Fishing Report: Garibaldi salmon/crabbing Aug 28th to Aug 30th

Towed the boat down Thursday night and fished with Jim in his 19’ Arima on Friday. I lost one fish, identity unknown, Jim got a beautiful chinook, not sure about the weight, we did not weigh it, so probably about 20 pounds, lol. On Saturday I fished the south side of the south jetty with my wife for a few hours in the morning. No action at all, we picked up the 3 crab pots we had dropped to the south in about 50’ and only managed 3 keepers. Then we moved north toward Twin Rocks, dropped them again, and fished for another hour. No action while fishing but we did get another 7 keeper crab.

On Sunday I fished south of the entrance solo from about 7 to 11 am, dropped 3 pots which had a huge amount of crabs, got my 12 crab limit easy. I caught 3 coho, released, and one chinook, not huge, only 26 inches, but still good eating. I saw pelicans diving on a current rip, went down 23 feet for the coho, then dropped to 35’ and got the chinook. I was trying out the SpinFish from Yakima Bait, and must say I am impressed. I put guts from my cut plug herring inside the lure, and it worked great.