Fishing Report: Three days in Garibaldi Jul 2,3, and 4th
Drove to Garibaldi Wednesday night, went surf perch fishing Thursday, no luck. Tried from the beach on the North Jetty side, some other anglers there also, appears no one was having any luck, oh well, first time I have tried this, it is fun, and good exercise.
Thursday evening, my friend Todd came down and brought his 19’ Arima. I did not bring my boat since I needed to pull out my travel trailer from the Port of Garibaldi RV Park Saturday. We fished Three Arches on Friday morning, managed 3 ling cod, a couple of canaries, and a widow fish, it was slow. So, we drove north to Twin Rocks to troll for salmon, targeting coho. Had three drive bys that did not stick, fishing shallow, about 23’ on the line counter. Later, as we were trolling around the South Jetty area, my rod went off very hard! I landed a nice 14 pound, scale verified, hatchery chinook. Later, Todd landed a nice hatchery chinook also, he was fishing at about 45’ on the line counter. We were both using cut plug green label herring on about a five foot leader, behind a triangle flasher. We finally called it a day about 3:00 p.m. it was a long day as we woke up at 4:00 a.m. and were probably fishing by 5:30 a.m.
Saturday, we started again at 4:00 a.m. and made the boat ride to Cannon Beach. Started off very fast, we had a double with ling cods, and both were keepers. The bite slowed, we ended up with 3 ling cod, 3 canaries, and a tiger fish kept, as well as a huge 12 pound cabezon that Todd caught. We thought it was going to be large ling cod or a halibut until we saw it. What a ferocious, cool looking fish these are. Daily bag limit is one per day, part of the daily 5 fish limit. This started July 01, and goes until the quota is met. We were using heavy diamond jigs, 12 to 24 ounces, to catch these fish, except the cabezon which was caught on a paddle tail swimbait. Had a rough boat ride back to Tillamook, and after a little scouting, decided to call it a day. Got back to the trailer about 1:00 p.m. very tired, but happy with our 2 days of fishing.
