Garibaldi July 9th, and 10th 2022

With an excellent ocean forecast and minimal tides, decided it was time to have some friends drive down from Portland Saturday morning, to take advantage of a very good early coho season. Tony and his son Elijah met me my travel trailer about 5:00 a.m. The ramp was already busy, and we crossed a calm bar about 5:30 a.m.

We dropped three crab pots in about 60’ of water half way between the north jetty and Twin Rocks and headed northwest. At about 300’ we started fishing. We were using 3.0 Spinfish, Lemon Head Glo, 12 oz of weight, and fishing about 35’ on the line counter. The bite was spotty and we had several takedowns which did not stick, and released some wild coho. We ended up with 5 hatchery coho about 1:00 p.m. . and decided to call it a day. The three pots had 11 keeper crab in them, and we returned on a fairly calm ocean back to the docks.

After a long day Saturday, decided to sleep in Sunday, another calm ocean and beautiful day was forecast, so my wife Dawn, and I headed out for a short trip. We went south, and dropped pots in about 50’ of water a mile or so south of the south jetty. While the pots soaked, we decided to fish, and headed west, fishing with same gear/methods we used Saturday. About 200’ we found a weird current/rip going on, and we hooked up. I marked the spot and we went back and forth, my wife landed a nice hatchery coho, and I released a native coho, we had a double on at one point, and lost both, since we lost them I know they were natives! We had several other takedowns that did not stick, and went to pick our pots up about 1:00 p.m. Only two keepers for all three pots, but wow, what a ton of females. Vey glad I had my electric pot puller, pots were stuffed with crabs, just hardly any males. I have heard that crabbing to the north is better right now for keeper/males. We returned the to the RV Park, cleaned up, and headed back to Portland.