fishing out of Coos Bay, Tuna /salmon .

[Reel Creel]

I live in Beaverton and fish out of Astoria, Tillamook, Newport and would like to add CoosBay to my list. Sunday Ill be down there and weather permiting would like to know what works best? Ill get a chart to find some structure that maybe Tuna might like. If you have any input to this please let me know with a post or call #503 641 0627 after 5pm leave name # thanks.

[corrirod]

It's about time this lurker got registered on the board! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

He's a neighbor of mine that I've been prodding to get on the board for awhile now.

I told him Tailchaser or Mello-Yello could probably get him pointed in the right direction, what do you say guys, any suggestions?

Oh yeah, don't forget your story dude! :grin:

[Mello-Yello]

RC, welcome aboard!
Right now the tuna seem to be scattered. We've got good water right offshore, just not many fish. The ocean never seemed so big.

The salmon fishings been real good, but what's new. Countless coho were caught by tuna fishers last weekend. I heard today that a guy caught a tuna mooching a herring (for salmon) only a couple miles offshore.

Right now were just watching the weather to see if we'll even get to go out and play this weekend.

Keep checking in, if I hear of anything, I'll be sure and post it.

Story time...

M-Y

[tailchaser]

From what I hear, the water is there but the tuna are lagging behind the currents a little and they're still out there 20 miles or so in good numbers. People are picking stragglers in very close though. The temps at the jetty yesterday was 62 degrees!! As far as structure, there isn't any unless you go SW and hit the high spot directly off of Cape Arago. This is where everyone halibut fishes, but there really isn't any need to head that direction for tuna. You can head straight out for them right now.

The last weather reports I saw looked pretty good for the weekend. Too bad I'll be in idaho. It figures. Anyhow, the salmon bite has been great and my buddies nailed a ton of lings this last weekend also. One of them landed a 55 lb nook too just outside the mouth on saturday, so there's a lot of fish to be caught. If you want to bottomfish just head south from the jetties about 3 miles and you'll see the structure down there in 40-100' of water. Good to see some interest, but don't tell too many people how good the fishing is, it's nice and quiet down here these days.

tc