Ocean window this Sunday...

FTL ( failed to launch) actually FTG ( failed to go) yippiekaiyak didn't have enough time to prep so I racked instead.

I'm going to Depoe tomorrow.
Sometime between 7 & 8.

I hope you guys make it out and have a good day! Stay safe


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Good times at Depoe today!  Thanks again to everyone who provided advice and insight for my first trip here.  The ocean was a little chunky early on, but it laid down through the day and the wind was minimal.  The black rockfish were THICK--I marked cloud upon cloud of black rockfish schools over the course of the day.  Caught a bunch of fish, but I was selective with my harvest, only taking a pair of 29-30 inch lings, a suicidal black rockfish, and a couple sole.  Probably landed over fifty fish over the course of the day.  Sure felt good to just pull on fish in quick succession after steelhead season!

That's awesome! Glad it worked out!


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Great ling there deptrai!  I recall seeing a yellow Hobie out there today.  I was in a dune/white Revo 13.  There were a lot of dune/white Hobies out there today so I don't think I stood out much.

Looks like an awesome Easter egg hunt wish I could have came out to play.

one big 'excellent' from me for all that fish porn...

The window held in Port Orford today until about 11 when the south wind came up and gave us some chop.  Went out with danr for his maiden ocean voyage, and other than not getting the lingcod that he was after he did great.  We went out around the heads and north a ways, fishing the structure as we went.  I caught 5 lingcod, a greenling, and probably 10 or so black rockfish.  danr caught some blacks and blues.  I found many fish on a reef right as the wind came up and called it off right as the catching got great.  It was one of those bites where you could barely get your rig through the rockfish, and if you did you hooked up on a ling almost immediately.  I'll be back to that spot.

Tinker met us on the beach when we launched maybe around 7am, gave us the good word and some tackle that came in handy..Thanks for the tips and gear Tinker!

Sounds like fish were to be had all the way around! Sunset was good too, although I was expecting more turnout than there was. I had a newbie in tow I was impressed with! Naturally comfortable on the water in and around her boat like a gymnast. She  bonked, bled and handled her own fish, and even pulled and managed her own crab pots! Look our fellas! She's hooked!

Great job getting folks out into the salt and having fun!!

PC was not quite the ocean I was hoping for, but the fishing was great!  I think there will be lots of big cabazon by the time July comes around.

Good seeing Minnowmagnet out there.

I was OTW at Depoe Bay about 9am, shooting the hole with Deptrai and MonkeyFist. There was a bit of washing machine effect going on from the long swell bouncing off the cliffs. The swells were breaking pretty far out on the inside reefs so I went way out and around. Apparently by doing this I missed a better lingcod bite - live and learn.

I headed north and passed over a few rockfish schools, disobeying my own rule of "don't leave fish to find fish." But I was hell-bent on finding some good lings first so off I went.

I did find lings almost immediately in the barley-legal and undersized range, so I CnR'd those and kept heading north. It was my day for Cabezon, apparently. I caught and released 7 cabezon, all but one legal sized, with 4 good sized ones in the mix. I eventually picked up a fat ling (I'm long-arming him a little but his head was pretty big for his modest length). I started looking around for rockfish in front of the condos but only found schools of tiny blues - I CnR'd about a dozen 11" blue rockfish before moving on. Thank you to whoever passed by and recommended red shrimp flies.

About an hour before I got off the water I caught another ~26" ling that I decided to release in hopes of a bigger one. A bigger one did not come and I went home with one lingcod and a couple of so-so rockfish. I think my expectations for the fishing were too high, but it was a great day of salt therapy anyway and fun to meet some people face to face. It was fun fishing with everyone.

Like Onefish said, you guys look like you made a pretty good call to hit Depoe because PC was a little choppy with a consistent off-shore wind from the southeast until early afternoon when I drove home. I left the crab trap in the car because of this, but did enjoy some very good fishing.
Thanks you guys for posting the photos. Wish I had taken some of the whale I had swimming (not hooked) next to the boat and some of the fish. My best ling was in the low 30's and I caught some pretty chunky salt-n-peppers.
I will add this photo of the metal lure I have been using which is really nice in windy conditions. I think it is 3oz. It drops really fast and as soon as it hits bottom you reel up slowly. No jigging. If there are lings on the bottom, they will smack it and the rockfish are so bedazzled that they chase it all over the water column. It has been really great for me and works even when other stuff doesn't, especially for rockfish.
Thanks again for posting and congrats on an awesome day!

Minnowmagnet- thanks for showing off the jig that you used!  I always like seeing what tackle was successful (or not).  Were you only fishing the jig or did you have a shrimp fly on there too?

Minnowmagnet- thanks for showing off the jig that you used!  I always like seeing what tackle was successful (or not).  Were you only fishing the jig or did you have a shrimp fly on there too?

For Port Orford the hot shrimp fry was blue and white, I did well with a 6oz iron in all silver with black stripes, and a pink and white big hammer swimbait caught all but one of my lingcod. I can't wait to try the pink and white bubblegum color lancer jig.