Fishing around Ft Stevens Park

Ya that's exactly where I'm talking about. There's a state park right there with a nice piece of beach front that's protected by the jetty...it can get rough there just like anywhere else near the ocean so ill usually walk up on the jetty first eye the currents and if all looks good head out...the nice thing about there is that even if the current picks up it usually will push you back to shore/jetty and not out to sea

Fort Stevens in early March. if you want to just stay in the park Coffenberry lake should be stocked with plenty of excess hatchery steelhead from the Nehalem.  fresh well cured eggs, sandshrimp, and spinners work best in that order.  surf perch from the jetty or sand.  lingcod, rockfish from the South jetty.  spring chinook on the river side, just look for the locals plunking or tossing spinners, you could also crab from shore with a crab hawk/crab snare or add some rope to a crab ring and toss it out as far as you can.  All of the above requires the cooperation of mother nature. 

Beware of the current if you do plan on taking the kayak out for crabbing from Ft Stevens.  current charts are not reliable fall through Spring because of rain and excess river flows.  I have been out in that area with the current still flowing out 3 hours after it was supposed to be slack.

Scott

Thanks for the great input!  As I would like to avoid being an example of bad decision making.  Might try going out to the jetty and trying my luck, and searching for 'excess' steelhead sounds appealing!  Willhave a few days to poke around and see what I find.  Will report when I return!!

Don't go it alone, especially when you've been warned about dangerous waters.

Planing on keeping my feet on the rocks for the jetty excursion(s).  Thanks again for the good advice!

Well we went out to Ft Stevens and had a wonderful time in the park.  Lots of beach access and places to wander and explore.  The weather wasn't the best while we were there, but we did have some nice breaks.  So I did not make it out on the jetty or in the salt on this trip, but did spend a time trolling around in Coffenbury Lake.   Very nice lake and almost had it to myself on two days.  I was able to get the skunk off of the kayak on this trip with a 16" cut throat trout.  It grilled up nicely at the cabin that night! 

Nice work! Thanks for the report.

Look at that little piggy!


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Very nice.

Cutthroat trout is some fine dining!