Sure is Quiet on the Coast?

[Miss B Haven]

What's up, nobody's fishing? Nobodies catching? Some people are fishing and catching and not telling. Everybody's fishing and catching? Roads all closed from that big rain storm we had (ya right!). East wind got you down? Too dang cold? :shocked:
What's up folks? :whazzup: Starting to smell like zipperlip out there! :wink:

[ 10-29-2002, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Miss B Haven ]

[skein]

I suspect a bunch of us have either been hunting or are getting ready to go. The next two weekends I'm going to be on the east side, and besides, I think we're all waiting for rain.

Skein

[Nanook]

Why ain't you out there Mel? :tongue:

[Miss B Haven]

All work and no play :depressed: :depressed: :depressed: :depressed: :depressed: :depressed: :depressed: I was hopin' for some fantasy fishing on the board! Tired of seeing dark fish posts and last weeks pics (that's kind of "fish a vu.") Hasn't been anything fresh since what, Saturday? A few entertaining things, but no fresh fish reports :depressed:
If everybody is hunting, it is time to go feeeshing I guess. Well - I better get back to the fight (heavy weight egg fisherman, my money's on Amerman)

[Haftafish]

Jury duty :depressed:

[Nanook]

Well then, you put a big, chrome and current picture up here Miss B hot shot. http://www.ifish.net/ubb/icons/icon5.gif

Matter of fact, put up an old one of you and a Chinook or Steelhead for us. Don't want to see no Charlie Tuna fish :wink:

:sleep:

[ 10-29-2002, 07:55 PM: Message edited by: ****** ]

[swampy]

Been wandering the same thing , Miss B. I have never fished it this late before but the ocean is forecast to lay down this weekend and i have bait left . Is it too late to take a fish off t-Bay?

[Joe]

swampy,

The ocean closes after thursday, except the terminal area outside Tillamook Bay.

[Miss B Haven]

****** Gee whiz, if I had a dang little bitty lazy old nook pic I would share it! I sure don't have any new big hot and fast Tuna pics to share! :depressed: Sides - I can't afford one of those fancy digital cameras! My pics are always old! :depressed:
I'm not even pretending to be a river or bay guy any more. I do enjoy seeing you guys with some stories and pics. It's what keeps me going until the North Salt opens back up next July (man- that is a long time isn't it!.)
Actually, you guys have me pretty worked up. I think I'll dig the bank gear out this winter. Gotta catch up on honey do's first though. :cheers:

[Pete]

Mel, you just take care of the fish, I'll take care of the digital images, OK? :grin:

http://www.ifish.net/uploads/045620301.jpg

[Miss B Haven]

Arghhh - Now I know it's slow out there! :shocked: :sick:

[crabbait]

I MCed a Ducks Unlimited banquet on Friday night and took the weekend to work on some things that have fallen behind during the fall fishing follies. Hope to be back to some kind of fishing this weekend.

Pete - Don't quit your day job. A photo retouch artist you ain't. :grin:

[ 10-29-2002, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: crabbait ]

[Nanook]

So Mel, is that actually you, fish aside? :grin:

Man, thanks Pete. Some Mel "canvas" to work with. :wink:

That's probably about what they look like in the rivers until we get some rain, except for the ones that come anyway because the clock is ticking. When it does rain it will be quick and then upriver they go.

You would think some bright ones are sticking their noses inside the bay and upper bay though, rain or not.

Dam it's cold outside ain't it?

[ 10-29-2002, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: ****** ]

[skein]

Looks like he caught those trolling tuna at 28 pulls up near Coyote Rock. At least that's my best guess.

graemlins/eek13.gif

Skein

[Thumper]

Crabait --- What DU banquet are you involved in? This is my 25th year working with Vancouver Chapter.

