Not yet but soon!

 

Did a quick trip yesterday to help a buddy break in a new boat - put out lines at 180 fow, trolled to 240 and back to the dock. Picked up four fish total - 2 nice keepers in the 7-8 pound range, two dink wilds. Got one keeper at 180 trolling out, and the other at 180 on the way in. Both wilds at 240, not a bite in between. They are here!

 

I am going to head out on Thursday. Will report any numbers on the radio.

 

I'll be out Thursday as well.

 

Buddy sent me a pic of a lot of dead coho today. They looked around 5-6#. Go get them

 

We went out again yesterday to a much sportier ocean than was forecasted. Drift was way too fast to bottomfish and only resulted in us getting tangled. So we trolled our way back in from 180', had one takedown and lost it after about 10 seconds.

TONS of bait and birds in the 54 degree water though! back at it as soon as the ocean plays nice on my next days off.

 

Didn't make it out today. Sick kiddo at home.

 

The fish checker said he saw 5 coho and one chinook landed yesterday. None were mine. But the crabbing was very good. 5 pots, 1 pull, 36 keepers

 

So funny with fish checkers. I know I didn’t get lied to buy buddies, but a lot more coho hit the dock. Same today. I just got a text 20 minutes ago“You should be out here now, rods bent non stop.” I do like a last light bite!

 

My dockmate got his 4 today but he worked all day for them. He said straight out from 150-200'.

 

The swells and wind chop didn't align with what we experienced.
Slow for us at 3 Arches, 3 rockfish with the camera showing fish just not interested in what we were showing. Ocean like it was we didn't troll, came in early. 13 dungeness, 4 pots, 4 hour soak.

 

We went out on Wednesday to target halibut. Ended with zero halibut, but got our 8 lingcod from Werner's Reef (400 FOW straight west). They were snapping on the copper pipe jigs.

28 nice hard crab for 5 pots in 30 FOW north of the tips.

 

Couldn't find the coho this morning so we hit 3 Arch and picked up our lings, rock fish were tight lipped. Crabbing the ocean has been good, over 50 for 2 days. Talked to one guy who had his coho and said they were deep, real deep as to where the color changes.

 

Jumped in a buddies boat this am. We got all 8 of our fish by 11am. 1 nook and 7 coho. Released at least 8-12 natives. Lost as many. Pretty good fishing for June.

we fished 250-280’ straight out and a little S of the tips. 360’s with artificial baits. (Spin fish, super baits etc). 20’-50’ on the LC. Steady am action and slowed as the sun got high.

 

Great day! Sounds like they are starting to show up! Unfortunately family is in town this weekend but will be there next weekend in full force

 

We got a late start on Sunday. Went out with my youngest. We headed out while everyone was headed in. Quickly got our rockfish but was just a little too windy for trolling. Fish checker said they had tons of Coho on Saturday.

 

Any reports at all? How about crab? Thinking about saturday

 

I was out last week and couldn't find the coho, crabbing was great. We set our pots in 40-50' about a mile straight south of the jetty, we caught over 50 in 2 days, still good quality.

 

Haven’t been accross that bar since last 4th of July any changes to note does the bar still stack up out in the middle just outside? Do y’all prefer exiting the north hole or south hole?
thanks much hunting for fish this weekend

 

Haven’t been accross that bar since last 4th of July any changes to note does the bar still stack up out in the middle just outside? Do y’all prefer exiting the north hole or south hole?
thanks much hunting for fish this weekend

Hasn't really changed from last year. North is the preferred. Middle grounds still not good with any significant swell.

 

I know this is a coho thread...but curious if anyone has been doing well for Chinook and at what depth?

 

Anyone go out today?

 

I'm going to try and sneak out first thing tomorrow (Thursday). Will try and post contemporaneously.

 

I’ll be out there too, early. It’s open for wild and hatchery chinook too until July 15th right? Obviously coho have to be fin clipped

 

Here’s a screenshot. I hired 3 lawyers to educate me. All 3 had a different interpretation. So I went with this.

 

Right on. We are gonna drop crab pots then go coho fish.

 

Been out here since about 6am. Fishing between 225-360 fow. Released 5 wilds. Missed a few bites. Not very good to be honest. Just one here one there

 

Using plastics or bait?

 

Both

 

Slow day for us so far. Only 1 ling and 1 wild coho released, two other take downs

 

How’s the wind ?

 

We're staying on the beach just south of Nehalem jetty...it was dead calm this morning at 5 am and stayed nice until about 10:30...sheep have taken over and most of the boats were running south by 11.

 

We ended yesterday at 11 when the wind picked up. We ended up landing 8 wild coho, killing 2 hatchery ones. And missing 4 or 5 bites. Ran two rods with plastic, two rods with bait and bites were about even. Water was cold near shore (46 degrees). We ran out until we hit 51 degrees which was about 225 fow and started trolling west. Water got warmer as we went west until we hit about 360 fow and about 53.6 degrees. There was no hot bite. We just picked up one here one there the whole time. Never could really work a school or nail down a pattern. Bites were with 12 ounces and any where from 22-45 on the line counter trolling between 2.2-3.2 mph. Never had any doubles or anything, just slowly working one here one there. Honestly felt pretty slow for ocean coho fishing. We fished from 6am to 11. Water had a brown hue to it so visibility was not amazing relatively speaking for the ocean, but obviously plenty good to fish. Picked up our five crab pots about a half mile south of the south jetty In 35 to 40 fow and had 32 keepers. Hope this helps someone!