Hello everyone!

I thought I had better introduce myself, since I just joined.  I received an E-mail from a member sometime ago about the website and am following up on it.

Well anyway, I'am a Coos County Resident in Oregon and just love it here.  I have a Frenzy and a newly purchased Hobie Revolution which I am quite fond of.  I mostly fish salt water from my kayaks and usually go to Simpson Reef or the Coos River in the Bay.  I really like anything that includes the Ocean.

In fact, I like it so much, even though we live near the Ocean we alway's go camping every year next to it.  We camp at least two or three different times a summer.

Well anyway, I thought I would just say Hi, and hope to meet or chat with some fellow kayak fisherman in the future. 

COASTAL PRIDE!

Howdy Coastal Pride!

Nice to see more people coming out of the woodwork. Ever fish for stripers in Winchester Bay?
I have family on the upper Rogue, and we've been talking about meeting on the beach for a camping trip.

Pisco Sicko,

I have only fished stripers on the Coquille and the Coos Rivers.  I am still trying to figure them out.  I thought about trolling for them at night in my Kayak, but have yet to.  I have heard that the Smith River in Reedsport is very good though.

Sometimes I hear of fisherman catching Stripers off of the Surf in the area.  I have not spent much time in Winchester Bay even though I live closeby.  I really like going to the Umpqua Light House when I get up there.  That is a nice little coastal town.  Another town I wouldn't mind fishing is Port Orford.  I bet the Kayak fishing thier is outstanding.

COASTAL PRIDE

 

I use to nightfish for stripers on the East Coast, and have heard of people doing it on the Smith. Big black Rapalas, and similar lures were common for casting. Eels were used for bait fishing. If I recall correctly, the fishing in the Smith is a spring thing. Stripers, like salmon, are anadromous and are spring spawners. In New York, the stripers would be in the Hudson R from early April-early June. I would catch early ones on the beaches of Long Island in late May. BTW, in the mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake areas, they're known as "rockfish", because they like to hang around structure and ambush. Jettys are good areas to look for fish.

Good Luck.

Welcome COASTAL PRIDE!!!  Tell us more about fishing down your ways.  Other that boxofrain, I don't think we get too much info on the southern Oregon coast. 

More Oregonians ... pretty soon you guys are going to outnumber us Washingtonians if you don't already.  Right on!

-Allen

Hello to you too!
 Glad to see some more Organites posting and joining and fishing....
A friend and I were talking about crawfish on the Umpqua, do you know anything about when and where is the best for these little bugs? I have wanted a mess of 'em since I left the South. They gotta be better tasting than the LA. mud raised. (LA is the most polluted State in the Union once again this year, as allways!)
Glad to see you found this site, Welcome aboard!