[SandySteel]

I fished Tillamook bay this last weekend with Trevor Storlie. It was his last day on the bay. The bay evidently holds up until the end of December. It is just danged cold and everybody is out chasing winter steelhead by then. We worked our butts off for a fish and I didn't see many caught. The pressure is very light right now. We fished around the oyster house down to the picket fence and out to the sheep corral. In that time I had one on that came unbuttoned at the boat. Tough weekend to fish but I learned a lot and enjoyed the days on the bay.

[Chris White]

Don't know how they have been doing in T-bay, but the charters and commercials did fair fishing on feeders in the mid forties last week. The fish seem to have moved out further the last day or two. 56-60 fath. Mixed bag for size, anywhere from 6 to 25 pounds. So far the beach hasn't produced as well as anticipated, but its not too late.

[KingFisher85]

Oh ya look at them chromes that mel caught. :shocked: So what did you do with them two? Make tarter sauce out of them? :grin:

[fatfish]

Nehalem this past weekend (Oct 26 & 27) was good for us from the town of Nehalem to the Barn Hole. 2 rods fishing accounted for 16 strikes with 12 fish to the boat. Kept 4 chrome fish to eat. Total catch included some dark and some chromers. Biggest fish was 30 lbs 3 oz on the digital scale and chrome bright. Mixed bag of chinooks and silvers (natives & hatchery fish mix). Fishing method was a combination of trolling and casting spinners. Homemade spinners with solid red blades and red beads. Wow, those silvers sure do bend up your spinners. Great time and even got eggs out of the 30 #er. You have to move around and fish where you see fish. There still are fish in the Nehalem; you just need to put in your time. Good luck this coming weekend.

This report will probably make a lot of people on the river wonder why they pulled their boats out already.

[ReelMcCoy]

I fished last Saturday in the Trask tide water. Saw a number of dark and light fish caught with bobbers. I landed my first one on a bobber. A nice 25 lbs buck with just a touch of color but still had sea lice on him. I fish most of the time in the bay or ditch with spinners. I tried bobber fishing because I was tired of the croud in the bay.

I gave up around noon due to some real rude locals. They were drifting there stuff in front of my boat. Or maybe I should say from the front to the back about three feet out. It is hard to fish when there are lines that start from ten feet above you extending to your transom. I was there to enjoy the day not fight with people. I looked for the no parking sign with there name on it but some one must have removed it.

There are a lot of fish in the Trask tide water just don't let them know your are from Portland. Some of the locals don't like you guy's.

And by the way I have been fishing those rivers for twenty five years now so I am not a newbie.

[Miss B Haven]

Hmmm.... I just wish I was tough enough to hold them two 50lb'rs out at arms length! If I was you guys wouldn't be messin' with me so much! :grin: :wink: :cheers:
PS - I wish I did catch those "things" at least I could say I broke 40lbs! :depressed:

[tailchaser]

Well as of the south coast the people staying up to date with the commercials know that they're still slaying the salmon outside the jetties. I have one friend out there fishing in a small 22' commercial and they're averaging 60-100 chinook a day. I'm headed back out this weekend to give it a go. All of them are 3-yr old fish but have been averaging 20-25 lbs. Sounded good enough for me so I'll have a report sunday night.

tc

[fishisabonus]

I think if you zoom in on that picture you will see it has been altered. If you look really close, those horns look like they have been added to the picture.

[Keta]

Miss B,
How come you smoked those fish without taking the tuna out of their mouths? :depressed:

[rojo]

Hey Mel: take one of those criters..eer...fish use your tuna gear and troll it at about 5 kts out in front of Warrenton...chance at a nice big fur ball and enough action to last you for a month or two...Roger...

