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Yaquina Bay Crabs

We went crabbing out in Yaquina Bay yesterday morning and got a some Dungeness Crabs and a few Red Rock Crabs!  We had some for dinner on Paula’s famous Grilled Cheese and Crab sandwiches!  Make sure you use Tillamook Cheddar if you try this at home.

Also, for all my East Coast friends who don’t get the “We’ve Got Crab Legs” reference, see the video below!  You may also remember the episode of Deadliest Catch where Jonathan Hillstrand of the Time Bandit was singing that song.  Well, here’s where it came from:

We took these fun crab shots of some of our Dungeness Crabs from back in 2006.

Crab with a Beer

Sandy River Chinook Salmon - The Hook-Up

Salmon fishing on the Sandy River had been pretty hot early on with a few Coho Salmon caught, but for the last two weekends the rivers cleared and the bite cooled off.  Saturday morning (October 16th) was cold with the suggestion of frost on the car’s windshield as James and I set out into the freezing mist to see what lurked in the river that morning.

James set up shop at the top of the seam and started working his way down, and I started at the bottom and worked my way upstream.  Right off the bat, James noticed a big fish rising and swimming around below his spot, but the fish swam out of sight before he had a shot at it.  I worked my way up with a slight variation of my homemade custom spinner when something big slammed my spinner!

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James with his Sandy River Coho Salmon

It’s official!  As of yesterday morning, James is on the board and back in the game, picking up his first salmon in a while!  And what a nice Sandy River Coho Salmon hen to make a comeback with, too!  Nice work, dude!  She was chock full of eggs and cut nice and pink.  This bright fish hit one of the top secret JkbWorld-design custom spinners that I rocked the Sandy River with for Coho Salmon last week!  I think it was his new waders!

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Coho Salmon from the Muddy Sandy River

After steady rain all week, I thought to myself that the fish would be on their way in to the local rivers and the Fall Coho Salmon fishing season would be on its way.  So, I tossed around the idea of fishing on Saturday 9/18/2010 in the early morning.  I usually fish the Clackamas River, but I was tossing around the idea of heading further north to the Sandy River.  Paula and I had plans in the afternoon on Saturday and then there was a Beavers game on tv, and it would probably be raining, so late Friday night, I set my alarm and turned in after midnight.  Maybe I’d go fishing, maybe not.

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Paula's Trout - 1/2 of First Double

Two weeks ago, we took the canoe out on a lackluster 2010 maiden voyage.  So we took it out to Estacada Lake for the first time this year, and the Rainbow Trout fishing was HOT!  We were making our very first pass and BOOM, both Paula and I had fish on!  Double!

Jeff's Trout - Other 1/2 of Double

After we boated our Rainbow Trout, we tossed our lines out again and resumed the troll, and within a few more minutes, we had another double!  Paula and I were tied at two fish each!  At this rate, we should be finished quickly… or would we?

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