Caught bottom fish & nice crab

[Hook-up]

A friend called Sun. and said the ocean looked good for Monday (yesterday). Off we went. Put the boat in Depoe bay about 10:30. Dropped 5 traps off around the bouys and ran north off Govt. Pt. We messed around looking for spots, the weather was great. Lots of blue sky and temp was pretty mild until the wind came up around 1:00 or so. Drift was bad and we drifted through schools/structure to fast and were only able to get about one fish per pass. We ended up with 4 undersize lings (2 puked up very small crabs) and 2 under size bass (to small to keep). We did get 6 nice bass and 3 kelp greenling. Only 2 of us fished as number 3 was to sick. Only had the lines in the water about 1.5 - 2 hours total then pulled the traps on the way in. Averaged 7 keepers per trap and several were monsters. Swell varied from 2-3 feet with 6" chop to 4-6' swell with 1 foot wind wave by the time we headed in. Not to bad for a Feb. day. We had a great time and of course it was not to crowded! After we had been back to the dock for a bit, even Mr. Sickly agreed it was not to bad of a day.

[bait boy]

Great to hear that someone is getting out onto the ocean these days.... great job on the crabs and bottomfish :grin:

Too bad about the current, couldn't back into it? We had to do that one day out on the chicken ranch on the Pilar.. not fun.