Newport Halibut

[StreamFixer]

Looking for an open seat, within a few feet of a working Scotty plug, June 1-3 for Newport Halibut.  Weather not looking bad, marine in about a week.

StreamFixer

[Threeweight]

Russ, I plan to be down there, but I don't know yet how full my boat will be. 

[beancounter]

Now Russ what in the world would you need seating near a plug like that for?

[Red 22]

I think he missspelled Beer tap.

[Markshoreline]

Red22 I think you misspelled whiskey.

[ericsearanger]

Russ I have open seat on Thursday and Friday , only me and my mechanic but, Saturday a friend come out to fish with me , so we will have full boat I alway fish with 4 people. if you don't mine you can fish with us. 3WT Rock Pile are hot again many boat limit out

[Red 22]

Russ, my friends from Idaho have their own RV so I have an open bed if don't want to pay for a hotel. Will arrive at the Marina RV park about 4pm on weds., walking distant to boats.

[ericsearanger]

Red22 do you have open seat for Russ also?

[Red 22]

Sorry no, I have 3 guys coming from Boise. They have their own RV. Russ and I discussed open seats  in a PM before he made this request. I do have an open bed.

[StreamFixer]

Wow...  Could not be much better that that...  :party:  Thank you for the offer of a place to sleep Tony and Eric for the ride. 

Tony, Wed. & Thursday both?  Wednesday would be great...  Long morning commute from Oregon City   :biggrin:

e-mails sent

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[Red 22]

Russ, I'll be there Wednesday through Saturday your welcome as long as you want.

[ericsearanger]

I ll be in Newport late Wednesday evening , launching 4-4:30 am Thursday , see you then

[Threeweight]

I am planning to head down Thursday, maybe Wednesday if I can twist Katherine's arm  :whistle:

[Keel-er]

Did you all go out and, if so, how did you do?  I cancelled my weekend bottom fishing plans after seeing the huge tide exchanges, talking to CG at Garibaldi about the bar conditions and thinking about 10+ vertical feet of water rushing out of the bay to meet the ocean and how that would look...

[Threeweight]

Halibut was closed over the weekend because of the big tides, we are all plotting our strategy for the opener starting this Thursday (June 1 -3).

Looks like I'll be able to get down to Newport Wednesday night. NOAA central OR coast forecast is deteriorating for the weekend, but Thursday looks do-able.

WED NIGHT
S WIND 10 TO 15 KT...BECOMING SW 5 TO 10 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES SW 3 FT AT 4 SECONDS. SW SWELL 5 FT AT
14 SECONDS. CHANCE OF SHOWERS.

THU
SW WIND 5 TO 10 KT. WIND WAVES SW 2 FT AT 4 SECONDS. W
SWELL 6 FT AT 11 SECONDS. CHANCE OF SHOWERS.

THU NIGHT
SW WIND 10 TO 15 KT. GUSTS TO 20 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES SW 3 FT AT 4 SECONDS. W SWELL 5 FT AT
10 SECONDS. SHOWERS LIKELY.

FRI
NW WIND 10 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. W SWELL 6 FT.

SAT
N WIND 20 TO 25 KT. WIND WAVES 5 FT. W SWELL 5 FT.

[Keel-er]

Well that forecast sucks. Looks like I am going to explore one of the coastal range creeks with my 4 weight.

[Red 22]

Magic seaweed just backed off their forecast a little  for Thursday, Friday and might be good up to noon on sat  :bowdown: I'm heading down in the late am.

[Threeweight]

We'll be heading down tomorrow evening after work.  Tin can will be in a slip.

[StreamFixer]

Heading out to meet Tony around 14:00.  I'll give Steve a call.  Eric coming later tonight. 

