Shamahawk headed out of Bellingham for some evening salmon fishing with friends Dave Clark of Clearwater Marine and Eric Pedersen. We started our evening off at the southeast corner of Blakely Island at a spot known as "The Wall". The tide was in the last hour of the flood and the back eddy coming off of the backside of the island was piling a massive amount of bait in the area. The sounder was littered with arches of fish below. With nothing happening after 45 minutes we decided to move a few miles up and hit the tide change at Obstruction pass. As we came off of plane and got our lines ready, again the sounder was showing arches all through the water columns and every bird around had candlefish overflowing from their bills. We dropped the lines to 65 feet with a Cookies'n'cream Kingfisher light 48" behind a white flahser and trolled for about 50 yards when this 17 pound beauty tripped the downrigger. After watching a few other fish get boated around us our daylight was coming to an end and it was time to head in. Wow, how lucky we are around here to be able to take a few hours in the evening go catch these beautiful fish right in our backyard!
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