St Helens

B~C":2dg3ndu0 said:
Anybody interested in and an overnighter at St Helens next weekend? Maybe BBQ up some fresh caught fish
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If that's the Mt. St. Helens, you won't need any lighter fluid... :roll:
 
Count us as "if we can, we will" as the boat's back at the dealers to get the initial motor maintenance and the cockpit cover done (we took her before they were done to fish at Astoria in August) :) Hopefully, we'll have it back, but would be pretty hard to participate without the boat :wink:
 
We're more than 15 minutes away, but I won't know until fifteen minutes before we leave if we're going. You thinking St. Helens or Wind Island?
 
I sleep better on Sand Island, 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
It's been a few years since a Sand Island wind fest, weza about due. It's always fun watching Cheers stick his anchor on an anchor.

Cheers is only 15 minutes away. Mike, I'll help you syphon some gas out of his boat, he won't need it
 
If it is Next weekend I am in. If it is this coming weekend I recommend Depoe Bay as I will be embarking what will likely be my last Tuna adventure for the season... unless I can find a way to get out again ;).

Have BBQ will travel.... This would be a great trip for the dogs.
 
CM&S, is your boat done yet? :)
MRF, Coon Island, Sand Island, St Hellllens, don't matter to me as long as there's fishing and boating. I aint never been to Coon Island, could be fun.
 
O.K. Ken, which day?
I really want to make this. I haven't been to a C-Brat get together since Bill and El hit Warrenton...

I think you would like Coon island. There is plenty of dock space and this time of year we may just have the place to ourselves.

We can talk about the fishing there later ;)

My vote would eb the week after next but if my Tuna trip gets called this weekend I will be camping Coon Island anyway.
 
It would sure be good to see the two of you again. Last time I saw you was at Cathlamete 2 years ago. I think it was your first c-Brat outing with your new boat.
 
welllll, I was thinking this weekend the 17th, the weather sounds like it will be fair & it sounds like Saturday may be the last of Chinook season in the lower river
 
Hmmmm decisions decisions.... I think I am in. The coastal weather adn SSt will decide for me in a day or two.
I sure want to....
But I have a lot of room in my pantry for Tuna this year...
 
arrrg, it's sounding like chinook fishing will be closed in the river this weekend but the ocean will reopen. If the river is closed, me thinks a run up to Beacon Rock for a campout..or... a run out the green line to 300' for some ocean fish...my gas budget tells me B Rock, I'll have to wait and see what the crew thinks and what F&W does with the Chinook season.
 
I am hoping for one last ocean trip on Saturday - GPS or not. Last time I checked the forecast it looked good, and the low tide is just the right time in the morning. I reckon them fishes are getting nervous and hanging around the entrance, so we'll probably stay between 4 and 2 looking for birds and rips.
 
I can't make this trip this year, but I would certainly like to get there next time... perhaps a little more advance notice would be of help too.

Anyway, the main purpose of this message is to pinpoint where it is you are going. I looked at some maps and Google Earth and see at least one big body of water to the north. But I am not sure and I can't find any of the islands (Coon, Sand, Wind) nor Depoe Bay.

Where is the closest town or major road intersection?

BTW, my wife has to guide me when driving to the grocery cuz I can read a map but I can't find the grocery down the street...

Sorry,
 
BTW, my wife has to guide me when driving to the grocery cuz I can read a map but I can't find the grocery down the street...
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Now that's just ridiculous. At least that's what my wife tells me when I have the same problems. :lol:

Sand Island is directly across the narrow channel from St. Helens, OR. The main Columbia River ship channel passes Sand Island on the north side. It is a neat place. I don't think it was entirely created by dredge spoils, but it gets bigger every year from them. It has primative facilities and camp sites up the ramps from two very nice public docks. And it is all free. Often times the wind howls up through there in the late evening and night, and the waves can make it pretty bouncy. Wind Island is just a nickname one of us CBs has hung on Sand Island - they're both the same place.

I have never been to Coon Island, but I think it is up the Multnomah Channel a little ways east of St. Helens? Maybe closer to Scapoose, OR?

Beacon Rock is a Washington state park about a mile or so downstream from Bonneville Dam. It is a really neat little place with dock space, camping, picnic facilities, and hiking trails. Very pretty scenery. It is a great destination for a cruise up the Columbia. The Blue~C and TyBoo ran the river to there right after Labor Day a few years back. We called it the Dam Cruise and were hoping to make it an annual event, but life gets in the way sometimes in late summer/early fall. There are several neat places to stop on the way, and if you wanted you could lock through Bonneville and continue upriver.

Depoe Bay is on the north central Oregon coast. You can get there from here, but it would be a little more of a boat ride than I would want to go on in a C-Dory.
 
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