Wednesday 2/10 Depoe Bay area

Excellent.

thanks for pics/reports!!. 1 to 10 , 10 being as good as it gets, how was it today?

 

Awesome to see so many new faces out there. My report matches up with the above. Turned loose almost 20 lings and settled for a 27" & 28". There has to be bigger ones out there. The sea bass were large and in charge.

Nice! I don't think I fully caught over the radio what it was you were fighting for 10-15 minutes there? Or did it end up just being a snag?

Thanks for the reports guys. Sounds like the shallow water was covered with male lings on the spawn? I've experienced that before when fishing in Feb-March, where you just can't keep off the smaller lings. Females are around, but you have to really weed through the males or fish deeper water.

It was a lot of fun.
Got 6 short lings before getting two keepers.
Good size on the blacks and greenling.
Thanks again Dave!

Nice work gentlemen!  My kind of day.  Dinner, Lunch and Breakfast!   

I goto to use my new harrier rod for the first time yesterday.  Not sure which I like more, the Harrier or the Trevala.  Rod butt on the Harrier is kind of long and I like having the foregrip on the trevala better.  Trevala is rated slightly higher and has a better backbone too, but the Harrier seems more sensitive and having the faster blank helps with the jig it seems.  Both nice rods for sure. 

It was a lot of fun.
Got 6 short lings before getting two keepers.
Good size on the blacks and greenling.
Thanks again Dave!

That looks like a really good greenling. Did you happen to measure it’s length?

sounds like such a nice day, it felt like July.

I did not measure the greenling. Was the first and only one I've caught, thus far.
Fought harder than all the chunky black rockfish I caught that day.
Tasted great in tacos!

It was a lot of fun.
Got 6 short lings before getting two keepers.
Good size on the blacks and greenling.
Thanks again Dave!

That looks like a really good greenling. Did you happen to measure it’s length?

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Congratulations, guys!  Greenling- a rare treat.

Anthony did good with a limit of BRF & lings. I did okay - got six BRF all about 17" & took home one 24" ling. Aside from breaking a mast rod & bending the other one on my mirage drive, it was a beautiful day on the water.



Any advice on getting the broken end of the mast out of the treads? I already tried penetrating oil & vice grips. Maybe I need to let the oil soak in a bit more.

So I was way late getting set up. I parked at North Fogarty about 830. Had to re-wire my fish finder with only using a filleting knife. Not very fun! By about 10 I was wheeling down the path to the beach to find that the creek channel had swung North and cut a hard path across the end of the concrete. Had to haul everything across and over a dune to get to the water. Now it was full blown high tide and made for a pretty dam sporty launch!

I paddle out to a deep water reef with probably a dozen boats on it. By the time I got there the bite was definitely slowing down. I was a little disappointed, but I did catch 5 different species of fish. Black rockfish, blue rockfish, quill back, Lingcod, and Cabezon.