Curious what we can expect for GH opener? We will be there giving it hell regardless. Is it to early this year based on some other fisheries so far? Hot action? King show only? Big shouldered Hook Nose Coho? Or a mix? Charters are still getting lots of Coho out of Westport but most are small. Any predictions?

from what I saw yesterday its going to be very slow.. but I hope im wrong.

Can you say.......rain, rain, rain.......or it could be "mass net killing" in the netting area....

Rain coming according to the forecast. Morning tides optimum, which are there in the morning for the first few days.

am I reading the regs wrong? is it open for kings this year?

You don't indicate what you're reading in the regs, but NO, it is not open for kings this year.

What's the scoop? Did anybody find any fish? I was thinking of hitting the lower Chehalis or Grays Harbor on Friday. Maybe a little rain on Thursday might bring the first ones in.

According to Facebook, Todd and the good eye doctor did really well!

Fished next to Doc off and on today. They were having a ball! We ended up hooking 30+ releasing 11 Kings. Bonking our 12 Coho. All nice buck hook nose 10#+. Hey Doc we were in the red Wooldridge next to you and landed a double pulling the 2nd one over the side ,hand over hand. What a day! Lake like conditions and a long bite. Surprised so few boats out. Doc, how did you end up?

Nice work RUNnGUN!!! I'm sure I will be joining the weekend crowd.

My prediction for the upcoming weekend... The only thing more abundant than salmon in Grays Harbor will be boats. But remember, folks: No kings, and get off the water as soon as you get your coho. If the Region 6 office reads more than a few reports of multiple king encounters, the sport fishery will be cut short. Don't be THAT guy.

Cool, real time reports

Like shooting fish in a bucket..wait, those ain't fish!

Guess people forgot that 2-2 got closed last year for a week.

Keep on bragging,

fp

Dood... 80k give or take in a boat and you still don't get a chitter. Those be some dirty bass turds alright.

Never happen Freddy.... Some just need to brag I guess..

The hate is strong in this thread.

From the looks of doc's post it was for the same reason as the Skok.

So who took the photo of Doc peeing in the bucket?

Nice azz Doc.....................Did you wipe forward or front to back.LMFAO.Good luck,

SZ

So do I get these new regs correct that fishing is only open in the "East Gray's Harbor Fishery" zone, but not in the rest of 2-2?

go out and take a look around and you will see whats going on..

4 coho in the box today, fished from first light to 3pm. Heard they did ok in the river. the rain should be moving fish upriver tonight.

Ya find out who your friends are....



GDITMMM!

Lots slower yesterday. May not be worth it for the weekend. Does that help for those of you I pissed off?

Melanie and I struck out on Monday on the upper river but returning on Tuesday paid off with 3 nice silvers, 7, 9, and 11 lbs. On a down note we were pretty much swamped by a 19 ft. North River Jet, color red.Coming into the launch at Monte we are upstream a little,on the launch side of river coming in slow as we see them launching and a 14 ft. boat pulling out.The North River does a hole shot right from the launch making 4 to 5 ft. wake 15 yrds off of us. I just have enough time to turn into it but Melanie takes about 20 or more gallons from neck on down over the bow.If I hadn't turnd into it we def. would have flipped. We managed to get in without capsizing, they never gave us a backwards glance. I tried to get the marine patrol involved, the dispatcher had a Monte cop call me back (no Sheriff even though I requested one, some of these dispatchers are real P.O S.!). I convinced him to go to the launch as they would be returning, (this happened at approx. 5:00 P.M.) and if I stayed I'm sure I would have wound up in jail when I confronted them. He called back to say that he contacted them, they admitted to pulling out at full throttle 'cause "they were in a hurry to get to their "fishing hole" but denied seeing us. We were 15 yards from them, if we were 10 or 15 yards out further from the bank they would have run us over.He said that they felt "terrible" about it. What a laugh. I convinced him to forward info to marine patrol even though he thought that it wasn't neccesary as "they were very sorry and felt terrible."After a lot of trouble just to talk to marine patrol I spoke with an oficer who had been out earlier that day. After I told him I expected him to have a stern talk with them (which is what they told me they would be glad to do when I complained about this kind of bull**** two years ago). The officer at the time (sheriff's marine patrol) told me that they couldn't cite them unless they actually run you down or the officer observes it. Well.the guy I spoke with yesterday told me that he would issue an infracion even though he didn't witness it, I told him that the case would be thrown out for lack of evidence, that I would be happy just for a stern warning ,That I thought it was a waste of resources just to have it trown out.He asked me to write statements and he would pick them up yesterday. He hasn't answered the messages on the personal phone # he gave me, hasn't picked up statements, don't expect much as they are lazy turds from the dispatchers on down. I guess I'll have to go to jaIL next time for assault as they won'f enforce boating regs to keep people safe or even follow up on complaints. Marine patrol, WHAT A JOKE! I'll be looking for these ass***** that almosr swamped us, I won't say just what I will do on a public forum. I'm really pissed off about Melanie getting wet and upset, I know most of you would feel the same way if it was your wife that got soaked and almost went swimming. If any of you guys that know the time we put into Greys harbor salmon management plan have any space in a larger boat for the bay and can take us out one day before it closes it would be appreciated. Bob R and Melanie

