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I've had two nights at home since getting back from the SJs, so it's time to go stay on the boat again. I got it all cleaned back up and in the water ready to go for an early morning slamon run out the end of the Columbia. The ocean has been pretty mild I hear, and the tide changes are tiny the next few mornings, so I'll be staying on the boat tonight and taking off when my fishing buddy gets there in the morning. It was hot inland and not so hot here, so we might as well leave before daylight since it will be foggy anyway. It's a long way to go for the chance of just four fish, but, well, sometimes you gotta take your lumps. If it is all good tomorrow we might take a couple kids the next day.

I betcha I see another CD25 out there from Chinook, WA.
 
Limited by 7:00. On CR bar right now headed in.
 
Mike,
Our youngest daughter gets married today or you would see me out by the CR buoy. I have had the boat over the bar seven times since coming back from N. Carolina and we limited each time. One day Toni and I had our fish by 7:30 am, ran back to Chinook, and had two 44" sturgeon by 11:30 am. Two days ago I took three friends and we had seven 8 lb. coho and a 17 lb king by 7:55 am. Its not always that good and a few days we had real rough crossings and bad water out there too, I can't say enough about how well my boat handles the bar and rough weather, much better than I do.
I will be back out there next week. Good luck.
 
Made it home just fine. That was the first time I ever Twittered on the Columbia River Bar, the most treacherous bar in the world. I have nearly wet myself a couple times, but never before Twittered.
 
Heading back in with limit of Coho (4). Partner wouldn't let me release last one to try for king. Two fish are ok the other two real nice.
 
Sounds like it's getting real good out there. My son got married yesterday so no fishing for me last week and I've still got a few relatives to entertain over the next 3-4 days. AFTER THAT though, I'm heading back out to Neah Bay for fishing Wed or Thurs through Sat.
 
Eight today. All of them smaller silvers. We let go a half dozen or so good size natives. The only kings we saw were real small. Had two boys with us. One of them got sick and the other didn't want to wake up, but we made 'them get their fish. Back to work for me tomorrow.
 
Friday
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Saturday
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Sunday
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Austin's friend with his first ever salmon today:
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That is just too cool! Great smile. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Robbi
 
Mike, great photo of the youngster with his first salmon! I still remember mine (out of Nehalem) when I was about that age. Hmmmmm, that was 50+ years ago. I am surprised that the memory still works.
 
good deal, now there's some fun. I kind of miss fishing down there. I heard there was supposed to be a great coho return, sounds like it's happening.


because i'm an ass, brought in 24 coho yesterday with many in the 12-18 pound range and 2 kings :)
 
Hey B~C good to hear from you.

There is a thread titled "Would the 22 benefit from more weight?" on here somewhere. I was going to suggest the guy talk to you because you are always adding weight to yours. But I didn't want to be an ass.

Those big silvers are a blast to catch. I hope we get a slug of them up to 15 pounds but the only big ones so far got all their fins.

Have fun with your summer job and keep us posted.
 
Nice work Mike, so great to see you giving these kids a chance to enjoy the excitement. Our old 25's are just fish magnets, been great Coho fishing out of Newport this year we managed to limit out on our salmon trips last weekend. Will post some pics tonight of the salmon and tuna event at Newport.

stevej
 
I pulled the boat out of the water tonight long enough to fill up the gas tank at Costco. The 25 fish we have caught so far are going for $7.64 each. Oh, plus bait but the other guy buys that.

The wind is predicted to pick up a little, so the ocean might be out for us this weekend. Hope not - the morning tide turn is only a couple feet so the bar will be almost nothing if the wind stays away. We'll fish the river if we don't want to go outside. Then we can walk to shore on the other boats if we have problems.
 
Toni & I took Tom Elliott of the Susan E for a trip over the bar and three limits of Salmon today, it took us three hours fishing between the CR buoy and north to buoy one. Tom and I will go out again tomorrow, the season closes tomorrow at midnight.
 
Mike,

On Friday, the bar at Garibaldi was closed to anything under 30' for a good part of the day. Saturday was really foggy. I am not sure how successful the tuna classic was... I drug the boat home to get it cleaned up an ready for Lake Powell. Not sure how expensive our fish were, but it was a lot more than buying at the Tillamook Boathouse. Hmmmmmm.

Steve
 
Sport salmon fishing reopens off Columbia River


September 3, 2009


NEWPORT, Ore.– Sport fishing for salmon in the ocean between Leadbetter Point, Wash., and Cape Falcon, Ore., will reopen Monday, Sept. 7.

Fishing will continue through Sept. 30 or reaching the quota of 96,500 fin-clipped coho. The daily bag limit remains two salmon, but all coho salmon must have a healed adipose fin clip.

On Aug. 26 fisheries managers decided to close the season in the Columbia River Ocean Area effective at the end of the fishing day on Aug. 31 because landings were projected to meet the allowable catch quota. However, catches came in substantially lower than projected because of poor weather, and more than 13,000 coho remain on the quota.

“Delaying the reopening until Monday should provide a better chance to allow the fishery to continue through the end of September without any additional management action,” said Eric Schindler, ocean salmon project leader for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The decision came after National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Fishery Management Council, the states of Washington and Oregon, and ocean fishers reviewed the catch statistics of the ocean recreational salmon fishery in the Columbia River Ocean Salmon Management Area at a meeting Thursday afternoon.

The fishing opportunity is in addition to the popular recreational fishery inside the Columbia River upstream of Buoy 10. Coho are returning in huge numbers to the Columbia River. Fishery managers are forecasting that 700,000 coho will return to the river this year, which would be the largest return since 2001.

Sport fishing for fin-clipped coho continues in the ocean from Cape Falcon south to Humbug Mountain (near Port Orford) and is expected to continue through Sept 30.
 
Do I understand correctly that the Columbia is currently open above buoy 10 for coho? I would assume that would also include hatchery chinook. I am thinking of hitting the Columbia in the next couple weeks and wanted to make sure it was currently open. I would actually like to fish somewhere slightly upstream of St. Helens. The only place I can think of to launch and leave my truck and trailer overnight is Kalama, because of security concerns. Anyone have any better ideas?
 
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