Great Day out of Newport

[StrikerMC]

Originally Posted by Top Gun

I’m just trying to get the coordinates for the rock fish catching outside of Newport jetty just passed Buoy. I went out on Friday and I was out past the buoy around 200 feet straight out and I didn’t see any rock piles or any anything on the fishfinder showing where they would be is there anybody out there that can help me out give me some guidance where to go if you have the coordinates is that I can put in my fishfinder that would be better appreciate all the help in advance thanks

Don't focus on finding structure, but there's a few nice hard bottom spots out there that are closely guarded. However, if you kayak around between 175-295 and look for baitfish clouds with some thicker yellow/red marks, drop fast! They're often on humps or small rocks that are hard to pick up on sonar.

[Top Gun]

Thanks for the info. Appreciate it. When you go out past the red buoy to 192 to290 is it straight out or is it to the left or is it to the right when you come out of the jetty. I plan on going out this Saturday.

Thanks

[StrikerMC]

Originally Posted by Top Gun

Thanks for the info. Appreciate it. When you go out past the red buoy to 192 to290 is it straight out or is it to the left or is it to the right when you come out of the jetty. I plan on going out this Saturday.

Thanks

Study this map, play around with the different overlays. Look for anything out of the ordinary and go there with your sonar. Also, bottom lock your sonar to 30-50 feet, and use a heavy sinker to drop right down as soon as you see the beginning of a mark. Don't drop after you see the full mark, cause it'll already be behind you. That's how small the rockfish spots are here.

[Top Gun]

[Harry Hill]

Originally Posted by StrikerMC

Study this map, play around with the different overlays. Look for anything out of the ordinary and go there with your sonar. Also, bottom lock your sonar to 30-50 feet, and use a heavy sinker to drop right down as soon as you see the beginning of a mark. Don't drop after you see the full mark, cause it'll already be behind you. That's how small the rockfish spots are here.

What map?

[StrikerMC]

Originally Posted by Harry Hill

What map?

Weird I thought the link went through. Here it is: https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=e..._%7C%7DkEjfnnU

[Harry Hill]

Originally Posted by StrikerMC

Weird I thought the link went through. Here it is: https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=e..._%7C%7DkEjfnnU

no problem, a couple of years ago a fellow fisherman shared some gps points with me. I went out and never got on the points but near them I cleaned up on sand dabs. Which was still great to me, I love eating sand dabs. Thanks for sharing the map.

[Harry Hill]

I guess I'm dumb as a rock, are all those marks on the chart from you? Waypoints you have marked when fishing. I see X's and it looks like flowers. I'm really not trying to find your spots just trying to understand what I'm seeing.