East winds, full moon put bait inside the inlet
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Indian River Inlet is seeing the same hot rockfish bite as we saw last spring. The combination of east winds and the full moon put bait inside the inlet and the rockfish followed. The bite has been at dusk, dawn and during the night with Storm and Tsunami shads the most mentioned baits.
As you would expect, the crowds along the rocks have been brutal. I understand on Saturday night they were lined up from the Coast Guard Station to the end of the jetty and conflicts were not uncommon. With a mix of experienced anglers and first-time fishermen, the stage is set for crossed lines and hot tempers. Add to this a bunch of boaters trying to fish the same water and trouble is certain.
Source: Cape Gazette (blog)
Auto Outlook: Who is buying all these cars?
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With the Detroit Three, European and Japanese and South Korean automakers all posting big profits again, just who is buying all those new cars?
Sales have heated up so much both Chrysler, which is run by Italy's Fiat, and Ford Motor Co., which avoided bankruptcy in 2008, have announced plans to goose production by cutting back on traditional summer shutdowns -- usually a time of slower sales devoted to re-tooling for newer models.
Workers at four Chrysler Group LLC factories that assemble hot-selling crossover utility vehicles like the Dodge Durango will keep working through the normal two-week July break. The plants are the Toledo Supplier Park in Ohio, the Belvidere Assembly Plant in Belvidere, Ill., the Jefferson North assembly plant in Detroit and Chrysler's assembly plant in Toluca, Mexico.
Source: UPI.com
Coos Bay tackles parking problem at boat ramp lot
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COOS BAY -- Boaters and fishermen will get 45 new parking spaces at the Eastside boat ramp in time for the fall salmon season.
Spaces for vehicles and trailers will be created as part of a $225,000 project that Coos Bay city manager Rodger Craddock says he hopes to be finished near the end of July. Currently the boat ramp parking lot can only accommodate 75 vehicles with trailers and 10 single cars, a number Craddock says has caused congestion and frustration during salmon season.
'That's a prime spot. It gets maxed out," he said. 'Some recreational boaters were having to park in residential areas."
Two different grants from the Oregon State Marine Board and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will help the city add the spaces, resurface the existing parking lot and add a fish cleaning station. The city will also pitch in $30,000 from the urban renewal fund to help complete the project.
Source: Coos Bay World
Otherwise I keep a trailer here, where I sleep, or I sleep in my fish house. I'm here." A giant dish measuring 18 miles across, Mille Lacs' deepest point is only 42 feet. Formed by a sediment ridge deposited along a glacier's edge, the lake was once