Depoe Bay boat ramp is CLOSED until further notice (Reopening May 14th)

UPDATE: Depoe Bay boat ramp will open Thursday, May 14th. The fish cleaning station and restroom will remain closed, but a portable toilet will be available on site.

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In case any of you are unclear as to the situation at Depoe Bay: the public boat ramp and adjacent park are CLOSED until further notice by the City of Depoe Bay. Additionally, Depoe Bay Harbor is closed to ALL watercraft that are not already moored there.

If you attempt to launch from Depoe Bay harbor, the sheriff will be called to enforce the rules.

I realize that not everyone agrees with these rules, but you really do no favors for yourself or the kayak fishing community if you try to break them or defy the people who are trying to enforce them.

Thank you in advance for fostering the positive image that most people have of NWKA and kayak fishing during this difficult time.

Thanks for the post. Yes, it's a shitty situation and we're all eager to hit some spring bottomfish, but all the ramps are CLOSED around Newport, Depoe Bay, etc. The state parks and recreation sites are also CLOSED. There are still opportunities to beach or bay launch, but if you're not local, please reconsider making the drive to the coast and what you may unwittingly be bringing with you. Lincoln County's infection rate is very low right now...we'd prefer to keep it that way.

Thanks for the post. Yes, it's a shitty situation and we're all eager to hit some spring bottomfish, but all the ramps are CLOSED around Newport, Depoe Bay, etc. The state parks and recreation sites are also CLOSED. There are still opportunities to beach or bay launch, but if you're not local, please reconsider making the drive to the coast and what you may unwittingly be bringing with you. Lincoln County's infection rate is very low right now...we'd prefer to keep it that way.

Can’t say that I agree with you here Clayman. I’m am Oregonian to the bone. I was born here. I will fish from one side of this state to the other. I’m a total fan of you and stoked for you getting to live on the coast and catch fish. You constantly give good advice and help people. Totally awesome dude. Don’t tell me to stay home though, especially while you are still fishing. I will drive to the coast and fish just like I have been since I was a little boy. I will not stop at any gas stations or stores for ice while over there. I will keep my distance from people the same way I do everywhere right now, but I’m coming over there. I’m going to keep fishing. And, no it’s not going to prolong this thing, that’s bs

I realize that not everyone agrees with these rules, but you really do no favors for yourself or the kayak fishing community if you try to break them or defy the people who are trying to enforce them.

As someone who fights for kayak fishing opportunity by portraying it as a clean fishery, of which threads here have been referenced to attest to it - this comment is important and appreciated.

Yes, it's a shitty situation and we're all eager to hit some spring bottomfish, but all the ramps are CLOSED around Newport, Depoe Bay, etc. The state parks and recreation sites are also CLOSED. There are still opportunities to beach or bay launch, but if you're not local, please reconsider making the drive to the coast and what you may unwittingly be bringing with you. Lincoln County's infection rate is very low right now...we'd prefer to keep it that way.

Do you have to be awesome all the time?

Thanks for the post. Yes, it's a shitty situation and we're all eager to hit some spring bottomfish, but all the ramps are CLOSED around Newport, Depoe Bay, etc. The state parks and recreation sites are also CLOSED. There are still opportunities to beach or bay launch, but if you're not local, please reconsider making the drive to the coast and what you may unwittingly be bringing with you. Lincoln County's infection rate is very low right now...we'd prefer to keep it that way.

Can’t say that I agree with you here Clayman. I’m am Oregonian to the bone. I was born here. I will fish from one side of this state to the other. I’m a total fan of you and stoked for you getting to live on the coast and catch fish. You constantly give good advice and help people. Totally awesome dude. Don’t tell me to stay home though, especially while you are still fishing. I will drive to the coast and fish just like I have been since I was a little boy. I will not stop at any gas stations or stores for ice while over there. I will keep my distance from people the same way I do everywhere right now, but I’m coming over there. I’m going to keep fishing. And, no it’s not going to prolong this thing, that’s bs

I'm fine with you disagreeing with me Casey. If I knew you were the only one driving out to the coast to fish, then sure, I'd love to join ya. I trust you as a responsible guy.

But what about the next ten, twenty, thirty other guys who have the same idea? Can we trust that every one of them is also responsible, washes their hands, doesn't stop between home and the launch? It's not you as an individual who I'm worried about. It's everyone else.

Thanks for the post. Yes, it's a shitty situation and we're all eager to hit some spring bottomfish, but all the ramps are CLOSED around Newport, Depoe Bay, etc. The state parks and recreation sites are also CLOSED. There are still opportunities to beach or bay launch, but if you're not local, please reconsider making the drive to the coast and what you may unwittingly be bringing with you. Lincoln County's infection rate is very low right now...we'd prefer to keep it that way.

Can’t say that I agree with you here Clayman. I’m am Oregonian to the bone. I was born here. I will fish from one side of this state to the other. I’m a total fan of you and stoked for you getting to live on the coast and catch fish. You constantly give good advice and help people. Totally awesome dude. Don’t tell me to stay home though, especially while you are still fishing. I will drive to the coast and fish just like I have been since I was a little boy. I will not stop at any gas stations or stores for ice while over there. I will keep my distance from people the same way I do everywhere right now, but I’m coming over there. I’m going to keep fishing. And, no it’s not going to prolong this thing, that’s bs

I'm fine with you disagreeing with me Casey. If I knew you were the only one driving out to the coast to fish, then sure, I'd love to join ya. I trust you as a responsible guy.

