Chris Woodward
09-06-2007, 11:55 AM
Greetings from Alaska fellow female anglers! As a woman who loves to fish, who is also the editor of Sport Fishing, I certainly tell a good many fish stories. In this blog and in our new women’s forum, I want to share many more tales of angling travel as well as recount hours spent on my home waters. I hope the female forum offers all of you a chance to communicate and network about this wonderful sport.
However, while I’m here in the beautiful North country, I thought I’d begin our dialogue with a snapshot of my trip so far and an invitation to read more about it in the February issue of Sport Fishing. So here goes:
When action slows and patience wanes, we frequently remind ourselves that we call our sport “fishing,” not “catching.” Then, other times, the poles reverse, the stars align and fate smiles — just as it did this past Monday as I set out on my first Alaskan fishing trip.
After running south out of Sitka with Capt. Mac Huffman from Frontier Charters (www.frontiercharters.com), Ben Secrest from Accurate Fishing Products (www.accuratefishing.com) and my husband Spud Woodward, assistant director for marine fisheries with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, we drifted some pinnacles around a gorgeous and deeply green and mountainous shoreline. We began dropping vertical jigs to the bottom in 150 feet of water. A jig would hit bottom and thump, we’d each have a fish.
Sometimes the fish would turn out to be a tasty 10-pound halibut. The next drop might produce a ferocious but flavorful lingcod. The next might be a black rockfish. Each and every time we dropped, we caught — for five hours! I have never experienced anything like that — literally nonstop action. That’s like batting 1,000 or bowling 300. A perfect day.
I know some of you have experienced similar all-time highs. So, I’d like to hear about your most perfect day fishing. Log into our new women’s forum and tell us all about it.
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Anglers aboard one of the Frontier Charters fishing vessels caught their limit of coho — or silver — salmon this week.
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Ben Secrest of Accurate Fishing Products and an eat-’em-up-size halibut caught near Sitka, Alaska.
However, while I’m here in the beautiful North country, I thought I’d begin our dialogue with a snapshot of my trip so far and an invitation to read more about it in the February issue of Sport Fishing. So here goes:
When action slows and patience wanes, we frequently remind ourselves that we call our sport “fishing,” not “catching.” Then, other times, the poles reverse, the stars align and fate smiles — just as it did this past Monday as I set out on my first Alaskan fishing trip.
After running south out of Sitka with Capt. Mac Huffman from Frontier Charters (www.frontiercharters.com), Ben Secrest from Accurate Fishing Products (www.accuratefishing.com) and my husband Spud Woodward, assistant director for marine fisheries with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, we drifted some pinnacles around a gorgeous and deeply green and mountainous shoreline. We began dropping vertical jigs to the bottom in 150 feet of water. A jig would hit bottom and thump, we’d each have a fish.
Sometimes the fish would turn out to be a tasty 10-pound halibut. The next drop might produce a ferocious but flavorful lingcod. The next might be a black rockfish. Each and every time we dropped, we caught — for five hours! I have never experienced anything like that — literally nonstop action. That’s like batting 1,000 or bowling 300. A perfect day.
I know some of you have experienced similar all-time highs. So, I’d like to hear about your most perfect day fishing. Log into our new women’s forum and tell us all about it.
http://www2.worldpub.net/images/SF/100-08boat(forum).jpg
Anglers aboard one of the Frontier Charters fishing vessels caught their limit of coho — or silver — salmon this week.
http://www2.worldpub.net/images/SF/100-08halibut(froum).jpg
Ben Secrest of Accurate Fishing Products and an eat-’em-up-size halibut caught near Sitka, Alaska.