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i fished from shore here when i was a kid but that didn't provide much useful insight for yakking it. overall, felt like an 'off' day from rushing around after work, trouble with bank machine, and not being prepared the night before. forgot to bring my bag of jigheads and bodies. even forgot to bring my FF.
i had a 1/2 oz jighead tied on my rod and my bag of gulps. so i fished around the likely structures and bridges with that. but it was discouraging not being able to locate on the holes, or have the confidence of seeing marks. snagged about 1/2 doz times. but was lucky enough to get loose ea time.
i had some trolling lures but didn't really use them since i couldn't determine depth/channel edges with any accuracy.
i was peddling the outback and there's huge difference between idling in an eddy and being broadside in the flow. probably some potential for capsize if you got pinned broadside against structure in the current but i didn't actually try that out.
i did get some much-needed practice holding yak alongside structure in current. setting rudder to softly push the hull against the structure and then very slowly peddling was perfectly effective but would probably be too scrapey in waves.
i did mostly vert jigging. but in the conditions, my most effective technique was to sit in idle mode well back from larger structure, but in its eddy and take a longish cast upcurrent direction, into the eddy area and hop, hop, hop back along the bottom. in the open-wind areas outside of the narrows, that wasn't working exactly since wind was against current.
missed a couple. but got one about 18, released boatside and not measured.
i'll fish there again but will most likely launch at the ramp at the narrows, or find another piece of shore that lets me in. if you go to the queen anne parks website, it's clear they want their fee for launching, or for parking. i made a call, and the lady suggested parknride next to ramp was free, then referred me to the parks website for info (above). not sure what to say beyond that. i don't really have a problem with the fee either.
this is a well-known lightline area. i'd suggest launch at first light to take advantage of food chain having collected overnight w/o additional risk of nightfishing in a well-used channel, heavy current, cool water, but that's a personal call.
would have been cool if more guys had joined in. but in any case - good place to fish using the buddy system.
i had a 1/2 oz jighead tied on my rod and my bag of gulps. so i fished around the likely structures and bridges with that. but it was discouraging not being able to locate on the holes, or have the confidence of seeing marks. snagged about 1/2 doz times. but was lucky enough to get loose ea time.
i had some trolling lures but didn't really use them since i couldn't determine depth/channel edges with any accuracy.
i was peddling the outback and there's huge difference between idling in an eddy and being broadside in the flow. probably some potential for capsize if you got pinned broadside against structure in the current but i didn't actually try that out.
i did get some much-needed practice holding yak alongside structure in current. setting rudder to softly push the hull against the structure and then very slowly peddling was perfectly effective but would probably be too scrapey in waves.
i did mostly vert jigging. but in the conditions, my most effective technique was to sit in idle mode well back from larger structure, but in its eddy and take a longish cast upcurrent direction, into the eddy area and hop, hop, hop back along the bottom. in the open-wind areas outside of the narrows, that wasn't working exactly since wind was against current.
missed a couple. but got one about 18, released boatside and not measured.
i'll fish there again but will most likely launch at the ramp at the narrows, or find another piece of shore that lets me in. if you go to the queen anne parks website, it's clear they want their fee for launching, or for parking. i made a call, and the lady suggested parknride next to ramp was free, then referred me to the parks website for info (above). not sure what to say beyond that. i don't really have a problem with the fee either.
this is a well-known lightline area. i'd suggest launch at first light to take advantage of food chain having collected overnight w/o additional risk of nightfishing in a well-used channel, heavy current, cool water, but that's a personal call.
would have been cool if more guys had joined in. but in any case - good place to fish using the buddy system.
, especially when I don't catch good fish or get skunked...lol
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