Kayak Trolling for Salmon

Oh, it's a coho. It's gotta be a coho. Look at that jump. Look at that jump. Look at that jump

Hey, hey, hey. Welcome back to the channel. It is Jesse on this beautiful fishing day

fishing father's day special. Going out at last light, not first light, but last light

Beautiful. Oh my gosh. We got ourselves a day. Good evening boys and girls. This is

tonight, we're, I got a couple ideas, depending on how it goes, but I want to start with a

little bit of ground fish and then I'm going to troll just down the front. Here we go

Figured I might as well start recording on my way out to the spot and just troll, bottom

troll here. Oh, there's a bunch of bait at like a hundred feet. There's gotta be fish

down there. Holy cow. I wonder if I can get a little lower. Jeez. I changed my downrigger

line from the cable to the, to the, uh, braid and there's no hum. It's so much silent, so

much quieter. So nice. Really prefer that. I can go a lot deeper too. So right now we

can keep two hatchery cohos. So if we get lucky enough to get one of those, I'll definitely

keep walking it. Fish on. Yup, we got a fish on. Yup, there's a fish on. What do we got

Feels small. 50 feet of water. Probably a Chinook shaker. Ah, come on baby. That's a

Chinook. Oh, there he is. Took me at the surface. Ah, it was a little Chinook, I think. It could

have been a coho. I mean, it was a salmon. It was a salmon. Ah, shoot. Well, there you

go, ladies and gentlemen, we haven't even got to the fishing spot. We're already into

the salmon. I wonder if the coho are coming in on this side on, on the incoming tide

Actually, it makes sense because they would come on the inside of it. If the tides coming

in, the tides coming in, there's a shelf here. There's less current. So the bait would be

on the outside of the shelf. Actually, that makes a lot of sense. So this could actually be a good spot. This actually could be a good spot. There is a ton of bait. I wish I could

show you my, my screen right now. It is insane right now. Holy cow, down below there. Fish

are here, that's for sure. I'm certain of it. The only thing I'm not certain is if my

line is covered in algae. If I was on a boat, I would reel this up right away, but it's

kind of a bit of work to get the whole thing down. So you kind of, kind of slack a little

bit, I'll be honest with you. Yeah, I think I'm towing some. Ah, shoot. I was in a good spot, but like, sometimes that happens, eh? To get that seaweed

down, I was like, shoot, I can feel it too. I thought at the end there for sure. Man

there's a lot of seaweed here. There's also a lot of fish. I don't know what's going on

My Garmin is not giving me proper readings. It's giving me weird readings. Like, the battery

shouldn't be, like, I just charged the battery, so it shouldn't, sometimes if the battery is low, it'll give you some weird readings, I know. But this is not right. I'm in like

deep water. And it's showing me just the weirdest readings right now. So I'm fishing blind

I guess. Oop. Oop

Oop, right now, that's a fish. That's a fish. This is a training. That's a fish. That's

a salmon. That's a fish. We got a fish. Come on, baby. Let's see you. Come on, baby. Come

on, baby. Just as I was training. And I'm fishing blind too. Come on, vehicle. Vehicle

Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby

Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby

Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby

Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh, geez. Oh, I think this is enough. I don't think I can keep this one

Geez. Oh, boy. Oh, this is hard. This is a hard one. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here

we go. Oh, my gosh. The struggle is real, people. That was a stir. All right. What do

we got? I think it's a chinook. I think I saw a black one. Oh, my gosh. All right. Last

light fish. Awesome, Tim. Okay. What do we got here? Well, first things first. Hook

is out. That's good. It's a hatchery, whatever it is. It's too bad. It's a beautiful chinook

I'm going to turn to get a better light here so we get a nice shot, nice photo. We're just

trolling beside him. He's in the water. He's cool. So you can't keep these. These are

if it was white or a coho, rather, that would be a fish we could bonk. That's a nice looking

fish. All right. Let's get him back in here. There he goes. No problem. Kicks off like

a son of a gun. Well, that was cool. That was really cool. So that's a chinook. See

we can catch salmon on the troll. We hooked one, finally. Brought it to the boat. We're

heading home. We'll troll all the way back. We achieved our goal. Our goal was to troll

a salmon. And salmon troll we did. So I'm happy about that. That's wicked. Really cool

That's great. The Islander reel brought one in. Honestly, honestly, open. Open to recommendations

If you have, if you have like trolling kayak gear that you think is like dialed in, let

me know. I mean, this picks up a lot of line, but you know, you need something that's got

to pick up that line quick. That seems like the best thing. Forget the, forget the line

setting and all that nonsense. You just need something that's going to pick up the line quick because you have that bow in your line. First of all, your, your, your line connector

