Tequila Too: Captns log Westport fishing report

12-31-07

Greetings in the new year from Westport. Thanks to all of you that have fished with us in the past. I hope you are doing well and look foreword to seeing you in 2008 for an Ocean Adventure on the Tequila Too!

10-20-07

We had limits of black Rockfish and 10 Lings on last Saturdays fishing trip. The weather was fantastic. We won the Derby for the last three weeks with a 26 lb Ling Check out the recent BigUn photos. ~Ken

10-12-07

We had limits of large Yellowtail Rockfish and Limits of Lings between 10 and 27 Lbs on our Deepwater trip last Friday, for the full 10 fishing and crew. Saturday the weather caused an early return to port. This Saturday the 13th is our last day, the weather looks good and we have lots of room! ~Ken

9-28-07

We had limits of black Rockfish and 11 Lings for 11 fishing. We would have had more if people were feeling better! The largest ling was almost 25 lbs and we had two Humboldt Squid around 20 Lbs also. We are trying to put together another Deep water Trophy Lingcod trip on Friday October 5th We will be departing at 6 am and will catch live Yellowtail Rockfish to use for bait for big Lings on some rarely fished deep water spots in 400'. The trip is limited to 10 fishing. There might be three spots open. Our Tuna trip last week was great like the first one! Lingcod last weekend was slow, they started hitting again recently from all indications.

We will be Bottomfishing at least until October 13th, Hope to see you soon. ~Ken

9-17-07

Salmon fishing finished slow although we did land 2 Kings over 20 lbs in the last week and some really big Silvers. We had 112 Albacore for 8 fishing between 20 and 25 Lbs on the average on our first Tuna trip, we have one spot available for this Wednesday if you want to go, and are looking at putting a trip together for next Wednesday also, weather permitting. We are catching Large Black Rockfish on top Bottomfishing, bring your light tackle. We found some hungry Lingcod last Saturday and had 3 over 15 Lbs in the last week. . ~Ken

9-04-07

We won the Salmon Derby for the 27th thru the 31st with A 37 lb round weight King, taking $1000 and the Saturday Bottomfish prize with a 32 lb Lingcod! The Lings seem like they are starting to bite a little again. Things were slow over the weekend with the weather change. Last fall was great Lingcod fishing. Yesterday the Salmon boats found some hungry Salmon again with two boats I heard of Limiting and another with 1 1/2 per Rod. We are going Tuna Fishing this week so our next Salmon opportunity will be on our Combo trip on Sunday or next Monday and Tuesday. We are looking foreword to some good fishing before the season ends on September 16th. Some of the Silvers are getting huge. Check out the recent BigUn photos. ~Ken

8-27-07

Salmon fishing was good today! We caught 23 Salmon for 19 people fishing. We had limits of Yellowtail Rockfish and 8 Salmon on our Sunday Combo and won the derby with a 19 Lb King! . ~Ken

8-24-07

Salmon fishing was really slow the last three days. Just a few fish per boat to almost one around if your really lucky. We think they are just scattered and off the bite and expect improvement soon. ~Ken

8-20-07

Salmon fishing slowed down with the weather change last Friday, about 1/2 to 1 fish per rod since then, we think it will pick up any time. We had limits of Yellowtail Rockfish and won the Derby with 20 Lb plus Lingcod Friday and Saturday. We had two nice Kings over 20 Lbs for two first time Salmon fisherman on our Combo Sunday. ~Ken

8-16-07

We had Salmon limits and some for the crew the last two days, and a little over 1 per person Monday and Tuesday. We have caught two hatchery Steelhead in the last week, some lucky folks get three fish! Lots of action! ~Ken

8-12-07

Limits for 18 salmon fishing last Thursday too. We had some of the hottest Yellowtail Rockfish fishing The last three days, they were large, hungry and shallow! 7-10 Lings a day bottomfishing Friday and Saturday and over one Salmon per person and limits of Yellowtails on our combo today. Our boats that got to the new Salmon spot first limited their salmon trips. We expect more great fishing this week. ~Ken

8-8-07

Still Fantastic Salmon fishing with Limits and in before 2:00 the last two days, a few Kings mixed in and some of the Silvers are topping 11 Lbs in the round! Hope you can join us for some fast and furious action soon! ~Ken