[Miss B Haven]

rojo - Troll? No need to troll, I could put it on a hand line and just wave it around off my swim step in the slip. Furball might get wrapped around a piling though and pull the whole dang dock down the creek. :shocked:
Your boat still down there? We're runnig nhome weekend of the 9th/10th with a bunch of Hammond foks. Stopping over at Cathlamet Sat. night. :cool:

[Myles]

Fished Tilla bay Sat. from dawn till about 3:00, saw 2 caught in the Ghost Hole, 2-3 by the Coast Guard tower. Finally got outside about 1:30 or 2:00, most people were trolling by the green and red cans. I went just past the green can and found a "rip line" in the water, trolled over it and the fish finder lit up with hits. We found the mother load!! Jellyfish by the gazillions graemlins/icon_argue.gif

Could be why the salmon moved further out?
We did manage a few crabs in the bay so all was not lost.

myles

[rojo]

No fishing fur balls off swim platforms...line in props that way...LOL. I keep boat there year round..but still waiting for trans repair to take place..have a nice trip up river..see ya next year down there?...Roger

[Jennie@ifish]

Anyone fishing today has to be nuts.
It's freezing and windy out there!
Probably not so bad now, but it sure was cold this morning!
Jen

[bllelk]

FF

Thanks for the Nehalem report. You guys must have accounted for all the fish the checker reported.
Slowpie and I might hit it this weekend. :cheers:

[ReelMcCoy]

Hi Jerry,
No I don't hold all of the locales responceable for the actions of a few. I guess I was still a little steamed when I wrote that. Like I said I have fished there for the last 25 years with out many problems. Actually I have family down there. One of the first houses on the Miami is my cousins place.

I applogize to any one of the good guys I might have offended with my rantings.

[Tanner]

Well alright,
Sunday my 11 year old son and I skipped church and went to ?????????? We bobber fished upper tidewater the first part of the morning and came up with two lovely dark brown colored nookies :sick:

After that we decided to try further down in tidewater trolling spinners. Ended up with two absolute chromers. No big hogs, 1 was 15 the other was around 20. Both caught on 1/2 gold half chartreuse clamshell blades. Bright and dark fish were rolling EVERYWHERE.

[Pitch Pocket]

Ok, I was nuts. Went to get the boat for service and relocation to Scappoose. Baited up the traps and headed for A jetty at about 7am.

It was cold, icy in fact, a little windy but an absolutely crystal day. Dropped 6 pots and the wind started blowing hard out of the east almost immediately. We stuck it out for about an hour to the start of ebb and rocked and rolled picking up the pots.

We didn't do too well. We did get 8 large males, threw back 3 that were keeper sized but poor specimens (furry with black spots, deformed re-grown claws).

Wind waves were 3-4' going across to the channel but calmed some as we got to Hammond. It was a slow, bumpy ride and I'm really glad to have a cabin and a heater. We would have been soaked in an open boat.

Fresh crab tonight! :cheers:

[Miss B Haven]

Steve - You are a brave soul (and nuts). It sounds a lot like the day Pete, Keta and I opted to sit it out on the dock except it was probably about 20 degrees warmer that morning! :cheers:
See ya up the creek this winter for some Sturgeon killing? We're coming home the 9th/10th! Hoping to get a last hoorah on the crab the 8th. That all assumes the weather goes back to normal for early November. :whazzup:
Does anybody know if it's legal to crab through a hole in the ice? Gotta get some small pots if the hole can only be 8 inches! :wink: Those crab snares should work. :rolleyes:

[seasquid]

We trolled the lower Yaquina this morning and just about froze to death -- east wind was howling from the get go. We picked up one, 22 pounds or so, and saw two others caught all at about 8 a.m. Beautiful chromer with sea lice, but the meat was a pale pink which was a bit surprising -- hopefully it will smoke up well.

We gave up just before 10, the wind made it just short of miserable.

I noticed the forecast is calling for some major east winds over the next few days....take your parka!

ss

[Jerry Dove]

RealMcCoy: The first house on the Miami? I did a lot of work on that house this summer. Are we talking about the same house? Little blue mobile home, with a large blue garage?

[CAGEY]

I dont remember how to fish.

graemlins/stupid.gif I was, never again thats for sure.

[Jerry Dove]

Hey, Real McCoy, I apologize for the locals that treated you bad, belive me we are not all that way. You always have a few bad apples in every barrell. I learned a long time ago it is best to get along with everybody. Don't give up on Tillamook folks.