Proof CR ocean could close sunday night

[CATCH AND EAT]

Little bird says get your fish while you can because the CR ocean quota will supposedly be met by Sunday and close Sunday night. For those of you that had vacations the last two weeks of August this is your reward. Learn to fish the estuary and catch nooks. They will meet tomorrow and I don't see any quota coming from Westport or down south to fill the void. That's all folks. Fun while it lasted.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...35_fish14.html

[skahorse]

This is for CAPE FALCON and SOUTH. It does not pertain to the CR AREA

8/12/08 ACTION NOTICE: NOAA Fisheries in consultation with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, representatives from the recreational and commercial Oregon salmon fisheries, and the Pacific Fishery Management Council, has taken in-season action to close the recreational ocean salmon fishery in the area from Cape Falcon to the Oregon/California.

ACTION TAKEN: The recreational ocean salmon fishery between Cape Falcon and the Oregon/California Border closes to all salmon fishing effective 11:59 PM Thursday, August 14.

RATIONALE: The recreational ocean salmon fishery between Cape Falcon and the Oregon/California Border opened for fin-clipped coho retention on June 22nd with a quota of 9,000 coho. Through August 3, landings had progressed at an average of 8% of the quota per week with total landings of 5,342 coho (59% of quota) landed by August 3. During the week of August 4-10, effort and catch accelerated over the weekend, and brought total landings to 8,462 coho by Sunday evening (94% of quota). Weekday catches are currently estimated to average 300 coho per day which will result in the quota being entirely caught by Tuesday, August 12. In order to provide adequate notice of the season closure to the recreational fishing community, the season will close on Thursday night.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmon/updatesnew.asp

[CATCH AND EAT]

Sorry but unless they find fish to drag up from the CC or from Westport we will be done

[Mypursuit]

Terrific, and as soon as they close the bottom fish we have one of the largest Marine Reserves in the world, (Nearshore Fishing Coastal Oregon Waters)

[Bluefinn]

ass out:: passout:asso ut: assout:assou t:a ssout:assout :

[Pete]

This just in...

8/12/08 ACTION NOTICE: NOAA Fisheries in consultation with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, representatives from the recreational and commercial Oregon salmon fisheries, and the Pacific Fishery Management Council, has taken in-season action to close the recreational ocean salmon fishery in the area from Cape Falcon to the Oregon/California.

ACTION TAKEN: The recreational ocean salmon fishery between Cape Falcon and the Oregon/California Border closes to all salmon fishing effective 11:59 PM Thursday, August 14.

RATIONALE: The recreational ocean salmon fishery between Cape Falcon and the Oregon/California Border opened for fin-clipped coho retention on June 22nd with a quota of 9,000 coho. Through August 3, landings had progressed at an average of 8% of the quota per week with total landings of 5,342 coho (59% of quota) landed by August 3. During the week of August 4-10, effort and catch accelerated over the weekend, and brought total landings to 8,462 coho by Sunday evening (94% of quota). Weekday catches are currently estimated to average 300 coho per day which will result in the quota being entirely caught by Tuesday, August 12. In order to provide adequate notice of the season closure to the recreational fishing community, the season will close on Thursday night.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Eric Schindler, Supervising Biologist
Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Marine Resources Program

[jaxflyfish]

deja vu....it is the same as post 2

[12pulls]

Crap, and I won't be getting much of a refund from Brookings Harbor RV park for the reservations I made yesterday for the middle of next week.

[flatocean]

I believe it, as fishing has been good all year for us. Fished yesterday with 3 newbies and had fish on continually. We were off 1 and counted at least 50 boats in sight with several big charters in the mix. If most were doing as well as we did that's a fair amount of fish. Also heard of limits coming from around the CR as well. Too bad as I hate the combat fishing that buoy 10 has become. May just be tuna and halibut for me.

Flatocean (boat Slabhunter)

[Chum King]

The decision on the Columbia River area (Leadbetter Point to Cape Falcon) has not been made at this time. There is a conference call scheduled for 1:00 PM on Wednesday to discuss options. The south of Cape Falcon fishery was decided today as shown in the action notices quoted above.

[CATCH AND EAT]

Word is with respect Chum King that this is a given that it will close and I am aware of your meeting tomorrow. Option is to close it Sunday night. I hope I am wrong but I don't think so.

Pete, thank you for your correction as I had read it wrong.

Chum King I am looking forward to your report tomorrow. Thanks for your response and all you do for us. I say that with sincerity

[BigWaterBigFish]

Man, haven't even been out yet this year with all the activity at home, work, new granddaughter, etc ... hope we get a few more weekends off the CR as would like to at least go out once ... sure enough, if you don't make time, time passes by ... thank you for the heads up, will look here tomorrow for news of the OR/WA meeting results.

[ChrisCurtis]

Originally Posted by BigWaterBigFish

Man, haven't even been out yet this year with all the activity at home, work, new granddaughter, etc ... hope we get a few more weekends off the CR as would like to at least go out once ... sure enough, if you don't make time, time passes by ... thank you for the heads up, will look here tomorrow for news of the OR/WA meeting results.

