Fished coho today. first rod barely out in the water and goes down hard. Wife grabs it and here comes a seal. Seal gets the fish but my wife doesn't give up. Pulls the fish out of the seals mouth just as a whale breaches about 20ft off the stern. Wife boats the fish, but it is a high finner. we revive the fish look for the seal and turn it loose. about 1 minute later up pops the seal with the salmon in its mouth. what a way to start the day. We did end up with 3 clipped very nice grade, and many, many releases.Pink hootchie, 80 to 180 FOW both north and south of the tips. Will try again tomorrow.

 

Bringing this to the top---------wondering if there is still fish there or not.

 

I am sitting at Charleston doing some catch up house/boat cleaning. Yesterday wind was not nice. (Maybe for flying sturdy kites but not fishing) crabbing in bay showed fair to good results. Bar warning lights on all day.

 

How was coho fishing before the blow started?????

 

Lots of Natives but clipped were/are available with persistence.

 

thanks army

 

fished today, 2 rods, 2 clipped 80-120FTW 1 pink hootchie 1 green hootchie, 25feet behind boat. crabbing fair

 

Who's fishing Coos/Winchester tomorrow? The soft tide looks good for an early crossing out of Winchester.

 

Dude, it's a holiday, opening of non-select coho, nice tides, nice forecast...everybody's going to be out there...
The one time of year I wished I had my boat moored. The ramp is a freaking zoo with people launching anything that floats. No experience required, just keep going back, then forward, then back, then forward. You'll eventually get that boat down the ramp! All of the ramp etiquette is out the window, every man for himself...I really wish some of the busy Ports had a live feed online at the ramp. Pure chaos

 

Gonna give it a go too. See ya out there.

 

Dude, it's a holiday, opening of non-select coho, nice tides, nice forecast...everybody's going to be out there...
The one time of year I wished I had my boat moored. The ramp is a freaking zoo with people launching anything that floats. No experience required, just keep going back, then forward, then back, then forward. You'll eventually get that boat down the ramp! All of the ramp etiquette is out the window, every man for himself...I really wish some of the busy Ports had a live feed online at the ramp. Pure chaos

So I'll take it you're staying home, then?

 

we caught 3 nice chinook today in the river. Lots of coho checked at the Charleston launch from the ocean. CPH/flasher.

 

I was wondering how the ocean coho were biting out of Coos. Winchester was slooooooow. Lots of boats, very few nets. We got two right at sunrise, and then it died. The bite didn't pick back up until 1:30. We got our limits, but based on radio chatter and the fish checker lots of boats got skunked.

 

Winchester we had a ton of drive bys throughout the day. Started around 8am (had a double to start things off about 10:00am), got our limit with 3 POB at 3:30.
Most we heard about or talked to didn’t do near as well. Hopefully a better bite for folks tomorrow.

 

We fished out of Winchester yesterday with 100's of our close friends, the ocean was great the bite was not. We got 4 lost another 4 we went way south to get away from the masses some of them have no idea how to troll around other boats.

 

Found three limits out of Winchester yesterday. 3 fish right at dawn the other three took till about 1pm. Last two fish came between 40 and 50 on the line counter. We tried our best to stay away from big groups of boats too.

Overall pleasant day. Glad we got in the water very early.

 

Limits by noon today with 3 on board again.

 

hey Bo Peep, i think you fished my brother in law Tony yesterday. thanks for giving him a great day on the water. we were the boat he was chatting with during the day. finished with 6 in the box and 6 lost with 4 pob.

 

Yes that was me, him and heather are awesome and give my daughter lambs to shows hence the handle BoPeep. You had a good day fishing we did all right I hope to be back there Friday I have buddies still catching fish and I want some more.

 

I am convicted. I wasn't totally revealing when I posted about the rigging used to catch the Chinook on Monday. Yes, we did use a flasher and CPH but that got one takedown. The fish were caught on a kind of unique set up. When we checked in at the Charleston launch our 3 Chinook were the only Chinook checked at that time from the river. If you are interested in finding out what we used I will share it. I am going to ask that to get this intel YOU do one act of random kindness to someone not expecting it. All integrity, you say it and I will believe it and will share. You post the random act on this site and I will share our "secret" by PM. I will include a picture if I am smart enough to figure that out. Yes I am weird but I do like acts of kindness to others.

 

Heading Back to Winchester tomorrow for hopefully a Coho rodeo might be the last time on the big pond for salon this year. Kids stuff fire back up this weekend and the next few are all full. Then I hope to get to the Coos for some non-clip Coho in the river. I won't be able to report until Monday, but the ocean looks great this weekend.

 

Canceled our tuna run out of Charleston this morning because of the thunderstorm and rain we had. About to head out for salmon. Will report back

 

Had a hard time finding salmon today. Traveled around 10 miles hunting. Released a 10” coho and kept one decent wild fish, also missed a few drive bys. If anyone is going out for tuna tomorrow, let me know. Planning on fishing salmon again on Sunday.

 

Spent most of the day wasting gas for salmon. decided to change gear and go for long leader. as we were pulling our gear one boat in sight had a net out. we finished bringing in our gear and that boat had a 2nd net out. we changed gear dropped lines and limited on 4 nice coho. ?????

 

That’s awesome. Where do you end up fishing?

 

I fished from 12-5 out of Coos. Got a nice native Chinook that bit 5 seconds after I got my line out. Pink hoochie spinner near the surface. One more drive by, and a couple coho that I got to the boat but couldn't convince to come on board. I fished from 25' to 180 ft. All the action seemed to be in 25-30 ft. of water. I was just north of the mouth.

I'm thinking I might try a tuna run on Sunday. Any recent reports?

 

I say stick to salmon. Ran a total of about 130 miles today looking for tuna and didn’t get a single one. It’s almost full moon and might be effecting the bite.
Going for salmon tomorrow and going to try shallow like you said

 

We managed to scratch out 3 today out of Winchester Bay. Long periods of nothing with a few short bite windows. 250-315 fow. 35 feet on the line counter. Triangle flasher with cph.

 

The past few days have been good for us out of Coos Bay. The ocean has been amazing. I spent a good part of today catching up on vacuum packaging crab, halibut, sole, lingcod, and some very thick coho filets.

Monday's coho action was in 90-100 fow, just north of the mouth. There was no correlation between clusters of boats trolling in close proximity and actual fish being caught. We got away from the pack and covered ground until we found our own biters.

The coho are chunky this year! Most of our fish have been over 10 lbs.!

 

Where can I find updates on the coho quota? Anyone have a link, thank you.

also, my uncle picked up this pig outta Winchester a few days ago.

 

Fished about 7 hours out of w.b. today and picked up one fish. Very slow bite. Started trolling at the whistle buoy ran out to 315 feet, trolled back into 90 feet and back to the whistle buoy where we finally landed one. Checker said lots of boats got skunked. I heard about a third of the quota has been caught but I haven't seen anything official.