WOW,    way to go Roger, especially this time of year.

Nice crabs! Hard to believe it was calm enough for crabbing/fishing just a day after, but that water sure looks calm.   
After watching the waves north of there Saturday and Sunday we decided to head for home Monday. Waves were regularly washing over even the finger jetties inside the main jetties at Yacquino at Newport.  We did hit a good run of IPA's in that area.
This was more of a scouting trip for me. We walked out on the north jetty at Garibaldi Monday about noon and talked with several fishing from the south side of the north jetty, but no luck.  A whale was cruising inside between two PB's trolling for salmon.  Watched folks on the north side of the north jetty fishing and catching perch in the surf.  Water inside the jetties was pretty brown.

as yes, there are some good IPA 'holes' in that area.

CoosBay stays clear down low in all but extreme flooding conditions, there were nice 'surf worthy' rollers breaking just down from me, 2 people on SUPs playing in them for a while.

hard to believe but my crab count for the year is now 44 (ocean, Siuslaw, CoosBay), all from the Oasis.  I have observed 2 things about crabbing estuaries this time of year:  bait prep is very important, not like summer when you can toss in some chicken right from Safeway.  you need a good scent trail or you will be pulling up lots of empty pots.  Related to that, the crabs distribution is spotty but really dense in spots.  Some pots come up with just a couple small ones, then not far away, a pot will come up just loaded with big males.   

Sweet haul!

Fred "True" Trujillo

Quote from: INSAYN on April 10, 2018, 10:13:35 AM

Nice haul there Roger!

I don't know if there is any exact science to back this up, but I have experienced lock jaw with fish when there is a healthy change in barometric pressures from an incoming or out going storm.  I can see fish in good quantity on the fish finder, and probably hitting them in the head with my lure, but they j-u-s-t  w-o-n-'t  bite.

I agree for sure on the weather effecting bite, I've seen that with our fall chinook for sure.   

My experience with near-ocean bottom fishing, in this case just in from the jaws of the bay, the rocks and lings, especially lings, seem to come and go, whether it's the tides, baitfish (haven't been any in this area recently, weather, or just random, some days they just don't seem to be around.  Lings are not easy to spot on sonar but the days that I am hooking them, I usually am also seeing some long fishy responses on the sonar near the smooth sandy bottom.  Other days not seeing them on the sonar or hooking any. 

I have never really fished off a jetty but my hunch is this might hold true there also, some days lings are around to play, others just not around.

And that is why we call it "fishing", and not "catching".