7/30 chasing salmon off the mouth of CoosBay

SD2OR and I launched out of a foggy Sunset Bay and headed NW to the area off the mouth of CoosBay (where Pepper and I picked up a chinook on Aug 26, 2021), where it smoothed out nicely but nothing good happening.  We got to 220' of water (about 3.5 miles out from Sunset Bay) but I never saw a temp over 52.8F, no baitfish or even crud lines and several of the birds that we saw actually asked me whether I had seen any fish. 

We both picked up some decent sized black rockfish on the way in, plus a greenling and 'just legal' lingcod for SD2OR, but nothing big on the bite along the NW reefs.  My crab pots were nicely loaded with good sized crab, the first had 8 keepers (6 full, 2 decent), the second pot had only female, not a single male crab in it.  cheers, roger 

The greenling had blue meat, like a ling, never caught one like that before. Unfortunately, the meat also had a lot of worms/parasites.

It's like the male and female crabs feed in different areas.

Nice going on the rockfish, good eating!

Yeah, the rockfish never disappoints. Just ate a bunch, with homemade pesto with basil from our garden.