Posted by Ocean Harvester on Oct 23, 2009 in
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Record Year Tuna Fishing on the Harvester
This was the best year ever for the Harvester Albacore fishing. We landed 4600 fish in 36 days on the ocean averaging 16lbs each for nearly 47,000 lbs. Pretty incredible for our small boat since last year we only landed 1600 fish for the whole season. What made the difference?
The Weather!
 Short Video of Jumper School |
 Video: Landing Two Albacore |
This July was the clear and calm nearly all month. It was an amazing month with very little wind so it was no problem fishing so we got a lot more days on the Ocean than we did last year and we found the tuna big time. As you get later into the season you have to change your strategy to find the tuna. In the early part of the Summer, when the tuna are moving in they follow the warm currents so you can have a pretty good idea where they will be. They’re here in the summer to put on weight so early on they’re always biting so its just a matter of finding the warm waters and trolling a pattern through it.
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Tags: albacore, commercial, fishing, jumper schools, ocean, Tuna Fishing, video
Posted by Webmaster on Oct 12, 2009 in
Crabbing in Oregon REEDSPORT — A handful of boats in Oregon’s crabbing fleet returned to sea last week for one last hurrah.
Their quarries were the derelict pots and buoys left behind this year by commercial crab boats.
During a volunteer effort held nearly seven weeks past the close of the Dungeness season, fishermen focused their attention on crabbing gear trapped near shorelines or otherwise forgotten at sea during the Dec. 1 to Aug. 14 season.
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Tags: clean up, crab gear, NOAA, ocean, recovery
Posted by Webmaster on Sep 18, 2009 in
Fishing Local lakes: We’ve experienced our regular large fall hatch of flying termites in the past week. Look for rainbow trout and pan fish to be feeding on the surface. Anglers fly fishing in the early evenings have been reporting good action on local lakes and ponds. Matching the recent hatch is a sure way of getting a bite. Anglers trolling the lakes might want to slow-troll a fly behind the wake of their boats.
Local rivers: Fall Chinook fishing on the South Coast is still in full swing. Rough bar conditions over the weekend slowed the bite down a bit, but by early in the week, new schools of fish started to move into the lower Rogue and Coquille rivers.
Local river guide Rick Howard (347-3280) had a great weekend fishing the Coos River near the Marshfield Channel. He and his clients had a 14-fish day trolling on the Coos on Saturday. Anglers are reporting good coho salmon fishing mooching near the Coos Bay bar in Charleston. Anglers mooching the bar at Winchester Bay have been catching coho and some king salmon. The majority of the coho have been natives and have to be released in the Umpqua River system. Jon Vining of Bandon caught a nice 27-pound king salmon on the lower Coquille recently. Early this week, we weighed 36.5- and 48-pound kings that had been caught by trollers on the lower Coquille, as well. My baby brother, Bob Roszkowski, caught three nice jack salmon last week on the Coquille. I guess there’s hope for all of us.
There is still a large number of jack salmon being caught on the Coos and Coquille systems. A few coho are starting to move into the Coquille River. Remember: This fall you can keep one non-fin-clipped coho per day and five per year until the 1,500-fish quota is met. Summer steelhead fishing on the middle Rogue River is starting to pick up. Anglers fishing below Agness are catching plenty of half-pounders, with a few big fish mixed in. One angler reported catching a 6-pound summer steelhead last weekend.
John from Turman Tackle is reporting a good sturgeon bite on the lower Umpqua River near Scottsburg. This can be a great time of year to hook a sturgeon on the South Coast. Anglers fishing for salmon add to the sturgeons’ diet by re-baiting and leaving lots of herring behind.
Pacific Ocean: Rough ocean conditions kept most boats in port over the weekend. By early week, the ocean had calmed down and anglers were concentrating their efforts on rock cod. Sunday, Sept. 13, was the last day anglers could retain cabezon, which will remain closed on the ocean until Jan. 1. Salmon fishing south of Humbug Mountain also closed on Sept. 7. The only reports coming in on the ocean coho season north of Humbug Mountain have been from the Port of Newport, where anglers are still catching a few coho. Good ocean conditions also have anglers going offshore for albacore, which have remained in the range of 30 to 50 miles offshore. Area shellfish: Boaters crabbing in Coos Bay and the bay at Bandon are still bringing in some nice Dungeness crab. Boaters crabbing the ocean are reporting great crabbing and an awesome quality of crab. A series of minus tides this week is good news for bay clammers. With the swell coming down, look for beach clammers to target local razor clams.
(Tony Roszkowski has owned and operated Port O’ Call — TonysCrabShack.com — on the Bandon waterfront since 1989. Many South Coast anglers rely on his fish and shellfish reports. Hear more from Tony on ‘Oregon Outdoors’ Thursdays on KWRO 630 AM.)
Tags: Bandon, Crabbing in Oregon, fishing report, ocean, shellfish
