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0:31 Kayak Trolling Setup
0:52 Reel & Rod
2:12 Salmon bite is on!
3:42 Salmon bite continues!
6:10 Jigging for Salmon
8:02 Mystery Bottom Fish
10:16 Lingcod
12:05 GoFish Cam Setup
12:32 GoFish Cam video footage
13:46 Trip summary
Underwater Camera - GoFish Cam: https://bit.ly/2mrfodI
Kayak trolling with new casting reel with braid and a mono top shot. Some jigging and the underwater camera - GoFish Cam.
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Look at that water there
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Hey welcome back to the channel, it's Jesse here from BC Fishing Journal
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We're out at first light, actually just sunrise as you can see and we're going to go trolling
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for salmon. Alright, let's get out there. Alright, we're just getting started here
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So I'm going to use a, I've got a little purple onion flasher, a little hoochie, a white hoochie
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which is one of my old faithfuls and you need to have the inline flasher for the hoochie
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to create that action so that's mandatory. I've got my new setup, like I said the casting setup here, so I've got my PC Fun, it is an
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Aloez reel and this is a casting setup. This is very similar to what I'd use on a river actually, not too far away, I'd use
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this for float fishing. But yeah, we're going to use this, it's got some braid, it's got a top shot, a mono top
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shot which is basically a strip of mono that connects to my leader line
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So there's about 40 feet there and that's 30 pounds and then I've got braid on there
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so that braid is really nice, it cuts through the water really well, it's got very little
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stretch which is fantastic when you're fishing deeper. Now I'm just going to get my cannibal and my line connector in
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So the mono connects to the line connector. Let's get going here. Let's see what we've got
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I'm going to troll out to the spot. I'm going to troll out to the spot
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Now let's start working the hook down. There we go, I've got my rod holder if I want but I'm just going to hold this for a little bit
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I like to hold it just in case I feel any smolts. That's the nice thing about the braid too, is when smolts hit you can feel them a little
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more easily than on the Islander. I wouldn't know when it's all mono
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So much stretch that you don't even know you have a smolt on there. Alright, I've got a fish on, it's not big
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It'd be great if it was a coho. I think it is a coho
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Found a dummy flasher. Alright
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I love it. That was quick. Got away from that coho in there
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I think it's a coho. It looked like a... When he jumped there it looked like one
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Let's have a look here. Oh, it's ok. Not bad
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I think you're a coho. You're a small one, whatever you are
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You might be legal. There's a little juvenile chinook. Oh, the lighting was playing a trick on me there
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I'm going to wet my hands here. I thought I was going to bonk him
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No, it's a little juvenile chinook. It's a hatchery chinook. There he is
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He's coming back on his way. There's lots of them around there
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Lots of little juveniles. Well, there we go. One on the board
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Alright. Just as I was dropping, I got hit. I thought I popped the clip, but this is a better fish
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This is a better fish. Good. Come on, baby. Come on. At 100 feet I popped him
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It's hard to deal with this. I'm not used to this. What do we got down here
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Anything decent? What do we got? Oh, could be a keeper. Could be a keeper
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Could be a keeper. Could be a keeper. Could be a keeper
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Could be a keeper. Could be a keeper. Could be. Let's get him
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I don't know if he's done yet. Oh, yeah, he's a keeper
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If he fits a coho, that'd be even better. Alright, the tricky part
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Come on, baby. Oh, no. Don't do that. Oh, there he goes
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Okay. Okay. Okay. There we go
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Right in the neck. That's a good feeling. That's a good feeling
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What do we got here? Oh. Oh. I'll give you a pink
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You're a pink. Oh, you rotter. You rotter. That's a good sized pink, though
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That's not bad. Popped out. So, 100 feet, there's some pinks. Oh, geez
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There he is. Sorry I didn't get to give you a proper show, but I want to get rid of him anyway
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Well, the good news is it was not a smalltower juvenile. I've been grinding
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I'm having a hard time getting a bigger chinook, so I think they're just a little bit deeper
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That's just a problem, but with the current going, it's hard to go past 100 feet on this thing
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So, it's got to be salmon the way he's biting. He's running
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He's running far. Where is this guy? Oh, yeah, it's a salmon
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Alright, we got ourselves a jigs of little salmon here. What do we got
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Is it a juvenile? Is it an adult? It looks like a chinook
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It might be legal. Let's have a look here. That was pretty sweet
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Alright, let's see here. This is a juvenile chinook. But super fun to catch him here
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He took it and ran so fast that I couldn't catch the line. He came straight up. Alright
