Newport Coho

[swampy]

Fished out of Newport on sunday and had one heck of a time finding the fish !!! A couple of weeks ago they where thick at the rock pile and now everyone is in close ...like 80-160 feet ...or south off seal rock ...never been there and so I stayed with the crowd ...stopped at 100' straight off the jetties put two in the boat right away including one that was 12 lb ...then it died !! 0- five hours !!! short of a bump or two . Anyone do any good ? How far is Seal Rock ? Where did the fish go ?!? HELP !!!

[Orca]

On Saturday, there were 2 different Flotillas south. The first was about 8 miles heading about 291 degrees (GPS) from Newport. This is the group that is about due west from Seal Rock. About 165 feet of water. There is a spot about 3 miles shy of this in 160 feet of water that was being worked by several Charters on Friday and produced some hook ups for us as well.

The best fishing was due west of the Waldport bridge in 175 feet of water. This is about 11.5 miles from Newport. You can't miss the boats if the fish are still there. On Saturday, the bite was still on at noon and I hooked into a 20 lb. Chinook at 11:45 to limit myself and the boat out. One of the Charters down there caught a 30 something lb Chinook.

[blubeast]

Fished the area both Sat & Sunday. Went to lighthouse Sat. Worked the area. One fish in the boat. Sunday went straight out with the 'fleet' many strikes, two natives in the boat... trolled south, no more keepers.

Real rough ride back north to port. Heard the charters talking about their successes down south, but with the seas, did not care to join them. Headed in about noon both days due to seas.

[swampy]

Thanks for the info guys ... was rough out there which kept me from going south , didn't want to buck those seas back north ...so if the fish where south are they headed north ? fished off the lighthouse last year with fair success ...thx again

[Salmonator]

Swampy, we bucked those seas sunday from 5 miles out of waldport. The fish are thick down there. We let a native go, lost 6 or 7 more and my wife boated a 26lb chinook. My buddies in two other boats limited in the same area. Today they were flying the flag right off the bat. We crossed and went a mile south and picked up a few blacks but was too rough and decided to pick up some crab in the bay instead. Will post some pics in a few... Joe

[Starr]

Hey Salmonator, you said you were fishing due west out of Waldport. Did you launch in Alsea? I've crabbed the bay alot, but never ventured out to the ocean from there. Just wondering what the bar is like out of Alsea. It usually looks pretty nasty.

[Salmonator]

We put in at newport, hooked fish off of Seal Rock and did most of our fishing 5 or 6 miles straight out of Waldport and pushed about 12 miles straight north back into that nasty stuff to get back. Crossing the bar at Waldport would have been the ticket but with the ocean as it was I don't think it was possible... Joe
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[ 07-09-2001: Message edited by: Salmonator ]

[Starr]

Thanks for the reply. I've been curious if people cross the bar out of Alsea for years. Never heard of it, but sure someone has done it. From what I've seen, it would take pretty large cahoona's or a very, very calm day to cross it.