BassyiusMaximus
11-19-2007, 03:44 PM
There is the "Striper Whisperer", then there is the Pollock Hollerer, I was the Pollock Hollerer yesterday after getting my first pollock ever and some massive ones at that. Most fish 36-38" and 20+lbs. I never caught one of these things in my life until yesterday.
Seas were nice and I got to a hump that on a hunch, by just looking at the charts looked like a likely place to hold fish, at first, the drift took me from 260' to 240' and not fast enough, wrong way to drift. We moved about 2 miles so we could drift from 155-270'. First 2 of us get tight and it feels like the fish are going straight down into the earth as we are already on the bottom but the fish are still pulling down hard, I figured sharks, maybe doubles of shark and belly hooked or tail hooked at that, then I saw the fish. I thought cod at first but too much silver, then closer up, it was Pollock.
The Penn 6500's spooled up with 1/2-3/4 50lb braid on my 7' spinning rods are working awesome as is the 8' rod I use. I'm hooked on this Fall fishing and in another month, if I can make it and there are fish, Winter fishing. Enjoy.
3 more drifts and all of us hooked up 3 more times, mostly bigger fish in the 34-38" range with a few in the low 30's, 1:00pm came and it was time to head home as dark comes early and when it gets cold, it makes clean up tough when the water freezes upon contact. I look forward to more outings till the ramps get snowed in.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/holdingbig4ondeck.jpg
I love the net shots but realize that I'm taking the picture and not catching the fish, still . . .
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/pollocknettedbyMike.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/4pollockwaistdown.jpg
Seas were nice and I got to a hump that on a hunch, by just looking at the charts looked like a likely place to hold fish, at first, the drift took me from 260' to 240' and not fast enough, wrong way to drift. We moved about 2 miles so we could drift from 155-270'. First 2 of us get tight and it feels like the fish are going straight down into the earth as we are already on the bottom but the fish are still pulling down hard, I figured sharks, maybe doubles of shark and belly hooked or tail hooked at that, then I saw the fish. I thought cod at first but too much silver, then closer up, it was Pollock.
The Penn 6500's spooled up with 1/2-3/4 50lb braid on my 7' spinning rods are working awesome as is the 8' rod I use. I'm hooked on this Fall fishing and in another month, if I can make it and there are fish, Winter fishing. Enjoy.
3 more drifts and all of us hooked up 3 more times, mostly bigger fish in the 34-38" range with a few in the low 30's, 1:00pm came and it was time to head home as dark comes early and when it gets cold, it makes clean up tough when the water freezes upon contact. I look forward to more outings till the ramps get snowed in.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/holdingbig4ondeck.jpg
I love the net shots but realize that I'm taking the picture and not catching the fish, still . . .
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/pollocknettedbyMike.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/thundra04struck/4pollockwaistdown.jpg