Offshore IV

Opal- welcome! Your boat is very nice! However, i do have you beat in the Year department- mine is a 1969 lol the nymph and the Offshore were not that different. 

Good luck to you. 

some more pics of my boat and I, plus my buddy below. 

Ah, ok. So by law you don’t have to have one of your vessel is under 20m, but if you do have a radio, you need to be monitoring 16 when not communicating? 

I want to make sure something is clarified before someone reads this improperly. Marine radios are not required by law. No channels need to be monitored. 

Not saying they aren’t needed or shouldn’t be on everyone’s rig, but, to my knowledge, they aren’t law. Not in the US anyways. Please correct me if I’m mistaken.

Nice! You had a good day. I’m heading out there Friday morning to see what’s going on. 

Well if you head toward the river, look for a black Starcraft with a red stripe! 

Are you fishing Friday or no? I’m heading out of pine grove Friday morning and can report my findings. Wind looks like it’ll be NNE until 1pm Friday. But that will likely change as we get closer. 

From what ive seen at least near PG and the river mouth, 100-130 FoW, down 35 and 90. I’ve been getting hits on meat rigs and FF. No spoon hits for me. I haven’t used J plugs yet. 

Went 1-5 launched from pine grove around 6:30 headed towards the plant until we found 80’ of water. All hits came in 100’, down 45’, and 90’ dipsey, except the one we got which was a dipsey set down 100’ in 130’. Caught on an atomic meat rig. Fish is 32” but my gfs first fish so I’m happy about that.

it was busy out there today guys, and while we were landing the fish, my other dipsey caught a fellow fisherman’s dipsey. I have no idea how someone got that close to me. I use the large dipseys that go almost straight down, 2 setting at around 100’ deep. I hope the gentleman is on this forum so I can apologize to him for wasting his time. He unhooked my dipsey from his from afar and didn’t take any of my setup, which I was concerned about. Waste of probably 15 mins.

I know im not an expert but please keep your distance when someone clearly has a fish on. I was probably one of the slower trollers out today hovering at 2.0 mph. I’m not in the LoC tourney and go just for fun but please be aware. 

Nice job, those fish are great! I was out in my 18’ offshore today and it was about a rough as I’ll fish. We got off around 9:30.

Safe fishing!

Thanks, hoping to get out Monday,I’m not available before then!

This was a difficult thread to read. Being a newer operator on Lake O I’ll say this opened my eyes and I immediately rearranged my boat to make life saving devices more reachable in the tragic event things turn bad. I’ve always been conservative with the weather though since my boat is smaller. Even though there’s money involved in tournaments, competitive fishing is not worth lives. There’s always tomorrow or next year or whatever. RIP Mr. Hazel, and though I didn’t know him, I do hope that Mr. Kelley finds the ability to fish again when he’s ready if he chooses. 

Be safe out there.

Thanks guys. 

Not many pics right now, I have more on Monday. You won’t have any trouble recognizing me!

Hey all, new member. Names Ben, newer to salmon fishing, two seasons. Live in Mexico, NY, typically launch from Wright’s, Mexico point, pine grove or green point depending on the season. Grew up on the salmon river. Operator of a 19’ open bow black/red Starcraft offshore V, 1969 rebuilt with a tan Bimini, 90 hp merc (2017). Largest salmon is 27lb., caught a few browns each year and enough salmon to keep me coming back. Thanks for all the reading you all provide and reports; I’ll try to do the same!