Mult. Channel

[Up-4-Air]

Put in a long day in the lower channel today. Near low tide I got a 17 lb hatchery fish. I was only aware of two other fish being caught. As I was coming out I heard a guy in the parking lot say he only knew of three fish being caught. The boats can be pretty well spread out so it's hard to know how well a lot of them are doing.

There were 4 smelt in its gut.

[Pilar]

Yeah we did the upper channel by Larsons. Stinko. I must add Springers to the list of fishes that can kiss my @ss. Not one caught that I saw and I was lookin. Daylight till 11 am.

The bend is your friend!

[HOGTIDE]

Hey U-4-A, Way to go! Thought I saw you upstream a bit. No fish for me today. Rarely marked one on the finder, either. I heard of one guy with a fish....maybe, it was you!!! The crowd thinned out quick. I gave it up about 12:30 or 1. There was so little action and fish showing, it was almost creepy. They could make a new movie, "Silence Of The ...Nets".

????Did ya get him to bite on that new fan-dangled-shimmy-wiggler outfit??? You've got 'commercial' in yer blood, boy!

Son-of-a-buck, that no good sucker-dog of a wind was cold on my dainty cheeks.

[myco-mike]

We fisshed Coon Is. NO LUCK. Heard of one caught all day. Fished daylight until 1pm.

[Up-4-Air]

Hogtide, looked for you but thought you must have headed for 72 or a soccer game or something. The "fan-dangled-shimmer-wiggler outfit" (medium size Fish Flash) might have been the key to success. ?? So far, two in the boat and one escapee. Not bad for a punk kid. Even saw a guide boat using two of them.

With four smelt in todays fish I wonder if a good bite will have to wait till the smelt run is over. ???

[RKB]

I see alot of people useing the Fish Flash.Has any one tried the Tri flash.RKB

http://www.hallcrash.com/triflash/

[This message has been edited by RKB (edited 03-11-2001).]

[David Johnson]

I fished the O.C. area yesterday 'till noon then we went up the Clack and caught a steelhead. I only saw one fish caught, it was just out and down from the mouth of the Clack. I heard of one caught and one lost in the garbage hole and one caught and one lost on the sand bar.

At the end of the day the fish checker had counted three fish for 27 boats.

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[Fish Hunter]

Fished out of Goble all day Sat. and the afternoon shift in the Channel on Sun. The phrase "Clean Sweep" comes to mind when thinking how the commercial guys did with their seasons. No positive bogeys on fish TV. No fish seen caught. No fish caught. Heard of one caught Sun. in the channel. Someone told me these fish travel 7 miles per day. Say 50 river miles to Astoria. Think I'll try to stay away at least till Friday.

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[HOGTIDE]

F-Hunter,
My reports are right there with yours. Hard to imagine the nets being that effective. But the channel went from fast moving good sized pods of springers to nuttin' seen, nuttin' caught...except for my pal Dave and his amazing fish seducing device! I'll try again Saturday. It's gonna perk right up...right!!!!

[hound]

nabbed a nice 27 pound hen in the mult chan sunday afternoon on the low slack.it was my new son in laws first salmon..drowning whole herring on the bottom right out in the middle..didn't mark to many fish..saw a big old sea lion up past 6..
think springers!!!!!!!!!!!

[AngleThis]

We tried the upper channel, down to Coon Island. Marked a few fish but saw nothing above the surface. I understand that the hoards of smelt have so overfed the fish the only place anyone is catching anything is up at the fishery. We need rain, which is probably hnot coming....so watch for good days to fish the ocean.

DC