Friday thru Monday at Depoe Bay (08/16-19)

fish assassin · 08-20-2002, 06:56 AM

Hi Guys and Gals,

A quick report on the last four days out of Depoe
Bay ... Friday the bar was closed to recreational
vessels under 40'. BIG swell, lots of nasty slop.
Only a few of the die-hard charter boats and a couple
of small commercial boats went (the commercial boats
... both dories ... left on the flood tide).

Saturday the bar was closed to under 16' vessels.
We took Pacific Mistress out for tuna. We headed
North past the 45 line and made it out as far as
45.15/124.40 and found 61.5 degree GREEN water.
There was no blue water at all. We got 2 albies for
our troubles. The one charter boat that was out there
with me (Amigo) went home at 36 miles ... too rough
and he had a bunch of sick passengers.

Sunday 3 charter boats left Depoe Bay. One I didn't
get any numbers on because I think he came in early
because of the ocean conditions ... not sure. Another
(Mr. Max) went out 52 miles for 8 fish. The other
(Enterprise) went out 65 miles and came back with
about 20 fish (less than one fish per customer).

Chinook fishing sucked for everybody with the inshore
water temps dropping drasticly. The 6 pack charter
guys were feeling lucky if they were able to get one
fish per boat. The commercial guys had real slim
pickings with zero, one and two fish days. Ugh!!

When I left Pacific City this morning at 4:am it was
raining lightly and ... was that a little southerly
breeze I felt??

Maybe that'll push the warm
water onshore for my next Friday-Monday weekend!!

Sea ya,
-assAssin-

Pilar · 08-20-2002, 08:09 AM

Thanks assAssin for the report. Have the nooks moved up to the Columbia to stage for the big run?

fish assassin · 08-20-2002, 08:15 AM

Gee, I don't know! The Columbia is a long way away
from *my* stomping grounds!! Anybody??

-assAssin-

Hawg Hunter · 08-20-2002, 07:22 PM

Assassin,
I went out of Depoe a couple of weeks ago and it seemed that all the charters were going up to the mouth of the Salmon River. I heard they were picking up salmon out at the 200' line. Do you know if they are still picking up some out there? Would really like to go this Saturday but don't feel like fighting the crowd at B-10. Thanks for any info you might be able to shed on this. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

Marty · 08-20-2002, 08:28 PM

My friend went out of Garibaldi on Sat. and limited on chinook to 38 lbs. His numbers were N 45 37.18 and W 124 03.29. This was his general area and they were biting just as good when he left as when he got there. I went with two guys in my boat today 8/20 and limited the boat in spectacular, sunny, calm, flat, no wind, beautiful day. We lost a monster chinook to a lost crap pot in 275 feet of water and then limited the boat with the smaller variety's. The fish were 8 to 12 lbs. and after we got four fast ones we released a bunch of this size to try and get some larger creatures, but to no avail. We got our six and went inside to try for halibuts in the shallows, but ended up with lingcod instead. I talked to a charter boat skipper who went out by himself looking for tuna and he never found blue water and gave up after 50 miles. The weather is calming down, so lets pray to the tuna gods that they make a showing a little closer to home. Maybe for the halibut trip the tuna will grace us with their presence.

Oh, we caught more than half of our chinook on a delta, dodger and herring. It definetly outfished our two downriggers.

Did I mention the ocean was like a lake??

Marty

fish assassin · 08-21-2002, 04:48 AM

Hawg Hunter,

The salmon fishing has been off at Depoe Bay for the
last few days, but may be coming back on with the
weather change. The near shore water temps had dropped
below what the chinook like ... maybe this little
bit of rain and SW wind will change that.

-assAssin-

fish assassin · 08-21-2002, 04:56 AM

Marty,

Hey! Miss you at Depoe Bay!

The question I have is: Why is it that every time
I have to come back to work the ocean is flat?? I
spent 4 days down there and the best day was Monday,
and that was marginal until late in the day!! My
wife stayed at the coast until Tuesday and told me
how nice and flat the ocean was ... no wind, no swell! Just in time for me to come back to work for
3 days!!

Tell you guys what, I'll make you a deal that you
can't refuse! I'll start working 6-7 day work weeks
again if you pay me to stay away from the coast and then
you can have a flat ocean every day of the week!!

Here's hoping for flat seas, no wind and tuna close
to shore for THIS Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday!!

Sea ya,
-assAssin-

Marty · 08-21-2002, 08:12 AM

AssAssin...........I will take you up on that deal!! But the catch is,, since you won't be using your boat, I will "borrow" it for a few trips just so I know in my gut that a larger boat is needed.

I did hear that the weather outside was not that friendly over last week-end, but I think this week-end will be much better. Let me know if you hear any good tuna reports. Would love to buddy boat with you next time you head out.

Talk to you later

Marty on the Xta-Sea

fish assassin · 08-21-2002, 10:20 AM

Marty,

I plan on -trying- to go tuna fishing Friday and
Saturday for sure. I talked to a couple of folks
down at the coast yesterday and today and the ocean
is nice ... little or no wind. If this SW stuff
keeps blowing it should be good with the fish close
to shore by Thursday or so.

I'll be at the boat Thursday afternoon/evening doing
some maintainence stuff (batteries, oil change, enigine
zincs, belt change) so stop by if you happen to be in
the neighborhood!

-assAssin-

BTW, ran to Newport for fuel (diesel) on Monday. They
had just taken a load and the price went up 20 cents
from the day before. Still 10 cents/gallon cheaper
than Depoe Bay!!