Yaquina Jetty

Has anyone ever kayak fished the jetty? Seems like it could be great throwing towards the rocks and reeling back with swim baits. I'm sure you'd have to do it during slack or incoming tides.

I've never fished the Yaquina Jetty, but I have tried fishing other jetties from my kayak before.  I find it strange that when you're on the jetty you try your hardest to cast away from it, yet if you're in a boat you try to cast as close as possible to the jetty.  I guess that's true of most shoreline as well.  Anyway, I've always done better from a jetty than fishing a jetty from the kayak.  I suppose if the jetty is otherwise unfishable it might be pretty good.

 

I've never fished the Yaquina Jetty, but I have tried fishing other jetties from my kayak before.  I find it strange that when you're on the jetty you try your hardest to cast away from it, yet if you're in a boat you try to cast as close as possible to the jetty.  I guess that's true of most shoreline as well.  Anyway, I've always done better from a jetty than fishing a jetty from the kayak.  I suppose if the jetty is otherwise unfishable it might be pretty good.

 

I think salmon fishing from a kayak/boat near a jetty is way more productive than salmon fishing from the jetty.

-Allen

I suppose if the jetty is otherwise unfishable it might be pretty good.

Yep, if there's no access the kayak makes it fishable. I actually really like this kinda fishing. Kinda like bass fishing in the ocean. Don't forget your Trix Jetty Worms.

Z

I haven't caught squat from any Jetty I have fished from yet.  I'm hoping my odds change if I try from a kayak.  When I was out at Newport last summer/fall last year, we played on the beach on the ocean side of the south jetty.  It was really smooth water with no waves.  I was wishing I had a kayak at that point to venture out on.

I've caught a few Blacks along the north spit jetty here in coos bay in the yak. I was on my way back in from fishing the ocean for coho and wanted to get home, so i didn't spend alot of time. Alot easier then fishing from the rocks.

I fished the jetty last summer during a family camping trip to South Beach.  I launched at the public dock on the south side of the bay and headed left - out past the crab dock to fish the "fingers" sticking out from the south side of the channel.  There is not a ton of structure besides the jetty - the bottom felt like sand pretty quickly after the rock pile ended.  I did land a small rockfish and a decent lingcod bouncing jigs off the bottom near the rocks.

DC

I have had good success off the south jetty of Tillamook bay (fishing from the jetty).  I would worry about the tides and current and swells if I fished the same water in my yak.  The tide gets the current ripping along the jetty nasty fast and the jetties magnify the swells, at least on the south jetty.  Most if not all the fish I have caught off the jetty have been very close to the rocks so for me fishing from shore works better.

I've fished jetty's most of my life. I don't cast out; fish straight down into holes. Caught lots of greenling & cabazon, as well as a few ling this way. I've watched others cast out & lose tackle while I caught fish close in. I'll cast out for perch where sand bars drop off. Think I'm done with fishing jetty's from the shore. I'm hot on fishing from a yak. Wanna cast & drop right where the rocks meet the bottom, then reel away from the rocks. I know from spearfishing on jetty's this is where the bigger rock fish concentrate, especially in the deeper pockets.  Slack tides are a must, unless the incoming tidal exchange is small (i.e: 2 ft low - 6ft high). I wanna catch some salmon this year from a yak when they're swimmin' around the end of the jetty's. Anybody up for that?

I wanna catch some salmon this year from a yak when they're swimmin' around the end of the jetty's. Anybody up for that?

for sure. Ralph and I fished out around the green bouy's outside the North Spit last year for Salmon one day. Ralph got slammed twice but because his stubborn use of a single hook just reeled in half a herring...

Well I'm not going until the 21st, so if the weather is good I'll try it. Otherwise, I just fish from the rocks.
Thanks for the feedback.

I've fished the south jetty quite abit at Yaquina.  I usually fished the fingers during the incoming through slack tide.  Night fishing for blacks was really good during summer, alot of smaller fish though.  The usual technique was poking down into holes with a baited jig rigged to hide the barb to keep from hanging up.  Mostly cabezon and greenling in the rocks, I caught a sole once.
I didn't kayak back then but plan on getting out there in mine this year.  Sandshrimp, worms and squid.  At night we were casting Rapalas and black rubber worms with orange curly tails by lantern light.

The best fishing I had around there that was consistent from the rocks- Depoe Bay and Boiler Bay.  Boiler Bay is sketchy though, I had hex head screws in the lugs of my rubber boots for grip and brought a rope for securing to the fence above.  Lings were pretty abundant there.

-Scott