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Puget Sound Lingcod Fishing Season 2023

March 29, 2024April 22, 2023 by Kyle

Puget Sound Lingcod season marks that period in the fishing calendar where we can consistently plan to be on the water and know something will be open to angle for until things die down into the fall.

Inside this blog post you will get a reminder of the season information from WDFW, historical catch timing graphs that indicate the best times and places to fish for lingcod around Puget Sound, and of course date creel information that indicates how many lingcod are being caught in Marine Areas 5-13 in and around the Puget Sound.

Pink Salmon Run 2023

March 29, 2024March 4, 2023 by Kyle

Like the first gleam of dawn on the Duwamish industrial waterway is the glimpse of summertime fun we just received from WDFW via the North of Falcon Salmon season setting process.

That’s right folks, it’s time to board the hype train to humpy town! Pink Salmon season 2023 is upon us!

Let’s get the full rundown of the pink salmon um…run, in 2023.

Puget Sound Salmon Forecasts 2023

March 29, 2024March 4, 2023 by Kyle

This is the big forecast news dump we’ve been waiting for! There’s so much information on what we can expect with regards to salmon fishing in Puget Sound revealed at the beginning of North of Falcon with these forecasts now released.

There was also some framing of the kind of salmon seasons we can expect. I will unpack all of it for you in this blog post, including details about the nearly 4 million pinks (humpies) expected to return to Puget Sound in 2023!

Puget Sound Crab Season 2022

March 28, 2024June 17, 2022 by Kyle

Puget sound dungeness crab getting a good pinch in on my buddy who didn't hangle it correctly

The above photo still makes me laugh! How we captured this moment still astounds me. Proper crab handling is an important topic, but so are the details of the 2022 Puget Sound Crab season which has just been announced!

Here are some things you need to know to have a great crab season in Puget Sound in 2022.

The Spot Shrimp are shallower – June, 2022

March 28, 2024June 14, 2022 by Kyle

If you have been used to catching your limit of spot shrimp in depths of 250+ in recent years, then 2022 has been a serious curve ball.

We typically shrimp in Hood Canal and we have a spot we hit where we routinely pull up 100+ shrimp per pot in 45-60 minute soaks. So on the first mid-week opener in May when we were pulling up 20-40 shrimp per pot in the exact same spot, it was a bit of a head scratcher.