Weekend

tracker · 08-10-2005, 06:33 AM

Well there goes the weekend. Looked really good for awhile but now.................... I know I know the hairy eyeball thing... but with where the warm water is and add that to the prediction and what do you have....Sh--... Lets hope the prediction tonight will change back for the better. This is getting hard to take. Maybe a little neah bay halibut will calm the nerves! To my crew that reads this it aint over yet. Still hoping for the best. Will Pm tonight or tomarrow with decision.

crabbait · 08-10-2005, 08:49 AM

I was working on the baot last Saturday at Newport. The guys coming back from Halibut said that they wished they had ignored the forecast and fished tuna. The day called for 4X4 I believe.

I think we are going to give it a go. The forecast is not for big swells or building seas beyond what the wind stirs up. Gotta use the M1 eyeball I'm thinkin.

Bait O' Eggs · 08-10-2005, 10:28 AM

I had crew lined up, boat is ready to run, and the forecast has me thinking the same thing as Tracker.

I know the warm water isnt getting any closer, its going to take 50 miles to get into fish,

When Ketas flock shows up fishing usually bites

Just to much broken water out there with lots of sheep, for the fish to realize I am something special as I go by.

In a holding pattern hoping for a better forecast.

fifi might get walked, lawn might get mowed this weekend

djchaser · 08-10-2005, 10:52 AM

waiting it out hopeing for the best

KillerBeee · 08-10-2005, 11:17 AM

I was looking at the surfline website just now, and the swell forecast would appear to be diminishing. Of course the trouble with forcasts is that they are just that. I'll be at Chinook doing the CR Buoy and local salmon and perhaps sturgeon. KillerBeee on 68, or hail on 16.
Fish on!
Beeeeeeeeeeee

tracker · 08-10-2005, 01:54 PM

Wow monday is now looking really good. Is there any of my crew out there that could make a monday? Just a thought. Sat and sun have gotten worse since I checked it this morning. Still holding!

kenai · 08-10-2005, 02:01 PM

Forecast has been doing that all this week too tracker. First I was gonna go Monday, then Tuesday looked better, then Wed. I'm hauling the boat to Depoe bay tomorrow.

tracker · 08-10-2005, 02:07 PM

So it is your fault the weather is not co-operating! :grin:

wthr4d · 08-10-2005, 03:28 PM

Dave- hold on, the weather is supposed to get lots better as the week progresses and you know they cant predict more than 2 days out with any kind of accuracy. I cant take a monday without losing a days pay, and if I could afford that Id be in mexico!! I can do any saturday or sunday though.

it will get better.

Paul

tracker · 08-10-2005, 04:02 PM

I am still in a holding mode. Really hopiung that when I wake in the morning and check the report it will be good. Really dont think I will go anywhere else so I can maybe wait till friday morning to call it either way, but I hate to ruin a guys weekend plans that late. Thats why I usually try to decide thursday morning but this weather is erratic and so harder to tell what is going on. Unfortunatley just not really in the cards for me to make the run down there to depoe to just put the hairy eye ball on it from this far away. Have to make the call with the gas the way it is. Just hope to make the right call with the best available info.

The Bad Fish · 08-10-2005, 04:14 PM

I'm off all next week. I will be goofing around in newport. Let me know if anybody needs a wingman.

LQQKASTAR · 08-10-2005, 05:38 PM

Hey tracker,its cool with me if you want to wait till friday to call it.
if your really considering monday, i might be able to swing that, but i would have to check at work before commiting.

it was nice getting away to the mountains last week.
but i would rather measure my fish in pounds as compared to inches.

Jack

Wreckless · 08-10-2005, 08:25 PM

Bug_flicker, I'll be in Newport Tues - Sat (16th-20th) with my friend Ben (Pingjockey). We are in his boat a, 21' Alumaweld (blue w/Ifish sticker) with a 130 Honda. If ya see us, wave us down, give us a hollar on the vhf or better yet pm me and I'll give ya my cell. We are looking for everything from inshore Bass to Halibut to TUNA depending on the mood of the ocean.

Hope we run into ya,

Dennis

newportfisher · 08-10-2005, 10:06 PM

One plus is the latest SST shows the water moved in a little bit. Just trying to look on the bright side.

wthr4d · 08-11-2005, 11:18 AM

Tracker- I can wait until friday to know whether you will make the run or not!! I only have an hours drive and the weekend is mapped out for me either way.

paul

Miss B Haven · 08-11-2005, 11:41 AM

You guys are all Scrooooooooed, 'cause I'm taking the weekend off (first one this year) and going to the coast. Notice I didn't say fishing 'cause you know what happens to the weather when I go down there.

