So does anyone fish or just nah???

[Tiewire]

57 more this morning

 

[Only the Tony]

 

[jakethesnake]

I want fresh fish. Need to find time to sneak out. I don’t care what they are. Freezer bout empty on fish

 

[Bigmac]

Am having a good fall season so far

 

[Bigmac]

This was Saturday

 

[Only the Tony]

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What are your rules for this year on keep for hatchery vs. wild. And any idea on catch ratio between the two. Seems like you have more pictures of hatchery this year. Lake I have been catching crappie is supposed to have higher ratio of whites to black but most of what I caught fishing brush this summer were black.

 

[Mad Professor]

This was Saturday

Nice fish!

Never been out west coast. Where on the river are you?

 

[Bigmac]

What are your rules for this year on keep for hatchery vs. wild. And any idea on catch ratio between the two. Seems like you have more pictures of hatchery this year. Lake I have been catching crappie is supposed to have higher ratio of whites to black but most of what I caught fishing brush this summer were black.

It’s been a much better hatchery ratio this year so far. The early pod this year was a solid 80% hatchery. And now it’s about 50-50. We can keep 2 wild chinook and 3 wild coho. There are also some nearby rivers that are open too., but I mainly fish the tidewater of the bay Let some beautiful fish go recently, hopefully some more hatchery’s show up

 

[Bigmac]

Nice fish!

Never been out west coast. Where on the river are you?

Tillamook bay tide water , 5 rivers feed it, hatchery chinook and coho , all go up the Trask river. The Nestucca and nehelem rivers have hatchery programs as well, and they’re only about a half hour to 45 minutes away, I usually fist in the Halom early for Chinook and the Tillamook Bay a little bit later, I grew up on the Nestucca,,but haven’t fished it much since, the Wilson river is the hatchery steelhead river, but it gets Chinook Coho, chum and steelhead

 

[Mad Professor]

Tillamook bay tide water , 5 rivers feed it, hatchery chinook and coho , all go up the Trask river. The Nestucca and nehelem rivers have hatchery programs as well, and they’re only about a half hour to 45 minutes away, I usually fist in the Halom early for Chinook and the Tillamook Bay a little bit later, I grew up on the Nestucca,,but haven’t fished it much since, the Wilson river is the hatchery steelhead river, but it gets Chinook Coho, chum and steelhead

I looked at some satellite images of that estuary , that place looks fishy!

 

[Only the Tony]

 

[STOVE]

Getting ready to put my big drum gear away for the year and move over to speckled trout

Big bluefish have been around all year, costing lots in gear if you are not prepared

 

[Only the Tony]

Turned super foggy on the way to the lake yesterday morning and it stuck around for several hours. Morning bite is what I am finding almost all summer long. When the fog burned off they turned finicky.

 

[STOVE]

Had one plan in the family calendar all weekend. Of course it was gorgeous all week. Weekend finally arrives and the nor’easter shows up. 25nne with gusts to 35kt

Classic

 

[STOVE]

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Turned super foggy on the way to the lake yesterday morning and it stuck around for several hours. Morning bite is what I am finding almost all summer long. When the fog burned off they turned finicky.

Deep water jigging or casting? Always fun to find them shallow where you can work little jigs and spinners

 

[jakethesnake]

Had one plan in the family calendar all weekend. Of course it was gorgeous all week. Weekend finally arrives and the nor’easter shows up. 25nne with gusts to 35kt

Classic

Yep lovely

 

[Only the Tony]

Deep water jigging or casting? Always fun to find them shallow where you can work little jigs and spinners

Brush piles in 20 foot of water or so with jigs.

 

[Wonkydonkey]

I got this Bass late last wk.
Last night it went in the oven (just over 24”)

 

[Tiewire]

Another butt load of mostly 8-9”. None over 10”

 

[Only the Tony]

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Another butt load of mostly 8-9”. None over 10”

Few conservation ponds I have been reading about have set high keep limits in order to get rid of an over population of crappie. Nothing too close by but I think where my nephew is working has one though. Too many small fish for the size of the pond.