Winding Down Whale Pass Fishing Report
Our season is winding down here at the Lodge at Whale Pass. The berries are done, much of the staff has already left, and soon I will be heading back to the heat and humidity of central Florida. I hope there are tarpon around!
But thinking about future tarpon possibilities is not living in the moment.
Nick Colantonio sent me another haiku-
Six pinks on one fly.
Now tattered. Cast. Fish-on! Try
a bare hook? Mmm … Nah
Did Nick visit the Goodnews this summer, perhaps???
Two parties spent the entire week here, both were wonderful, and both caught some fish.
The King family joined me on the Blashke on a wet, chilly day for some halibut fishing. We did not get any big ones, but we did limit out.
A soggy King family, with a limit of halibut.
Twelve year old Aiden wanted to learn about fly fishing. I talked him through the first fly he ever tied, and then we went fly fishing. He caught several of these…
Aiden’s pink salmon was his first fish on a fly rod.
The Pampinellas also fished with me this week. We went bottom fishing twice, getting some nice halibut both times. Jim caught this one…
Jim pulled this one in using a mooching rod.
…and daughter Aline caught this one. Both fish took herring fished on a mooching rod.
Aline pulled this one in using a mooching rod.
While we were out on a spectacular day on Friday, we saw a humpback whale repeatedly slapping its tail on the surface of the water. We got close enough for a good view, and to the hear the loud report.
The whale is preparing to slap again.
The whale, lying on its side with its flipper in the air.
Thar she blows!
Jim senior and I fly fished together one day. We first fished for pinks with little rods in the 108, catching stupid numbers of fish. They are thick in there right now! Once the novelty wore off, we moved down the road to the Neck Lake Outlet, where Jim got some nice silver salmon by repeatedly dead drifting a chartreuse Clouser Minnow.
And that is the Winding Down Whale Pass Fishing Report from Spotted Tail and the Lodge at Whale Pass.
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