Tillamook Friday 10/15/20

I'm going to take Friday off and fish the incoming in Tillamook... Anyone want to join? I'll be arriving around 830 am, will put in at Garibaldi and plan on fishing the Coast Guard hole. Looks like high slack at 12:30 pm. If interested please PM me, otherwise - see you out there!

Good luck getting around the corner.

Good luck getting around the corner.

I think he’s referring to the area in front of there boat house, lots of guys trolling there right now.

No, he's referring to an alternate universe in which Friday is not October 16th...   

Any luck?

Told ya he wouldn't make it. Was swept up the Miami and never heard from again because he launched on the inbound tide.

I did end up going on Friday the 16th (as noted my calendar was mis-calibrated) and fished hard from 8:30 AM in the CG Hole until about 1:30 PM with no takedowns, drive by's, or the like on spinners/360 flasher and blue Brad's.  Lots of boats fishing the Ghost Hole but very little pressure on the CG Hole (wondering why?).  Saw a few fish on my FF in the morning, but not tons, and did not see any fish rolling or splashing around.  I did not see any fish caught nor many smiles on the boats heading back to the launch.  My salmon curse continues.

Crabbing was pretty good but my trap needs some love - lots of escape routes.  Ended up with four crabs with minimal effort.

I did end up going on Friday the 16th (as noted my calendar was mis-calibrated) and fished hard from 8:30 AM in the CG Hole until about 1:30 PM with no takedowns, drive by's, or the like on spinners/360 flasher and blue Brad's.  Lots of boats fishing the Ghost Hole but very little pressure on the CG Hole (wondering why?).  Saw a few fish on my FF in the morning, but not tons, and did not see any fish rolling or splashing around.  I did not see any fish caught nor many smiles on the boats heading back to the launch.  My salmon curse continues.

Crabbing was pretty good but my trap needs some love - lots of escape routes.  Ended up with four crabs with minimal effort.

Keep at it! It has been a very strange year so far and they are not really piling up in the bay or even in tidewater like they usually do, even before the rain the bay was slow on a good day. But yet there is plenty of fish upriver. It's like a very large amount of fish moved straight up into the river with the last rain (the Trask is full of em) I haven't fished the salt or bay since last week cause it's been so good upriver 

Another quick Tillamook area report: with a friend I fished the Trask and Tillamook tidewaters on Saturday. Absolutely stunning day with zero wind. Late start (after 10 am) and launched from Carnahan Park to fish the Trask tidewater (downstream of the launch). A few people we spoke to said that fishing had been slow and a that a lot of fish indeed shot upriver after last week's rain. Bankies at the Hospital Hole had seen two fish. We threw some bobber and eggs near the mouth of the Trask. No love from any fish, but still a great day due to the awesome weather. When we got a bragging text/picture of a friend fishing the Tillamook river on a power boat showing a nice chinook (18 lbs) we headed over to the Tillamook to verify that this was a picture they indeed shot minutes ago and not something they had pulled from the archives. They were still cleaning the net when we got to them.... They had launched from Memaloose and had seen 8 or 9 fish caught for 30 boats. So surely not hot but some fish to be had. For us also no love at the Tillamook (fished bobber and eggs first and then trolled a spinner for some time).   

Larry....  - I think I saw your kayak down the channel toward the Ghost Hole Friday - that was some current you had to deal with that day - more than I wanted to deal with! 

The previous reports are on par with what we saw.  We fished Tilly Friday thru Sunday on my friend's PB - Saturday was very crowded.  Saw several fish caught on the ocean side of the South jetty and in the "bubble" - though I'm not sure how many were C&R coho - we managed to get two very healthy native coho to the boat, but no keeper chinook (the coho size was about what we saw a few years ago when they opened for coho on the bay).  Not much was happening inside the jetties.   Crabbing was definitely slower because of the large tide swings.



After the rain Sunday, and with smaller tide swings it should get a bit better this week.

Stevm - Was that you in the mango hobie over at the ghost hole?

Everyone keeps saying how hard the current was at the CG hole - it wasn't so bad!  Also, I am young (somewhat) and have strong legs and an even harder head, so maybe that is another consideration

No , it wasn’t me in the Hobie - I was only in a PB this weekend. 

@Stinger Hook, was that your first time in the Trask? I’ve been told some big fall chinook can be had in there this time of year so I’m wanting to get over there myself.

@Stinger Hook, was that your first time in the Trask? I’ve been told some big fall chinook can be had in there this time of year so I’m wanting to get over there myself.

Trask has been pretty slow this year so far unfortunately. After it rained a bunch of fish shot upriver (which is weird considering how slow the bay was before the rain) They have not really held in tidewater at all this year which is very strange. 

I am assuming with the sporadic rain that not all of the fish have raced up out of tidewater. I am planning on hitting one of the coastal bays this weekend hoping the little bit of rain pulled some of the late fish in out of the ocean. Anyone else heading out this weekend for some bay fishing?