I managed to eek out limits the past few days out of Coos. Not a hot bite. 90 fow straight out was good a few days ago, and then it got weedy. The past couple days I've been going south, looking for bait and scattered birds. 130-150 fow produced today. Will be back at it tomorrow, and then taking a break until the ocean settles back down.

 

It’s got a bit scratchy out there this week hasn’t it? I’m staying in the barn until we start seeing better weather and reports.

 

Did well today. 90-150 fow. Trolled at 3+ knots and covered ground. Limited out by 11. Lots of quota left. Maybe one or two more days where the ocean will cooperate.

 

36ft Arima, did not know they had those, my bad. Pictures? Nice report, kriznol, I intend to speed up my troll this am. CPH? Hootchies? Care to share? Yesterday ours came at 85ft 2.7mph CPH, sweet abbey triangle 8oz 35ft of line. Maybe see you out there today, Red,Black,White 26ft Rogue Coastal, whats your ride? 36 ft Arima really?

 

stayed at 2.8 MPH limited by 9am then ran south and quit at 17 yellow tail on long leader nice bunch of crabs as a bonus. Nice day on the pond for wife and me.

 

Good catch. My boat says 19 Sea Ranger on the side, but it identifies as a 36.

Most of mine have been on a pink and purple hoochie, pink beads, pink and purple 3.5 spinner blade, 18" leader to a metallic pink 360 flasher. 12 oz. of lead, 35 ft. back. Maruto 3/0 grabber hooks. Sometimes I tip with a chunk of herring, but not this year.

 

Earlier I too used more hootchies with a chunk of herring. 8-10 oz sometimes with a LJ wobbler. Been trying 360's also but for us triangles have out performed. Going upriver today with all the wind, Will report.

 

I've been curious how the river has been fishing. Please report back. Most that I've talked to have said it's slow, but I know people who have been catching good numbers. I was really hoping to get out on the ocean this weekend for one or two more coho days, but I have too much going on and I need to get my kid some range time before his deer hunt at the beginning of October.

 

fished the river today. launched at eastside and fished channel clear up to forks. one take down no fish. eastside parking lot was jammed, lots of boats. saw 3 jacks caught and 2 other nets. taliked with a guide he quit at 1 no bites. I call that slow. checked with fish checker at charleston 5;30 no fish I call that slow,

 

fished the ocean today. Morning for salmon. Got them to bite but..... could not get them to the boat. quit and went bottom fishing, long leader, quit at 17. Motored back to pick up pots, stopped to troll a bit and boated 4 (our limit) nice coho in about 20 minutes. found 2 of 3 pots, ocean was a mess yesterday.

 

Fishes out of WB yesterday, slow bite with no consistency until about noon then we limited out. Crabbing was ok, got 24 with 3 pots. Beautiful ocean in the afternoon, too bad it’s going to blow up again. Safe fishing everyone.

 

We fished 3 people out of Winchester yesterday 9/20. Tried every depth from 30 ft outside the jetty all the way to 340' of depth. Got one nook and one coho for 6 hours of fishing. Then we headed for the crab pots and decided to fish in 100' of water 1.5 to 2 miles north of the jaws, 54 degrees. We caught one big coho and then we saw them finning on the surface, jumping, rolling. Tried casting to them but couldn't get them to stick so we shortened up lines and put the downrigger at 10' deep and boom, lights out fishing. Left jumping, biting fish in 90' of water 2 miles north of the jaws. They liked the blue, white and yellow hoochies. Also caught one on a rainbow coho killer. Slow morning but it sure heated up at 2 pm!

21 nice crab for 4 pots.

Chass

 

We fished 3 people out of Winchester yesterday 9/20. Tried every depth from 30 ft outside the jetty all the way to 340' of depth. Got one nook and one coho for 6 hours of fishing. Then we headed for the crab pots and decided to fish in 100' of water 1.5 to 2 miles north of the jaws, 54 degrees. We caught one big coho and then we saw them finning on the surface, jumping, rolling. Tried casting to them but couldn't get them to stick so we shortened up lines and put the downrigger at 10' deep and boom, lights out fishing. Left jumping, biting fish in 90' of water 2 miles north of the jaws. They liked the blue, white and yellow hoochies. Also caught one on a rainbow coho killer. Slow morning but it sure heated up at 2 pm!

21 nice crab for 4 pots.

Chass

Man I wish we could have made one of those stick on the spinning rod! I hooked up three times, one I thought was hooked well enough to bring home. There is nothing quite like casting a lure into a boil of fish and hooking up. It lights a fire in me!

 

Just checked with the fish checker at Charleston he said 10 chinook 10 silvers on the river today at 530 tonight. Crabbing is good....

 

Fished the ocean again today. Dropped lines at 60ft headed toward the whistler. Didn't get 2nd line out before Sue's rod goes down. landed nice wild coho. kept heading out but seemed quiet. Sue says lets troll to Fridays hotspot. We hit that mark and my rod goes down. She lets her line sink while netting my very nice wild coho. While setting there her rod lights up. That one doesn't make it to the boat but it was exciting. Caught the final two shortly after and headed in before 10am. CPH 6 and 8oz 30 and 50feet of line. I call that very good.