GS11 - Big Thank You to the Community. Much Love. Reports start on pg. 38

Nice pics. Any nibbles?

No nibbles!

Bummer. You might have to come down this way for your salmon this year.


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You might have to come down this way for your salmon this year.

Been considering it!

I do want salmon - really bad.  But it'll be that much sweeter when I finally bag one at the Cove this season.

Yesterday had good conditions, but it just wasn't happening.

Saturday's story:

Cove, day 2.
I was a little bummed to miss the March for Science, but I did have work to do! Helped some friends with drywall repairs at my favorite Inn and got a second round of trolling in from 830 to just after noon. A few rockfish and a lingcod were the only biters on my circuit from the Bell to the Whistle, north through B&B and then across the front. The water was nice, but there was a decent swell from the south combining with a west...

I knew the forecast had the swell building, and the Cove can get a little sketchy with south and west influences. As I got back to the launch area I neglected to wait out the set that was pounding the breakwater. I got just inside the end of the jetty and a pretty big swell was coming on my tail. I calmly turned my yak around to face this breaker with my bow, thinking I had this in the bag. Bad idea! Instead of punching through this with any momentum I was a sitting duck as this swell surfed me backwards! Before I knew it I was moving right along and knew it wouldn't end well. The slightest turn of my keel had me instantly flipped in about four to five feet of water. That happened extremely fast. I scrambled to get my boat turned over, grabbing whatever I could reach of the yardsale items around me. I'd had no time to grab anything before being under my yak, so I was really relieved when my net and the rod in the other holder were still there - benefit of flipping in shallow enough water to not allow those two to fall out of the holders. Then I thought of my second rod that had been in my lap. I was again stoked to find that it was right there still, attached to some rigging by the hook on the end of my line. A tackle box here, a cooler there, all my water bottles... I actually thought I had everything recovered, but a bit later I realized that my knife was missing. Lucky - very lucky.

That was a first for me in all my years of yakking on the ocean. Never take launching and landing for granted.

I think most of my salmon this year will come from Oregon.  I'm setting my goal for 4 salmon from the Cove.

Glad you only "sacrificed" a knife to the sea Goddess.  Thanks for the report and pictures from the Cove.  You persistence will pay off soon.

I was in the cove to day, just got done hiking from Mattole mouth to the cove on the lost coast with my kids.  Had a blast.  Lots of dead intertidal litter on the beaches, including a metric shitton of rock crabs.  It was weird, not sure why that was.  The reefs south of Millers were holding tons of life, seals, otters, birds working, rocks covered in mussels and gooseneck barnacles, it was inviting.  I didn't really have time to stop and cast a line because of dad duty and not wanting to get stuck north of gitchell on an incoming tide but it looked really good.

Jack said there might be an RV spot left, not sure about hookup situation, but if you need a space fr a trailer or RV at the campground I would call asap.

