Westport report

Sea Lilly · 08-21-2005, 02:41 PM

Our two day stay in Westport turned out to be a blast, we found the fish to be scattered, but enough action to keep me scrambling with the gear.
we arrived Wednesday evening, and found the fog to be so thick it took us 25 minutes to find our slip,

I recommend getting a map of the marina if your going to put in at night especially in the heavy fog.

Thursday morning we jumped in behind a charter boat the "Tequila Too" and followed him out, :grin: two hours later we stopped 22 miles from the dock.
water was 53 degrees and fairly nice but the fog was still heavy with visibility 200 feet at best.

the charter boat soon left the area,
we hung around and in four hours we put 9 fish in the box with the small one being 8 pounds and our large fish at 30 pounds.

Day two was a bit slower fishing with a lot of shakers to deal with.
the fog was even thicker to day with visibility down to 30 feet at times thank god for Radar.

A little goofing off back at camp.

All in all we had a great trip for our first adventure out of Westport on our own boat...... We did have one
run in with a charter boat called the "STEELER" he ran across our bow on the way out Friday morn.
we were in a line of about 6 to 7 other privet boats and he pushed right through us as if to say we don't belong there....
watch out for him if you go out there, he has a bad attitude.

KillerBeee · 08-21-2005, 05:24 PM

Nice job! I have been out there too lately and the action has been good. Like you, working a bit for the fish, but very nice quality. We have gotten fish up to 31lbs, and lot's in the 20's.
Beeeeeeeeee

OuterLimits · 08-21-2005, 09:23 PM

Sea Lilly,
Nice job and great pictures! I will be going out this next weekend, Aug 27-28 weather and marine conditions permitting. Hope to get into the action as well. Last weekend we did very well. Killer Bee passed along side of us going out. Locations would be helpful. Thanks

Herring Problem · 08-22-2005, 01:56 PM

File a complaint with the Coast Guard.
Give time ,date and explanation as to what happen. If we complain enough, maybe with luck he will lose his Captain's license.

Great pics.

scubadad · 08-22-2005, 02:31 PM

Was out there myself this weekend. Limits both days. Went out on a 292' heading to 235 feet of water. Fished top 45' of water with flashers and spoons. Even bag of kings to 32#, silvers to 12#. Lots of silvers showing on surface.

Sea Lilly · 08-22-2005, 07:57 PM

OuterLimits
sent you a PM

Sea Lilly · 08-22-2005, 07:59 PM

scubadad
Are you going to be out Fri.& Sat. ?

OuterLimits · 08-22-2005, 09:04 PM

Sea Lilly,
thanks for the PM....maybe we will see you out there this weekend.

Outer Limits

scubadad · 08-23-2005, 04:13 AM

Sea Lilly,
Will be out Friday night after work. Will be fishing Saturday and Sunday.

Reel Creel · 08-23-2005, 05:11 AM

Nice pics

Sea Lilly · 08-23-2005, 05:45 AM

We are hoping to get out of town Thursday night and fish Friday and Saturday,

see you on the SALT

scubadad · 08-23-2005, 02:30 PM

Sea Lilly,
If you can't find them Friday, swing by my boat about 7P.M. FRiday night, will give you some info. Docked on 21G. Good luck and knock em dead!!

Sea Lilly · 08-23-2005, 05:32 PM

scubadad,
Thanks I think I will take you up on that.
would be nice to meet you.
Have a good one.........It looks good for getting off work about noon tomorrow so were going to get an early start.

craigc · 08-26-2005, 06:40 AM

We came back from fishing out of Westport with 12 and 13 pound coho. We started out over the bar around 6:15am and followed a general pack of folks heading 290 W to about 230 foot depths before we dropped our lines.... most of our strikes were within the next couple of hours... we were advised both the Chinook and coho were within 30 to 60 feet, but we kept changing our depth, speed, whole/plug cut to figure out how to get a greater frequency of hookups.... we didn't feel too bad for our results at the end of the day, for a number of commercial fishermen on channel 68 said it appeared to be a slow day for them as well.... it would appear that the fish were scattered.... by noon, most of original pack of boats had dissipated over a much greater area, and by 2pm, we couldn't see anyone around us... the seas were basically flat and just a touch of a breeze to keep us cool in the shade...

so we caught 6 fish, 2 were keepers, the others were either natives or too small...

Someone on the dock shared his opinion that the the back end of August to the first half of September is the prime time to fish for salmon out of Westport.... [Does anyone agree with this opinion ?? I would like to come back, but am a bit discourage by yesterday's results...]
Craig

slabhunter · 08-27-2005, 11:48 AM

craigc, Sent you a PM.