I'm curious if anyone has fished the Nehalem recently? I'm getting ready to take my annual trip down there in the next couple weeks and would appreciate any reports.
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I wouldn’t say there are more chinook around, more of a lack of coho. Buddy’s have been out and picking up a ho here and there. This time last year it wasn’t uncommon to pick up 4-6 hos a day.
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Pretty simple really. We need some rain. There’s plenty of Coho around. Buddy has been pounding them out side and a lot of the bucks are getting big hooked noses. They are ready and waiting on the rain. Totally different year here so far. No rain and dry as a bone. 
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I’m planning on tomorrow and fishing through the tide change, if you had to pick jaws or up river knowing you can’t keep a chinook, which would you choose?
Thinking I may bring a twitching rod and cast a bit to try to target coho more. might be fun
Thinking I may bring a twitching rod and cast a bit to try to target coho more. might be fun
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I would hit Tilly Bay or the Siletz. Not many ho’s around. If I were to go to nehalem for silvers, I would throw the pink flying c’s I believe they are called. Trolling has been slow.
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I'll be there tomorrow with the Party Parge (Hot-Diggity-Dogger) throwing Flying Cs all over the bay.
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Where did kirkll go? Did his wife ground him? Did he make her mad, I know the crabbing has been good… just saying 😂
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I met Kirk yesterday at the Lodge dock. Great guy, and I can see his high mustache standards.
Our crew had some pretty good success with Coho, especially this morning. Caught 3, lost 3.
Our crew had some pretty good success with Coho, especially this morning. Caught 3, lost 3.
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Camped at Nehalam SP, 3 limits of crab today, neighbor was fishing yesterday and caught 2 salmon, kings I beleve I never saw them. 3 more days of crabbing, O and caught a few surf perch too.
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We were having internet issues down there, and I don’t post much while fishing anyway. Sunday, Monday was pretty slow going for everyone. We did well on crabs on Monday though. Pulled a limit in 3 traps on the first pull. The ones we ate were pretty full too. On Tuesday the crabbing sucked for us, but we didn’t put much effort into it. Just dropped the pots at low tide and concentrated on fishing. The guys were doing well running herring, but of course I was running stuffer baits and spinners. Catch and release coho was our action and only netted two…. So last night I cured some green label and we went 2 for 6-8. I lost count, but we saw nets flying all morning on the incoming clear until 2 pm. Tagged out on coho, and lost a very nice chinook at the net. The Admiral was pretty bent out of shape loosing that one like that. It was a scrappy fish and it dove under the boat at the last second and the duo snap hung up in the net. Never had that one happen before… bummer…. When the fish ran again it broke that duo snap off, or bent it straand took her mooching rig with it…
Fun day today. Didn’t mess with crab traps…. Kirk
Fun day today. Didn’t mess with crab traps…. Kirk
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Sorry I didn’t hear ya bro…. I’m deaf as a post and didn’t hear ya….
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Now THAT was funny…. Cracked me up big time….
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Today was pretty crowded at the jaws on the incoming, and there were a dozen boat pounding the wheeler hole pretty hard at first light . There was a great coho bite at the tail end of the ebb in Wheeler. We hooked doubles in the fist 10 minutes. Weeds were much better today. Terrible Monday/tuesday.Dear God....
I hate when a smaller BEAUTIFUL river gets blown up like this.
Especially now, when the big river closes.
There was a steady bite going clear through the incoming tide at the jaws today clear until 2 pm. We had a ball…. I’ll bet I saw 30 fish boated myself. Pretty much everyone was getting some action. Herring was the ticket for us today, but the red and pink spinners were not doing bad at all either… When you hot…you hot!
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Well they were definitely in there in numbers today, and not bashful about biting either.
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It was good meeting you! I was in the middle of tying mooching rigs for switching back to bait today… you guys had it going on pretty good just casting spinners! Nice!
We had a great day today ourselves…. Kirk
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36 more crabs have left Nehalem Bay, I think fishing was slower today but we didn't fish. One more day of crabbing, KirkII I've been looking for your boat but we have been off the river by 10am.
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Out again this afternoon. Probably 20 boats around and saw one fish landed by a guide and one other boater said they caught one. Pretty slow out there.
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Are you fishing up around Wheeler up to NF? Or down by the jetty?
We headed home Wednesday evening. Only a 4 day trip this year. Would have loved to stay longer. What area were you dropping your pots? We did good the first day out by Jetty Fisheries on the low slack, but the next day we only caught one MONSTER crab... I mean that baby was HUGE! that and it was full of meat too. Then we hit a series of pulls with nothing but females and little crabs. I said the hell with it and didn't even drop our pots in on Wednesday. That paid off with a great day of fishing too. We caught fish both at the jaws and in Wheeler.
After getting home i had to put new tires on the trailer. Had a blow out on the way down there, and decided to retire the old ones... pardon the pun. Probably could have run them longer. Tread was still good. But...with 5-6 years and 7000 miles on em, i felt better just getting a new set. These are 8 ply heavier load range than the original set i put on. Hopefully get 8-10 years on these. Kirk
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Fishing the wheeler and nehalem areas. We went 3/3 that day fishing from about
3-630 with two chinook. The one coho we caught we were attempting to get out of the net and a sea lion came up and tried to take the fish from the net. Thankfully it didn’t succeed.
Last three times I fished, I lost one to a fur bag, retrieved another from a fur bag by driving over its head before it released the fish and now one attempted to get it from the net. Did attempt to resuscitate the fish and throw it in opposite side of boat but pretty sure it didn’t make it.
Buddy fished yesterday all day and stayed it was slow again. 0/1 all day!
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