Coosbay this weekend....Tailchaser

[Thick-N-Thin]

TC,

Did you get out this week for Tuna? How was it if you did? So far we are looking at Saturday, but not sure about Sunday with the wind. Are you heading out this weekend?

Someone was saying you can get ice at the commercial building south of the docks. Do you or anyone know the procedures for getting ice from them? Someone last weekend said they would give it to you for free. We were hoping you could just pull up with the boat and trailer and load it like that rather than carry it to the docks.

James

[tailchaser]

The report for salmon and tuna is as follows:

1. Tuna - The water is very warm, very close to shore and people are picking up fish sparatically from 5 miles out until 20 or so where they're starting to find a few more fish. There's a thermal break around 32 miles where the water temps actually drop and I think that's keeping the large numbers of fish outside normal range. A boat went out yesterday and hit 40 miles and saw tuna as far as he could see jumping and going crazy from school to school. They landed all the fish they wanted in a couple of hours and came home.

Salmon - I went out two nights ago and decided to salmon fish because of the water. It was pretty choppy and short periods, but it was fishable. Mostly because of the tides right now. Anyhow, we hooked 7 fish within an hour and had a triple hookup about the time when my steering cable went "snap" and we got a free ride in from the coasties. I did hook one fish that broke 50 lb tuff line however in 60' of water. The salmon are going nuts because of the amount of bait that's around right now. You almost have to beat them off with a stick. There are also a ton of blue sharks around if you want to play with them on a steel leader.

As of the ice situation, if you're going to get a ton of it there's an ice making plant in downtown coos bay that you can shovel from their pile of throwback ice in the back for 5 bucks. Works good for tuna. The only problem is getting around while they're open. Their number is 800.828.6717. Or there is an ice plant in charleston, but I've never used them because I live close to the other one and their number is 541.888.2212. The weather report isn't looking so nice this weekend so I might be doing to honeydo's and waiting for some nicer days. Oh yeah and the part where my boat is in the shop getting a new steering cable might limit me as well. Hope you do well, it looks like you should be able to beat the wind in the morning and get some limits of salmon. I also hear the crabbing was super last weekend too. Anyhow, that's what I know.

tc

[tailchaser]

The weather report have sure changed, and seem to make a dramatic change on sunday. Saturday doesn't look too bad right now though. I've agreed to play in a softball tourney but I might sneak out on dad's boat that's moored down there if I have to after the first game.

HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN STATIONARY OFF THE OREGON COAST WHILE LOWER PRESSURE PERSISTS INLAND FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS
TODAY...N WIND 15 KT...RISING TO 20 KT IN THE AFTERNOON... WIND WAVES 3 FT. W SWELL 2 FT AT 6 SECONDS. PATCHY FOG.
TONIGHT...N WIND 20 KT...EASING TO 10 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT... WIND WAVES 3 FT. S SWELL 2 FT AT 16 SECONDS.
SAT...N WIND 10 KT...BECOMING NW 15 KT IN THE AFTERNOON... WIND WAVES 2 FT. SW SWELL 2 FT AT 17 SECONDS...BECOMING W 7 FT AT 9 SECONDS.
SAT NIGHT...N WIND 15 KT... WIND WAVES 2 FT... W SWELL 8 FT
SUN...N WIND 15 KT IN THE MORNING...RISING TO 25 KT... WIND WAVES 5 FT. W SWELL 8 FT.

tc

[Thick-N-Thin]

TC,

Thanks for the great info & phone numbers. We will be there Friday night. Last weekend they were a little off on the weather predictions, so I was hoping they were a little off this weekend to our advantage.

We are still looking to hook up with someone at the docks that is headng out for Tuna if we have to go far.

Good luck with the steering cable! What fun that must of been!

[ 07-18-2003, 09:09 AM: Message edited by: Thick-N-Thin ]

[Thick-N-Thin]

Hey as of 8:41am:
What happen out there? Is this a typo...Went from 6 seconds to 16 seconds?

.TODAY...N WIND 15 KT...RISING TO 20 KT IN THE AFTERNOON. WIND WAVES
3 FT. W SWELL 2 FT AT 6 SECONDS. PATCHY FOG.
.TONIGHT...N WIND 20 KT...EASING TO 10 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES
3 FT. S SWELL 2 FT AT 16 SECONDS.
.SAT...N WIND 10 KT...BECOMING NW 15 KT IN THE AFTERNOON. WIND WAVES
2 FT. SW SWELL 2 FT AT 17 SECONDS...BECOMING W 7 FT AT 9 SECONDS.
.SAT NIGHT...N WIND 15 KT. WIND WAVES 2 FT. W SWELL 8 FT.
.SUN...N WIND 15 KT IN THE MORNING...RISING TO 25 KT. WIND WAVES 5
FT. W SWELL 8 FT.
.MON...N WIND 25 KT...RISING TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 5 FT. W SWELL 6 FT.
.TUE...N WIND 20 KT...EASING TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. W SWELL 4
FT.

[Lepper]

TC, if the forecast does what it is suppose to do i'm going out after some more salmon on Sat.. more then welcome to come along.

dave

[tailchaser]

I'm kind of confused on the weather predictions myself. This whole week we were supposed to have 25-30 knot winds and probably as high as a couple of gusts went were 20 MAYBE. But in the predictions, going from a 16 second interval with 3' swell is absolutely flat and the next day be at 8' with a 6-8 second interval and 5' chop is a tremendous swing of events. Plus, I didn't see anything on the weather reports to show why this would happen.

I just called the bar report and it's 2-4 chop on the bar during the middle ebb of low tide and there are no restrictions. Winds are 5 Knots from the NW.

I wouldn't mind heading out with ya dave but I have a softball tourney this weekend I said I'd play in after looking at the weather predictions earlier in the week. The first game is 8 am. But after that if the weather is still good I might run out there real quick to pick up some salmon. I might grab dad's boat that's moored down there real quick and shoot out. I wouldn't want you to wait around for me and miss the morning bite.

[Lepper]

If I go I will be leaving early i'll email you the cell phone and have that with me, so if ya want to go and i'm still out i'll come get ya!
dave

[tailchaser]

Sounds good, if we get out there we'll give Thick n Thin a hollar also.

tc