Hi, my name is Will. I'm a simple blue collar guy, family man from NW Oregon. Outside of my family the outdoors is my #1 passion more specifically big game hunting (bow and rifle) and salt water fishing. Recently I've gotten into hand loading and want to give long range shooting a go. I've been on ifish dot net for a number of years and am looking to branch out. I mostly like looking at pictures and reading success stories from people's hunts. This seems like a good place to do so! If you're a member there too drop me a line so I can put the pieces together I'll add some more stories as time permits to the appropriate board. I've been a Pacific City Doryman my whole life. My family has been fishing out of there for three generations. I've got too many stories to put into one post so I'll just do some pictures this time. If you have the time google or YouTube "pacific city dory" add "launch" or "landing" to your search to see the unique way we get on and off the water

Fist time on the salt


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Some of you may recognize one of Oregon's own outdoors personalities; Scott Haugen. It was a pleasure to get him out and spend a day with him "behind the scenes" he's as real and down to earth as they come. Him his wife Tiffany and two sons came up for dinner. Turns out his son's favorite teacher is my short friend pictured above with the halibut. Small world




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Hey Will, welcome to the Fire! Nice pics. I think you can only put up so many per post. So, you can edit them(links) out of your first post on this thread and then put them in your second and third posts in this thread. Like so:

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Well what do you know!?!? thanks smokinggun!

Thanks for sharing the photos.

Nice fish!

Welcome New Guy,

You're not the only one that's ever launched a boat off the beach. It was how we went fishing out of Anchor Point, Alaska. Here's the boat I had when I lived in Ak and a few fish pics.

Hey fishhead! I've seen videos of people launching V-hull boats off the beaches and into the surf of AK, looks like it can be a circus! Every year someone in a sled tries at PC and rarely, if ever, have I seen it go according to plan. We've had to help more than a few out. That being said I like those bayrunners, it would definitely be the way to go. If I ever get away from dories a bayrunner would be the route I take. Perfect for crossing bars and running off shore for butts and albies or picking the righ day and hitting the reefs off of PC. I hear ppl complain of the rough ride when running full tilt off shore but it can't be worse than a flat bottomed boat of the same weight lol

Hey back at ya B,B, & B

Actually it's easy to beach launch out of Anchor Point with the right set-up. The extreme Cook Inlet tides (10' to 20' low to high - depending) and the very shallow sloped bottom is what made it possible. I could launch and never get my truck wet.

What you'd do is launch on an incoming tide, fish both sides of the slack tide (which was the best time for halibut), and pick-up on the outgoing tide. I covered the trailer bunks with the plastic used on snow sleds and one person (two was easier) could push it off the trailer and it would slide on without a ton of effort. Back up to the water's edge, push the boat off, go park the truck, and by the time you got back the boat would be floating. Paddle out, fire up the motor, and go fishin'.

To pick it up you'd run up to the beach, pull the motor, hop out, drag it up as far as you could, and then go get the truck. By the time you got back the boat was sitting high and dry on the beach. I had the rear roller set up where you could back the trailer up under the bow, lift the boat up, and get it halfways on. Then just wench it up and over and you'd be set to go.

It took me a couple a years to get the trailer and boat dialed in for beach launching but in the end I could launch it and pick it up by myself. One day I forgot my hip boots and launched it wearing hiking boots and never got my feet wet. It was a very calm day though.

The other option at Anchor Point was using the tractor to launch but they charged $45.00 to put you in and pick you up back in the 90s. If you had a bigger heavier boat it was the only way you could get out and fish there. The tractor could launch a 25 foot + boat and it's what the charter boats did.

Good fishin' to ya !!!

Welcome!

I have hunted and fished with Scott for over 20 years and he often calls or gets together with me when passing through Anchorage. He is a good guy and knows his way around critters, fish, and birds very well...

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i am so jealous, nice fishing there guys, the two shark looking fish looks really great.

i am so jealous, nice fishing there guys, the two shark looking fish looks really great.

I only see halibut, king salmon, albacore, and lingcod... assume you have to be talking about the lingcod. We get lots of them up here, much bigger, too. The halibut are exceptional for that part of the ocean.

some ginormous fish over here, damn. congrats.

Wow!!

We catch a bunch of flounder in Florida, but ours don't get that big!!

Nice pictures!! Thanks for sharing! I always enjoy when y'all post photos of places I have never been, and probably will never have the opportunity to visit, especially the Alaskan and saltwater variety.

As a salt novice, I have to ask, what in the Sam Hell is that fish you're holding onto there? A Cod? Based on its iridescent eye, I'm guessing its from deep water?

That is a Ling Cod not to be confused with "Alaskan cod" you might see on a menu at a restaurant. We catch them off the reefs and rock piles at 30-120' I don't know their deepest range. They can weigh north of 60lbs but around where I'm from a 30lber is the gossip benchmark and that one was about 23. The one I'm holding in the smaller picture was 27