GS11                 

Anchetta, Anthony           
Anderson, Cheylee           
Anderson, Evan           
Anglin, Don               
Aquino, Ferdinand           
Arthur, Tom               
Arthur, Tommy 
Artwohl, Bill         
Baker, Kenny               
Barker, Matt               
Barker, Ryan               
Batt, David               
Belli, Domenic               
Bennett, Martin           
Bolyard, Ron               
Bradfield, David           
Bray, Robert               
Brewer, Jef               
Brockman, Cody           
Brockman, Rich           
Calvert, John               
Cameron, James           
Cao, Dan               
Cardoza, Cameron           
Carraher, Craig           
Cervania, Freddie           
Chasey, Lloyd               
Chatelain, Nick           
Chavez, Ricci               
Cheng, Dave               
Cheng, Larry               
Chin, Ben               
Chow, Mason           
Clark, Bret               
Clark, Josiah               
Coleman, Chris           
Coon, Aaron               
Crotty, Loren               
Dang, Tim               
Davies, Jeff               
De Lange, Tommy           
Delorey, Bryan           
Delorey, Greg               
Duffy, Tim               
Dunn, Trenton               
Dye, Ken               
Easter, Brandi               
Egger, Kenny               
Engleton, Jeff               
Foreman, Amos           
Fung, Jon           
Gerstein, Bob               
Gonzaga, Graham           
Gonzaga, Jaime           
Gosciminski, Jim           
Gustin, Jim               
Harada, David               
Harrison, Scott           
Havemann, John           
Hayes, Chelsea           
Hayes, Justin               
Heitman, Jerry               
Haunte, Francisco           
Hofer, Kevin               
Ikemiyagi, Naoaki           
Jackson, Jim               
Jay, Shannon               
Johnson, Ed               
Johnson, Forrest           
Julian, Andrew           
Jung, Won               
Kaai, Eric               
Kaber, Doug               
Kaji, Amber               
Kaji, Isao               
Kangrga, Mike               
Kelly, Kevin               
Kelly, Martin               
Kennedy, Mike           
King, Ryan               
Kingstrom, Jeremy           
Kingstrom, Sarah           
Kirk, Howard               
Knight, Chris               
Knoles, Rob               
Koons, Adam               
Kuhl, Pat               
Lawson, Allan               
Le, Jon               
Lee, Mark               
Leepin, Allen               
Leepin, Patrick           
Lomboy, Omar           
Lott, Joseph               
Marrin, John               
Marroquin, Marcos           
Martin, Russ               
Martin, Steven               
Masson, Dusty           
Mayes, Matthew           
McNeil, Brad               
Meredith, Boyce           
Monte, Kyle               
Mouton, Greg               
Murakami, Jason
Murphy, Cory               
Murphy, Soren               
Murphy, Steve               
Nagel, Annie               
Nakashima, Marco       
Nelson, Gabe           
Nelson, Matthew           
Ng, Benson           
Ng, Herb               
Nguyen, Keith           
Nguyen, Sonny           
Nunes, Frank           
Ocampo, Erwin           
O’Neal, William           
Paoli, Gino               
Pascual, Cameron       
Patz, John               
Peters, Aaron           
Pham, Kiet               
Pham, Tuan           
Pickle, Brandon           
Pickle, Byron           
Pool, Jim               
Potts, Bradley           
Pratt, James           
Price, Chad           
Pritchard, Ken           
Prudhome, Guy           
Puertas, Daniel           
Racinez, Ryan           
Raynon, JC           
Reese, Kyle           
Reese, Nick               
Renger, Allan               
Renger, Colby               
Revelo, Antonio               
Reyes, Herb               
Roberts, Chuck               
Roberts, Lexy           
Rodriguez, Nick           
Romero, Luis           
Romo, Pete           
Rough, Aaron           
Royston, Dave           
Russell, Jim           
Sanchez, Allan           
Sandkulla, Stacy           
Sapp, Mike           
Saufferer, Ron           
Saufferer, Terry           
Sawyer, Thomas           
Schillings, Chris           
Schulz, Kelly and Lawana       
Scriven, Joe           
Shippey, Raydon           
Shu, Roger           
Shu, Dennis           
Siepert, Bryan           
Sigala, Alex           
Silva, Jon               
Sivongsay, Poe           
Sivongxay, Som           
Solomon, Brookes           
Sopjes, David           
Stockwell, Eric           
Takagi, Brian           
Takagi, Steve           
Tanagon, Jason           
Taube, Dylan           
Taube, Tyja           
Tesch, Damen           
Thorpe, Scott           
Tibbet, Michael           
Tosta, Casey           
Turntine, Garret           
Van Arsdale, Aaron       
Vanhorn, Freddie           
VanWatermeulen, Jon       
Velho, Joe               
Voss, Joe               
Vu, Paul               
Wallace, Brian           
Wang, Tim               
White, Sean           
Whiting, Jack           
Wirt, William           
Woolworth, Victor           
Yamagata, Michael       
Yu, Ben               
Yu, Ernest               
Ziomek, Tracey           

where the A-hulls at?  gonna be awful quiet without FM1 stirring the pot.

Usually in attendance, not necessarily entered in tourney.

I counted 193 names.  Am I correct Eric?

I counted 193 names.  Am I correct Eric?

194, Sonny.

I couldn't copy the numbers from a Google Doc...

Got over 100 entries within the past 2 weeks!

I counted 193 names.  Am I correct Eric?

194, Sonny.

I couldn't copy the numbers from a Google Doc...

Got over 100 entries within the past 2 weeks!

194!

Dang!!!

 

I amexcited to be back at Shelter Cove and this year I am even happier that my schedule allows it to be during GS.  I will be pedaling not paddling this year.  Anyone looking for a team mate?

I amexcited to be back at Shelter Cove and this year I am even happier that my schedule allows it to be during GS.  I will be pedaling not paddling this year.  Anyone looking for a team mate?

I am looking for one and I peddle too

Start getting your teams together. I'll post a GS11 team signup thread sometime today.

Where is the countdown, Sonny?