Labor Day Week-end PC or Depoe Bay

Has anyone been catching any rocks or lings at DB lately?  Noah said the rock/ling fishing has been slow due to lots of schools of baitfish at PC lately.  The only rocks/lings they have been catching was with herring when fishing for salmon.

Well to be fair, if you are dragging salmon gear you shouldn't be hooking up many lings. I'm sure they are out there somewhere. Could have probably dip netted rockfish out there last week, probably marked 25 schools, mostly 60-90 fow.

Even while jigging we had a hard time getting on a good ling bite.

I'm still gonna try, I found a new secret weapon lure made up in Canada that I have never seen before and looks like a real killer.  We shall see......

I only kayak fished for bottom fish one day last week at DB and got zip. Really got,out last,,4 pm

But I took my two grand kids out on a charter and we did well: blacks, China, Quillbacks, Yelloweye and Canary rockfish, 17 total in about three hours for the three of us (my ten year old's first fish ever). Only got one ling myself but a few others got some. We drifter the reefs off Siletz about 1/2 mile offshore and maybe 1 mile south of the outlet in 120' of water. Only used single blue or black swimbaits on 3 oz jig heads (multiple hooks would be a nightmare with 14 lines in the water side by side). Crabbed about a mile south of that and got 123 keepers in ten pots.

Just checked my markers: The crabbing was about six miles from DB but just two miles south of the Siletz mouth 0.5 mile offshore in 90' of water. The rock fishing was straight out from the mouth 2 miles offshore in 120'. A surf launch at Siletz would make this an easy trip.

I only kayak fished for bottom fish one day last week at DB and got zip. Really got,out last,,4 pm

But I took my two grand kids out on a charter and we did well: blacks, China, Quillbacks, Yelloweye and Canary rockfish, 17 total in about three hours for the three of us (my ten year old's first fish ever). Only got one ling myself but a few others got some. We drifter the reefs off Siletz about 1/2 mile offshore and maybe 1 mile south of the outlet in 120' of water. Only used single blue or black swimbaits on 3 oz jig heads (multiple hooks would be a nightmare with 14 lines in the water side by side). Crabbed about a mile south of that and got 123 keepers in ten pots.

That's pretty deep. I wonder if the fish are a bit deeper with the warmer water?

Just checked my markers: The crabbing was about six miles from DB but just two miles south of the Siletz mouth 0.5 mile offshore in 90' of water. The rock fishing was straight out from the mouth 2 miles offshore in 120'. A surf launch at Siletz would make this an easy trip.

thats "tackle buster" reef.. I've fished it before and its way better than anything close in to Depoe.   How did they send the Yellow eye and Canary rockfish back down?

Are you guys going out at pc sat? If so you guys ok with a rookie fisher who wants to learn goin?


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You probably couldn't pick a better day.

Are you guys going out at pc sat? If so you guys ok with a rookie fisher who wants to learn goin?


1966,351w,m5od,205....3.5" lift, 2" body, 38.5's

Maybe  See PM.

Just tossed 'em on top, made no effort to drop them deep and many seemed to float. Not too sure how many recovered.

The keepers often had swim bladders poking out of their gullets.




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Just tossed 'em on top, made no effort to drop them deep and many seemed to float. Not too sure how many recovered.

The keepers often had swim bladders poking out of their gullets.




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Dang,  you would think that the charter folk would have their act together. 

Just tossed 'em on top, made no effort to drop them deep and many seemed to float. Not too sure how many recovered.

The keepers often had swim bladders poking out of their gullets.




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Which charter was it?  Really sad to think of the impact of charters behaving like this on a daily or twice daily basis.  Many of the restrictive angling regulations we deal with (depth limits etc) are in place to protect the "orange fish" and help their depressed stocks recover.  Yet it seems the "pukers" are  fine with leaving a trail of floaters in their wake in the name of profit.

I think I would have spoke up and said something to the captain.  Actually knowing myself the way I do I'm pretty sure I would have barked at him pretty loudly.

Man, that's a bunch of crap. Perhaps place a call to ODFW?

Hey, Ihop....ditto on what Noah said.  Maybe a few hefty citations would curb some of that behavior.  Well......maybe.