Aligned with WDFW Region 5 South Puget Sound and Olympic Peninsula WA including Districts 11, 15, 16 and 17. And Counties: Pierce, Thurston, Jefferson, Kitsap, Mason, Clallam, Grays Harbor and Pacific
OK, so I’m sure when you hear “Minter Creek,” you think of “combat fishing” and “a place to avoid”. I’ve shared these same sentiments. I hadn’t been to Minter Creek in about 9 years due to these sentiments. I was pleasantly surprised with the experience.
With several consecutive outstanding razor clam tides on the coast, we wanted to stay a few nights at an RV Park near Aberdeen WA. We ended up finding Hoquiam River RV Park after a brief search.
River fishing for Coho translates to some of the best fishing experiences in the Pacific Northwest. We are talking multiple fish days, lots of hookups, and fast action combined with the amazing beauty of the changing seasons.
As the primary saltwater season in Puget Sound winds down and we don’t have an abundance of Blackmouth opportunities, the focus shifts to the rivers and in particular to the coastal rivers of the Olympic Peninsula.
Except for a short stretch of 3 days, the Puyallup and Carbon Rivers have stayed in low visibility coloration for all of September. The fish are most definitely in and being caught consistently all over the river system.
Did summer ever actually happen? Technically, September is still summer, but it sure feels like we are now in the fall. It doesn’t help that all the stores have Halloween stuff out, the autumn beers are on the shelves and the salmon are in the rivers! Let’s cover what the options are in September to get into some salmon.
So you heard the forecasts at the start of the year in the North of Falcon process, Pink Salmon fishing was supposed to be ho-hum this year. I think we can safely conclude that the prediction was a tad conservative.
The salt and now the rivers are stuffed with Pinks. If you read this blog early in the year, you know we predicted this to be the case.
Sometimes in life, you need to learn something the hard way. You can do all the research and get expert coaching, but sometimes, you just need to screw it up and learn that a particular impulse or notion leads to bad outcomes.
