Annual Fishing Calendar?

I'm in Connecticut now. Two weeks ago, I was breaking through surface ice to try and catch stripped bass. Water was 34 degrees, air was 33.  I call 10 knots upper limit of comfortable here. Not sure what would be uncomfortable out there for swell. It's been a couple years since I fished the pacific,


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My quick and dirty for comfort.  I will go in worse than this if I have a reason.  Your mileage may vary.

If swell in ft <= .5 period in seconds;
and
swell in ft + wind in kts <= 20

then go

else no go.

I big + 1 on polepole fish calendar idea!

I big + 1 on polepole fish calendar idea!

That's my strategy in a nutshell. 

-Mark-

Seriously though, someone needs to go pillage the data from the kayak guys column in the January edition of NWS and share "their interpretation" of that info.  I'd do it myself but I've sold the rights to it.  It is specifically on what's available by month (actually 2 month increments).

-Mark-

Looked for it yesterday. Mark.  Couldn't find it easily and wandered off to tie flies.

Picked up a copy of NW Sportsman at the show last week...

Jan/Feb
-Coastal river and Columbia tributary steelhead
-Big lingcod on nearshore reefs, weather permitting

March/April
-Springers
-Sturgeon
-Pre-spawn smallmouth

May/June
-Salt...rockfish, halibut
-Springers
-Tillamook bay chinook
-Coastal river summer steelhead
-Lakes...bass, trout, crappie
-Fishing contests:  Brownlee Crappie Shootout, Tillamook Bay Many of the Day, Rockfish Classic

July/August--Just about anything!
-Columbia river sandbars for summer steelhead
-Walleye, Willamette Multnomah Channel and Columbia
-Buoy 10
-Freshwater bass
-Crabbing

Sept/Oct--Embarrassment of riches continues
-Estuary salmon
-Steelhead Wallowa and Grande Ronde
-Coho upstream of Willamette Falls
-Bass frenzy
-Rockfish and lingcod more spotty

Nov/Dec
-Coho in Columbia tributaries through Nov
-Steelhead
-Willamette valley ponds for brood trout

Ive encouraged people to try to plan at least a year in advance & i think having an OCD wife has really helped me transition into this mind frame. The current calander is a piece of art in work and ill be adding to it. One fish ive never targeted from a kayak & id really love to try is the Striper run down in the southern oregon coast. I frequent the East coast and id eventually like to fish for Stripers there too abd get some of my Big City buddies down East into some fun, especially out of Portland, Maine.