Our fishery is primarily salmon and the runs coming up the Columbia River are just WAY diminished. It’s been bad for a few years. My understanding is that warm currents are reducing the salmon’s food supply and pretty much starving them out. The warm current observation is reinforced by guys with bigger boats than ours catching Tuna much closer to shore (30 miles out vs. 60-70) in recent years, corresponding to the lousy salmon runs.
I want to get in the ocean for some bottom fishing but need time to be sure the V is in really good shape before going out. Our access to the ocean is all river-fed bays, so they all have bars that get very dangerous when the weather turns and waves start breaking on the shallow bars. If the weather deteriorates, we need to scoot back in in a hurry.
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 Scott, Portland, OR '85 V-20 I/O, Merc 170
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