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

I run a small boat that handles fairly rough conditions well. The only time I have trouble is when a douchebag in a large vessel is not paying attention. Out in the salt I have had 40'+ cruiser/yachts come down off plane next to me to ask me how the fishing is... can't talk to them because now I have to take evasive maneuvers to avoid being capsized by their wake.
Sure glad the boaters education course spends about 500 questions about how to properly fuel a jet ski... don't recall any material about on the water etiquette. Swifty27 has it right, I don't think most of these people are doing what they do out of malice , they're just stupid douchebags with more money than brains.

I'm with the 1leggedman, unfortunately, I find myself passing on more and more fishing opportunities these days. It's not just the numbers of anglers either - its the temperament/attitude, why has fishing become an energy drink fueled race... to what end??

Hate to hear that Bob R.

I would probably rule out malice, there are a lot of idiots out there. Having the sheriff make contact probably did a lot of good for those guys. Anyone with moderate credit can buy a big-ass boat, brains not included.

Most of us who have a boat have done something stupid at one time. I came around a corner last winter thinking I was the only boat on the water and there was a canoe guy paddling around the inside corner I went about 15' off his port side at full tugboat wake. I saw him after I blew by and went back down to apologize and make sure he was okay. Turns out it was my junior college Linear Algebra professor, so I yelled "Paybacks a bitch!" and took off again. Actually, we just chatted a minute.

I also hate to hear that 1LM's happy place isn't fishing as much as it once was, but I can relate. I only like certain fisheries because of that.

Here's a happy story from Grays Harbor:

My youngest has been begging me to take her fishing, so last Sunday we got up early at 7:30 and headed for tidewater, after getting the necessary snacks, and drinks. We worked on her casting for a bit, and she wanted to use a spinner. We made it about 30' before I had to cut her line and retie it. Then about 30 more feet before she cast into a tree. Somewhere along the line I got a cast in and got a silver, which she netted and did a pretty good job of it. After that we did a lot more cutting and retying and tree fishing. I passed the rod to her a few more times with rampaging silvers on the other end, but she is just a little too small for the long-butted levelwind set ups and we didn't get any more in the net. Lots of fun watching them jump and all the excitement in her face.

I asked about 11:30 if she was ready to go and she was emphatic that we stay. She wanted to "put out the weight" meaning the anchor so we set up by a log jam and plunked in some eggs. Lots of bites on the eggs, she had a ball reeling in the jacks, and they put up a pretty good account of themselves. At one point she was reeling in a fish and reeled in the other rod and left the bait sitting in the water just under the surface. I turned back in time to see an adult pick the bait right off the surface and try stealing our rod and all. I grabbed it just in time, but the fish got away after a couple of headshakes.

Fish box was mostly empty and with a crew of buddies we probably would have caught a lot of nice adults, but I haven't had that much fun fishing in a long time.

Nice story RR.

Great story, red.Also great photo. Good to see the next generation dedicated to fishing. The marine officer finally got back to me an hour or so ago( Ihad left him two messages that he finally listened to). I'll drop off statements from Melanie and myself, but I'm not holding my breath as to actions taken. It wasn't malice, just total ignorance that could have resulted in a tragic story.It wouldn't have made much difference if my wife was hurt, stupidity like that coming out of a launch is unforgivable. Maybe we'll be out again tomorrow, let me know if river is too discolored after rain lately. Got to put more food in freezer(that smaller 7 lb. fish made for a GREAT dinner.Wife wants to go back to Lake Quinault on Sunday, she knows what a peaceful, relaxing, and productive fishery that is, I'd like another shot at those silvers on Friday if the river holds fairly clear. Those fish fight like a rocket on the end of your line. Bob R

Misdemeanor presence. Other than a "stern talking to", nothing will come of it Bob. You did what you can, they were contacted, done.

RR, that post made my day. It is nice to hear good stories rather than all the (legitimate) bad news and sourness that is out there.

bob r:

River didn't color at all......fish away, best of luck to you and your wife.

Sorry about the experience at South Montesano launch......happens all to often............people want to fish, sometimes to many boats in a small area, of course some people think the best fishing is "either way down river or way up river" .

I stopped using that launch.......sometimes just too many people, not enough parking and quite a ways from the area I like to fish.

Everyone enjoy the fishing.....let the problems on the river be few and far between.....

