Before the weather turned crappy, there was a pretty decent salmon bite reports Curt Wilson of Wind Rose Charters out of Trinidad. “Late last week, they were biting pretty good right at Pilot Rock. There’s been a few caught since, but the effort dwindled once the weather turned. When the weather has allowed, the rockfish have really been snapping. The blacks have been pretty easy to come by. We had to cancel our Wednesday morning trip due to rough seas, but it calmed down in the afternoon and the rockfish bit really well,” Wilson said.

Kenny Priest operates Fishing the North Coast, a fishing guide service out of Humboldt specializing in salmon and steelhead. Find it on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and www.fishingthenorthcoast.com. For up-to-date fishing reports and North Coast river information, email kenny@fishingthenorthcoast.com.