I plan to reach out to ODFW/OSP in the AM to try and confirm, but wanted to see what the ifish brain trust thought.

1. Start in the Ocean on Saturday (conditions permitting). The regulations read "The earlier of October 1 or the end of the Non-Mark Selective season through October 31. Open for all salmon except coho, one salmon per day. Open only shoreward of the 40-fathom regulatory line". Lets say i get my one ocean chinook, now I move to inside the bay.
2. For the bay the applicable regulations are:
   1. Daily adult wild Chinook salmon bag limit is one fish in aggregate.
   2. September 10 – October 26 on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays only:In the Tillamook Bay from the tips of the jetties upstream to the Highway 101 bridges on the Miami, Kilchis, Wilson, and Trask Rivers; in the Tillamook River from the mouth upstream to the Burton Bridge:‌
      • Daily adult wild coho salmon bag limit is one fish in aggregate

How I read the rules is that I could tag my a Chinook in the ocean (Code 03) and then come inside (Code 97) and then take the next fish I get, no matter what it is, since it is open to wild coho on Saturday's, clipped coho, wild chinook (one per day, two per year) and hatchery chinook (if you can find a unicorn). Does the ifish collective agree?

Not quite...
Look above for the bay and rivers:
Daily adult wild Chinook salmon bag limit is one fish in aggregate.
No more than two adult wild Chinook salmon may be retained for the period in aggregate.
"May be retained," I'm pretty sure means only one chinook can be retained while fishing in the bay regardless of where it was caught; OSP or the Tillamook ODFW office can tell you whether that includes one caught in the ocean, but in LEF's eyes, how are they supposed to know where it was caught, regardless of how you punch your ticket.

 

My take....What you are doing then is getting an ocean limit then coming in and get a bay limit. A variation of that would be to get an ocean limit then come in and get a B10 limit. You can't do that. Bag limits aren't per catch area, they are "in aggregate" for the day. If you had 2 Chinook in the box you would be exceeding the daily bag limit "in aggregate".

 

Thanks for the responses. I wish the regulations were a bit easier to understand. Have not heard back from ODFW yet.