Hammond fishing

PRINCEMASTER · 07-04-2008, 12:18 AM

Went out today and fish were real scattered. A couple of boats did great according to what I gathered on the radio, but they were running all over to get them. We caught one wild chinook, but that was when pulling the lines in to head home. If anyone did great i would like to know what they were using...oh and lost one crab pot...damn current.

iwanttofish · 07-04-2008, 02:41 PM

Where did you go out of?

BIGALSURF · 07-04-2008, 03:51 PM

Hey Prince, we were out there on Thursday also. Didn't cross the bar until 8:30 am due to concern about huge ebb tide, but CR bar was smooth so maybe we should have gone out earlier. We were like you, heard reports of people catching silvers and kings, but we only had one bite all day, and I am thinking it was a shark. We went out to buoy 2 and started trolling towards the CR, at 50 ft. on a downrigger with an echip pro troll rotary salmon killer, the downrigger went off, something was on, I could barely pull on the pole but I was making headway, no shaking like a salmon, just a dead heavy weight, and on the fourth pull in, the weight was gone, reeled it in and the hook was bent back past ninety degrees, so who knows what was on.

We fished until 3:30, only saw one other fish caught the entire time, a silver on one of the charter boats. We marked fish, literally thousands of them, deep schools and tons at the surface, but we couldn't get one bite, worst I've ever done out there. We used anchovy and herring presented in various holders, all various depths. Nada. We went out to almost 300 ft. deep water, we were in water from 56 to 58.6 degree temp, we trolled along rip lines, nothing worked.

But, seeing only one fish caught all day, I have to think not many people did well, like to hear other reports.

PRINCEMASTER · 07-04-2008, 04:51 PM

The fish you saw caught may have been me...LOL. Damn native. But hey at least i didnt get skunked....was the boat blue?

TNAL · 07-04-2008, 10:11 PM

We did okay on Thur, but had to work real hard to find the fish. We had 1 chinook and 3 hatchery coho, lost a nice chinook at the boat for 3 rods.

Green diver, flash, white hootchie with strip of herring was most consistent.

By the way, chinook can be kept, adipose fin or not- are you saying you released the chinook? They have to be 24" plus tho.

G'luck

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Originally Posted by PRINCEMASTER

The fish you saw caught may have been me...LOL. Damn native. But hey at least i didnt get skunked....was the boat blue?

PRINCEMASTER · 07-04-2008, 10:20 PM

JC I thought you had to release all wild..these laws are just to confusing.

baytroller · 07-04-2008, 10:37 PM

After a several year absence from fishing in the ocean, I took my new Seahawk out Thursday for it's first ocean trip. Only fished until about 12:15 but came back with one chinook and two silvers. Lost another clipped silver at the boat and released two wild ones. All fish were west of the CR buoy. Would have fished longer but my son had a prior committment. All fish were on hardware.
Baytroller

Pejerey · 07-05-2008, 06:14 AM

Went out of Ilwaco on Thursday. We fished long, far and wide. Fished first down south of the CR and ended up North of #1. Came in with 1 small chinook and 1 coho. Released 6 wild coho on purpose and 3 or 4 otherwise. Seemed like fish and boats were both scattered. It was a nice day on the ocean though. We ran out just before low tide and the bar was pretty smooth.