Okay folks, I promised, so here goes...
A friend of mine came up to hunt moose and he got lucky with a nice 58" bull, so we pulled out a week early and did some fishing over in Whittier. As it turned out, we tried to go on a halibut charter, but we kept running into dead ends. Summer has been so wet here that the normal operators we go with in Seward and Homer had pretty much rolled up the sidewalks for the season. Same deal in Anchor Point / Ninilchik and even in Whittier. We did find one guy in Whittier though, but when we got there I called him and he said he'd phoned my cell the day before to cancel, because the other folks that were on the same boat canceled. That's my wireless provider for ya! I get my messages sometimes three days late!
The charter captain graciously offered us the use of a couple of spinning rods and we dove in to the silver fishing in the harbor. It was unbelievable. I think it took us a couple of hours to each get our limit of six fish, and what fish! Ocean bright, not a one of them was in bad shape. We cleaned our fish and dropped them off at Indian Valley Meats for vacuum packing, and came back the next day to do the same thing. Same results., and now we had 24 fresh silvers for my friend to take home (I didn't want any because I already have some nice sockeye in the freezer). We found another charter boat and returned for one more attempt. We got halfway out to Naked Island but had to turn back because of weather. Back in the harbor, we ran into some hunters who were headed out to Naked Island for a deer hunt (perhaps this was the same group that posted questions here on hunting out there? It was about the same time). We fished silvers again, but the third day was a complete bust. I think with all the runoff in the harbor (it was raining the whole time), the fish just shut down. A commercial boat came in and said he was reading a whole school of silvers laying on the bottom near the breakwater, but they weren't moving and we couldn't get out there because the breakwater is closed to fishing.
Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise to find silvers in Whittier that late. Something to remember...
I'm attaching a photo of my friend with one of the fish he caught.
-Mike
A friend of mine came up to hunt moose and he got lucky with a nice 58" bull, so we pulled out a week early and did some fishing over in Whittier. As it turned out, we tried to go on a halibut charter, but we kept running into dead ends. Summer has been so wet here that the normal operators we go with in Seward and Homer had pretty much rolled up the sidewalks for the season. Same deal in Anchor Point / Ninilchik and even in Whittier. We did find one guy in Whittier though, but when we got there I called him and he said he'd phoned my cell the day before to cancel, because the other folks that were on the same boat canceled. That's my wireless provider for ya! I get my messages sometimes three days late!
The charter captain graciously offered us the use of a couple of spinning rods and we dove in to the silver fishing in the harbor. It was unbelievable. I think it took us a couple of hours to each get our limit of six fish, and what fish! Ocean bright, not a one of them was in bad shape. We cleaned our fish and dropped them off at Indian Valley Meats for vacuum packing, and came back the next day to do the same thing. Same results., and now we had 24 fresh silvers for my friend to take home (I didn't want any because I already have some nice sockeye in the freezer). We found another charter boat and returned for one more attempt. We got halfway out to Naked Island but had to turn back because of weather. Back in the harbor, we ran into some hunters who were headed out to Naked Island for a deer hunt (perhaps this was the same group that posted questions here on hunting out there? It was about the same time). We fished silvers again, but the third day was a complete bust. I think with all the runoff in the harbor (it was raining the whole time), the fish just shut down. A commercial boat came in and said he was reading a whole school of silvers laying on the bottom near the breakwater, but they weren't moving and we couldn't get out there because the breakwater is closed to fishing.
Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise to find silvers in Whittier that late. Something to remember...
I'm attaching a photo of my friend with one of the fish he caught.
-Mike
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