Keely Point Sturgeon Success

[Tanner]

Couldn't take another day of catching black chinook with white spots so I took my 9 year old son to Kelly Point with me today. 2 beautiful keepers in the boat. One was 45 inches the other was 57. Kinda wierd though, the hot keeper bite was at high slack tide. Usually we do well through outgoing, but today the bite was only on for about an hour. Smelt was the ticket (With some of my secret sauce of course).

[Salmonator]

were you up near the terminal or just above the mouth?? I'm thinking about trying it tuesday or wednesday... sal

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[Mr. Fisherman]

Tanner,

Where did you launch from, what depth were you fishing and what is that "secret" sauce?

Thanks for yer help, Email me if ya wanna keep it tight lipped,


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[Mr. Fisherman]

Has anyone tried sand shrimp around Tounge Point?

Are the Sculpins still robbing bait too fast to use them?

Any updates?

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[Salmonator]

Best free place to launch is at Cathedral Park at the east end of the St. Johns bridge

[WaterDog]

Mr. F,
What salmonator said for launching. I use all kinds of bait. Herring, smelt, sand shrimp, squid, octopus, shad strips......what am I forgetting? I take a varity because you never know whats going to be hot. Sturgeon feast is good, anise works. I want to try some of Marie's shrimp scent out there too. Your local safeway meat market is a good source for bait and at times it's cheap. Here we have a "cost cutter" and they periodicly get smelt (from where I don't know) but it works pretty good and it's only $1 per pound or so.

Good luck.

[Evan0505]

try the TBC shrimp scent for a "secret sauce"................ sounds like it should work to me.....

Tight lines -Evan-

[Z-Man]

speaking of sturgeon bait...i've been fishing the st.helens area since I was little..(now that I think about it..i'm feeling old) allways having good success with sturgeon...all i ever used to use when i was a kid was nightcrawlers...believe it or not..my father would spend 10 mins it seemed like baiting his hook...wrapping it and such...and I'd slap a worm on and have 2 fish on before he would even throw out...i guess it really doesn't matter what you use...just as long as it's STINKY!!--don't even ask what i dipped my worms in before i cast out.

[Salmonator]

Hey Z-Man, what did you dip your worms into before you cast out? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Tanner]

We were fishing below the mouth of the Willamette on the Oregon side. We used smelt in about 65 feet of water. As far as the secret sauce goes, I would tell you, but then I would have to kill you. (Just kidding, actually my secret sauce isn't very secret), Sturgeon Feast. I have done numerous tests with it an other scents and it always outfishes everything else. Last year everyone was telling me how well this new scent "Butt Juice" works so I bought some and tried it. With Sturgeon Feast injected in one smelt andd Butt Juice injected in the other. Sturgeon Feast outfished the other 4 fish to 1.

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[Tanner]

Salmonator,
Cathedral Park is a great place to launch if you want your rig field stripped while you are out fishing. I either put in at Swan Island boat basin or Willamette Park. Willamette Park is kind of a long run, but for me it is a short drive from my house and I love running the boat through downtown at first light.

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[Jerry]

We got 3 nice keepers about 1 mile below Frenchmans Sunday all on Smelt and Sturgeon feast.

[Salmonator]

Did not know that about Cathedral. Have parked there lots of times in the past and have never had a problem, but there's always a first time. BTW I have had good luck with the butt juice injected into anchovies in that area.

[WaterDog]

I guessed there must be a problem since every time I was there in Aug and Sept there was a cop car in the lot. I too have never had a problem but I would NEVER leave my rig there overnight. It is not a good neighborhood.

[Spoons]

Catthedral Park has alot of problems when the Willamette springers are runnining because the parking lot is usually jammed full by 6:00am. My parents live on Sauvies Isalnd on the Multnomah Channell and at the end of December the Ferry Road boat ramp will be reopened. They have been working on a new parking lot, bathroom and a longer ramp into the water so there is no way you can hang up your trailer in low water. Pretty safe place to park during the day.