after the low numbers yesterday we decided to give the salmon a last shot. We left the Cove on the Riptide at about 9:00, we were boat #12. The ocean was flat and we headed right to the 40.05 line in the middle of the canyon. We spotted bait there yesterday on a 1 hour effort. We trolled across the canyon and up to Big Flat where our friend who fishes from his sailboat had two the day before yesterday. Just a dig to us all with our fishing machines. So we are trolling along I had a 5.5 watermelon apex down on the wire at 138 ft, It would have been deeper but that was all I had. The fish hit HARD I grabbed my seeker 9ft bait stick with a little avet sx on it and the line began to melt off the reel.
I said we got that 40 pounder we were looking for. Rodney snaps his line out of the rigger and says he is hooked up too but that only lasted a second and he lost his rig. Now he cursing that he lost his rig and I with an urgent tone say we better chase this fish I am getting spooled................He is really movin now even though we are chasing him down, I look at Rodney and say this is the second biggest fish I have ever had on and then he starts to surface like big kings do after they run, and then we see Rodneys dodger and bait, it's hangin on my line! But this is no king. The angle keeps heading for the surface when all of a sudden in slow motion a giant Thresher shark rockets out of the water at least ten feet. He jumps again and again both times completely out of the water, then it takes off screaming for the bottom when his tail flicks the line and the line parts....... Disappointed? Not in the least I was thrilled, the shark was at least 250#......It was a fish of a lifetime and it was my second one....I hooked one twice as big in Newport last year tuna fishing but it was the second time I went to a gunfight with a pea shooter. Who'd of thunk it a Thresher on a apex. the whole thing lasted about five minutes but will last forever in my fishing brain.
That was my good watermelon too.....so I put another one on and down and off we go trolling when my rod goes off again!! 12 pound silver......Beautiful fish back he goes, still working the same general area soon the apex hits again this time it's the right kind a head pumping twenty pound king salmon. I forgot how much fun they are and how good they TASTE.....Rodney who is still hitless has had enough by now and changes to a watermelon too. Not long after he gets a drive by and resets right away and it goes off again with our third salmon of the day, a beautiful 14 pound king. After fishing in thick fog all day it was time to head home. Trip of a lifetime? Yes and it can happen when you least expect it. It's not the meat it's the experience. | 
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