north coast 6/22 & 6/23~VIDEO & Report

Planning on getting salty tomorrow and saturday, not sure where yet, but somewhere on the north coast. Anybody wanna join me?

The weather looks great for a Cannon Beach trip.  Too bad I will be out of town I would join you.  Good luck!

The weather looks great for a Cannon Beach trip.  Too bad I will be out of town I would join you.  Good luck!

Bummer! Hit me up sometime when you want some company out there- Anthony

Well, didn't end up fishing on Friday, by the time i got down to the coast it was really windy, the rain was coming down in sideways sheets, and the surf had kicked up quite a bit.  So, I decided to leave the gear in the truck, and play around in the surf for a little while @ the cove in Seaside(video to come).

     Woke up Saturday morning, and the conditions were a little better. Still raining, still pretty windy although not as much, but the surf looked great. Launched at Tolovana around 1030ish, and trolled my way out to the structure i wanted to fish.  Hooked up with one salmon one the way out, and proceeded to lose it while i was messing around with my net, which hurt double because I'm always so anal about having my gear all ready to go. Lesson learned  . By the time I got to where I wanted to start bottomfishing, the conditions had improved a little; as in a little less rain and a little less wind.
     From the first drop to the last, the rockfish bite was as good as anybody could hope for. Caught a few lings too, one of which was pushing the 30" mark, that decided to all of a sudden go berserk while i was reaching for my bonker, and flopped back overboard, somehow snapping my 14lb fireline and taking my Atomic Punk with him back to Lingville.    Hooked into something BIG a little while later, I'm assuming it was a ling, but i never got to see it. After a couple minutes of it owning me, i started gaining some ground on it, only to have it spit the hook.  Son of a.......   
     Oh well, all in all, it was a great day of fishing, although I coulda done without the curious Sea Lion getting all up in my bubble.  The last couple hours the rain stopped, the wind died to a light breeze, and eventually the clouds burned off and it became a beautiful day.  No more love salmon trolling on the way back, but I ended up with my limit of rockfish- 2 Chinas and 5 Blacks, and one smallish ling that tasted great on the grill. -Anthony

Good job, way to represent NWKA 3!

great report - too bad you couldn't bring in that salmon. A three species day is always fun...

Great report!  I love the stories.  Sorry you lost big one and the salmon. I've been thinking of going out tomorrow.

Great job out there! Love reading the reports.

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Nice job, rack up the NWKA 3 points!

Now THAT's a report! 

Thanks for taking us with you.

-Spot-

Nice job.  Lots of salmon being caught in that area right now.

Here's the video I shot on Friday.  Would of had one for Saturday too, when I actually fished, had I remembered to put the SD card back in my GoPro.  Sorry if the quality's a little low, I set it to mobile resolution

Great vid!!! Bloopers were great!  Looks like you had a blast!

I love it! 

Was amazed at how well that orange hat stayed put so well. 

Wish I could have made it out there with you. 

Can you enable for mobile devices?