Newport Oregon area Marine Forecast as of Wed. AM

Thu

W wind 5 to 10 kt...backing to SW with gusts to 15 kt in the afternoon. Wind waves SW 2 ft at 4 seconds. W swell 5 ft at 10 seconds. Chance of showers. 
Thu Night

SW wind 10 to 15 kt...becoming S 15 to 20 kt after midnight. Wind waves S 4 ft at 5 seconds. W swell 5 ft at 10 seconds. Chance of showers.
Fri

SW wind 10 to 15 kt with gusts to 20 kt... becoming NW to 5 kt in the afternoon. Wind waves SW 5 ft at 5 seconds... shifting to the NW 1 ft at 4 seconds in the afternoon. W swell 5 ft at 10 seconds.

Shaping up to a good couple of days fishing...  Gitter done Thursday morning,,,,Sporty Friday AM then nicer afternoon.

I was thinking about maybe losing some weight with the predicted showers, but was assured by my wife that while I am sweet, I am not sweet enough to melt...  So much for that weight loss plan   :hoboy:

StreamFixer

[HemiGTX]

Go get them, guys.  Good luck and have fun!

[StreamFixer]

It's Saturday and I have returned.  Ended the trip with 4 lings, 8 black rock fish, the biggest cabezon I have ever seen (around 30") that I had to throw back (cannot retain until July 1.  I usually toss Cab's back as they don't have much meat, but this one was more than 15" girth behind the belly) and a 35" 'butt.

Thursday a really rough ride out but the day smoothed out and we got into some bottom fish (cannot have 'butt's and bottom fish on the boat in Oregon).  That translates to several hours of hard fishing and not catching.  So we went bottom fishing and ended the day with limits on board.

Friday, Pan joined us...  Young man with lots of energy.  Helped make up for this old man recovering from the beating the seas gave us yesterday.  He dropped his line over as did Eric.  I was almost back to my corner to drop my rig when Pan went off like a stream driven siren ---  Fish ON!!!!...  42" butt within a couple of minutes of getting his rig to the bottom.  One excited fellow. 

Tried here and there, finally returning to where we got the first one where we quickly picked up a couple of 35".  Took the fish in, put them on ice and returned for some bottom fishing...  Much slower than Thursday.  Picked up several ling, a few black rock, the aforementioned Cab (on a pipe jig) and Eric's kicker began having problems.  We were ready to call it a day. 

Weather for today was predicted to be marginal so Eric pulled his boat, on the way home to get kicker problem addressed. 

Fun had by all..  I am still sore in several spots..  Seems to be an issue younger, more supple, people somehow avoid   :biggrin:

Ready to go again if the season still open later this month.

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[GregE]

I am still sore in several spots..  Seems to be an issue younger, more supple, people somehow avoid  :biggrin:

I hear younger folks saying "WSup"  a lot- maybe it's a mantra thing....

[croaker stroker]

My wife and I have been repeating this to each other. Hope it helps....

Suck-it-up

[Threeweight]

I pulled the plug Thursday after crossing the bar and banging out about 4 miles into a south wind and 3' wind chop.  Shoulda kept going, it cleared up in the afternoon and became the best day of fishing, from what I have heard.

We battled our way 30 miles SW into the south wind on Friday, tagged two nice fish (a 47" and a 44" halibut) then banged our way home after the wind reversed direction straight into a north wind.

Had a friend join Saturday.  Conditions were nasty nasty, but we made the 30 mile run again.  Backing into drifts with the kicker, we had wind waves breaking over the cowling of the motor periodically.  We managed to tag a 43", a 41" and a dinky little 36" then tucked tail and crawled home.  Brutal ride home, 30 miles straight into a 15 knot north wind, gusting to 20, and white capping wind chop.  Boat handled it like a champ, and Smooth Moves seats mostly did good (bottomed out a few times).  Back felt fine Sunday morning till I pulled a muscle washing the boat!

A few photos...

Heading out:



Wheelbarrow full of fish:



Katherine got a double on Friday, she reeled up a 47" and about a 35" at the same time.  We turned the little guy loose.  She couldn't lift her 47", so we hoisted it up on the rocket launchers:



Katherine battling a fish saturday:



Saturday's fish:

[GregE]

Nice!!  Looks like the Tanecum reel did well.

How does the Hewes compare to your Arima in chop?  I'm thinking the bow angles are similar