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Thanks, Casey!  The swell doesn't look as bad as some sites predicted, but the predictions about the wind were spot on.  I'm getting a feel for how to combine forecasts to guess if it's worth the drive, and this helped a whole bunch.

Appreciate it, and good job with the fish!

Casey, you're a stud dragging your kayak back up that trail!  Was just checking out that area today - boy was it surfy and rough.   
Did you do a bank launch and ride the rocks on the way down??   

Sounds like a great day.  Can't wait to get out and try this soon.  Nice fish!  Looks like a fun launch.

Casey, you're a stud dragging your kayak back up that trail!  Was just checking out that area today - boy was it surfy and rough.   
Did you do a bank launch and ride the rocks on the way down??   

Carrying the kayak back up that trail is never fun, but it's worth it. When the wind is coming out of the south east sometimes that's the only option. I didn't ride the kayak down, it'd be a lot cooler if I did[emoji6]


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Sounds like a great day.  Can't wait to get out and try this soon.  Nice fish!  Looks like a fun launch.

Thank you, it was a good day! Once you make it to the water the launch can be pretty easy there when the conditions are right for it. Some days when you look down that hill you wonder why a person would ever think of launching there, especially since there is a bay just south of there, and a beach just north. Packing out in that spot after paddling all day is no easy task! Most people only do it once [emoji23]


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Is their another name for the thing you're calling a Sea Trout?  Never seen one of those.

Rock greenling and/or kelp greenling.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/mrp/fishid/fishidlists.asp

Just looking at these locations on Google Maps now.  So the beach to the north is Fogarty Creek?  That sure looks like a much easier launch and not that far away. 

Glads you got out and into some fish.  I was flying home from India for 20+ hours, but will be out there soon.

Is their another name for the thing you're calling a Sea Trout?  Never seen one of those.

It's easier to access the water at Fogarty. I've launched there before. It can be a good place to launch. The beach is kinda steep so the waves tend to slam right on the beach, but once you're past that you're out. There are a couple shallow spots to go around where the waves tend to break between there and boiler bay. Later in the spring when the wind stars coming out of the north and the drift is going south it would be really fun to put in at Fogarty and pull out in Depo bay!
The reason I launched from boiler bay was because I was alone and the wind was picking up, it's less of a paddle from boiler to where I was fishing, and it's just a really smooth place to launch and land when the conditions are right. When the conditions are bad there it could be really dangerous though. It's all rocks at the landing.


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Is their another name for the thing you're calling a Sea Trout?  Never seen one of those.

Rock greenling and/or kelp greenling.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/mrp/fishid/fishidlists.asp

Yeah... I've been calling them sea trout forever, not sure where it even came from, and calling black rock bass "sea bass". I'll try to call them by what they are actually listed as to avoid confusion in the future.


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This was Boiler Bay yesterday 4/5

Yeah... I've been calling them sea trout forever, not sure where it even came from, and calling black rock bass "sea bass". I'll try to call them by what they are actually listed as to avoid confusion in the future.

I've called greenling "sea trout" until someone said the nickname "sea trout" is for anadromous brown trout. I don't know when greenling picked up the nickname, either.

In Europe "sea trout" is anadromous brown trout. I grew up on the cost calling greenling sea trout. Never heard of a greenling until I moved to the Valley.