Garibaldi May 18th and 19th

Went down Wednesday night, put the boat in the slip. My friends Todd and Jim joined me for a somewhat late start, about 8:30 a.m. Thursday. We headed north towards Manzanita. Found some nice-looking structures and did two drifts, about 15 minutes each, not one of us had a bite. Time to move, we found another reef a little south, and must have dropped right on a school of black sea bass. I got a triple, we had doubles, etc.. and in a few minutes, we had our limits, 5 bottom fish each, total of 15. After this, we took off our shrimp flies, and put on heavy jigs, baseball bat jigs, bullet head jigs with grubs etc. We did not want to catch any more bass, were targeting lings. This was very effective, and we had our six ling limits in about an hour. The lings were on the same reef as the bass, but at the very bottom. While fishing for the bass, you could feel them strike the shrimp flies on the way down, pretty cool!

On Friday, I went back with my friend Mike to the same area, we managed 3 ling cod, and a couple of bottom fish, but the wind was finally too much. We headed back to port early, about 9:30 a.m. Saturday, I ventured out with another friend, cleared the jetties, and we both decided it was just too rough, the wind was blowing hard and constant. Headed back to Portland Saturday afternoon, knowing Sunday would not be fishable. The forecast for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend does not look great, so we will see what develops.