[Hutch]

Had a great morning, ocean was absolutely great today and hardly no wind. Found the fish on our second stop a little north of the lighthouse in 165-170 FOW. Lots of big finned fish to start and then got 3 hatch in a row and got into a better mix of fish to finish our limit. 10-12 oz with 2 and 2.5 spinfish with pink or green hoochies at 30 on the counters did the trick. We ended up doing lots of tight circles and figure 8's as the pod of fish was locked in on one particular area and we didn't have to troll far off em and would lose em, but tight turns and staying in a small area kept producing fish very quickly. Lots of fish and some very good size ones. Get out there and get em 👍

 

[Ronnie Canyon]

Been running out to about Mid Pile and trolling south the last couple days before halibut fishing and catching some nice ones! Lots of natives also! Pro troll, white Spin fish, pink hoochy chunk of herring! 25’ on the line counter 12oz weight

 

[Pescadote]

We sucked today at halibut fishing but stopped at North Pile at around 1:00. It was the best salmon fishing I think I have ever had. Three of us on board and we could not keep our lines in the water. Had three doubles and just hammered them. They bit everything we had on, Brads, pink hoochie, whatever. 20 fish to the boat in a little over an hour to get our six. Very nice grade of fish with some pig natives. It was so much fun.

My buddy was trying to let a line out and noticed the line was wrapped around the tip. Just as he went to unwrap it a shark grabbed the chovie right at the boat, broke the rod tip and broke the line. Funny thing is, about 10 minutes later we see the same shark swim right alongside of our boat trailing my flasher. It was pretty big, salmon shark?
Water was warm at 58.

 

[chukardave1]

Been a long off season. we trailer over Saturday early for a week plus of salt therapy. Keep the reports coming

 

[Ronnie Canyon]

We sucked today at halibut fishing but stopped at North Pile at around 1:00. It was the best salmon fishing I think I have ever had. Three of us on board and we could not keep our lines in the water. Had three doubles and just hammered them. They bit everything we had on, Brads, pink hoochie, whatever. 20 fish to the boat in a little over an hour to get our six. Very nice grade of fish with some pig natives. It was so much fun.

My buddy was trying to let a line out and noticed the line was wrapped around the tip. Just as he went to unwrap it a shark grabbed the chovie right at the boat, broke the rod tip and broke the line. Funny thing is, about 10 minutes later we see the same shark swim right alongside of our boat trailing my flasher. It was pretty big, salmon shark?
Water was warm at 58.

Had this one swim up to my boat today!

 

[Mark Mc]

I just got home, so here's the "Late Show" report in case it helps someone tomorrow.

Late in the afternoon / early evening, came in from a deep water lingcod trip.

At around 4:30 pm, stopped at 39.7 x 13.7, about 225 ft nearly due west of lighthouse (slightly WSW). Really good bite on coho except... all non-clipped. After releasing 6 in a row, pulled in lines and cruised along the same rip to the NE for 1/3 mile. Stopped, set the gear, and started hooking & landing....all clipped fish! The rips in the area ran NE x SW. All fish hooked were within 100 yds of a rip.

G'nite, M.

 

[Broadoak]

I just got home, so here's the "Late Show" report in case it helps someone tomorrow.

Late in the afternoon / early evening, came in from a deep water lingcod trip.

At around 4:30 pm, stopped at 39.7 x 13.7, about 225 ft nearly due west of lighthouse (slightly WSW). Really good bite on coho except... all non-clipped. After releasing 6 in a row, pulled in lines and cruised along the same rip to the NE for 1/3 mile. Stopped, set the gear, and started hooking & landing....all clipped fish! The rips in the area ran NE x SW. All fish hooked were within 100 yds of a rip.

G'nite, M.

Good lesson for anyone there that if you're getting all wild fish, consider pulling gear and running a little way to try and get into a school with more hatchery fish. I struggle leaving fish to find fish but a small move can make all the difference. Sound like it went just that way for you Mark right on! Great report, thank you

 

[SSPey]

I struggle leaving fish to find fish but a small move can make all the difference.