8-6-07

Hot Salmon fishing today with early limits. 17 fishing caught 44 keeper Salmon with 7 Kings and back in by 2:00 The action was non stop. We have lots of room Wednesday and some room tomorrow and Thursday. We had Limits of Large Yellowtail Rockfish and Tons of Natives on our Combo Trip Sunday and 17 keeper Salmon for 24 Fishing. The boat right next to us limited. You have to let the Hatchery fish take the bait, no hook setting on the bites! Bottomfishing was good Friday and Saturday with Limits of Yellowtails and 16 lings for 19 on Friday and 19 Lings for 10 fishing most of the time Saturday. ~Ken

8-02-07

Early limits today too, and 5 Kings mixed in. Too many natives yesterday but over 1 per person fishing, one King was 26 Lbs, Check out the recent BigUn photos. ~Ken

7-31-07

Early limits today and great weather! Almost all nice Silvers. Best Coho Fishing in a few years! ~Ken

7-30-07

We had 30 Silvers for 21 fishing most of the time today, we had non stop action though because we had 68 native silvers and lost enough to limit twice. Lots of fun all in all, some boats limited that were luckier. Not to many Kings caught, I think they will be biting soon. ~Ken

7-29-07

Limits of Yellowtail Rockfish and about 1/2 a ling per person Bottomfishing. We won the derby Friday with a 25 pounder. Just a handful of Salmon today for 13 Trying on our Combo. Salmon was mostly good last week with a fish per rod or better every day but Wednesday. Half the fleet went up north today and found some good fishing with fast action. We are checking it out tomorrow. Sorry this update is so late coming, I have spent a lot of evenings recently installing a Furuno NavNet Radar/plotter and weather system. ~Ken

7-20-07

Limits of Salmon Wednesday, over one per person Thursday with half Kings up to 25 Lbs. We had Limits of Yellowtail Rockfish and 8 Lings today for a full load bottomfishing. ~Ken

7-17-07

Salmon fishing has been getting incrementally better since Thursday, Today we Limited Out with 11 Passengers and a few for the crew too! Two of the Kings were 26 and 24 Lbs. One of the boats caught a 41 Lb fish in the round. We had Limits of Large Yellowtail Rockfish and 26 Lings for 18 fishing, ranging in size between 8 and 24 Lbs Saturday bottomfishing. ~Ken

7-13-07

We had 1 and 3/4 Salmon per person Wednesday, a few boats limited, they went off the bite Thursday , we just caught a couple and went Rock fishing. I think they were just off for the day. We had Limits of Large Yellowtail Rockfish and 21 Lings for 16 fishing, ranging in size between 8 and 24 Lbs today bottomfishing. ~Ken

7-10-07

Most if not all the boats limited today on Salmon! We had 1/3 Kings 1/3 Silvers and 1/3 pinks. the weather is great, not to hot. Hope you can join us soon. ~Ken

7-8-07

We had Limits of 240 large Yellowtail Rockfish and 18 Salmon for 23 fishing today on our Combo trip. They were a real mix of Kings, Silvers and some Pinks. some boats just on Salmon trips had better than one per person! Limits of large Yellowtail Rockfish and 16 Lingcod for 15 fishing on Saturday ~Ken

7-3-07

Salmon fishing slowed down slightly to 1/2 a fish per rod to better than one per person. we caught most of the wild fish out there this week so we are looking foreword to catching all the hatchery fish next week. Hope you can join us. ~Ken

7-1-07

Salmon fishing is good! We had 200 nice sized Yellowtail Rockfish on our Combo Trip today and 22 Salmon for 20 fishing. Almost Half were Kings between 15 and 30 Lbs for the BigUn. The Silvers were a variety of sizes. ~Ken

6-27-07

We had limits of Rockfish and 35 Lings for 17 fishing today, four were over 20 Lbs and most were over 8 Lbs. The weather was great. Hope they keep biting. ~Ken

6-26-07

We had 26 Lings for 10 fishing on our Trophy Ling Trip and Limits of Big Greenies and Widows as a bonus. The lings weren't biting real hot and were all between 14 and 26 Lbs. One is leading the derby for the week. Ling fishing was slow last weekend, still seeing lots of Salmon everywhere. Check out the recent BigUn photos. ~Ken

6-18-07

We will be going on a Trophy Lingcod trip June 25th and have a few spaces left. We will be departing at 5 am and will catch live Yellowtail Rockfish to use for bait for big Lings on some rarely fished deep water spots in 400'. The trip is limited to 10 fishing. Last year most of our fish were over 20 Lbs.

