Westport Anyone?

[Uglygreen]

looks like the best temp break close enough to fish is off Westport WA. Anyone agree? If the weather breaks that might be a better run for charlie tuna than the central Oregon coast? Has anyone been out that way recently?

[ 08-14-2002, 03:01 PM: Message edited by: Uglygreen ]

[corrirod]

Uglygreen, where do you get your SST photo's?

[Marty]

Corrirod,

I think that is the Coastwatch site.

Marty

[Hamachi]

Uglygreen, look at today's Coastwatch SST. The water rolled over.
I was going to try Westport friday, (tomorrow), but not with the forecast.

Also, how do you get the Coastwatch graphic to come up with temps in Fahrenheit? When I change to F in customize preview, the graphic comes back in all red tones with the temp scale still in Celsius. :whazzup:

[Uglygreen]

Corrirod and others, I use Coastwatch...

What works best for me is as follows:

1)go to http://cwatchwc.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/user/vcatalog.cgi

2) username: images

3) password: TYPHOON

4) click on "5km SST indexes" in the lower right corner of the first page.

5) look for the most recent thumbnail with good coverage (less cloud cover is better)

6) click on that image; it will bring up the sat. photo for that pass.

7) click on the area of the cost you want to see

8) if the coverage looks good, click on the customize button at the lower right corner of the page, if not repeat step 5

9) change from Celcius to Farenhight (sp?)

10) change temprature range to 55 minimum and 66 maximum

11) click submit button, if you want to upload / post you have to change the file extention to .jpg and the file name to 8 characters or less

Also I have the been playing with the Coastwatch data analysis tools (free download from the same site) and I think that I will soon be able to provide saltydogs with a current high resolution (1.1 KM) composite image built of the previous two days (48 hours) worth of indivigual SST data sets (in Farenheit) with both a better lat/lon overlay (for sure) and a navigation chart overlay (possible, not sure). Also I think I may soon be have access to current hi-res SSC (sea surface color) maps to locate where the green water ends and the blue begins. We shall see... more in a few days.

[Uglygreen]

Also - my orignal question!!! Has anyone been out to the big temprature break off Westport / Ilwaco?? Looks really good about 30 miles out (west) on the photo, but are there any fish??????

Thanks!

[Miss B Haven]

Uglygreen Have you see the boy reports ?(It's "uglygreen" out there.) I don't think anyone has been out or tried (my buds got chased off last Saturday- then it got worse) Figures - the warm water is here and so are the waves. Just hope the warm holds out for a while, the forecast looks improving.

[Hamachi]

Thanks, Uglygreen! Got it to work right now. I wasn't changing the temp values, only C to F.

I will be fishing out of Westport as soon as I get a decent forecast on a day off. I will post when I go.