Ocean salmon fishing season begins!
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Coho! it's what's for dinner (last night) mate!
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If the ocean permits me to venture out, I'll be testing the waters off the Columbia this Friday. I'll start prospecting with my favorite salmon catching machine, my pink hoochie.
If the ocean permits me to venture out, I'll be testing the waters off the Columbia this Friday. I'll start prospecting with my favorite salmon catching machine, my pink hoochie.
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What a fantastic day it was. Flat Columbia River Bar crossed at 8:30am. A nice run out on a smooth ocean to the #1 buoy. We dropped in four lines and trolled toward the Columbia River entrance buoy to the south. Not much action so we picked up the lines and ran further to the south. No action there either. Headed back up toward the CR buoy but out further west into 235' of water. Boom we were in the fish and landed out ten coho for the boat limit. It was all about scouting out the ocean until we hit fish. No big bait balls, no flock of feeding birds or whales, just a flat ocean with no wind. We finally saw fish boiling and knew we were at the right spot. We fished plug cut herring, anchovies, and rootbeer hoochies. We were only down about 16' in the water with our lines, right were the fish where. When we got into them it was fast and furious. Nothing like a crazy silver on the end of your line. Lots of acrobatics with fish jumping, running at the boat and making those quick changes of direction. Just got to love fishing for silvers on a flat ocean, nothing but pure fun. It was a great start for ocean salmon season.
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