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Steelhead biting on the Lower Klamath
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Klamath River

The summer steelhead bite picked up last weekend for the few boats side-drifting roe, with the best bite happening from Blue Creek down. There are still quite a few hatchery steelhead in the mix as well. The salmon bite has slowed in the estuary, and a only a handful of fall kings have been caught upriver. The salmon should start...
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Crescent City Cod on the loose
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Crescent City Coast

Not much has changed this past week reports Leonard Carter of Crescent City’s Englund Marine. He said, “The wind has been blowing pretty good the last few days so no one’s been out. Last week when the boats did finally make it out, they found a real good bite on the ling cod as well as the rest of the...
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Rockfish snapping on the Trinidad Coast
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Trinidad Coast

Before the weather turned crappy, there was a pretty decent salmon bite reports Curt Wilson of Wind Rose Charters out of Trinidad. “Late last week, they were biting pretty good right at Pilot Rock. There’s been a few caught since, but the effort dwindled once the weather turned. When the weather has allowed, the rockfish have really been snapping. The...
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Fishing the Eureka Coast
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016

Eureka Coast

The weather finally got the best of the Eureka sport salmon fleet. What had been a wide-open bite for the past week was cooled by Wednesday’s rough waters. Only a few of the bigger boats chose to cross the bar into the nasty ocean on Wednesday, and the salmon were not in the biting mood. Prior to Wednesday, boats fishing...
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Bait-chomping kings thick off Eureka coast
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016



The weather finally got the best of the Eureka sport salmon fleet. What had been a wide-open bite for the past week was cooled by Wednesday’s rough waters. Only a few of the bigger boats chose to cross the bar into the nasty ocean on Wednesday, and the salmon were not in the biting mood. Prior to Wednesday, boats fishing...
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Eureka boats finding salmon close to home
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by Kenny Priest, JULY 22, 2016



Haven’t seen your neighbor’s boat in the driveway lately? Co-workers not showing up to work or calling in sick? I’m pretty sure I know where they are. The red-hot salmon bite that’s happening inside Humboldt Bay and at the entrance has boats coming from far and wide, and lots of anglers playing hooky from work. And for good reason as...
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