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VOL. 37 • ISS. 17
GONE FISHING continued from page 1 screaming from their reels, while Chenzo ran port to starboard to keep lines from tangling.“ Keep the rod tip up and walk back!” Brian’ s fish repeatedly dodged the net, peeling drag and avoiding the starboard side of the boat. Thankfully the hook stayed buttoned and he was finally in the net and onto the deck.
“ Alright Noel, you’ re up! This one looks like a HOG.” said Chenzo.
Noel’ s fish also tried to avoid us several times; once it was boatside it would come to life and pull more drag.“ Can you help me! I’ m getting tired!” Noel was exhausted, but so was the fish. Brian came to assist Noel, while Chenzo struggled holding onto the leader while trying to net the fish at the same time. It was clear some help was needed.
I ran back and grabbed hold of the net and scooped up the fish. It took both Chenzo and I to lift the chrome beast into the boat.
High fives, hugs and lots of screaming,“ Wooooooo” all happened as we celebrated with a 26 and a 24 pound salmon on the deck.
Neither fish was going anywhere, with both hooks deeply pinned in each fish’ s jaw.
“ Alright I need a minute to rest! That was craaaazy,” Chenzo said as he leaned against the transom.
After our adrenaline levels came back to earth, we cleared the deck and got right back to it.“ Hey Roland now it’ s your turn, bro!” With Chenzo on the wheel, I stayed at the transom baiting lines and checking the downriggers as necessary. By 10; 30, we needed only one fish to go to complete our limits. We all took turns reeling up small keepers in the 21 to 26 inch size on a consistent basis.
“ I’ m going to head toward Rocky Point and see if we can’ t get us one more HOG,” Chenzo said.
We ran through several fields of jellyfish as we headed south, picking up two other small fish that we released boat side.
While sneaking some time to eat my sandwich, one of the rods starts bobbing hard with the drag peeling.
“ That might be the one Roland! That’ s probably a big one,” Chenzo yelled from the wheel.
I handed my sandwich over to someone and the fight was on! This fish pulled hard through-out the fight, giving me all it had. I hoped and
Noel Spence headed outside the Golden Gate on July 15 and nailed her first ever ocean salmon when this jumbo king decided to strike!
Photo by ROLAND ASPIRAS, Fish Sniffer Staff.
begged that it stayed buttoned and played out the fight carefully.
Once I saw she was pinned in the jaw, I kept steady pressure until she was finally in the net, another beautiful slug of a salmon around 20 pounds.
Limits were complete, and out came my best impression of wrestling legend Ric Flair’ s signature strut. Wooooo!
11:30 and we were done. What a day. With rods cleared and the net put away, I gladly volunteered to gut and clean our catch.
We stopped just in front of the Golden Gate Bridge to take some pictures, then made our way into the bay. We helped a boater in distress, taking him back to San Francisco Marina.
“ I’ ve always been one to believe that to get good karma, you have to give good karma,” Chenzo said as we sent the boater on his way. Everyone on board agreed.
Back to the dock at 2 pm, and on the road back to Sacramento by 3 pm. What a great day of salmon fishing. I can’ t thank Chenzo enough for such an EPIC day.
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