Picking up hitchhikers ocean style

And run like the Devil is on your tail if the wind is from the North.  All the beaches in the area face due South and it can be a struggle to get back to the sand in a north wind.  DAMHIK that.

Port Orford isn't a fishy place and a legal lingcod, much less a big one, is rare - I was shocked to see the size of that fish.  All of the rockfish we caught that day were little cookie-cutters, 13- to 13.5 inches long, and that's pretty much as large as we'd ever expect to see around here.

We got lucky and stumbled upon a school of rockfish loitering in the coves because Hell's Gate wasn't navigable that day.

I just passed through Port Orford on my way back to California and though it was windy, it sure looked like a beautiful place to be on the water. Any quick tips on where to fish close in? Tempted to bring a little SOT kayak on my next trip up that way in a couple months, and if so would be fish-finder-less.

Right on, my folks live in North Bend and I've always been tempted but scared to fish the ocean around there.

It's been mostly freshwater fishing when I visit