Yesterday fishing with Uglygreen and Bank maggot out of Depoe Bay.
Got down to the boat dock at 5:00am as instructed by UG’s email only to find it swarming with ifish tunaholics. UG was nowhere to be found. So after visiting with the tunaholics for about 30-40 minutes I started driving out and noticed UG’s SUV and trailer in the parking lot (now that it was light enough to see)!
Went over to Dockside Charters and used there VHF and contacted Corrirod and he relayed the message to UG and he was on his way to pick me up (he left the boat ramp at 4:30am).
We started out trolling at 6:30 or so around 17 fathoms off the whistler and nothing. Pulled gear and headed out to 30 fathoms and my chartreuse coyote savagely attacked a coho within a minute of turning him loose. It was the right kind. One in the box! I thought this was going to be alright!
Well the coyote was tired and took a break as Matt starting nailing them on herring. What’s up with that? The coyote always out fishes everything.
The bite really slowed with 3 in the box and the charters were whining and a couple of them only had 1 in the box and we split. Headed north and inshore towards hot dog Lars on the Sampson. We split the distance between the Sampson and the Enterprise which was close to a mile apart and started trolling. Can’t remember what happened next (I was fishing in my sleep) but when Lars started talking about krill and sardines on the surface and coho chasing them Brad nodded and I pointed and off we went.
It was exciting to see the sardines boiling all over and seeing thousands of them swim under the boat. I accidentally snagged one and we had fresh bait. The fresh sardine started biting coho’s as Marty said it did for them but wouldn’t hold on to them. I think the large sardines were a little beeg for coho.
Right along side jumping sardines my coyote caught another hatchery fish and I was done. That’s 6 limits in a row on the same spoon! It’s bent, tweaked, missing the fishscale tape, chewed up, original hook and partially digested and it is still catching fish. Caught another Chinook at dark thirty tonight on it when I went out at 7:15 pm.
Marty heard all the fun going on and came and joined us. He and his buddy started bailing on sardines and I yelled over to him if he had an extra herring rig. He found one for us and the rest is history.
Matt got out the downrigger and as fast as you can yell “fish on” a 26 lb. Chinook inhaled the fresh tasty sardine! We were done and off to the reefs where we caught bass, cabezon, lingcod, , greenling, and a starry flounder.
We probably could have limited in a spot or two but Brad chose to keep moving to learn some new spots which was a good decision because they aren’t always home if you go to the same address.
Tally for the day for the three of us was 5 coho, 1 chinook, 29 bass (mostly black’s), 6 lingcod and 1 starry flounder. We threw back 2 or 3 kelp greenling (seatrout) and a bunch of undersize lings.
The one thing I have heard and observed about Brad is he has a knack for catching fish. Any fish.
Dano
Day 30 (well, day 31 now)!
Triple Limits for the Three Amigo's - UG boat
Kevin Newell
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