Fishing off Victoria

I moved to Victoria in November of 1996.  Between then and April of 1999 I was skunked big time for fish off of Victoria.  Then, finally, I got the skunk monkey off my back.

 

April 8, 1999 was a windy day.  I was invited out fishing with my friend Andrew Stawicki of Andrew's Fishing Adventures.

We lauched the boat out of Cattle Point in Oak Bay.   Finding it too windy to go out into the Straight of Juan de Fuca to Constance Bank, we stayed closer in by Discovery Island.  The wind blew up there as well, so we moved around to the sheltered side of the island that day.

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Cattle Point

We were on the water at 6:30 a.m. and fished the good tides until 10:30 a.m.  That's when when the first halibut of the day took one of the lines.   While Andrew was reeling that one in, a second line started peeling out - a halibut double header!

Andrew brought the first fish up to the boat, speared it, bonked it, and brought it into the boat.  It weighed about 45 pounds.  Then I took the other rod and started reeling.  Well, with the tide flowing, and a big halibut 200 feet down on the bottom, there was more straining than reeling.

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Oh yeah.  Remember how I mentioned it was windy that day?   Andrew insisted in taking this picture after I was hanging over the side of the boat "looking for more fish".  seasick.jpg (322804 bytes)

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