I think I'll just be hanging out on the dock at Minaki and polishing the chrome but I'm still looking forward to it! :grin:

OceanBlue · 08-11-2005, 11:44 AM

Must be the ol' double jinx, Mel, 'cuz I'm on that boat, too. How many times have we tried this and every time I'm crewing that boat, the weather goes to crimeny!

Hey, it's 12:45 - you were going to call me 15 minutes ago!

Miss B Haven · 08-11-2005, 12:00 PM

Oops! You have incoming...in 10 seconds! :grin:

fishindude · 08-11-2005, 04:26 PM

I don't think the Navy's super computer agrees with the NWS on this one. See for yourselves here
https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/CGI/ww3_a...&area=npac

The Bad Fish · 08-11-2005, 06:18 PM

Sorry guys, I cancelled my vacation this morning and gave it to another guy at work. His mother is very ill and I can go some other time, I hope september is better.

greenbuttskunk · 08-11-2005, 06:29 PM

will my tuna trip be scrapped, again!

This is really getting old. I have a place booked in astoria, dad is watching the kid. Oh well, looks like B10 if we have to cancel.

El Shaddai · 08-11-2005, 06:41 PM

What a guy.....I am sure Kevin is typing up a BZ right now....

tracker · 08-11-2005, 06:54 PM

Translate that navy site for me! Please!

The Bad Fish · 08-11-2005, 07:00 PM

Quote:

What a guy.....I am sure Kevin is typing up a BZ right now....

trying to find a way to fire me is more like it.

El Shaddai · 08-11-2005, 07:28 PM

That's ok....PCS is home to many terminated FX drivers...Les just had his manager call him and kabosh his 4 day weekend tonight as well....sorry about straying off topic...

The Bad Fish · 08-11-2005, 07:35 PM

Tuna is definatley a "no" this weekend,

I may try to pull my last halibut off the inside 30 spot on saturday.
Maybe try to get a few crab before they shut it off on monday.

foxer · 08-11-2005, 07:51 PM

Crabbing closes on mon? Just in the ocean, right?

fishindude · 08-11-2005, 08:48 PM

The navy's site shows three foot swell and 2 to 3 windwaves for sat morning

WaterDog · 08-11-2005, 08:56 PM

Not sure how you can pick that out from a map of that scale. :whazzup:

It's going to be hot in the valley this weekend and that means it's going to blow at the coast. Having fished in seas of that prediction, I think I'll pass. 40 or 50 miles and only a handful of fish. Not real productive other than the consumption of lots of fuel.

Good luck to those that are headed out.

fishindude · 08-12-2005, 07:04 AM

looks like the NWS has changed their tune for saturday, falling in line with the fomoc forecast. I can't tell you how many times I have seen the NWS be different than the fomoc forecast then change it at the last minute to reflect what the fomoc forecast has been saying for days.
I'll be fishing saturday. There is still some on shore wind coming in. That will keep the clouds on the coast and therefore keeping the afternoon winds down. That is my guess anyway.
nws forecast http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/F...US56.KPQR.html

Miss B Haven · 08-12-2005, 07:36 AM

GBS- We're go!

OceanBlue · 08-12-2005, 07:46 AM

Mr. Fisherman said last night, Mel, that you and I on the same boat had to have the equivalent effect of cancelling out the bad weather ju-ju. Maybe Mr. F knows a thing or two...

Bait O' Eggs · 08-12-2005, 08:01 AM

I pulled the plug and will be doing a county fair with the family.

Cotton Candy and elephant ears sounds like more fun than a tanker of gas to kill a couple fish.

greenbuttskunk · 08-12-2005, 09:35 AM

great. We'll see you all at the boat at 2:45am. Is that late night, or early morning??? :whazzup:
GBS

OceanBlue · 08-12-2005, 09:58 AM

Quote:

great. We'll see you all at the boat at 2:45am. Is that late night, or early morning??? :whazzup:
GBS

Yes.

Miss B Haven · 08-12-2005, 10:06 AM

I always wanted to do an overnighter, this is pretty darn close. :grin:

Oh ya- I may be crashed on the floor of Minaki (if I don't fit on the Settee) so watch what you step on when you come aboard!