We have been encountering more Salmon in the last three weeks than we have seen for a few years and hope they are around July 1 when we open ~Ken

6-17-07

Just a few Lings and Limits of Rockfish the last two weekends. We did have 10 Lings for 10 fishing last Friday, they should be biting again soon. ~Ken

6-3-07

We had 14 Lings and all the Rockfish for 13 people and the weekly Derby Leading Lingcod at 28 Lbs. 18 Lings on Sunday for 20 Fishing! The weather is getting nice! ~Ken

6-1-07

We had 18 Lings and all the Rockfish for 10 people and good weather today, good Ling fishin Wednesday, not so hot Lingcod last weekend. We did catch a 120+ Lb Halibut we had to let go though on Monday and almost a half a round of Lings. ~Ken

5-24-07

We had 8 Lings and all the Rockfish for 6 people fishin yesterday just and a few Lings and Rockfish limits last Saturday and Monday with the weather change. We think they will be hitting good again soon. ~Ken

5-18-07

We had limits of Rockfish and 24 Lings for 9 fishing today, quite a few were between 10 and 20 lbs. We expect good Ling fishing to continue off and on, hopefully mostly on! Check out the recent BigUn photos. ~Ken

5-16-07

We had limits of Rockfish and 39 Lings for 20 fishing today, The weather was great. Limits of Rockfish and 26 Lings for 18 fishing last Saturday. ~Ken

5-11-07

We had limits of Rockfish and 21 Lings for 12 fishing today, 17 for 17 yesterday. We will be getting Live Anchovies for Rockfish bait starting tomorrow. No more frozen! (we hope) ~Ken

5-9-07

The Halibut season ended Tuesday night, after six days of fishing the quota was gone. The fish ranged from 20 to 70 Lbs. We had limits of Rockfish and 38 Lings for 24 fishing Saturday and 11 lings for 16 fishing today. I will try to put up the new BigUn pictures soon. ~Ken

5-2-07

Halibut fishing has been good with a real mix of sizes from 20 to 70 Lbs, today we had a 67, 62, 55, and 52 Lb fish for the four biggest. We had time to stop for 42 Rockfish and 7 Lings for 13 fishing on the way home. We expect the season to go quick, check with the office for availability of canceled spots to go fishing soon. ~Ken

4-30-07

We finally had a day of good weather and had great fishing with Limits of Rockfish and 22 Legal Lings caught by 10 fishing. One of which is leading the Derby for the week at 28 lbs 4 oz. Yesterday was tough fishing with limits of Rockfish for the ones that fished all day and 12 Lingcod. ~Ken

4-24-07

We had limits of good sized Black Rockfish the last two trips, 16 Lingcod for 16 fishing on Saturday with a couple over 20 Lbs, a few less yesterday for 17. ~Ken

4-9-07

We had 24 Lings and limits of Rockfish for 20 fishing on Friday, a few were over 20 lbs and one won the weekly derby at 27 lbs 1 oz. The weather change Saturday put them off the bite we had Rockfish limits and 5 Lings. Salmon Season opens July 1 We will be running Combo trips every Sunday and by request. ~Ken

4-3-07

10 fishing landed 24 legal Lingcod today! We have had limits of Rockfish everyday. 16 lings for 15 fishing Monday and 26 Lings for 16 fishing Sunday. We are still expecting the really hot spring Lingcod fishing to start any day. ~Ken

3-30-07

16 people actually fishing landed limits of Rockfish and 38 Lingcod, that's limits for the crew too! Today the wind swell and current combination slowed things down a bit, we had Limits of Rockfish and 13 Lings for 20. We have trips all this week and the weather looks good for a few days if you can join us. ~Ken

3-25-07

We finally got back out on the water today after the storms this last week. Sunshine and limits of Rockfish and Lingcod too, even though the current was up. We expect more great fishing in the next few weeks! Hope you can join us. ~Ken

1-22-07

Greetings from Westport and Happy New Year!

2007 Season Update: We will start fishing March 20 this year. We expect great spring Lingcod fishing again this year. March and April are the best months usually.

Halibut season begins May 1st, If fishing is as good as last year you want to book now and plan on coming before May 15th as the quota will go quick if we have big fish again.

We expect the Salmon quota to be similar to last year, beginning around July 1st. If the fish show up we could be done by mid August. Check back for updates.

Two Tuna trips are available so far, check back for updates on more available dates after April 15th. ~Ken

People always ask when the best time to come fishing is. The standard answer is "when they are biting", followed with "it changes every year". You can look back through the Captn's Log fishing report archives to spot trends here.

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~Ken