The eternal question. We had the same discussion yesterday after releasing 7 wild fish in a row to start the day. We decided that we’d move if the next fish was wild. It wasn’t, and ratio changed to 50/50, with the clipped fish all a better grade. Fishing is mysterious.

 

[JeffO]

We had good clean releases of the nates we caught the other day so it wasn’t too bad on that level. The worst is when a hook gets in the gills or something and you are basically releasing a dead fish. I’m sure we’ve all BTDT.

 

[Mark Mc]

Good lesson for anyone there that if you're getting all wild fish, consider pulling gear and running a little way to try and get into a school with more hatchery fish. I struggle leaving fish to find fish but a small move can make all the difference. Sound like it went just that way for you Mark right on! Great report, thank you

Thanks Levi.

We've all heard the saying:

Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results

I can only speak for myself. There is a point at which it makes zero sense to stay in the same spot, doing the same thing. Unless you enjoy playing catch & release. Which I admit, it was a lot of fun. But I looked at my buddy and asked, "OK have we had enough of this?" As careful as I am with releases....not touching the fish with my hands, using single hooks etc, I know it's not good for them.

 

[salmonbob]

S.O.F. Coho sport catch clip rates. as of 7/20

10,026 kept
12,740 RELEASED
I expect the Coho mark rate to decrease from here on out.
We landed well over 30 to kill 10 the other day. It didnt matter where we fished. The true release numbers are substantially higher than what is being reported. How many of you actually keep a true count during a hot bite? I wonder if the charters keep an accurate count of all their releases?
It is what it is.
On a bright note. September should be alot of fun as we have been seeing some really big Coho for this time of year.

 

[pharmseller]

Always atleast one down rigger onboard every time I fish the ocean. Even if just to descend rockfish

That‘s a really good idea.

 

[pharmseller]

S.O.F. Coho sport catch clip rates. as of 7/20

10,026 kept
12,740 RELEASED
I expect the Coho mark rate to decrease from here on out.
We landed well over 30 to kill 10 the other day. It didnt matter where we fished. The true release numbers are substantially higher than what is being reported. How many of you actually keep a true count during a hot bite?
It is what it is.

Two of the days I fished last week we caught 8 to keep 4. That’s not bad.



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[Roggie57]

We found a bunch of biters off of Seal Rock in 220 fow yesterday. We saw fish swimming around while fishing the south end of the pile for halibut, but didn't try out there?

 

[Salmonkiller]

Started out on the same numbers as yesterday. Puffin called out a bite at 38/13 so we ran out there but were only able to land on hatchery fish, lots of high fins. Headed into the lighthouse area in 165' of water and located a rip. Trolled along that rip and landed 5 hatchery, 7 natives and several long line releases in an hour. I'll probably head that way in the morning. 40/08 just north of the lighthouse. Fished 40-55' on the line counters every color of hoochie worked.

 

[133]

12740 x 17%=2,165 crab bait
If I recall … the 17% is the projected mortality rate.
Since it’s political… I will shut up

 

[pharmseller]

What do you have against crab?

 

[Pescadote]

We got our 8 straight out in 160’. Released 12. Decided to try in close before running to pile and am glad we did.
5 days in a row and I’m kind of rummy. Gonna fish a couple of hours in the am and head home. Water temp was 54.

 

[Thundertaker]

Report for 7/25, we started out going for rockfish/lings by Seal rock, 50-80 ft..
Had our rockfish limit in a couple hours with 4 POB.
No keeper lings, released 1 nice cabby because no one wanted to buy a hatchet to fillet it.

Then ran back out to the 80' and trolled for coho.
Had our first in less than 5 minutes, followed up by another in about the same time.
Both clipped.
We got our first 5 keepers before we even saw a wild fish.
Ended up with our limit by 11 ish with a final ratio of 50:50 wild/clipped.

Then ran back to the north side of the jetty and pulled our 6 pots.
Easily got our 48 crab and tossed extras back, 50-60' of water.

 

[pharmseller]

Action shots

Coho on rockfish gear