Yaquina crabbing and fishing

My kids have tried these devices before - they need some patience! And a bit of luck. Ever tried to get that pink pony with the grappling claw in that machine at the entrance to Fred Myers? I never wanted a pink pony anyway. But lassoing a crabs leg and getting it to the surface may be even more difficult! I have found they hold on with their claws until they reach the surface and then let go and laugh at you. Happens all the time. Good luck - let us know if you catch a meal!
 
Tyboo are the crab pots your using all the same type? It could be that one has some exposed metal (non-stainless steel) and the electrolosis is driving them away. I guess crab are pretty sensitive to small electrical charges. Just a thought. Or maybe that pot is consistantly landing on it's side? :smilep
 
Turkey or chicken they love...I've never heard a request for goose....long as the seals don't like your presentation, all's well with the world (you won't get your pots smashed by those lovelies trying to get at your smelly salmon parts!) I've heard of people using mink carcus (that spelled right?) and continuously re-using them...I'll reuse turkey or chicken if there's any left, but I don't think I'll be doin any furry critter carcus freezin...nah! :roll:

I've noticed some pots catch and others don't when they're out, but never got analytical about it...just figured they weren't in the right place and moved 'em a few feet....voila! That's how scientific I am :lol:

No, we left the pots home this trip...Steve really dislikes crabbing...I may force the issue next time again and take just a couple, cuz he surely seems to love eating them after I've cleaned em! :xnaughty If the kids go, he'll have no choice as he'll be outvoted 4 to 1 and we'll take ALL the pots! ar ar ar

Might've been the rain that stopped the crabs from feeding...they don't like the fresh water much. I've noticed crab pots on the Yaquina as far up as we've gone (1/2 mile away from Toledo ramp). That's kinda annoying, but it'd be really nice if they'd lay them OUTSIDE the channel :)
 
Luna C, the underwater camera sounds like fun! Please let us know if it works...and what you see when you try it :shock:

My grandson has grounded us for this coming weekend...it's his last football game of the season and he's requested we go to his game and NOT FISH! We'll be rigging some fresh salmon setups and trying to chase down and get our leak fixed...and Sunday, we're going to run electricity to the boat storage so I can put a RV drier thingy in there to keep it dry. Fun, eh?

Sure would like to see the grandson win his last game...they're winless for the season!
 
CatyMae, was that you I followed around saturday and sunday near the oyster farm? If so, seems like I saw you net a fish on saturday. I have the 16' cruiser. The weekend was a bust for us. Apparently didn't have the right color flasher. Several of the people I work with were there either saturday or sunday and most caught at least one, with a couple other strikes. Puget Sound this weekend, then back to yaquina the next for one more time, hopefully with the correct color of flasher.
 
Yes, Lloyds, that was us...nice to meet you! Yes, we netted one Saturday and one Sunday...both wild and returned to the deep though...but I discovered what we have NOT been faithfully doing...staying on the bottom. I doubled my weight size and got a nice skinned herring back from a chinook bite on Sunday...but our time was up and we had to pack up and leave....no fishing for us this weekend...but next weekend, I'm hoping to make our discovery pay off :)
 
CatyMae, we will probably be back down there the weekend of the 29th. as well. Maybe I will have to do something different to get down as well. I have been using a 6 oz ball but the Honda 50 might be trolling just a little too fast. Maybe I will slow down a bit and use the Honda 2 next time. Some of my friends were using divers, don't know how they control those. They also said green was the color, green and white FishFlash and green diver. Need a bigger tackle box to keep up with all this stuff.
 
CatyMae, how much weight did you end up using, and how long a dropper. The guys at work are trying to convince me to give up the weights and use the diver, but I can't help thinking the weight bouncing along helps draw attention, maybe not.
 
I think I ended up with 8 or 10 ounces to keep it bouncing on the bottom. We're trolling with the 90, going about .7-1.0 mph, depending on whether or not we have the sea anchor out. I tried a diver and it just doesn't get to the bottom where the chinook are....might catch some coho though!

I think I ended up with a red flasher...hubby had the only green...he was using cut plug but is not going to be a convert and troll the whole herring with a bait roller...is the only way I fish herring now....no matter how mushy your bait is, it is beautEEEEful when you don't cut it :lol:
 
Guess I will give that a try next weekend, thanks. Time to head for puget sound. Have a good weekend.
 
Finally! A chinook decided it was our turn....we were thinking we'd put in enough time already! :lol: Saturday produced this

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OH NO!!! I'm not nerdy enough to get the pic to display! No more network engineering for me :wink:

Sunday, we each had a takedown but produced no fishies...marked lots, but no takers
 
Nice catch!
 
Thanks :-) I still can't get the pic to load here...think it is because of the non-wrap in the text input page .... but I dunno how to fix it...oh well..at least we remembered to take a picture before I fileted it! :D

Holy Moly...Steve's famous now! hehe He's on the front page!
 
NICE FISH! He's a dandy. That's what we love to see...
 
I think this week's storm will move any fish that are left straight like a shot upriver. We decided 60mph gusts and 4 inches of rain between now and Sunday probably wouldn't be much fun fishing, so looks like it's the end of the Yaquina fishing season for us....back to the Columbia for some sturgeon! A buddy told us they fish for sturgeon on the Yaquina...anyone ever done that? Seems like there aren't any deep holes we've seen there that sturgeon love so much...but whada we know? :?
 
A friend of mine who has been fishing the river for the last several weeks picked up a small sturgeon last weekend. He was trolling a herring and it just grabbed it. He was in 15 feet of water. I have to believe there should be a decent sturgeon fishery there, just pretty much untapped.
 
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