Garibaldi Report

[Bait O' Eggs]

I spent all last week camping on Tillamook bay and fishing the ocean as it allowed.

We arrived the first morning to find somebody had taken our camping spot, so we had to camp in a different spot than normal. :depressed: He tied up his boat at high tide and was confused why it was not floating the next day.



He talked some boat into pulling him off the rocks. It make a lot of noise and I am glad it wasnt my boat being drug down over those boulders. The guy was leaving the next day to go to Alaska to start a guide business, he was a gonna build a lodge and buy a float plane and everything.

Early in the week we didnt do to well on coho, we got several strikes and could only catch unclipped fish. We probably averaged around 5 hits per hour fishing. The wind was tough early in the week and would drive us off the water, but it got better later in the week.

We found a couple reefs and got limits of bottom fish a couple days we fished for them. We caught a couple of these fish in a couple hundred feet of water.



Wasnt sure what it was, was told by a guy at the cleaning station it was a hake??? I have also been told it was a tomcod, :whazzup: probably about 18 inches long. Anybody know what it is for sure??

crabbing was mediocre in the bay, got more than we could keep up with eating, 11 pots averaged around 12 to 18 crabs a day, with a couple fresh baitings a day.

Saturday, we found hundreds of birds actively feeding on bait in 160 feet of water, and couldnt keep the coho off the hook. Probably had to turn back 3 unclipped to get one clipped fish.

Overall a good trip, and I hope to get back out soon.

[Old Coot]

BOE - re your mystery fish. I have never seen a live hake, but back about 1960 thousands of them beached at Pacific City. For years the lower jaws washed out of the sand, and they had teeth like a doberman, only sharper. You might look at the dentition in your fish???

[blast and cast]

yep, that is a Hake, over the last three weeks we have hooked over 30. They are a paint in the butt, they take your bait but normally do not pull hard enough to release the downrigger release.

[WaterDog]

Nice pic of the high-n-dry boat. [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img] Tide what tide?

So what I want to know is how did that hake eat? :tongue:

[Threemuch]

Definitely hake. Tomcod are a different fish, a type of croaker, prevalant in Norcal waters. Hake eat OK, but there isn't much to em.
KB

[jet]

I am glad that you had a good trip as usual. We saw you bottom fishing thursday behind Lysters between the rocks on anchor. I was not in my boat and we were comming in from a nasty Ocean and did not stop and say hi. We did terrible on coho thursday, I glad that you got fishy and crabby.

Jet~~~

[Mello-Yello]

It isn't really funny, but I had to laugh at the guy's boat on the rocks.

Would be nice to find out what he names his guide service in Alaska. "Knucklehead's Guide Service; 98% success rate on finding our way home"...

[Albacore Tuna Captain]

Reference Knucklehead Guide Service. 98% guarantee not to leave the dock! This guy probably had done enough boating to become dangerous. If he has a guide license, he is the type that will hurt someone out of stupidity. Local knowledge is essential. Common sense is a pre-requisite. This guy has neither!! He is a perfect example for why tougher license requirements need to be implimented so we don't lose more people.

[CATCH AND EAT]

Glad you had a good time Roy. Funny picture of the boat too. [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img] Sounds like the native population around Tilly is way up. Thats good! How did the Hake taste? :tongue:

[corrirod]

D o h ! ! ! :blush: :tongue: [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]

[Bait O' Eggs]

Didnt eat the Hake :tongue:

I put the hake in a crab pot and came back a few hours later and the hake was gone and a big fat crab was in its place. I think I should start a magic show, it seemed like a good trick.

Knucklehead guide service would fit, that 20 foot boat had a 1/4 inch bottom, and needed it to survive the drag over those boulders.

[corrirod]

The real question is, did he have to hop in the boat and check the depthfinder to figure out he was out of the water? [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img]

[greenbuttskunk]

I believe that's a sable, also known as a black cod. We caught a number of them halibut fishing back in May. nice shot of the guys boat. This poor guy is in for an adventure up in alaska. Hope he figures things out.

[skein]

Quote:
The real question is, did he have to hop in the boat and check the depthfinder to figure out he was out of the water?

Sure, Rod, make fun of him. But aren't you the guy who drives his boat up onto the beach - on purpose?



Skein