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What a great day, I really wish I was fishin all day but, due to unfortunate circumstances I was kept in for most of the day. The kid went to bed at 10pm and everythin was a go by 11. I was stoked that it worked the way it did for 3 reasons. I hadn't been fishin at night for a while and I hadn't fished King Salmon in a while, plus I just hadn't been fishin in a while. It was cold and I prepared myself properly with a couple layers, threw my new head light on and tried not to wake the kid as I left. Across the street and over the dunes, a fishin on the rocks I go. When I got to the beach, there was no water! I had forgot, my friend even called to remind me that tonight was the lowest tide of the year and I was hittin it at exactly the lowest point. Oh well, I know the north rocks have at least 18" of water and I have caught fish at times like this. I went to the tip and started workin. I didn't get a bite till midnight but, I did get my first snag around then. I was workin to get my lure unsnagged for a moment and I figured to give it a heave before goin for the break. With this heave I saw my line start to move and somethin started to come up. I went for the best delayed hookset I could give it and started pullin it up. Man it was heavy! Didn't fight, didn't shake its head, just started comin up like a bucket. I didn't know where it was until my lure was released and came flyin out of the water. I had brought it up to the surface and it was about 20 feet out but I didn't see it. I must have never got that hook set. I thought about it for a while and started thinkin about what it could have been. Maybe a huge bunch of seaweed, but if it was that much seaweed there should be some left on my line, there wasn't. Maybe it was one big chunk of kelp but, King Salmon doesn't produce big kelp like that. I inspected my Cabelas Aquaglow 6" jerk minnow and found a big deep gash on one side but nothin else. I was trippin and figured it was either a big Ling or even a Halibut. It really hurts to think about it. King Salmon is known for producing a few Halies and I have caught some 10+# Lings out here. If it was a Ling it was a lot bigger than 10#. I kept throwin the jerk and pulled out my back up rod with a 4" swimbait and worked the area hopin for a repeat, but it didn't happen. I kept workin down and at around 12:30 I picked up 2 little Grass Rockies. One that was about 8" I pulled out of a hole right in front of me and the other, probably around 10" hit right in front of the rocks, both released. I kept workin till 1 am with no more action so I called it. Anywhere else this would have been a crappy fishin event, but considerin how good the fishin used to be in KS compared to how it has been in the past couple of years, this was a good night.


-- Edited by Sebastes at 13:46, 2007-09-30