Boiler Bay/Depoe Bay - Updated w/ report

WSU · 05-04-2007, 01:17 PM

I'm going camping out there this weekend and want to try fishing. I am wondering some good locations are. Is fogarty creek any good (also are there sand shrimp to be dug there or elsewhere)? Any other areas? I have read the past posts and plan to use some jigs and sand shrimp. I understand keeping people's spot off the internet, but thought I would ask. PM's more than welcome. I will report back after the weekend. Thanks all.

deepsix · 05-04-2007, 01:45 PM

Head up to Siletz Bay and dig your sand-shrimp there at low tide. All of the flats next to 101 are good. Can't help with the rock fishing but I would bet there are some good areas off the rocky points between the Siletz and Depoe bay. Good Luck!

kill2hunt · 05-04-2007, 09:29 PM

when i was on leave last year about this time i did really well right inside depoe bay, underneath the bridge. i go over the bridge (from the newport side) then make i think its first right. you'll go kind of into a neighborhood, but there is a little parking area youll see and a place called the "channel house" if you walk behind it through the grass there is a trail that goes down to the water there. personally when i fish there i just buy the shrimp right across the street at the gas station but digging they are always better? i have done well at high and low tide there and have caught some really big perch. i have never had any luck with the bass but it wouldnt surprise me. the last time they were hitting right under the bridge and up in the bay side some. you just move around a little and youll find them. for me its been 50/50 greenling to perch

good luck and give it a try ive never been skunked there.

WSU · 05-07-2007, 06:50 AM

Here is the report back. We fished sunday in boiler bay and did pretty good for not having fished there before or having much experience fishing from the rocks. We ended up bring home 5 bass and a ling. I caught to more lings that were undersized and my fiance lost a big one that took her down into the rocks. Also caught a few big perch, about the size of a dinner plate and a few cabezon. 3 of the bass were from the jetty in newport. We stopped on the way home and fished for an hour. The bass there were smaller but there were a ton of them. We had 4 other friends there and we all caught probably 15 bass in the hour I stayed.