Depoe Bay Salmon Reports - 2019

I meant to get this thread going before the June 22 opener, but I ended up jumping on a couple boats and fishing places other than Depoe Bay that weekend. Feel free to add your own reports to this thread through the season! With a forecast of over a million hatchery-clipped coho salmon swimming off our coastline this year, the goal of this thread is to help each other out in dialing in these highly nomadic critters.

I have a great report to start things off from this morning, 7/1. Ocean conditions were just too nice to ignore, so I made a last-minute decision to do a bit of trolling today before heading to work. Left the hole around 0600 and was greeted by a very salmon-friendly ocean of 53 degree surface temps and stained brown water with some junk floating in it. Started marking bait as soon as I was west of the reef around 0615, so I dropped in a Brad's Cut Plug behind a Shortbus rotating flasher at 15 pulls and started my troll west. Although I continued marking bait as I headed west, my first bite didn't come until I hit the 120 contour. Wild coho, released. Had another takedown that didn't stick at the 130. Then when I reached the 150, I found an excellent trash line filled with bait and salmon crashing on the surface. It was the kind of scene that'll get any salmon anglers blood pumping! Two quick passes and I was done by 0720 with two hatchery coho at 5 and 7 pounds, respectively. Really nice fish for early July. So I turned around and pedaled back to port, and sailed into work before 1000  .

Excellent fishing like this is a great sign for later in the season, as the Newport/Depoe area typically hits its coho fishing peak around the last two weeks of July. With depressed Chinook runs in the forecast, don't miss out on what should be a helluva season!

Excellent report.  Nothing like getting all jazzed up while at work on a Monday.....  F'er!

-Mark-

Great pics! I can't wait until the bigger ones like the ones you caught start pouring into the Sound so I can have a crack at 'em!   

Nice fish!

Good report and nice fish Clayman! 

excellent.

good job clayman!

my speaker and control switch acting up on my radio(standard horizon hx290) was able to get it to work and go out managed some nice fish. may have to do salmon next time? big dif from fridays reports to mondays on the salmon ....super slow to super lots of action.

"always check your nuts"

I like your new signature Roger.   

Great report! Water temps have been all over the place along the coast. Hopefully they'll even out for this month.

Thanks for the props guys. I may try to sneak back out there tomorrow morning...we'll see  .

my speaker and control switch acting up on my radio(standard horizon hx290) was able to get it to work and go out managed some nice fish. may have to do salmon next time? big dif from fridays reports to mondays on the salmon ....super slow to super lots of action.

Glad to hear you got the radio working. What a bummer to find it not working right before transiting the Hole! As for the salmon bite, what you described is exactly how it goes. Every day is different. There are also times where some boats do great while others are scratching. Nearly all the powerboats I saw fishing yesterday were out fishing deep, and they weren't reporting red-hot action over the radio like what I was experiencing at the 150 line. Bottom line, you never know how it's going to go unless you try  .

"What a bummer to find it not working right before transiting the Hole!" 

do yourselves a favor and do a "radio check" in the parking lot before gearing up, the one thing i always do but forgot this day and it bit me!!  luckily i got it working but it is toast now thing won`t turn on at all. standard horizon HX290.

something else i "discovered"  just as i was coming into the ramp yesterday after my fishing. DAM!!!  seems to work fine still wonder what the idler cable actually does? wonder how long it was broken before i saw it when i took my drive out?

sorry for the threadjacking.

Today's report: pretty scratchy! Fish were scattered, with bites everywhere from 90 feet to 190 feet and 15 to 30 pulls. A couple nice rips and trash lines out there, but they weren't concentrating the fish. Friend and I landed several wild coho and bonked one hatchery coho apiece. Nothing to brag about. Surface temps were hitting 59 degrees and the water was clean.

The crazy thing from today was a cutthroat trout that latched onto my Brad's Cut Plug in 120 FOW, west of the whistle buoy. Trippy!

Super cool!  That's one chrome cutty!

Saturday, 7/6/2019

A cloudy morning with some showers and a light south breeze. Water temp from 54-56 degrees. Fishing was excellent: pulling a Brad's Cut Plug in watermelon @ 15 pulls resulted in over a dozen takedowns, four Coho released, one seven pound Coho retained, and my first Chinook of the year at 31 inches and 13 pounds. Bite started in the 120-140 zone. After 0800, I found them again at 160 (including the Chinook). Sounded like just about everyone caught salmon. The fish checker was amazed at how many Chinook were brought in this day.