Re: OR Coast Report

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Tim,

I'm not sure when they spawn. We always fished down there mid August and the little ones that popped out where fully developed. A mini replica of their mother. We always caught them on pile worms and clam necks, long before I started fly fishing.

Did you eat any of them? They are excellent tasting.

Brian 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: waflyfishers@waflyfishers.com
Sent: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:24:35 -0700
Subject: RE: OR Coast Report

No but the biggest one looked like a female about to burst at the vent, when do they spawn? 

 

Tim

 

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Tim,

Did any of the larger perch shoot out the fully developed baby perch when you handled them? That used to a pretty cool thing to see when I was a kid fishing down there on those beaches.

Brian 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: waflyfishers@waflyfishers.com
Sent: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:26:53 -0700
Subject: OR Coast Report

I just returned from a trip to Arch Cape on the Oregon Coast.  Each morning I got up at 5 ? 5:30 and hit the beach for surfperch for a few hours and this year did very well.   I fished Cannon Beach the first day and got two perch in the first 15-20 minutes from 5:45-! 6:00 and one was the biggest surfperch I?d ever seen let alone caught, the thing had to be pushing 2.5 - 3 lbs.   I hit the same water the next morning and got a few normal sized perch.  Along with perch ! I would foul hook about 2-3 Dungeness Crabs each morning too, they don?t fight well and can be extremely tough to release.   I fished Arcadia Beach the third morning and got skunked plus found the beach a bit more difficult due to some nasty rips going on.  This morning I fished only an hour back on Cannon Beach and had a great morning,  I landed 7-8 perch and many were very good sized ones of 1.5 ? 2 l! bs. and LDR?ed a few more.  All fish came before 6:00 a.m.  I guess the earlier the better since I got all my fish before 6:15 regardless of the actual tide level.  All fish came on a Surfpercher Red in either #2 or #4 with very big dumbbell eyes and a 300 grain head.    

 

 

Tim