I barely found weekend weather and tuna close enough to make a trip this 'summer'. Boo Hoo!

[skahorse]

Pete,

Why did my thread get lumped with Bernie's? My thread was Cape Falcon SOUTH to OR/CA. Bernie was talking about Cape Falcon NORTH...

All,
Sorry for any confusion, but I did not post #2 in this thread, it was moved here by the mods. I started a new thread for Garibaldi and South. I did not mean to imply that the CR area was closed.

[34Baidarka]

Originally Posted by skahorse

Pete,

Why did my thread get lumped with Bernie's? My thread was Cape Falcon SOUTH to OR/CA. Bernie was talking about Cape Falcon NORTH...

All,
Sorry for any confusion, but I did not post #2 in this thread, it was moved here by the mods. I started a new thread for Garibaldi and South. I did not mean to imply that the CR area was closed.

SO fishing off the CR MAY be open the weekend of the 23rd????

[Abalone]

Where do you guys get this information, it sure isn't posted at ODFW.

Correct me if I am wrong but:

Cape Falcon South Closed to all salmon fishing.
Soon all bottom fishing will be closed.
And North of Cape Falcon will be closed.

What's a salty dog to do ????

Halibut anyone ?

[skahorse]

Originally Posted by Abalone

Where do you guys get this information, it sure isn't posted at ODFW.

Correct me if I am wrong but:

Cape Falcon South Closed to all salmon fishing.
Soon all bottom fishing will be closed.
And North of Cape Falcon will be closed.

What's a salty dog to do ????

Halibut anyone ?

It is posted at ODFW. The action notice that addresses south of CAPE FALCON can be found here:

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmon/updatesnew.asp

The "Update" that Leadbetter Pt to CAPE FALCON is being assessed on a conference call today can be found here:


http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmon/index.asp

Update: A conference call is scheduled for 1:00 PM on Wednesday, August 13 to discuss the Leadbetter Pt. to Cape Falcon ocean recreational salmon fishery and a possible closure date, and possible rule changes to the commercial troll salmon fishery between the US/Canada Border and Cape Falcon.

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by skahorse

It is posted at ODFW. The action notice that addresses south of CAPE FALCON can be found here:

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmon/updatesnew.asp

The "Update" that Leadbetter Pt to CAPE FALCON is being assessed on a conference call today can be found here:


http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmon/index.asp

Update: A conference call is scheduled for 1:00 PM on Wednesday, August 13 to discuss the Leadbetter Pt. to Cape Falcon ocean recreational salmon fishery and a possible closure date, and possible rule changes to the commercial troll salmon fishery between the US/Canada Border and Cape Falcon.

Yep, when a conference call is scheduled most likely it's gonna happen.

34, you will now learn to fish the river. I'll send ya a few pointers if ya want. The 23 most likely will not happen but of course I'm not always right.

[MP]

Ocean Salmon Management Program - Action Notices/Updates
8/13/08 ACTION NOTICE: NOAA Fisheries in consultation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, representatives from the commercial troll fishery, and the Pacific Fishery Management Council, has taken in-season action to modify the commercial troll salmon fishery in the area from the US/Canada Border to Cape Falcon.
ACTION TAKEN: The rule restricting gear to plugs six inches or larger is removed effective Saturday, August 16.
RATIONALE: The gear restriction was originally added to insure that commercial catches of coho would not outpace the chinook catches. At this point in time the coho landings have been slower than chinook, and the troll industry has expressed concern that they are unable to effectively catch chinook with the 6 inch plug requirement. By removing the plug requirement the fishery is expected to continue in an orderly manner. Although discussed, no changes were made to either the open days or open period landing limits.



Was this what the call was about today or have they not posted the closing yet?

[finnfisher]

According to the following, we are only at 77% of the quota as of last week. Thereofore we should have a little over 2200 fish available in our quota at the start of fishing last Sunday (where south of Cape Falcon was at 94% of their quota):

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmo...ing/nofspt.asp

Best I can estimate, about 1500 fish are being caught for each of the last couple weeks. So it seems like there should be enough quota to fish into next week. Particularily if some of the effort has shifted to buoy 10.

Anxiously waiting official word from the ODFW.

[Northwest Pest]

When I need up to the date fishing regs I go straight to the crystal ball.

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by Northwest Pest

When I need up to the date fishing regs I go straight to the crystal ball.

Please do and while you are at it see if you can find out why dryers eat socks will ya?

[Bill Monroe]

It's just your dryer and it only eats your socks...there's a metaphor in that...somewhere.

I've heard no talk of closing off the CR mouth other than the always-accurate Internet.

Sure they're close to quota, but no one here (well, maybe a lurker or someone) is making the decision for them.

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by Bill Monroe

It's just your dryer and it only eats your socks...there's a metaphor in that...somewhere.

