Summer 2018 Update for Southern Oregon Deep Sea Fishing

Weather has been very good this summer, (for the most part).

According to Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, there has been much greater sport rockfish trip efforts than this time last year.

Due to this extra impact on rockfish ODF&W have reduced the near shore sport rock fish bag limit to four rockfish. You can still catch two lingcod. This has an impact on everyone and we don’t like this reduction in limits.

We are offering the long leader mid water rock fishing as an alternative. The cost is more, $125.00, but the sport rockfish limit is ten! Yes, you can catch 10 Rock Fish using the long leader method! We have fewer people on the boat (12 to 14) as it is more labor intensive, we travel farther out off shore, about 4 to 5 miles and fuel costs are higher…

This is how it works… We drop a 2 lb. Cannonball down to the bottom (300’) and 30’ above we start setting hooks and work 3 hooks with shrimp flies another 30’ up and hold them in position with a float. This fishery keeps the fisherman away from the fish which is protected (yellow eye rockfish). You are not allowed to keep the ling cod on these trips, but the good thing is you can catch up to 10 rockfish! Frequent caught varieties are Canary, Yellowtail, deacon, and Bocaccio Rockfish. They are all delicious eating!

Please consider going out on one of these mid water fishing trips. Give us a call at 541 888-9021 or go to our online calendar to book one of these plentiful catch trips!

At Betty Kay Charters we want to make sure that we have the date you’re looking for. Please take a minute to check out our Calendar. We’ll be very happy to take your booking. We can pretty much guarantee that you’ll have a fabulous and memorable time fishing with our friendly Captains, and we’ll make sure you get your safety instructions and are comfortable on the water.

All first-timers welcome! Please give us a call at 800.752.6303 if you’d like to learn more. Or read all about us by clicking on our website Betty Kay Charters. We’re located at 90389 Albacore Avenue (don’t you love it?) in Charleston, Oregon and we’re looking forward to sharing the wonders of the ocean with you.

See you soon!

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Let's have the best Deep Sea Fishing Season Ever in 2018 with Betty Kay Charters!

Summer is here and looking back to the great catches of spring rock fish & halibut, I can’t help but anticipate the same for summer fishing!

We are looking forward to great offshore (20 to 50 miles) albacore tuna fishing, the nearshore rockfish & ling cod catches and where are the salmon? July, August & September are the months for prime salmon fishing. When we see salmon carried up the dock we’ll make a call out from our salmon list! Come tuna and salmon to our waters!

Something new and exciting for Bill & Margery Whitmer is coming! We are happy to share with you that long time office staff Gaylene, and longtime captain Kurt Smith have decided to buy our business! Yes, we are under shared management through the next few months until legal documents can be processed! After having our business on the market for over a year, Capt. Kurt & Gaylene have decided to make the commitment. We are confident that this new management/service will maintain the Betty Kay Charters mission of “Your Pleasure and Great Catches is our business”. Because of Captain Kurt & Gaylene’s dedication to Betty Kay Charters; giving our fishing customers the best quality fishing experience; encouragement to the sea sick, tips on fishing, sharing his lunch, making sure you are on the fish and having great catches or giving hot cocoa to a fisher kid returning cold from a fishing trip, much of Betty Kay Charters success is credited through the years by Captain Kurt & Gayleen Smith!

Look to see some creative innovations with the new owners Kurt & Gaylene! Who knows, crabbing & Clamming trips in the fall/winter? What about 18 hr tuna trips, or heading out at dusk for star gazing on a quiet stellar clear night? Who knows, maybe you can view the near shore reefs & pinnacles via video monitor/ pro/camera while under way with a Simpson’s reef nature tour.

As for Bill & Margery, they are not retiring. Retiring is a fading word in our language. More and more people can relate to “career change” than retiring. They will stay in this area, the beautiful Southern Oregon coast. Bill will be in the maintenance mode with rentals and making 4 oz. Diamond jigs for Betty Kay Charters. Margery hopes to volunteer at the Charleston Visitor’s Center along with catch up in gardening and everything else!

At Betty Kay want to make sure that we have the date you’re looking for, please check out our Calendar and we’ll be very happy to take your booking. We can pretty much guarantee that you’ll have a fabulous and memorable time fishing with our friendly Captains, and we’ll make sure you get your safety instructions and are comfortable on the water. All first-timers welcome!

Please give us a call at 800.752.6303 if you’d like to learn more and also check out our website... Betty Kay Charters. 

We’re located at 90389 Albacore Avenue in Charleston, Oregon and we’re looking forward to sharing the wonders of the ocean with you.

See you soon, we hope! -Betty Kay


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