Fish On!

[Jettin' Fool]

Fished outside Astoria and it was hot hot hot. We caught 14 coho in 2 hours and a Chinook to boot. Of course we only kept 4. Get out there!!!

[Bait O' Eggs]

Fishlipz

Can you answer the following questions
1. What was the water depth where you were fishing?
2. How deep were you fishing?
3. What was the bait of choice?

I will be going out of Garibaldi this weekend. Would like to find similiar results.

Thanks

[Jeffhead]

Hey eggs,
Here's my guess on your questions:
1) Don't matter
2) For silvers the top 50' o' water
3) Cut plug herring and a 4 - 6 ounce banana weight or a diver.
In the ocean silvers are highly aggressive and don't run very deep. If there are any tide rips, fish the seam on the "flat" side of the rip. For real fun at first light run a bucktail fly on top (yes I said on top) of the water at about 4 - 5 knots they will explode out and hit it like a freight train. If you run flashers use them with a fly, last year at Sekiu we fished for 5 days, used the flasher/fly combo and brought over 100 fish to the boat. What a blast!!!! http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Good luck and tight lines, Jeff

[bait boy]

Fished last Thursday and got a limit of 8 fish released 3 and had 2 others on for a little while..
Jeff hit the nail on the head. Herring (fresh) plug cut 4-6 ft leader ez diver 10-40 pulls.
Going out again in the morning if the weather holds up

[Deleted User]

Geez Jeff http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif ! What are we going to Pt. D for? With all the silvers this year let's go drag some stuff out of Seiku instead. Or rough it and do both! Maybe throw in a little whaling out of Neah Bay? Gamagatsu just sent me a sample of their new 'poons to field test. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif ....... I didn't think so.

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[Deleted User]

Fishlipz:
Did you go out over the bar? Did you head north or south? How far out did you go?
How was the bar condiction if you went out?
Thinking about going down there. Thank you for the input.

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Guardsman

[Jettin' Fool]

We fished out past the bar about 4-8 miles. Fish along the rip lines and fish relatively shallow. We used dipsey divers with a flasher and only18 inch leader to a whole herring(Get FRESH herring!!!) with a pink hoochie. The conditions where not to bad with swells probly to 6 feet. Thank god for Dramamine!! http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif ****Also try this>>If you get a strike and miss the hook up, Give 5 quick pulls off the reel and get ready! You can still get your fish on the hoochie alone.

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[bait boy]

Well another great day out on the ocean the Bar was ok not great but... the swells were on the large side but there was almost no wind chop. we got our limit of silvers with one king thrown into the limit. the bait we had was fresh herring not great quality because it kept tearing off the hooks.
we went through three dozen herring and split up our gear to conserve bait.
so we put out a flasher and hoochie combo and that setup caught 5 fish (got three non finclipped fish also) took us longer than some others to get our limit but we were back at the dock in Hammond by noon.

Keys to this fishery are:
1. Fresh fresh fresh herring plug cut on standard leader length pulled behind Delta or E-Z diver
2. Try to maintain speed under 2 Kts
3. if you want to pull gear i.e. hoochies be sure your setup is short enough for you to get the net to the fish. we tried out of the ordinary colors today, Orange and white hoochies tipped with a small filet of herring.
4. follow the charters they know where the fish are. They do a real nice job of breaking the waves while going over the bar too.
5. depth is in the 20 to 30 pull range.

KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER!!!! AND THE BAR CONDITIONS FOR BOTH LEAVING AND PLANNED RETURN TIMES....
A good website for the current conditions is http://www.marineweather.com/FRBuoyNW.html
and for those that dont have immediate access to the internet you can call the Dial a buoy hotline and punch in the station you are looking for and it reads the report and current conditions for the area.

Hope this takes some of the guess work out of the columbia river ocean fishery and good luck
Rick

[Deleted User]

Thanks for the Marine weather linkup Rick. I'll be checking on station 88S along with the Ifish weather (see mainpage) station on Bill's house for Oct. thru Jan.! - RT