I've heard no talk of closing off the CR mouth other than the always-accurate Internet.

Sure they're close to quota, but no one here (well, maybe a lurker or someone) is making the decision for them.

Interesting. Informant has always been right until now. Guess he'll 'splain it to me this weekend.

[CATCH AND EAT]

Well, it appears that the rumor could actually be correct ladies and germs.

Take a look at this article and you will notice about a little more than halfway through Ilwaco is mentioned and a possible closure. Oh mighty crystal ball my foot.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...35_fish14.html

[Bill Monroe]

Is that dryer a Maytag or Kenmore?

[Chromaflage]

Bill, I can't believe you got scooped by Bernie!!!!

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by Bill Monroe

Is that dryer a Maytag or Kenmore?

Maytag. Please see weather forecast.

[Bill Monroe]

Originally Posted by Chromaflage

Bill, I can't believe you got scooped by Bernie!!!!

Wasn't technically a scoop...He used a newspaper (claimed to already know, but still had to use the newspaper report for verification).

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by Bill Monroe

Wasn't technically a scoop...He used a newspaper (claimed to already know, but still had to use the newspaper report for verification).

Let's see this thread started on 12th. Today is the 14th when the article came out.

[Mypursuit]

Yeah, why would you use a newspaper to verify anything!

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by Mypursuit

Yeah, why would you use a newspaper to verify anything!

Newspapers verify one thing. When wrapped around a fish it will tell you that the fish is dead and that you actually caught one.

[Chromaflage]

I'd say more like....

[34Baidarka]

I can always use pointers...for sure. (PM)
If you want to save fuel, ride a long with us Fri or Sat....I'm game.
We're going to charter Thursday, then fish like heck on the Baidarka Friday and Saturday. Sounds like it'll be heating up nice by then plus buts will be open offshore, should clean a few boats out.

[quit wishing]

So the southerners score early and often filling most of the quota and we wait up north for the fish when they show in good numbers they close it? I'm moving .....

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by quit wishing

So the southerners score early and often filling most of the quota and we wait up north for the fish when they show in good numbers they close it? I'm moving .....

fish have been around all along. They are where you find them.


And the swammi has spoken. She closes at 2pm Sunday afternoon. Fortunate it made it this long. Be thankful they were able to streach the season until now. No way did I think 10,000 coho and 5,ooo nooks would make it this far. I think ODFW did a good job keeping folks on the water.

[Fog Horn]

Originally Posted by CATCH AND EAT

fish have been around all along. They are where you find them.


And the swammi has spoken. She closes at 2pm Sunday afternoon. Fortunate it made it this long. Be thankful they were able to streach the season until now. No way did I think 10,000 coho and 5,ooo nooks would make it this far. I think ODFW did a good job keeping folks on the water.

I suspect a sloppy ocean contributed as much as ODFW & lets not forget the price of fuel.

[namu mac]

Originally Posted by CATCH AND EAT

fish have been around all along. They are where you find them.


And the swammi has spoken. She closes at 2pm Sunday afternoon. Fortunate it made it this long. Be thankful they were able to streach the season until now. No way did I think 10,000 coho and 5,ooo nooks would make it this far. I think ODFW did a good job keeping folks on the water.

You said Sunday night-2:oop.m. in NOT night. The swammi is wrong. Any prizes given will have to be forfited!

[CATCH AND EAT]

Originally Posted by namu mac

You said Sunday night-2:oop.m. in NOT night. The swammi is wrong. Any prizes given will have to be forfited!

I protest!!!!

[Grain of Salt]

technically it will be closed Sunday night...so he was right


oh, and I assume all predictions are based on GMT anyway

[slabhunter]

WDFW FISHING RULE CHANGE
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
http://wdfw.wa.gov

August 15, 2008

Marine Area 1 to close to salmon fishing


Action: Catch Record Card Area 1 closes to salmon fishing.

Effective dates: 2:00 p.m. August 17, 2008.

Species affected: Chinook, coho and pink salmon.

Location: Catch Record Card Area 1 from Leadbetter Point to Cape Falcon Oregon.

Reasons for action: The salmon quota for Catch Record Card Area 1 has been taken.

Other Information: Catch Record Card Areas 2, 3, 4, and Buoy 10 will remain open.

Information contact: Doug Milward, Ocean salmon fisheries manager (360) 902-2739.

Fishers must have a current Washington fishing license, appropriate to the fishery. Check the WDFW "Fishing in Washington" rules pamphlet for details on fishing seasons and regulations. Fishing rules are subject to change. Check the WDFW Fishing hotline for the latest rule information at (360) 902-2500, press 2 for recreational rules. For the Shellfish Rule Change hotline call (360)796-3215 or toll free 1-866-880-5431.

[salmonquest]

I hate to agree with this one but...I talked to a fish checker and a state trooper and they both said the same thing.......north of falcon will close on sunday at 1400hrs. at least I got out once, this stinks.