And then you got, yeah. Any drag on your line. Like you've got a lot of line to pick up before

that fish can throw that. And I think I've showcased that tonight already. Oh, or I'm

just really sucking at this, but I would like to argue that if it is a hatchery fish, I

think we should be able to bonk that. That Chinook, I think at this time of year, it's

father's day today. The hatchery fish would have been a great table fare. Oh well

Yep, we're on. Yep, we're on

What is this thing? What is this thing? Not fighting very hard. It's coming with the boat

Oh, it's a salmon. Let's see. Oh, it's rolling like a coho. It's rolling like a coho. It

could be. It could be. It could be. It could be. All right. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. We're

rolling. Can you see this? Okay. It's a salmon. That's for sure. Okay. Let's see if I can

get him around here. Don't go in that. Oh geez. Oh geez. I want to go in the downrigger

ball. That's like the worst spot. Oh geez. Oh no. Now I'm going to court it. Oh, this

is just. Okay. We upgraded. We upgraded. Here goes the hook. Okay. We upgraded boys. What

did we upgrade to? What is this fish? Is it? It's a hatchery. Is it another Chinook? It

is another Chinook. It's another hatchery. Oh man. We were catching nonstop hatchery

Chinook right now. Look at these fish. These are gorgeous fish. Okay. For a second there

I got excited. I thought it was a coho. It's just, just for a second. Okay. I'm going to

take them out just for a second too and show the camera. All right. Show the happy, happy

people. All right. Last light bite, hey? I love the glow. See, I got the glow hoochie

on right now. This thing has been deadly for me at last. Last, like is the sun setting

Deadly. I'll just do a quick measurement of him. I just want to see how long he is. Just for fun. He's 20. He's about 26, 25 inches. All right. Here he is. Look at that guy. Oh

yeah. See the hatchery? Ha ha. Happy, happy. Oh geez. I didn't want to drop him on the

net. All right. Well, that was fun. I mean, that was a crazy situation. I had the net

the net got hooked on your camera, on my camera. I thought, Oh geez, here we go. I'm trying

to get the net on the fish and I'm so many things can go wrong with the kayak. Let me

tell you. I literally, my Garmin is still not working, so I have no idea. So I'm just

counting the things. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there. Grandfathers, great

grandfathers. I know sometimes Father's Day actually can be a hard day for some people

And so shout out to those guys too. Whoever, for the hard ones, shout out to you too

Yeah. Well

Oh, back on again. Okay. Oh, this is heavy. Maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe not. Just turn my boat around

Be a little hatch. Hatch coho. That'd be awesome. Come on. Come on. Be a hatch coho. Be a hatch coho

Oh, it's a coho. It's gotta be a coho. Look at that jump. Look at that jump. Look at that jump

Oh, it's a coho. It's gotta be a coho. Look at that jump. Look at that jump. It's gotta be a coho. Come on

Come on. What other fish does that? That's not a chinook. That's gotta be a coho. Come on

I'm gonna play him out. I'm gonna play him out. Okay. Come on. Come on, baby. Come on

Are you ready? In the boat. All right. What are you? Oh, geez. It's all very dramatic. Oh, the adrenaline. Gotta love it

Pretty much these things pop off in the net every time. Okay, let me just get this out of the way

Out of the way. Okay. He's definitely a hatchery again. Is he a coho? I can't see his mouth

Another chinook. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. We'll let you go. All right. Just a quick shot for the people here

Just for the people. You're world famous. So that's three hatchery chinook. Holy cow

I'm in the chinook hatchery right here. All right. These are all beautiful fish. My gosh, they're gorgeous

Oh, no, this one's wild. Sorry. This one is a wild one. It looks like a misclipped. There you go

Misclipped, but there he is. All right, we're gonna let him go

Torpedo. See ya. As much fun as I'm having right now, I actually have to get home

Okay, well, the cool thing is, the last light bite is fire right now. Fire last light bite

I got fish slime all over my pants. It's great. Well, that's a great evening of fishes. The bite's on right now, but obviously it's getting too dark

The shore is not far, which is really nice, I gotta say. What a blessing this has been

Lord, thank you very much for this evening. And also, thank you for watching

I appreciate you guys coming on this journey with me and learning kayak fishing. This has been awesome

I gotta say, this is a, what a hoop this is. I'm learning a lot. Every time I come out, I'm learning a lot

Well, thank you so much for watching. This is Jesse from BC Fishing Journal

Appreciate you guys, and we'll see you in the next one. Bye