Should I go to Buoy 10?

[SlabQuest]

I just got invited to fish bouy 10 Sun - Tues. Boat, transportation & lodging provided. Of course I WANT to go, but would have to make some sacrifices. I haven't seen any recent reports. How is the bite @ B10 now? Is it still easy pickens, or do you have to work for 1/2 a limit? What should I do?

[ 09-15-2001: Message edited by: SlabQuest ]

[Jennie@ifish]

Poor bite today.
One fish reported for 40 boats, checker said.
These people came in skunked.
He never saw a net up all day.
Jen

[SlapStick]

Fished hard yesterday 9-14...landed one and lost another...did see a few fish caught above the bridge. Good luck if you go....

[finclipped]

The fish have moved out. Last weekend, limits were common from the people I knew. Today, just catching a fish was a chore. We got very lucky and netted 4 keepers, but a friend of mine got blanked. We saw three nets all day, but two of the fish were shakers.

[BUGLEMAN]

If you can go to bouy 2 or the CR you would at least get you 2 coho predictably. Then run in to 10 to add to your limit. Just don't fish inside w/nook on board.

[RKB]

BUGLEMAN
As of today buoy 10 is open for nooks.

Buoy 10 to re-open for chinook fishing

VANCOUVER– Beginning Saturday (Sept. 15), sport fishers will again be allowed to keep chinook salmon caught in the Buoy 10 area near the
mouth of the Columbia River, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced today.

For the rest of September, the daily limit in the Buoy 10 sport fishery will be four adult salmon, of which one may be a chinook. Oct. 1 through
December, the daily limit will be six salmon, of which four may be adults and one may be a chinook

The Buoy 10 area was closed to chinook retention Aug. 30 because the number of chinook originally reserved for recreational harvest had been
taken by that time. Those harvest levels were set to limit the mixed-stock fishery's impact on upriver brights, a stock that includes Snake River
wild fish listed for federal protection. However, the upriver bright run has returned in unexpectedly strong numbers– some 50,000 fish more than
originally forecast.

"With the increased upriver bright run size, the overall impact rate from the chinook fishery goes down, and that allows us to re-open Buoy 10 for
chinook," said Cindy LeFleur, WDFW's Columbia River harvest manager.

The Buoy 10 area extends from the Tongue Point-Rocky Point line to the mouth of the Columbia River.

[scott98541]

how far out is the c&r buoy from 10?thanks. scott

[SlabQuest]

O.K! Decision made. I guess I'll be working Monday (which is what I should be doing, anyway). I surely do appreciate all the prompt responses [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[jet]

Saturday, we fished all day and picked up only one clipped coho. One bite all day. One good thing, got a good one 18#. Total all day we saw 6 fish cough tmostlooked small. Not as good as 2 weeks ago, but you know what they say about the worst day fishing.

The bait shops had no fresh herring they noted that the Herring had not come in for the past 4 days. Maybe no herring comming in and no coho coming in.

The fish that did hit the box was fill of candle fish and no herring or anchoveys. Up river for my boat for the rest of the year.

Jet~~~

[hound]

fished buoy 10 sat the 15th

managed to get 3 keepers..took me 6 hours but they we're nice ones, 2 running 15lbs and 1 8lb'er released a big native...got all of them at 15 pulls..1 at buoy 14 and 2 at buoy 10..