Went to Tillamook Bay and wasted the better part of the morning incoming tide trying to access the South Jetty at Barview. There is a parking area I guesstimate to be a good 4 miles or more from the jetty with the dike road shown on the satellite map closed to all motorized traffic with a large impassable steel gate. We then headed out to Netarts near the public boat launch where the river moves in nice and close to the bank. As stated by an earlier poster the sea grass was awful. The crab snares would clog up in just a few minutes with an occasional small crab falling victim to the snares. The boy got his first love bite by a small crab releasing it from the snare,,, told him he had just been baptised in the way of crabbing. We could see an occasional Salmon boil the surface near us and tried chucking some spinners with the same issue. We were gleaning the water of sea grass and fouling the spinners. No more bank fishing for me anywhere near THAT bay for sure. Spent the rest of the day trying surf fishing on an outgoing tide out of desperation and ended up with 2 what appeared to be sea trout that were about 2 ozs. short of being equal to my 3 oz. sinker. My fishing ego took a harsh blow on this day going so far as to let the boy take cell pics to send to everyone ( mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble ).
