Does anyone know of any good bottom fishing charters out of Ilwaco??

Theres a few good ones that ive herd of, www.cohosalmoncharters.com also, go to msn and do a search for ilwaco fishing guides. i think that'l do the trick

I did a charter out of that general area when I was in High School. Our boat was hauling in more rock fish than you can imagine - at one time everyone on board was fighing fish at the same time. In the end we had 118 fish in the box. I got real sick of eating rock fish after a while.

And now that I look back on it, I get kinda sick to my stomach - thinking that I contributed to this kind of reckless overharvest. Especially when bottom fishing in Puget Sound or the Vancouver BC area. Just imagine what it must have been like 100 yrs ago!!

Anyway, didn't mean to digress...

Talk to Dan at Fishin' Time Charters, 360-642-3727. Like alot of those Westport/Illwaco guys, he's an "retired" commercial fisherman, not afraid to rape & pillage the sea, one of those guys that will tell you "the government" put him out of the pollack trawling business, when in fact they had netted so many pollack there weren't enough left to support the fleet.

Keep in mind every yelloweye or rockfish you catch is probably 30, 40, as much as 70 years old... they are slow-growing, old fish, and just aren't like halibut or salmon. We are fast approaching having bad problems with the yelloweye populations off the coast, I've heard rumors that they may shut the halibut season down early this year if they can prove too many yelloweye have been taken.

If I were you, I'd just target halibut, and be careful about it, and leave the rest of the bottomfish alone.

-N.

now that is a good reply, I like reading other peoples views that are the same as mine. Ben