Florence 6-25

I pulled into the parking lot of Bob's creek at 8:00am no wind small swell .  Erik (browneyesvictim) and I put in and the wind quickly picked up and the swell also picked.  We pulled out after about 45 minutes of fighting the wind. After we launched Paul (PNW) had pulled into the parking lot, we all decided to go fish inside the jetties at Florence.  We put in on the North jetty and  proceded to paddle and fish our way out the end of the North jetty.  We got out to the end and after about 10 minutes the Coast Guard came out saying the bar was to rough and we needed to go back in.  I won't be spending my gas money to fish in Florence.  It was a lot better of than what we had at the ORC.  Here's some pictures I let you guys judge. 

If that was a rough bar, then I'm president of the United States. Where we were fishing was the only sweet spot in the area. It was slack tide, out of the wind & channel, & the water in that spot was still. There was a fairly deep hole right there where I got the only 2 bites of the day & I didn't have to do any paddling to maintain position. The CG pushed us back into the wind & current with their ridiculously irrational instructions, but what else can you do but comply? At least they didn't give us tickets.

Definately a bad call by the puddle pirates! BAR CLOSED to 16 ft and under! To add insult to injury, there was no problem with them letting the kite boarders out there!

Erik

People surf there all the time when there is actually surf! This is our tax money being wasted on BS!! I guess we need to fish off of surfboards and then there wouldn't be a problem. Perhaps the higher ups at the Florence CG should see these photos! Really, a person in the water, either swimming, or scuba diving, wouldn't have a problem. But if you are floating on a piece of plastic?

 

Definately a bad call by the puddle pirates! BAR CLOSED to 16 ft and under! To add insult to injury, there was no problem with them letting the kite boarders out there!

Erik

So it would have been OK in a 17 foot sea kayak??   That makes no sense.  It would have been funny though if someone had a yak over 16 feet.

Yup.... So I have been reading up on 33 CFR Part 165.1325 and ongoing dockets USCG–2008–1017 which is the govorning code for ""Regulated Navigation Areas; Bars Along the Coasts of Oregon and Washington".

(http://www.uscg.mil/d13/)
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-27516.pdf


There is a federal eRulemaking portal in which proposed changes can be officially viewed and/or made to the rules. There is a comment period on the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).

They can be searched and viewed t at: http://regulations.gov
Type the CFR code or docket numbers I listed above in the search bar.

Seems to me a group like us (NWKA) should have a voice in the USCG rulebooks in recognizing our craft (as well as surfers) in a seperate category with the appropriate gear (ie liefejackets and immersion suits, etc).

Erik

I'm finding, especially here with Depoe Bay CG, the way around it is, well, to just go around it.  Look for other entry/exit points close by.  Here Fogarty Creek is one just to the north.

I've seen DB CG close the bar so they can hit the volleyball net or when they have a unit wide meeting (when they don't want to be bothered).