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That's pretty cool. Alright, bud. We'll get you off there. Get your... Beautiful
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Little spots, eh? Oh, it's not a hatchery. Sorry. It is a wild
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There he goes. Cool. Well, it's pretty fun when you can find them, you know
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Find the bait, find the fish. I knew there was fish here
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I think there's bigger ones down there. It looks like there's some bigger ones
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I don't really know. Let's see if we can get these guys
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I jigged that guy in 140 feet of water. That's rare. Usually I'm only jigging in about 80
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There's a little trick here. Especially in the ripping current right now
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I'm pedaling to keep my jig vertical, straight down. It's not very easy
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Now I'm on 154 feet. Okay, I'm at the bottom. I hope he does on something right away
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Maybe there's a little rockfish or something. There we go. Yeah. There's something
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Okay, that's not a salmon. This could be a ling. Got some weight to him
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That's good. Oh no, my line got reeled out. That was a pretty good fish
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Not bad. I side hooked him. He's got some weight. Let's see what we got here
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It's gotta be a ling. The weight alone. He's just not fighting very hard
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I must have got him on the side or something. He's not torquing me
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Or I got a rockfish on the side or something. What is this? Cod
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Oh, it could be a dog. He could be fighting like a dog
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What is it? Oh, it's a fish. What is it? Oh my goodness
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Oh my gosh. I've never caught one of these out here. Wow, a little flounder
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A good size one too. A little sole. These are actually good eating
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You can keep these. Look at that. That's cool. Ah, so no wonder it was fighting
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It felt like a weird fight. It's just hard to explain. He's pretty thick
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I don't want to hurt him. He's got some meat there. It's a good size sole
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Not bad. Alright, we'll let him go. I don't want this guy though
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There he goes. You gonna go bud? He got it pretty good
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Hold on, is he gonna go? Oh, there he's going. That's pretty good
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He's just figuring it out. He's like, what's happening here? He didn't know he was free
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That was cool. A new species to add to the list here
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I mean, I've caught those species before. I think that's the first time on a kayak I've caught one of those. Oh! Oh! Oh
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Something chased it up from the bottom. Oh! I felt that. He probably took the tail
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I should probably check my bait. Let's see the bait. Oh, that was crazy. Yeah
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I felt it. It was reeling up. And I just got... Probably a lingcod coming up after it
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Come on, big boys. Big money, big money, big money. Yeah. There he is
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There he is. There he is. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, yeah
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This is a really good one. This is a really good one
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This might be it. Oh, shoot. No, I'm flying this. No! This might be it. Oh
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Geez, well, it's okay. This guy's a keeper. Oh, he's close. He's close. I'm going to net him
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He's going to be close. I'm going to net this guy
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because I'm going to measure him. Sixty... Sixty centimeters to that guy
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That's still a nice one, though. Beauty. All right, there we go
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Let's put him away. Sixty centimeters. Not quite close, but no cigar, as they say
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So I got an idea. I'm going to throw this little... Just to see how this works
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This camera weighs about three to four ounces, so it's kind of like a weight
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to hook up my spoon
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below the camera, and maybe we'll see some fish. I'm not going to fish deep, obviously
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just like 30 feet, just to see what we can see. All right
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All right. All right
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All right. Well, that does it. That was the hardest grind I've done on the kayak yet. We..
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Today was definitely lots of trial stuff where I was trying the go-fish camera
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I was trying the trolling, I was committed to the trolling, the new setup with the braid
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and the little... The little... The little... With the braid and the mono
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upshot there. And what else did we do? Man, I was jigging a little bit for salmon
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We got some of them juveniles, but nothing big. The current was ripping so hard, I don't know
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I think the big guys were deeper today. So I don't think this was a..
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It's a tougher condition today, but sometimes, hey, that's how it goes
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But yeah, still some really good fish. So anyway, I am heading back in
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Guys, thanks so much for watching here. I am Jesse from BC Fishing Journal
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have been super cool, so I really appreciate that. Alright. Appreciate ya
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And we'll see you in the next one
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