Fogarty / PC Thur 2/24

 Well today was much better fishing and earlier launch as was back in by     10, limits but nothing to write home about. Am on way home now at government point can see three but must be 5,?6 yaks out there, must have launched at fogarty as again no other yaks except for John and I at ramp today. Good fishing with u John!! Next time.     Who is that out there?? Post up?

I ended up launching at Cathedral, in a freezing fog.
Was sweating by the end of the day tho.
Saw numerous suspended salmon size fish on the finder, targeted them and fished the bottom extensively, from St. John Bridge, down into the channel about a half mile.
Not a single bite for me or my buddy. No other kayaks, four or five powerboats. No one I talked to had caught anything.
Trolled most of the way up to Swan, and had the best sturgeon bite I've ever seen to date.
Wish I had had more time to get towed around. Don't think I went more than 5 mins without a bite. Caught a two footer and two four footers, and got schooled big time and broken off, by two monsters we never saw.
28#s of drag on my reel, and I could not gain on em one bit.
Good to end the day with sore arms, and not skunked, tho I would have preferred a nook!   

I believe there were seven people that launched from Fogerty.  Fishing was a bit tougher, but I think everyone had a chance to limit, but had to work for it.  I didn’t see any really big fish.  I caught my rockfish limit including some caught on the fly.  I caught about eight lings, but was looking for some bigger ones and ended up not keeping any.  My biggest was about 25”.  Also had two cabezon.

As we returned to Fogerty, we were greeted with very large waves breaking across the entire entrance to the beach.  Five of us opted to run down to Depoe to take out.  Thanks for the shuttle Nels.  Two of the kayaks waited things out until the waves settled down and were able to make it to the beach about the same time we were getting our vehicles.

Overall, it was great to get out fishing the ocean again.  I always enjoy getting to meet and fish with new people.

I was there with Nobaddays yesterday. Conditions were pretty nice, and were downright glassy in the late morning. I had big lings on the mind, so we went to an area of deeper water that usually produces big ones. But it was slooow as snot out there. We worked our way south along the reef, until we came onto a plateau @100ft and a somewhat consistent bite. Various rockfish, smallish lings, cabs. But no big lings. Biggest ling I landed was about 30", which I greedily released thinking I'd get a bigger one  . Just seemed like an "off" day for em...maybe the big girls are focused on spawning right now? We didn't hear of any big fish caught by anyone today. Even the powerboats coming back into Depoe were grinding to get decent fish.

Speaking of Depoe: we all headed back to Fogarty in the early afternoon. Right around low tide, the swell picked up in size. Beefy 5' swell @15-20 second period showed up and created breaking waves all the way across the reef outside Fogarty. Eff that! So we headed all the way down to Depoe Bay to take out. Nels (Lutefisk) came in clutch for us, and waited at the Depoe lot to give me a ride back to my truck. Thanks again man, I owe ya one!

The two guys who waited outside Fogarty eventually found a window to come back in. Looking at the buoys, it seems that 5' swell with the long period only lasted for a few hours before settling down. Winter ocean can be weird sometimes  .