But what about the next ten, twenty, thirty other guys who have the same idea? Can we trust that every one of them is also responsible, washes their hands, doesn't stop between home and the launch? It's not you as an individual who I'm worried about. It's everyone else.

I understand where you are coming from. It’s tough not to get a bit defensive about this topic.

I hear they also barricaded the kayak launch at Tillamook bay in Garibaldi today,  along with closing the main boat launch to even the commercial guys. Seems to be getting cloaer and closer to a Statewide shutdown of all fishing like Washington.

I don't feel near as lazy for not getting my fishing license in January like I usually do. For some reason this year I hesitated and never got around to getting mine.   

I don't feel near as lazy for not getting my fishing license in January like I usually do. For some reason this year I hesitated and never got around to getting mine.   

I waited until February... now I wish I'd waited longer.

Casey, it seems to me you've been unhappy because you still have to work while most folks are home.  The whole "I can go fishing anywhere I damn well please" idea is what will lead ODFW to ban all recreational fishing.  This is first hand from a district manager: "[We'll] only be allowed to continue fishing as long as [we] follow the 'essential LOCAL travel' guidelines" (emphasis added).

We may not like staying near home to fish, but they can take that away, too.

We're sliding much farther into the collective punishment arena than I'm comfortable.
The ambiguous messaging we've received from the clueless governments doesn't help.
"Go to Chinatown, it's nothing or stay home, it's killing everyone", both from the Feds.
Punish those that violate the social distancing rule, which isn't a law.  Let's see the ORS statute on that citation, please.
Leave the rest of us alone.
See the surfer arrested in CA for an example of overreaction, ignorance, and a respect my authority mindset.
It benefited absolutely no one.
Are we going to become Hawaii?
Yeah the locals don't like us on "their" beaches and when we came back our tires were slashed.
How many folks from the coast headed for the valley to get things not available out there?
You better believe that stuff goes both ways.

I don't know if anyone has run to the I-5 corridor.  I haven't, and won't, but it's a ridiculous "two idiocies makes it okay" kind of argument, don't you think?

There might be two things we're overlooking.  First would be the lack of healthcare facilities on the coast.  It's RURAL everywhere except (arguably) Coos Bay which, although it has fewer people living there than in almost any suburb of any city along the corridor, is the largest city (by far) along the coast.  Second, and no one seems to talk about this part: there is no treatment, no cure, for COVID-19.  The best we have right now is keeping seriously ill folks alive and crossing our fingers they'll survive.  Roughly 9,500 folks have survived, 8,000 have died.

Twenty-two percent of everyone known to be infected by the coronavirus younger than 65 years old become critically ill and need hospitalization.  Twenty-five percent of all folks infected by the coronavirus don't know about it and are the modern Typhoid Mary's, spreading it to an estimated 8 other people.

Those aren't feelings, they're the latest statistics from inside the United States.

I don't like being at home and I've had years and years of retirement to get used to it.  It's different if I don't feel like going anywhere from being told I shouldn't go anywhere.  I have an ocean 5 minutes from my front door, two world-class rivers 15 minutes away, and a lake 8 minutes away that was stocked with tons of trophy trout mere days before the scope of the problem became obvious and we were asked to observe travel restrictions.  They're all beckoning me, but I'm hanging in, doing the responsible thing, and staying home.

At sometime n the next month, they'll lift the restrictions.  I can wait.  I'm not a toddler who needs diapers because they can't wait.  I have no doubt we're all capable of holding off.

It's irritating as hell to be told to stay near home, but really, is it so hard to make that temporary sacrifice if it might save even one life?  Really?  We're better than that, don't you think?

Tinker,
Not looking for a fight, but the image attached shows your argument to be false.

Yes, aircraft are still flying. How many of them are cargo flights? How many are airlines running at half schedule and still half empty?  How many are military flights?

Be glad you still get to fish locally. Be nice if I could take my yak out in the Sound and fish, but the stubborn independent minded rebellious types already got ours shut down.

Punish those that violate the social distancing rule, which isn't a law.  Let's see the ORS statute on that citation, please.

since you asked...here is where ORS gives the Governor authority to declare an emergency and set rules:



and here is where ORS provides for enforcement:



the logic behind social distancing is to reduce the spread of the virus to other people by reducing to an absolute minimum the amount people venture out of their home area.  it isn't because one of us making an extra trip away from home is going to spread it but rather that for every, say 100,000 extra outings, a certain number of those trips are going to spread the disease.  and there is no way in advance to know who is at risk of spreading it and who isn't.  and by making every possible effort to reduce the spread and flatten the curve, we ease pressure on the medical system that we all depend on, to either care for people in our state or assist other states that need people and equipment.

Stay Home.  Save Lives.

evidence that social distancing saves lives?  this is from the 1918 influenza pandemic, cities that implemented it earlier and for longer duration had significantly lower per capita death rates...



https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/#close