If anyone seas more current regulations please share!

 

One of the most disappointing moments of my teenage years. Was a Coho opener on a charter boat. I had thoughts of these monster salmon we would be catching! And then the rods started going down! And then we were reeling in these little 4 to 6 pound fish 🤣 I’ll wait a month 😎

 

We always let a few go if they are really small. No need to even net or handle them. A pliers over the side of the boat and away they go. I like a large single hook for releasing and hooking purposes.

 

Thanks Randy. I’ll be looking for some early ones this season. Nice to have the option to fish for them now if offshore is not cooperating.

 

Ya, I couldnt agree more. It maybe slow but we have options again! Yahoo!

 

Small ones grilled whole are sure tasty tho

 

I always keep one small one for doing a salt crust bake with a whole fish.

It sure does seem like a waste killing a 3-5 pound silver though, when you know in a couple of months they will be 2-3x that size and the quota is headcount, not poundage.

 

First fish to swim by us at Newport may have had a good feed years. With the ocean you never know what is going to happen. 🤞Coho surprise or a big chinook.

 

Now if only someone could turn the dial on the wind machine down from a 7 to about a 2, that would be great.

 

Based on my experience the main group of coho off central and southern Oregon when the season starts in June will be well offshore near the temperature break (blue to green) as depicted in this chart. They will move in closer when the upwelling subsides and the warmer water -mid 50s moves in close to shore.

 

That sure is some nice-lookin data you got there, be an awful shame if all our NOAA funding keeps getting whacked….

 

Blah blah blah

 

Fished sunday south of seal rock 160 fow, was 51 degrees, went out to 220 where it was 53 degrees, got one drive by that didnt stick and that was it.

 

A helpful report thank you! Sorry you didn't find them, next time!

 

Seems like the weather settled the argument about keeping early season coho. Yikes it's not been playing nice out there! Come on ocean I wanna go fishing!

 

You've got to catch them to keep them. Very hard to do this time of year. I'm shocked more people don't fish for kings

 

Got out today with the wife, picked up a couple decent fish.

They cut okay.

Had to let a couple bigger ones go, too many fins.




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Nice work Pharmseller!
Those are beauties!

 

We were using Ford Fenders and a worm.




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Must have a MUCH bigger boat than me lol

 

lol nice fish Pharmseller!

 

Pharm, a real worm or a plastic and if it is plastic what color works best for the chinook? I just got a few ford fenders and looking at trying them this next window. Also do you go fast enough troll to have them jump the surface?

 

We started out with common garden hackle dyed lime green fronted by a smiley blade in prism design. Three gold beads between worm and blade. All we caught were native coho so we switch up to 3’ tapeworms from the digestive tracts of juvenile capybaras fed exclusively on mangos. Watermelon pattern transitioning to Cop Car. You can get creative with three feet of worm.

The best speed was just fast enough to bulge the surface but not fast enough to skip. Most hits came on the inside rods when doing S-turns.

Good luck!



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Too Funny Pharm...
U Must have too much free time on your hands
😎🐠🐟🐡🎣

 

Too Funny Pharm...
U Must have too much free time on your hands
😎🐠🐟🐡🎣

I think hes been dipping into what he sells

 

Nice fish bud!

 

I think hes been dipping into what he sells

Taking home the sample paks!🤣

Dudes

What I’m selling these days treats a disease you don’t want. I never did the ED stuff but I had antivirals (for the herps and such) and a long-acting morphine (but no samples, sorry).

A few antibiotics might have found a place in the medicine cabinet but that’s conjecture.




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I'm guessing either nobody went after them or didn't find any coho yesterday?
(Trying to keep the thread active)

 

I'm guessing either nobody went after them or didn't find any coho yesterday?
(Trying to keep the thread active)

I spent an hour or close too it, after halibut drifting and had no action.

Water was cold at 48 to 50ish degrees on the way in from the pile.

Some good slicks, but no action for me. Felt good to troll again for what its worth!

 

Not many caught yet.

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/mrp/salmon/docs/SOF_2025_Sport_Estimation.pdf

 

Went out saturday all day, 120-330 FOW, not a sniff. Salvaged the day with some bottom fish at the south reef. Sunday we decided to stay local and fish springers on the willy and got a couple. Coho fishing has always been tough for us until/after july 4th weekend.

 

Short "report" for today. I spent about 3 hrs trolling between Waldport and Ona Beach, from 160 to 190 ft. By myself. Had 4 hits / hookups, the one coho I got to the boat was a "nate" released with the shaker hook. One other hookup was solid, lost it after 20 seconds. The other 2 were the drive-by variety. All hits were fairly shallow, and within sight of small groups of murres, with bait marks up high. 51 - 52 deg water.

Yesterday (Monday) there were about a dozen commercial trollers working in 70 - 80 fathoms, NW of the N rockpile. The water in that area / depth was much cleaner than the light brown in 50 fathoms.

 

How big was the high finner?

 

Probably an honest 5 lbs. She was pished off...darted away like a girl I once tried to date.

 

No means no!

 

We went south of the pile 3 miles and trolled for about 45 minutes with nothing. Ran home and stopped at otter crest and marked a ton of bait and a few good marks. Trolled there for an hour or so and had one drive by. Charter was fishing off pirate cove in 160-220fow and had 3 in and one release. We trolled our line from last season that’s in the same area for about 2 hours and came up empty. Probably would have been releasing them all anyways unless it had been a good size.

 

That's some signs of life! And 5# isn't a terrible size fish this time of year either! Good to hear something might be starting to kinda happen