Hobuck: The 2ND Generation

Will be camping at Hobuck August 9th-12th. Plan to fish Ling's/etc. and possibly salmon also. Would be great to have some company. Open Invite.

May be rolling through there that week.  Plan is Hood Canal, Pt. Townsend and surrounding areas, that's a surrounding area

We might be able to, not sure yet.  Moving date is creeping up on us.

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In laws family reunion is that weekend or I would try to make it.

Dang Rich I would love to make it but we've got a Heroes On The Water event on the 11th.

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I would join, but I will be down in Coos Bay that weekend.  Hope there is at least one more upcoming good weekends for Hobuck...I really want to fish that area this year!

Rich, it looks like we'll make it out there Saturday afternoon and fish Sunday.

I'm in! I'm sure your watching that Hobuck tide window, Aug 9-12 works out perfect. Now for some luck with the swell and wind and it should be a 2-cooler weekend. I'm in a white SINK, and probably a silver Ford Van (transit connect) or old brown Toyota truck.

C u there.
Todd

Drat, leaving on a jet plane on the 10th, or I'd be back out there learning some more.  Last weekend was awesome!

I was out fishing freshwater in Idaho when our brilliant WDFW closed Neah Bay outside to bottom fish (http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/jul2412a/). What's the point of going to Hobuck now?  The only reason I risk the drive on hwy 112, put up with the non-stop frat parties, lousy facilities and glaring lights that stay on all night at that place is to stock up on the biggest bottom fish the state has to offer. I cost plenty to get to that place, in time and money, and now all that's available is the bay.  Salmon can be hit or miss out there as much as any place on the strait or the sound, it was the bottom fishing that made that place worth the effort. At least you knew you'd be going home with a cooler full of Blacks, some Cabbies and maybe a Ling for the effort.

I'll be contacting the tribe on this to let them know there summer income will be shrinking as a result - If anyone has interest in signing on to a collective letter let me know. Trying to reason with fish bureaucrats is pointless (trust me on this one, I've worked with fisheries for 30 years) but if the tribes push back using the sovereign nation status things might change.

Before you contact the tribe, check the closure status again.  It was postponed until September 4th.

I was out fishing freshwater in Idaho when our brilliant WDFW closed Neah Bay outside to bottom fish (http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/jul2412a/). What's the point of going to Hobuck now?  The only reason I risk the drive on hwy 112, put up with the non-stop frat parties, lousy facilities and glaring lights that stay on all night at that place is to stock up on the biggest bottom fish the state has to offer. I cost plenty to get to that place, in time and money, and now all that's available is the bay.  Salmon can be hit or miss out there as much as any place on the strait or the sound, it was the bottom fishing that made that place worth the effort. At least you knew you'd be going home with a cooler full of Blacks, some Cabbies and maybe a Ling for the effort.

OK ... you are talking out of your ass.
You just got back from Idaho which is further from Seattle than Hobuck. I assume you didn't go to load the freezers, but rather for fun.
If you don't want to go then don't...
Seems like you had a bad experience ... get over it or don't go back.
That is all
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The only reason I ... put up with the non-stop frat parties, lousy facilities and glaring lights that stay on all night at that place ...

Last weekend I experienced NONE of that.  Granted I was so tired that I slept like a rock, but there weren't any "frat parties", I don't recall any lights being left on after dark, and the facilities weren't any worse than any state park I've camped at.

Also, as stated, re-check the closure intel.  They changed their mind less than 24 hours later (in part because of people like me, Lee, Micah, etc that sent emails) and delayed the closure until after Labor Day weekend.

It is a horrible place and full of Communists... I would avoid it like the plauge

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I heard a prisoner from Uganda escaped and made his way to Neah Bay, and it resulted in an outbreak of ebola virus in the area.  That, coupled with the poisonous eggs of Cabezon, are more than enough reason to stay away!