Boaters fishing out of Brookings, Oregon, were finally able to get across the Chetco River bar over the weekend, and the result was limits of rockfish.
Lingcod fishing, however, was slow, except for the boats that ventured toward House Rock.
"We had to move around quite a bit to find the fish, but once we did, it was pretty fast," said Capt. Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing, www.wildriversfishing.com, in Brookings.
Heavy freshwater flows from the Chetco and Winchuck rivers has limited success to the south, but once boaters rounded Chetco Point, they found big schools of black and blue rockfish.
"We didn't get any really large rockfish, but we had several doubles and found good numbers," Martin said.
Anglers are jigging shrimp flies, grubs, and lead anchovies.
The lingcod fishing should be very good once the ocean flattens out even more and we can either fish close to the rocks, or head north without too big of a swell.
