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Puget Sound Salmon Forecasts 2024

March 2, 2024 by Kyle

I endured 6 hours of North of Falcon zoom meetings to bring you these fresh-off-the-grill salmon forecasts for the year 2024!

Okay, it wasn’t that bad. This forecast “unveiling” was the beginning of the North of Falcon process, wherein the salmon seasons get set and eventually printed prior to the July 1st new regulations year.

If you’re already confused, you are in good company as the entire process of salmon forecast models and the resulting seasons leave a lot of recreational anglers who are only semi-familiar with the process scratching their heads.

It’s river chinook time and that means bobber downs!

March 30, 2024August 30, 2023 by Kyle

River chinook august 2023 caught on float and eggs

Maybe you’ve already got a full freezer from a successful season of saltwater salmon fishing, or maybe this is your first opportunity to wet a line for chinook. Regardless, angling for chinook in our local or coastal river is my FAVORITE PNW harvest recreation activity and you don’t want to miss out on the fun!

I went out this morning and got my limit in a few hours, so I feel inspired to write about river fishing for Chinook and tell you my story.

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!

Understanding Puyallup River Fishing Regulations 2022

March 28, 2024September 2, 2022 by Kyle

Puyallup River can draw quite a crowd during pink salmon season

Historically, the Puyallup and Carbon Rivers are places you can fish 7 days a week for several months of the summer/fall, and thousands of people each year look forward to this wonderful part of the calendar.

However, in 2022 the fishing regulations have changed significantly, limiting how many days a week these rivers can be fished and the months they are open. This blog article gets to the bottom of why things changed.

Pink Salmon Run 2021

March 27, 2024June 10, 2021 by Kyle

Chrome bright pink salmon from the Puget Sound

Screw 2020 and all even years! 2021 is another glorious odd year and that means hordes of Pink Salmon returning to the Puget Sound and the rivers.

River Fishing for Coho October 2019

March 25, 2024October 22, 2019 by Kyle

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.

Puyallup River Fishing September 2019

March 25, 2024September 25, 2019 by Kyle

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.

Puget Sound Fishing Update for September, 2019

March 25, 2024September 4, 2019 by Kyle

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.

Pink Salmon Fishing Puget Sound 2019

March 25, 2024August 21, 2019 by Kyle

Pink salmon from the salt — Pink Salmon from the salt

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.