Commercial Salmon Trolling Forum

The troopers were just hir and its positive, Garrett gone.

I just wanted to post our flier that we made p.s. a good sameratin found a body drifting in Behm, we are waiting on a ID, but who else would it be.

http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/Grand-Ledge-Man-Rescued-After-Being-Stranded-8-Days-in-Alaskan-Wilderness-225131702.html They called off the search, no body was found. but I think he would have liked a burial at sea. and Abundance sinking is for the best, we could not handle seeing her again. the...

This is the last post that this Member will post because my brother Garrett is dead. he has bin missing for a week now and hope is thin. http://www.abc12.com/story/23505258/search-on-for-missing-alaska-man-companion-found the article doesn't say is later that Abundance sank after his friend was resc...

I get it. I dont really see how a person could make enough to do all the boatwork that can be done. I acually had a seiner freind marvel over how little stress and expenses we had, compared to his million dollar season. He doesnt live much more extravagantly than me, when all is said and done. Anywa...

I've noticed that people tend to have different ideas about the specifics of, but you are correct. Closer together in the summer, farther apart in the winter. I usually run four fathoms apart for spring and winter kings, two fathoms in the summer. If they are filling your lines, put them closer toge...

100k a year in boat expenses!? I have to say, I have a hard time accepting that. My fuel expenses are much higher than yours, and I spend tens of thousands each winter on boat work, not to mention moorage and my permit payments. I would calculate my expenses at around 40k per year. Combined with som...

I pretty much never stop to fish for less than 80 cohos a day, except during the late season. And that is unless I have no better reports. A standard day of ocean fishing is roughly 100 cohos. 200 chums a day average can be a tall order sometimes, but you probably should consider other options if yo...

We have to have the test strips for processing shrimp anyway, but I might get extras for slushing. Thanks!

Huh, good to know. Thanks for that. I will keep on using a little bit of bleach then. Really, even regular seawater is full of nasty stuff when you think about it. Killing some of it off before sending fish steeped in it out for public consumption seems like a good idea. I know a few drops turn seaw...

I have to say that I don't see you making much in District 8. I like it there, and spend as much time as I can each year giving it my best, but I cannot afford to stay there after spring kings. The gillnetters have that place sewn tight. The spring kings are iffy at best, but nice when they come in,...

I always make my own snubbers out of rubber tubing you can get from Murray Pacific. I usually just use them for those massive spawner spring kings or when the winter king are being picky about line over fifty pound test. @ lone eagle, we have largely shifted from using those horrible, rusty blued ho...

Tarn-x is a tarnish remover that an antique lure hound told me I should use. It comes in a black plastic bottle with white lettering, or at least the one I got some years back did. It says to wipe on, rinse off, but I just soaked my worst cases overnight in it. Nothing was going to make them any wor...

Good to know. I had always heard that you should put a capful in, so always thought I was doing something wrong when I would forget. You learn something every day. Thanks for the expert advice!

I usually splash a little in there. Very cold water should be enough, but I hate waking up in middle of the night worrying if the deckhand scrubbed the totes out well enough, if the bags were washed off well enough, if the water is going to be full of smelly bacteria when they yank out the brailer.....

Try soaking them in Tarn-x. A local fisherman turned me onto it, and it seems to do the job well. I don't really know much about preventative maintainance though.

I remember seeing that in Real Marina this time of year before, come to think of it. I think that they are still here in Trocadaro to, just too far along in life to want to feed. Its not worth fishing wild chums at this years prices without a very large coho percentage, but they might be there too. ...

It has well and truly died here, all the pinks and chums are up in the creeks. A guy can scrape up a few, but not enough to make much more than a small bonus to the cohos. Catching just the record number of of cohos for this place and time now feels intolerably slow! There are still lots pinks out f...

Just providing another update: fishing has slowed greatly, and has reached the 50-100 chums a day point, and they are getting smaller. While the ones we are getting now are very bright, I think the major run has passed with this rain. Pinks are down to the 200-400 a day range now, but most are surpr...

I am shocked that I haven't hit a whale yet. They have gone under my boat often enough. My Dad lost a line to one earlier this year. I know a guy who lost his hayrack, mast and poles to one. Heck of a first story!