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Kayak Fishing => Let's Talk Kayak Fishing => Topic started by: Spot on January 01, 2009, 01:14:50 PM

Title: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: Spot on January 01, 2009, 01:14:50 PM: 1st off Happy New Year All!

Hey Mods,

Any chance you guys could add some ocean conditions and hydrologic predictions links to the main page or create a conditions page that displays this info. for 2009. Sure, we can find them elsewhere but it would be handy if we could use this site to plan our fishing trips as well record them.

NOAA River Level Predictions
http://ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=pqr

Northern Oregon Ocean Forecast
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtbltn.pl?file=forecasts/marine/coastal/pz/pzz250.txt

Southern Oregon Ocean Forecast
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtbltn.pl?file=forecasts/marine/coastal/pz/pzz350.txt

Thanks Guys!
-Mark-
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: bsteves on January 01, 2009, 02:00:20 PM: Thanks Spot. Those are good links to have. There are a couple options for these links...

1.) an article on the front page about planning your kayak fishing adventure (hint hint).

2.) make this a sticky post (I'll at least do that for now)

3.) add a new tab on the nav bar similar to IFish.net's "Fish Data".

Brian
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: polepole on January 01, 2009, 02:10:28 PM: Quote from: bsteves on January 01, 2009, 02:00:20 PM
Thanks Spot. Those are good links to have. There are a couple options for these links...

1.) an article on the front page about planning your kayak fishing adventure (hint hint).

2.) make this a sticky post (I'll at least do that for now)

3.) add a new tab on the nav bar similar to IFish.net's "Fish Data".

Brian

Or bury them in the links section. ;)

-Allen
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: OutbackRoy on January 02, 2009, 08:24:33 PM: South ohttp://printer.wunderground.com/MAR/PZ/350.htmlr coast
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: INSAYN on February 16, 2009, 09:38:28 PM: How about Saltwatertides.com (http://Saltwatertides.com)? I have been using this site for years to plan my crabbing trips.
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: bsteves on February 16, 2009, 10:18:51 PM: I like this site for tide prediction..
http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/ (http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/)

There are a lot of options including a neat graphing option. The computer program behind the scenes at this website (Xtide) also has a few portable versions. I used to have it for my palm pilot and now there is even an Iphone app.

http://xtide.org/xtide/ports.html (http://xtide.org/xtide/ports.html)

Brian
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: steelheadr on May 15, 2010, 02:11:59 PM: Another one...bar cameras from up and down the Oregon coast (even one in WA ;) )

Jay

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/marine/bars_mover.php (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/marine/bars_mover.php)
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: FishSniffer on May 17, 2010, 01:55:50 PM: I just saw this on Twitter. Looks like it might be valuable for river fishing.

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2464
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: Madoc on July 15, 2010, 09:32:34 AM: Here is a great video that explains, pretty clearly, what swell period, wave height and wave length mean, as well as how that translates into breakers on the beach. As well as being about monster waves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP1QK0XCt1U&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP1QK0XCt1U&feature=player_embedded)

Oops, just noticed that I posted in the wrong sticky. If any mod wants to move this to the ocean weather sticky, that would be great
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: Lee on May 06, 2011, 06:06:08 PM: http://www.deepzoom.com/#/Views/Boat.xaml (http://www.deepzoom.com/#/Views/Boat.xaml)

currents in the puget sound (maybe elsewhere too)
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: demonick on November 03, 2011, 09:48:22 AM: http://www.nanoos.org/nvs/nvs.php?section=NVS-Assets (http://www.nanoos.org/nvs/nvs.php?section=NVS-Assets) Click on "Assets".

The site provides real time access to marine weather observations from all sorts of local, state, and federal monitoring assets like buoys, weather stations, river stations, ... Coverage extends from the Tatoosh tip of WA down into N.CA. Includes Puget Sound, and a lot of coverage of the river mouths on the WA/OR coast. It is information rich and the assets provide a varying amount of data, so some time is required to figure out which assets will give you what you want.

For example Station 46211 - Grays harbor (offshore) provides Avg. Wave Period (8.1s), Dom. Wave Period (11s), Water Temp. (54.1F), Wave Height (10.2ft), and Wave Mean Direction (from 267). At the time of this posting the observations were 65 minutes old. Forecasts are also provided.
Title: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: kardinal_84 on November 03, 2011, 03:12:22 PM: I've had really good luck for river levels using fishHead for the iPhone. Not sure if they have it for other platforms.

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Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: bjoakland on November 03, 2011, 05:03:46 PM: RiverFlows for the Android rocks.

http://www.riverflowsapp.com/ (http://www.riverflowsapp.com/) for the website (adroid market for the app, of course)
http://www.riverflowsapp.com/screenshots.html (http://www.riverflowsapp.com/screenshots.html) for screenshots
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: firebunkers23 on January 29, 2012, 07:14:44 PM: Quote from: 'Yak Monkey on November 03, 2011, 05:03:46 PM
RiverFlows for the Android rocks.

http://www.riverflowsapp.com/ (http://www.riverflowsapp.com/) for the website (adroid market for the app, of course)
http://www.riverflowsapp.com/screenshots.html (http://www.riverflowsapp.com/screenshots.html) for screenshots

+1 those are the ones I use also.
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: Viking on July 23, 2014, 09:38:02 PM: Thanks, very helpful.

For tides I like Protides, but I have mostly just used this for bank fishing rivers, clamming and crabbing. Should still be useful.

http://www.protides.com/oregon/
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: jasperg on March 05, 2018, 11:22:40 AM: I made a little web application to browse charts, get tide and weather data, etc in one place. I plan on integrating more trip planning tools in the future..
It's at https://www.seamammal.net (https://www.seamammal.net).
There is a little (embarrassing) video walk-through at: https://www.seamammal.net/blog/2018/03/02/webapp-launch.html (https://www.seamammal.net/blog/2018/03/02/webapp-launch.html).

I hope someone finds it useful, I'd love to hear your comments, suggestions, etc!
Title: Re: River Levels and Ocean Conditions Links
Post by: Ek-Balam on March 05, 2018, 03:40:40 PM: You sir, have nothing to be embarrassed about! Looks like the start of a great tool. Thanks for sharing!