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Nehalem Bay Fishing and Crabbing - anglerp - 06-30-2003 My sister and I decided to go to Jetty Fishery in Nehalem Bay. The weather reports were awesome and the day before they were nailing the surf perch left and right. Well we decided to go sruf perch fishing for the first time and crabbing for the first time for me. I alsofound out that there was a place to go clamming so we went to go clamming. It was the first time I had gone clamming so I felt a little wierd digging around in the sand[unsure]. anyway our trip was soon to go sour. It started to get really windy and rainy and I was cold so I took the first crab I ever caught and took it back to camp and my sister and my niese and I all shared it. It was extremely good. It wasn't the first crab I had ever ate just the first one I had ever caught with a crab trap[]. Any way after I had been crabbing, I went to sleep because I was extremely tired at that time. So I sleep untill 5pm and then it was pouring down rain at this time. I couldn't go back to sleep and I was at the weather so I decided to go fight against the weather and go fishing[]. any way my sister had been out fishing and crabbing the whole time I had been napping so I went out alone. She wouldnt let me use her pole so I decided to just go out to see if any one was catching any fish. She did give me a pole to us but I was being lazy and I decided to not bothe with untangling the line because of the weather. Any way I went down to the rocks and when I go there, there was 2 guys perch fishing. They were both extremely nice. One had a regular trout pole that he was fishing with and the other had a crappie pole. The guy that had the crappie pole was nice enough to let me use his pole and bait because I didn't have any with me[cool]. Well since he handed me his pole I decided to fish. You know me, if given the oppurtunity I will usually take it with no hesitation. Almost immediately after being down there for a couple minutes I got a bite. The other guy I was with (Steve) was a really nice person to talk to. It is funny, whenever I go fishing I always meet a new person. Thats why I dont mind going alone sometimes, but it is always good to have someone to go with. I hooked into a surf perch with this crappie pole, boy was it hard to get in!! hehe, those things fight good when you have such a little pole. Any way I took my first fish nf dragged it back to camo. I showed my sister and because she had been out that whole time she was too cold to come out. plus she had to thinkj about Kinzie. So I grabbed the bucket and went back down to fish. Right as soon as I got down there Steve hooked into a huge surf perch. It was probably about 15 inches which was much bigger than what we had been catching. Well any way I ended up catching 2 surf perch and Steve caught a total of 8. Then Patti came to the side of the water to fish a little bit but the perch had stopped biting already. So we went back up to the camp to go to bed. We put up a fire and sat by it for a little bit. But when I got in my tent it was all wet so I slept in the car. It rained all night. In the morning we packed up camp in the rain and we went home. I guess I had fun. I did catch my first crab, my first surf perch, and my first clam[]. Here is a picture of the surf perch I caught. [signature]