Fishing for Porpoise!
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:34 pmEvery day in SE Alaska is an adventure! Yesterday we're offshore about 8 miles bouncing a sandy hump for some halibut and other cellar dwellars when a big school of Dahl porpoise surrounds the boat. Musta been 15 to 20 of them doing hot laps around the boat and they were very close, some ripping the surface just ten feet away. What an awesome deal!
After about 10 minutes of admiring the incredible sight of these porpoise Keith hooks up and his reel starts screaming. Low and behold...a porpoise sky rockets out of the water marlin-style about a hundred yards away and it's DOLPHIN ON!!!!!!
After a couple minutes of backing down hard on Flipper to try to gain some ground Arnold says "WHOOOOOA!" As he was cranking up from the bottom another one smacked his scampi tail and now we're doubled on fricking PORPOISE!
After a few more minutes of intense line peeling the two crossed paths and the lines got all twisted up, pulling both jigs out. I was hoping to get close to them to cut the line so they wouldn't have to swim around with 400 plus feet of braided line. Fortunately they took care of business on their own and we didn't have to worry about it.
I had this happen one other time out by Corononation Island a few years back while jigging for halibut, but that was only one porpoise...not a dawg gone double header for crying out loud
Here's the link to the video:
http://video.theoutdoorline.com/view_vi ... ategory=mr
Whacky way to end the charter season up here. Man has it been a great summer
After about 10 minutes of admiring the incredible sight of these porpoise Keith hooks up and his reel starts screaming. Low and behold...a porpoise sky rockets out of the water marlin-style about a hundred yards away and it's DOLPHIN ON!!!!!!
After a couple minutes of backing down hard on Flipper to try to gain some ground Arnold says "WHOOOOOA!" As he was cranking up from the bottom another one smacked his scampi tail and now we're doubled on fricking PORPOISE!
After a few more minutes of intense line peeling the two crossed paths and the lines got all twisted up, pulling both jigs out. I was hoping to get close to them to cut the line so they wouldn't have to swim around with 400 plus feet of braided line. Fortunately they took care of business on their own and we didn't have to worry about it.
I had this happen one other time out by Corononation Island a few years back while jigging for halibut, but that was only one porpoise...not a dawg gone double header for crying out loud
Here's the link to the video:
http://video.theoutdoorline.com/view_vi ... ategory=mr
Whacky way to end the charter season up here. Man has it been a great summer