Depoe 7/13 salmon, & THANKS !!!

[Davy]

First of all----


Thanks to all of you that offered information & assistance and even a lead rope for me to get out the hole at Depoe for the first time in about 3 decades!

And we're out:

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What a morning. What an ocean? Does it get better?

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I lost my wired VHF about 8Am as soon as I hit the transmit button to answer an ifisher lookin for others , so I was not on 78 after that, no idea why. Ain't gonna let it bother me. New boat problems is all. I wudda said hello if not for that to all of yous.

We fished a great rip in about 200ft , (along with about every other salmon boat out there) hard for ZERO. Not even a bump. Flashers, no flashers, whole herring, cut Herring , squid, nothing! I think that rip continued on all the way to Mexico, huh? It was long. But dang it was gorgeous out there. We fished from 20' to 80'. We heard of 2 fish before the radio left us, and saw one knocked off by the net next to us-- I hate that! Bet that wasn't a G-rated conversation after that. Wonder where they went? Let me know how you got them, cause I know you did.

We were very very tired on almost no sleep so we hung it up at about 10 and got back to do the work and am now sittin here with the perverbial barley pop writin this

Can't wait to hear the tuna reports.

Mike- sorry I couldn't do more there this AM. Friday the 13th I guess

Thanks again to the Salty Dogs beers on me

[Chum Bucket]

Last week, there was huge rip out there as well. We didn't do didly on it either. Once we trolled away from it is when the bite started. Too bad the catching wasn't better. At least the ocean was nice for you.

[swampy]

I to got caught in the allure of "The Rip"...The water danced, birds fed, and debri accumulated on the nicest temp break I've seen in a long time....we fished inside of it , outside of it, in it and all along it and caught no fish and saw few landed. We worked out from there and trolled in from there with only a few pokes to show for it !! So where DID all the coho go ??