Crabbing/Caving/Surfing at Cascade Head, OR

Dropped my first crab trap at the mouth of the Salmon last week..As the pot soaked, we paddled out the mouth and surfed a sweet 5-6ft swell and 3-4ft break before lunch, then paddled out around the head and into one of the larger caves.
This was the only pic I got, taken by my friend Dave of me and Shay entering the cave. My camera has left me for good, and I haven't yet replaced it.
We returned to the river mouth that evening and had a trap full of crab, but all measured small or were female....no keepers this time.

Jason

Nice pic Jason! That's awesome!

Very cool pic.  Makes me think of pinochio when he got swallowed by the whale.

All I could think about was one eyed Willies treasure.

GF just informed me our camera was returned by a good samaritan at REI in Portland. I guess there are some ok humans left on this planet. The pink Olympus lives to swim another day and take more fish pics!

That's awesome! I have wanted to try the mouth of the Salmon for along time.  I have a friend who grew up in Lincoln City and he told me there is a decent rock/reef just off the mouth.  Anyone fish it?
-Scott

Only crabbed this day, but the next weekend I was intending to fish the rocks at the mouth but jacked my foot and didn't even drop a line.

It's good fishing, but a seriously challenging spot to fish. Usually the swell breaks right on the rocks, and the wind rips right across them off the headland.

I've fished on those few days where it's been calm and flat, but there are easier spots.

J

That is a really cool picture in the cave!

Too Awesome!! 

Really adds to my passion to do a trip out the Salmon river.  Anyone let me know when they go and I will be there.  I can some times get off in the week. 

I think up the Salmon might be the some of only water around I wouldn't fish in a yak. Those bankies will bounce some lead off you just because they can. No fish is worth going hooks w/a gang Lincoln County banjo strummers.   Be careful upstream when they're elbow to elbow on the bank. Down further you're probably OK.

I've fished the river for salmon there before. It does get tight up by the highway.

   Us Salemites love our Salmon river: big uns...  Too bad the Nestuca is offlimits this week.  If ya want a spot in a boat at the hole ya gotta get there 2am.  Once I was there and a couple of chicks came by in rec kayaks.  The guys seemed polite from where I was: not in the small place where the fish were caught.  The wind came up and I thought those gals might not have had fun in their non pedal boats getting back to the ramp, though one could drop off the bridge?  

I think up the Salmon might be the some of only water around I wouldn't fish in a yak. Those bankies will bounce some lead off you just because they can. No fish is worth going hooks w/a gang Lincoln County banjo strummers.   Be careful upstream when they're elbow to elbow on the bank. Down further you're probably OK.

You ever tried the Columbia around PDX/Sauvie Island for springers? It's 10,000 times the hillbilly/PB/lead hucking plunker show that the salmon is. 

I actually had a guy reel in his gear just so he could prove he could hit me with his 12oz rig. Of course he couldn't and I laughed and paddled on. Later in the day I watched and laughed as a PB ran up on the stern of another PB while trolling at 2kts. How do you crash doing 2kts? Nothing could be a bigger sh*t show than the Columbia around PDX during springer season. I'd take the Salmon any day over that. At least the scenery is nice.