In the tidewater reach late yesterday the Coho moved hard and the same on incoming this morning. Adults & Jacks mixed together chrome bright and it is a blast. It is about as good as it gets at this minute.

Saturday....9/20/14

Chehalis---Upper tide water

Missed the early morning bite,,,,,,by the time I got out, East wind was blowing.....big time.

Left early.....went to town around 11.....lots of boats behind the mall and up river towards Cosie...didn't see any nets flying. East wind was still blowing. Drove to 28th Street, just for a "lookie lou", could tell people had gone home early.....lot's of parking. Talked with one boater....had a fish, caught early....then wind started, saw very few caught. Person also made comment above tough fishing because of the wind.

As a graduate of AHS I learned that wind from the East fish bite least.

Wind? East? That is a understatement! Yesterday was a bit from fishing hell trying beat that gentle little breeze ( gentle my azz ) blowing everybody all over the river. From the West this morning which is a substantial improvement.

Tru'dat.

As a veteran of the Cold War, I've learned that ...

"If you post it, they will come"

QIN are in at noon today for two days. Also the weeks of the 13th & 20th are Monday in with varying pull out days the rest of the weeks Sunday noon. Might have keep a eye on the days as they may move around some.

Had a tough day Saturday also, as my little Smoker Craft was getting pitched around pretty good in the East Wind. But made the most of it, kept our heads down and fished until high tide. Doc, Canyonman, Tommy I hope you guys got yours!!
Winterun

Fished Saturday in the South Channel for 6 bites, landed 3. Lost 2 right at the boat. Windy was an understatement.
Big boats outta Westport made it even more unfriendly, they ran right up thru everyone fishing, instead of running up on the edge of the channel. 4 foot boat wakes with the wind made it hard to even standup, felt sorry for some of the small boats out there. Westport boats didn't enjoy the have to work for them fishing, they seemed very disappointed because they were so used to the lights out fishing they had been having offshore.

Nice work Joe.

Thanks Brian!!!

steelhead59,
Yeah, did you see that twin hull Glacier Bay?!?!? I thought to myself, nice boat, big and roomy for these conditions, big wake too!!! Needless to say, it was a bit bouncy for us little boat captains!!!

See you on the water,
Winterun

I'm not sure what south channel you were fishing in but there was nothing close to 4 foot anything with or without the wind on Saturday.

Fished Friday in the river. Fish and people were already there for sure. Hooked into a few and this boat left with two nice silvers at the end of the day.

No 4 foot anything, you must of been in one of those big offshore Westport boats, I am fishing out of a 19 footer and at one point we had four 28 feet or bigger boats run past us one right after the other and we definitely had a four foot wake and wind chop.

Well I was in one of those 26' ocean boats and we tried to stay on the north side while running back up hill or down hill during the tides.......can't please everybody......maybe if they didn't close the ocean you wouldn't have seen as many big boats out there......or maybe the smaller boats would feel more @ home up bay or stream.............just sayin I thought for the most part everybody was being pretty good out there on Saturday........We went 13 for 14 & took home 8 ho's one shy of our boat limits. Fun day and weather was pretty awesome for the most part......first time I was involved in some good fishing during a east wind like that.........Good luck,

SZ

I know why all the big offshore boats were out there, most probably had moorage thru the end of the month and they closed the ocean on them. Good ole WDFW raise your limits, keep anything that swims, then close your season short, that made a whole lotta sense.

And so the rain begins.

Trib guys will be VERY happy the next couple days.

Mebbe make a little more room in the bay for us "big boats".

Anyone know what the winning derby fish was this last weekend

Fixed that for you.......

It wasn't bragging, we were just having fun. And from the amount of boats we saw over the next few days it did not bring any extra pressure to the area..... not like the "salmon derby" that occurred last weekend......

King retention is the primary determinant of participation.

Without it, I expect peak traffic of 40-50 boats on a weekend where I fish.

With it, I expect 400-500.

This is eyeFISH, and I approve this message

..and some people just need to biatch and moan. I guess.



Oh, and this:



+1

I agree...50 boats scattered over several miles when it's "coho only", or three or four hundred boats mashed in the entire open area when Chinook retention is allowed.

With a zillion coho available everywhere right now it's hard to see many folks spending time/money to travel there to go catch coho, and if you don't have to travel because you live there...well, you're already there

This rain will help even more as the fish really push up the river.

Fish on...

Todd

Just agreeing with fp on RUNnGUN post...

See signature below...

Can't wait for the rain to raise the rivers a bit so hundreds of folks can sit on a hole choked with Kings and POUND on em and kick em back....

Fished the Johns river area Tuesday from 8am-4pm, it was slow, buddy had 4 grabs, I had 3 bites and killed one small one. Not many boats out. I thought the rain would have brought more fish running thru, we did have 2 doubles but landed just the one fish. The bait was pretty sparse compared to previous years but water being 62* does not help.....