favorite salt water fishing areas

LOL, thanks for the info, as craig stated, i was refering to launching area's, hey but you never know with questions like this, one might catch someone off guard or a little tipsy and get the goods.

You are in Medford. Let's fish Brookings or Trinidad. I'll take you out. My schedule isn't nearly as open but I make time when it's good. Make hay while the sun shines and all that.

What might be fun is to require the AOTY photos be geotagged with coordinates from the catch location in order to verify points.  I always wonder where those enormous fish come from.... "the water"!  Most of those locations I could never get to nor would I have the skills to make a similar catch, but it would be fun to know. 

I had one very boastful friend send me an iPhone photo of himself with an enormous inshore halibut which he said the location was top secret "I'd have to kill you"... I told him that's ok you forgot to turn off location services, I know where you are.

Exif data is real.

What might be fun is to require the AOTY photos be geotagged with coordinates from the catch location in order to verify points.  I always wonder where those enormous fish come from.... "the water"!  Most of those locations I could never get to nor would I have the skills to make a similar catch, but it would be fun to know. 

I had one very boastful friend send me an iPhone photo of himself with an enormous inshore halibut which he said the location was top secret "I'd have to kill you"... I told him that's ok you forgot to turn off location services, I know where you are.

Exif data is real.

That is why you measure them back at the beach. 

I have watched a lot of you tube video's out of pc and that is one of the places i want to hit later this year so i will most certanly would like to fish with you mojo jojo.
and crash im hoping to hit brookings sometime in feb or march pending weather and work scheduals cooperate so i look forward to hitting the water with experienced people.

LOL, thanks for the info, as craig stated, i was refering to launching area's, hey but you never know with questions like this, one might catch someone off guard or a little tipsy and get the goods.

You are in Medford. Let's fish Brookings or Trinidad. I'll take you out. My schedule isn't nearly as open but I make time when it's good. Make hay while the sun shines and all that.

Crash - I'll take you up on that also.

danr, PNW and anyone else wanting to go out of brookings-

It's the easiest bar crossing on the Oregon coast. 

Keep an eye on the forecast at magic seaweed:

http://magicseaweed.com/Brookings-Surf-Report/322/

Check the bar restrictions for the entire Oregon coast at the NOAA/NWS site:

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/marine/BarObs.php

Learn to correlate the forecast with the observed and buoy data and the bar restrictions and you can get a pretty good feel for when conditions will be green lighted.

Notice the small window on Thursday/Friday.  THose small wintertime windows have a way of disappearing quickly, don't gets your hopes too high for something like that. Last week wednesday through friday were like a lake.  Obviously I had to work and never did get out.  Sigh.  At least a friend dropped off some crab.

I'd like to do some freediving down there also, but probably going to wait until spring. I've launched from Harris Beach before & did pretty well. I'd like to check out Trinidad as well, but haven't found a good camping spot there yet.

What might be fun is to require the AOTY photos be geotagged with coordinates from the catch location in order to verify points.

It might be even more fun for those folks who lurk so they can find where people are catching big fish...

What might be fun is to require the AOTY photos be geotagged with coordinates from the catch location in order to verify points.

It might be even more fun for those folks who lurk so they can find where people are catching big fish...

Or it might not be fun since it could prevent guys from posting their trophy catches because they have to give up the location to get the points??? 

What might be fun is to require the AOTY photos be geotagged with coordinates from the catch location in order to verify points.

It might be even more fun for those folks who lurk so they can find where people are catching big fish...

Or it might not be fun since it could prevent guys from posting their trophy catches because they have to give up the location to get the points??? 

It is also hard to get a good picture of a big fish out in the middle of the ocean. Especially if you are trying to be as accurate as possible. If I catch a big salmon on the Columbia, many times I am 1/4 to 1/2 mile from where I hooked it by the time I am done bonking it, bleeding it, filling out my tag, and then getting it in my catch bag  due to the fast currents. If I were to do the AOTY again, the last thing I would want to do is be washed even further from the launch because I am trying to measure and photograph a fish.  Plus, there are a million boaters out there you need to be paying attention to.  Just my 2 cents.  Besides, the big fish are everywhere on the reefs.  The key is time on the water not GPS coordinates. 

Some of us who don't own GPS devices or smart phones with GPS would not be able to participate.

I'm liking this idea more and more, now.  Less competition!

That bb2fish can be devious...



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I could carry big nautical charts and put my finger on the spot where the fish was caught in the picture of the fish on the measuring device.

I could carry big nautical charts and put my finger on the spot where the fish was caught in the picture of the fish on the measuring device.

Just get a floating hog trough that you can strap the fish into..... place it on the water next to your boat and take a photo..... now you can't argue that the location of the exact spit you caught the fish isn't in the photo, now can you ... it's the water right there around the fish. 

Some of us who don't own GPS devices or smart phones with GPS would not be able to participate.

I was mostly just joking about divulging location for AOTY trophy catches.
Most new digital cameras capture the gps data and automatically attach it to the file information.  Many of the files posted for AOTY do not contain the data - it's either stripped off by the submitter, or the coordinates are at a land location- like Craig said at the beach or at people's homes. I've looked    but I don't blab, your secrets are safe with me.