Ocean silver season is over

[wak'm&stak'm]

As of today at noon the silvers are off limits and bait restriction are back in effect. BUT the good news is we don't have to wait till august to start fishing Chinooks again.
Here is refreshing news...last weekend at Winchester bay they were catching chinooks like we in Newport were catcking silvers. I have a friend that caught 18 and a 25 and released 2 others in 90 feet of water.He said it was the best month of salmon fishing sinces he was a kid. He also said that in years past he has watched the bite work its way up the coast and then bouy 10 gets hot. HHMMMMmmm. He said it is always a week or so before Newport see the bite, So now I am thinking of covering some serious water this next week, will they continue hugging shore or move off. Where I find bait I am sure they will be there.
AS a kid we noticed the silver migration but didn't pay much attention to the chinooks.
If anyone has any thoughts about this please share them, I'll keep you up to date after my 2 nights of graveyard are over. YUK

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Wakem
The Kings love to hug the shore line when traveling unlike silvers. A rain will really get them moving. If you can't find them head in the direction of the river system you think they are headed to. Fish the drops off in 90-150 ft. And remember where theres one theres more!!

Tight Lines

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Marty
Steelheader.net

Wak, this reminds me of the best salt chinook fishing I've ever experienced, back in the 80's. A couple friends and I went out of Depot Bay in my V-sled to fish silvers out around 20 to 30 fathoms as I recall. Most boats were having difficulty finding any schools that day. We had trolled north quite a ways so I decided to come in close to shore to troll back to port. Along the inlet north of Boiler Bay in about 35 ft. of water, just a short ways out from mild breakers that windless day, we trolled right into a thick school of 'nooks. Got our 6 fish limit in a little over an hour. We stayed and fished the next 2 days for encores of limits with only one other boat that found them, a commercial troller. When we came back again a few days later we couldn't find any of them. - With so many fish coming back this year I think these areas would deserve a look IF the weather/water conditions are OK and you are very careful not to go too close in. When you find such a feeding school of Kings in water like that it's awesome! Go find 'em! - RT

[TheRogue]

As a kid, we never paid much attention to the silvers...to slimy and scaley, when there were so many chinook to be had.

My informants tell me that on the Southern Oregon coast, the chinook have been much closer than usual at this time of the year, and lots of them. The feds are going to have a coniption fit if these runs keep improving without their hands-on overseeing.

TR

[wak'm&stak'm]

RT..I have one graveyard lelft then 4 days to do just that. On the last day of silver season a friend went to the pile and cuaght 10 fish 4 were chinooks in the 25# class, and another caught 3 chinooks out of 4. I do have downriggers so I hope to get below the silvers. I am getting jazzed about it. And yes it is like ole times I grew up here and we have had a boat in the ocean my whole 44 years. It is like revisiting my childhood.