I haven't heard any kayak reports, but some boats out of Newport and Depoe seemed to do OK. Water's warming up this evening, so it could be a different ballgame tomorrow. I'm going to try Depoe bright n early, I was told the line of boats waiting to launch reached the highway this morning.

Beautiful ocean, but the water is cold.

I trolled out to 195 ft just to see zero sign and frigid cold water, so I angled NE up to the Government Point reef to fish for bottom dwellers. The lingcod bite was pretty good, as it often is when the water is cold. Harvested 34 and 32 inch lings. The rockfish bite was hit and miss: some schools wouldn't bite at all, others would only produce a few fish before shutting off, and then we finally found one where they were real grabby. The quality of the rockfish was impressive as well, including a 22" black and a whopper 23" copper, which may be my PB copper. I kept the black, released the copper.

Later in the morning, I loaned my other 1 oz P-Line Laser Minnow jigging spoon to my friend TJ so he could get some rockfish, since he wasn't having success on shrimp flies or swimbaits while I was crushing em on the Laser Minnow. First drop, he hooks up on a hot 8 lb hatchery coho, of all things. We trolled around the area for another hour hoping we'd find more, but no dice. Swell picked up to about 4 ft around noon, then the wind kicked up right as we were transiting The Hole at 1230.

Heard of good salmon reports from the boats and charters today, but they must've been far south of the harbor because we hardly saw anyone salmon trolling for miles around.

Both lings had flatfish in their stomachs. Butter sole and sand sole in one, and I think an English sole in the other. Pretty neat.