rogerdodger
You know, another thing I've had on my mind is the south side of the bay along that same stretch.
I never seem to see any floats on that side, and I've dropped traps at least once over there.
But I don't get there often enough to know if the low catch rate was common there (which would tend to enplane the lack of traps) or if it was just that day.
I mean, structurally, the bottom on Navionics (https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@13&key=ufrgGpuxuV) looks as good as the north side.
You (Rodger or anyone else) crab that bay more than I do, do you have a view on that?
Where is a good spot for black rock fish in the Charleston area while i have my pots out? thanks in advance.Coos Bay is my bay of choice for crabbing.
Mainly because of familiarity, having spent more time on the water there than any others, and the success I've had fishing black rock fish and the occasional legal ling cod.
But's more than a two-hour drive from my home in Eugene, 110 miles away.
I do know that Alsea Bay has good crabbing but poor fishing.
And Newport (almost the exact same driving distance as Coos Bay) has produced for me reasonably well the couple of times I've tried there, although it does seem crowded with crabbers, making it difficult to find an area to drop my string of traps. Also, I've yet to catch any rock fish there, although I know they are there. I think that may be because I've always dropped traps above the crabbing dock as far up bay as the gas tanks, and the best fishing structure looks to be down river from the bridge.
My wariness (due to reading the many reports of trap thefts in Newport Bay) of getting very far from where my traps are tends to keep me above the bridge.
I'm also interested in learning where to crab/fish from Salmon Harbor. I read about good crab catches being had there and that the fishing can be pretty good as well. Having launched there once, before I took up crabbing as my main effort, it was to target the perch run, without much success I might add.
Winchester Bay, if I could learn more about where to fish/crab it, would save me on the fuel costs, which is always a factor in whether I can go or not, and drive time, than the trip to Coos bay.
The Siuslaw river is the closest option for me if I'm only going to crab. I've fished every time I've gone there to crab, but never have even gotten a bite. Added to that is the last three times I went there to crab, the Green crab infestation was awful and the Dungeness crab take was way down.
Where is a good spot for black rock fish in the Charleston area while i have my pots out? thanks in advance.