Westport lingcod, halibut, and rockfish

We fished Westport Sunday and Monday 6-14-15 & 6-15-15

The overall weather this weekend was not great, especially Sunday.  The wind blow hard all day and really had things churned up out there.

Luckily the poor weather conditions did not  seem the effect the fishing too much. On Sunday we were able to catch easy limits of nice lings, 3 halibut and a bunch of bass

On Monday we had to work a bit harder but we still caught our limits of nice lings, 2 halibut and a batch of bass.

We caught most or our fish this weekend on darts and lead head jigs. The salmon fishing was very slow this week and there is a bunch of jelly fish out there which makes it even worse. I expect the salmon fishing to improve very soon. The salmon reports have been much better at both Neah bay and La push.

 



 

 

  

   

 

 

 

 

ilwaco lingcod and bottom fish

we fished ilwaco Saturday 6/13/15  the ocean conditions were very poor ( rough most of the day) the overall fishing was a bit on the slow side but we stuck with it and were able to grind out  limits of nice lings and a nice batch of yellow tail rock fish most of our lings were caught on pipe jigs while  most or the yellow tail were caught on shrimp flies

The salmon fishing was very slow this weekend and I do not expect it to pick up anytime soon. The best salmon reports in the area were  coming  from just south of the CR buoy .

 

Westport near shore Halibut, Lings, & Bass

With the early closing of the deep water halibut season at ilwaco we took a detour to Westport for near shore lingcod and rockfish

The overall weather this weekend was very good,  it was a bit foggy Saturday morning and the wind did come up late in the afternoon on Sunday.  Our fishing results were very good this weekend. On Saturday  we caught our limits of lingcod (one really big one) lots of bass and three nice halibut. On Sunday the fishing was a bit slower but still very good. We had nice batches and lings and bass and  4  good sized halibut. The bass were not biting very well for use this weekend we were marking tons of them but really had to work at it to get them to bite. The lingcod seemed to be coming in batches, at times it was very good and other times It was very slow. The  nice sized halibut this weekend was a huge bonus and more than made up for ilwaco being closed.

We did not salmon fish this weekend but the reports at Westport were very poor.  Hardly any salmon were caught. I would expect the bottom fishing to continue to be good and the salmon fishing should start improving soon.  The salmon reports from both Neah bay and ilwaco were much better then Westport this week.

I have some open spots in the next few weeks june 12 (2 spots), june 14^th (one spot), june 20^th (one spot), june 21 (one spot)

 

 

 

 

ilwaco halibut, salmon & sable fish

We fished ilwaco Friday, sat and Sunday this week the overall weather was very good.

We spent most of our time focusing on halibut this weekend. We were able to catch our limits each day and even found some sable fish and salmon.

The bottom fish have been biting on both jig and fresh bait if you’re using bait make sure its fresh the better the bait has been the better the fish have been biting.

The salmon bite has been on very early but has not been lasting long, make sure you are out there early if you’re after the salmon! Cut plugged hearing has been working best for us

I expect the salmon fishing to get better and better in the next several weeks and the bottom fishing should remain good in the next few weeks

We are getting  close to catching our halibut quota for the year at ilwaco so I will be rebooking some of my halibut trips for salmon and bottom fish trips or near shore halibut

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neah Bay halibut, lingcod, & bottom fish!

We fished off shore halibut and lingcod on Saturday and near shore lings and rock fish on Monday

The overall weather this week was very good  light wind and not much of a swell. At times the fishing was smoking hot and other times we had to work hard for every bite but the end results were very good. Saturday we had limits of nice halibut and lings with a few really big ones mixed in and Monday we had limits of lings and bass.

In both the deep water and near shore a combination of jigs and bait seems to be working the best

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sekiu halibut and true cod

Sekiu halibut and true cod

Do to a last second halibut closing at neah bay this week we took a detour to sekiu

The halibut fishing was surprisingly good  and we were able to catch our limits of halibut  both Friday and Sunday  

We had our best results on pipe jigs and darts and also caught a few on strips of salmon



Neah bay halibut, lingcod & rock fish

We fished Neah bay MAY 14,15,16,17 the overall weather was great and the fishing was very good. On the deep water days we did very well on big lingcod and also had limits of halibut. The halibut fishing was a bit slower this week then what I am use to but we did not have any trouble getting our limits. We had our best results on the halibut with bait and the lings were biting best on the jigs.

On the near shore days we had very fast action on the bass with light tackle  and were able to jig up  small to mid-sized lings on jigs tipped with bait.

It is always fun to see so many great  and friendly people at Neah bay!

I expect the fishing to be very good again this week.