Sat/Sun Fogarty or Depot

I'll be there 7 ish.

I fished Depoe today, released 2 Ling, a Cabezon and a Black Rockfish.
Pelicans, Murres, and various Gulls put on a show of dive bombing for baitfish.
Little things about 2-3 inches long.
It was kind of chilly.

Got to Depoe about 1230 and headed out.  Stopped in the right spot.  Ended up with 17 rockfish, 11 ling (no size), 5 cabs and a nice greenling.  Couple of the rockfish were 20” and most were nice.  Winds and waves picked up around 230 making things a little tough.
Thinking Fogarty tomorrow and hoping the waves die down

Keith, I saw you at depoe just leaving the dock. You were just out of shouting range!  (I wasn't there to fish. Pit stop for visiting relatives.)

much nicer conditions Sunday even with the cold start.  medium sized ling were biting along with a variety of rockfish.  There was a crew of kayakers fishing out of Depoe that sounded like they were doing well based on their radio banter.

I cleaned a couple fish at the depot ramp. Must have been a good weekend, the dumpster was quite full of fish parts.  Quite a few small flatfish (sand dabs).  I know people use them for bait, I'm curious where they catch them.

Tomorrow looks good, going to give it another go with SD2OR in our quest for a Clayman sized ling.

Definitely was a bit chilly early in the morning, but what a view.

Went out a ways with Willyakfish to see if I could get some bigger fish. First drop hooked up but was only 27ish inches. Back it went. 90 minutes later and fighting a pretty wicked current, nothing. Started to think about kicking myself for letting one go. Managed to get the current figured out bonked a couple 28ish and 32ish inches (basically what Clayman uses for bait). On the second fish, my net got hooked on the power cable from the motor on the Oldtown AP and broke off the prongs. That was a long ass row back to the beach. Thank god for the beautiful conditions. I hurt in places I didn't know I had. Passed over a big RF school and got a triple which helped ease the pain.

I cleaned and filleted my fish there, so some of that mess was mine. My better half MUCH prefers I leave the stinky stuff there.

A wife should clean fish. Here is mine, happily at work.

Glad to see you guys could capitalize on the nice ocean! I've been swamped with work pretty much all month, otherwise I would've joined. 30+ inch lings are good fish!

I've caught sand dabs as shallow as 70 ft. Sometimes, they're plenty thick in 100 ft. Other times, you gotta head to 200 ft to get into them. Only way to know is to drop small baits on sand at different contours til you start getting bit. They move around a lot. They're great ling bait, but then again, what isn't  .

Drifter, SD2OR and myself went out.  Beautiful start to the day, but got a bit choppy around noon as the wind picked up more than the forecasts had predicted.  As a group we caught a good bunch of lingcod, probably a couple dozen with most in the 24-26 range with a couple over 30", a few cabezon and a mixed bag of rockfish with no real size.
Caught a PR which was awesome.  It was 34" and looked huge.  I can't imagine what one of the 40" class fish looks like.