Fish,
You can get a hold of Alissa Shay at ashay@portgrays.org to report directly to her if you observe an problems. I don't have her phone number at the moment.

Alissa is asking that the sport fishermen help in reporting any problems, land abuse etc. that they see at the Landing. The Port is making arrangements for future care of the property. But, at at least this fall and winter the Port would appreciate any help from the anglers. The sporties will only help themselves by doing so. So, lets work together on this.

Would be happy to report miscreants at the landing. Won't be there often, but I'm glad it's open, and I'll do what little I can to keep it that way.

Now, if we can just get an eye on what's happening at the WDFW boat launches, particularly on the Satsop....

Hadn’t heard about this. Trouble with break-ins?

drinking trash party place gunfire ..... the usual

Not necessarily trouble with break-ins, but there have been even more people than I'm used to seeing hanging out at the launches for non-recreational purposes (mostly drug use, judging by the junker cars they're usually sitting in and their suspicious behavior. They're probably just there to get high, but with drug addicts parked near your empty rig, you're always at risk of the ol' smash and grab. Now that the season is more or less underway and the launches will be more crowded with people fishing (and occasionally enforcement), they'll probably start looking for new places to hang out.

Like Rivrguy said, there's always the usual drinking, building fires, doing donuts, and general loitering going on, especially in the summer. Not much has changed, but it seems more and more common.

That area looked like it turned into a 4x4 meeting place the last time I was there. They were tearing it up just outside of the entrance to the gravel bar. Likely that was being done n the bar as well. The gravel bars there have been notorious for keggers and the like in the summer.

I went to college with Alissa, she's good people, also a grays harbor native. Glad to hear it's open again.

We got one on Saturday

10/02/2024

10/01/2024 Gate was open.......rigs parked inside.


1 boat had just been taken out, they had fish....

Saw two of those caught on the lower Satsop, of all places, yesterday evening. Looks like there's a decent late run going on.

A friend of mine went to check out Sterling landing on Friday. He said the gate was locked. Did the Port of Grays harbor close it again? Does anyone know?

11/11/2024

Drove down to Sterling Bar.......gate was open, some of the large holes had been filled in.

Rains like we had and will have, raise Heck on the road going in and the property inside the gate. Drive slow and the roads and property will be useable.

I have not been down to the actual "bar" so can't commit of that.

Enjoy the area.....

Drifter,
Thanks. Maybe someone forgot to open it on Friday. The last time I was there, which was a while ago. They had filled in the large hole by the gate.

I got a message from Alissa at the Port today. She said that Sterling was closed for three days last week because a contractor was spraying to kill Japanese Knotwood. The property opened back up last Saturday. There was a sign there saying that it would be closed. She also said that there have been some problems there since it opened this year. Trash and a burning vehicle. There used to be a garbage dumpster inside the gate in the big lot but there wasn't one this year. I suggested that maybe they should put a trash can in there again. But people would probably throw there garbage on the ground anyway out of laziness.

11/12/2024

I wondered if it was something like that......."Knotweed is like Scotchbloom", if you don't attack it, it seems to double every year.

Knotweed, in the patches I fish around, is kinda pretty this time of the year!!!!!

I remember the large dumpster....didn't take long to fill that up but you're right, it does need something in there.....

Knotweed, while pretty, is one those really ugly invasives. We had, and maybe still have them, around the Soos Creek Hatchery. They lined the stream banks. The roots were so thick and strong that they were an excellent bank protection from flood and erosion. But the crowded out everything and nothing local seems to eat them. Kind like green riprap. They make huge monoculture stands in wet areas driving all other plants, and probably animals, out. Very hard to kill and pieces broken off in flood go downstream and grow there.

I know some NGOs that have spent years of intensive handwork to eliminate knotweed along streams.

I did a drivebye. I miss talking to the plunkers there and down Elk's Bar. Water looked okay.
Guess mud and trees were flowing down the lower satsop.

Alissa said that they will be working on getting rid of the Knotwood in the coming years.