Leo,
Sometimes the fishing is no where as good as your friend makes it sound. A few times some of the guys who fish on my boat have paid the $$ to go on some of the local party boats to see if they can do better. Every time they go they come back with reports that the fish averaged only 3-5lbs with an occasional 7 or 8lber. Pool fish over 10lbs are caught, but that is sometimes the exception and never the norm. This is consistent with the results we get on private boats fishing the same waters. Each party boat's "numbers" are not secret, and the other party boats all find the fish too because the blackfish are everywhere out there from late October on.
The Viking trip is indeed intense. You leave in the middle of the night and arrive at first light. The days are shorter so you basically bail fish until the sun goes down. Bring heavy line and try to fish the bow or the stern because the boat is so tall that its cabin throws a large shadow in the morning and late afternoon and if you are midship opposite the sun, you will catch less than the rest of the boat (a known secret about these trips). Don't expect to limit but you can expect to land decent fish with many over 8lbs.
Sometimes the fishing is no where as good as your friend makes it sound. A few times some of the guys who fish on my boat have paid the $$ to go on some of the local party boats to see if they can do better. Every time they go they come back with reports that the fish averaged only 3-5lbs with an occasional 7 or 8lber. Pool fish over 10lbs are caught, but that is sometimes the exception and never the norm. This is consistent with the results we get on private boats fishing the same waters. Each party boat's "numbers" are not secret, and the other party boats all find the fish too because the blackfish are everywhere out there from late October on.
The Viking trip is indeed intense. You leave in the middle of the night and arrive at first light. The days are shorter so you basically bail fish until the sun goes down. Bring heavy line and try to fish the bow or the stern because the boat is so tall that its cabin throws a large shadow in the morning and late afternoon and if you are midship opposite the sun, you will catch less than the rest of the boat (a known secret about these trips). Don't expect to limit but you can expect to land decent fish with many over 8lbs.
