Tillamook S. Jetty

[Deleted User]

Fished Wednesday at Tillamook along the South Jetty. Saw maybe a dozen caught in about 4 hours(8:30-12:30). Moved up to Memaloose and the grass was horrible :mad:
Not a very productive day. I saw Hawaiian Time out there workin it. Any luck? I hope the bite didnt turn on after we left.....it usuall dose :grin:

Fool :cool:

[Hawaiian Time]

Wednesday was by far the most frustrating day fishing that I have ever had. Everyone and I mean just about everyone had a fish or two on. We'd make a pass through and look back and someone would be playing a fish from where we just went through. All day, same story. The bite was steady all day with not much time passing before someone had a fish on. Left a 2pm and guess what, the bite picked up with a couple of 40lbs caught. We fished thurs and saw a few fish caught but not very hot. Picked up and headed out to the 260ft depth and had strikes almost immediately. Used downriggers to get depth right and found fish at 25 to 30 ft. Lots of feeders released along with big coho. Picked up an 18lb feeder chinook and boy was the meat dark orange. When the wind picked up, we headed back in and on the first pass, picked up a 22lb fish. Decided that we had used all our luck up for the day and went in. Will hit it friday morning and if the waters down again, we will probably head deep again. Aloha, HT :grin: :grin:

[corrirod]

HT,

Just a suggestion and pehaps you already tried but we did best at 40-50 ft. in the same water. Even hit one at 120ft!

[Mr.Kitch'nPass]

We were there Thurs as well and it was slow we lost one to a sealion :mad: and thats about as good as it got for us. We did see one poor guy hook up a nice one. When it got to his boat it decided to make a run. The next thing I see is the guy drop his rod over the side of the boat :shocked: my stomack was in a not just watching this poor guy looking over the side of his boat with a dazed look on his face :mad: :whazzup: At least he had a spare, He went back to fishing. Hope he got another chance later :grin:

[excuse me]

I haven't fished outside the south jetty in a long time. I'm tired of waiting for the rains to bring the fish up where I like to go after them so I think I will accept an invite to fish outside tomorrow. Is the best setup still to use about a 2 ft. lead dropper and about a 6 ft. leader with a big purple pack plug cut herring to slow troll? Right on bottom or a few reel cranks up? Thanks for any help. graemlins/1zhelp.gif

[Mr.Kitch'nPass]

Excuse me, I would run about 8ft leader and a slow roll. :grin:

[excuse me]

K Pasa, K Pass,
We went outside and fished with the south jetty crowd yesterday on Saturday. It was slow for you expect of ocean fishing. But we did put on 8 foot leaders as you suggested, with plug cut purple pack herring, fished near bottom and came up with 2 chinook hooked and landed a real nice buck weighing in the upper 20s. It was my friend's friend's first chinook so that was good. I was surprised also because it was already graying on its belly even out in the ocean. But the meat was perfect orange. Must be some chinooks out there milling around for a while waiting for rain and their bellies are graying up some? But we did see a few mint bright ones caught too. Some of the better guides didn't get a hookup out there before we cut out around noon. They said it had been good fishing during the week but not on Saturday. Maybe because of the east wind?

I had a third surprise at the Old Mill Marina cleaning station when some of the hens being cleaned had egg skeins smaller than a spring chinooks! Tiny. Are those feeder chinooks that dont go north? They were between 15 to 20 pounds Id estamate.

Then I get a fourth surprise for the day when I got home and it was a rude one. My wife knows I was fishing either the ocean or lower Tillamook Bay and she went grocery shopping and bought a large filet of coho salmon at the store for dinner on a day I was out fishing!!!!! :shocked: I had come back skunked from trolling spinners through the grass gardens from middle to upper Tillamook Bay the last few trips and came home empty handed. But HEY. Is that the right way for a wife to comfort the esteem of a good fisherman? :rolleyes: H*** no! :grin: