Wow, nice catch. What do you use for bait? And how big do thy get out there?

Bait is the herring I caught this winter and poste itt:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=188

The kings get over 50 lbs, but the biggest I've seen is 42.

Nice crappie!

My dad's friend has some crappie trees set up and I used to love jigging them.

Some of the best minus tides this week for getting clams. You sure did well on the springers outside. You have a companion boat go out with you or go alone? It must have been nice with the flat seas the last few days.

The crabs are in in nehalem bay now and I can't pass them up. Lunch and dinner both. Nothing beats a freshly caught dungeness crab. Mostly males in the traps so not much sorting to do.

Crab is so good. I rarely go after them outside of the late fall and winter months, and it would be as simple as setting a trap on my way out fishing and pulling it on my return. Something I should probably do more often.

We don't go out with a power boat. There were three of us today and kayak fishing is sufficiently popular that if the weather is doable you can always find someone to go with. We are developing a pretty good community. We all go out with everything you find on a power boat except an engine and a fire extinguisher. We have VHF radios, navionics GPS, plus we are dressed for immersion. There have been a few safety issues come up over the years with people not wearing warm clothes under a dry suit, not knowing how to get back into a boat after going in and never having practiced, and forced alternate landings when the wind has come up, but so far so good on anything major. The folks down in the SF area have had bigger issues including multiple shark attacks.

With the upcoming tides I'm going geoducking. If I find one it will be my first. I'll get some horsenecks and Martha Washingtons while we are out.

I'm looking at Depoe Bay on July 13 weekend. I have the tentative ok from mrscrashjr, hope to catch some monster cabezon.

We used to catch them up to 30 in the Great Lakes, but the numbers are so high now they aren't getting as big(my theory anyway). It's pretty nice going out and catching a 3 man limit in 90 minutes though, even if thy are 12-20 pounders.

What's the limit out there?

Limit 2, 20" min length but no one keeps those. The really big ones tend to show up later in the season. There are a bunch of silvers in the water right now, and we can't keep silvers here. Cross over into Oregon and clipped silvers are ok. I just shake my head when I release a clipped silver. Yeah, endangered hatchery fish. Roger that California.

Our limit is 5 per person. 3 rods per guy. It's an artificial fishery though. Mostly kings, but tons of coho in the spring. Apparently there are pinks and Atlantics up in superior, but I've not gone fishing there.

any expert catfishing people in here? Red river of the North catfishing to be specific. Trying to get into it, and i suckkkkkkkkkkkkkk

I think my friends that catfish on the Red (in a boat) use a basic lindy rig setup with a no roll sinker and a circle hook with suckers for bait most of the time. Like 30lb test line with a 20 lb test leader.

When I did fish for them, although not in you r area, I found liver to be the best bait. Also if you use set lines bait the hooks with ivory soap. It works.

basically what im using, cept crawlers instead of the suckers. 3oz weight with about 3ft leater, no real idea if my leater length is ideal or not. Fishing it in a boat sounds fun.

I did watch a vid a little bit ago that provided me with a very simple obvious way to not get snagged so effing much. This guy was putting like 4 crawlers on his hook, and treading one through the whole hook, BRILLIANT!

Ahh yeah i forgot to give liver a shot, ty.

pic of my 30-40 LBer will be coming soon i suspect.

I just looked, because my parents had a pic of largest king put on a coffee cup, along with my check from the Rogers City Salmon tourny. In 1996 I took 45th place with a fish that weighed 23 pounds and some change. Today I could win the tourney by a landslide.

We still catch decent kings, but mainly in Lake Michigan, and rarely over 15 pounds.

Stoked on shellfish today.





Woohoo!

A video I put together from a trip last week:

really cool video. crash. flat ocean what a treat. i guess you had a go video on your head. worked okay.

you know those pool noodles work great for making things float that go over board so you dont have to have a lead on them.
i put about an eight inch piece on my net. you can also put spray in foam in your net to make it a cork in the water.

I've never had too much issue with the net leash. The rod and paddle leashes otoh get me tangled. I go back and forth between leashed and unleashed.
I have about 25 pool noodles stuffed inside the kayak in case of hull breach. It floats low in the water even completely swamped.

Personal best cabezon. 25.5" 12 lbs hope to get its twin in Depoe Bay in 11 days on tourney day. This fish wins the largest cab and is on the leader board 9 times out of 10.

typical fish story. the meter reads 11.97 and you have it up to 12 pounds already.

Lol.

Nice fish

Cabezon retention just opened in Oregon and they are huge!