2025 Chinook Salmon Forecast for Puget Sound

Fastest limit of chinook salmon on a solo trip near Point Defiance in Marine Area 11

Can you already smell the sweet, foul(but not really) smell of a fresh chinook that just came on board your boat? It’s time to review the Chinook forecasts for 2025 for Puget Sound!

Where will the strongest run of chinook show up in Puget Sound in 2025? What will be the most constraining run that all our seasons will be impacted by? I bet it’s from a river that starts with an S! Keep reading to find out.

Read more

When to go Ocean bottomfishing in 2024

Tim poses with big lingcod

For some, spring is marked by the beginning of baseball season, but for many fishy folks, it’s all about ocean bottomfishing opening up!

And that time is this coming weekend, Saturday, March 9th.

I’ve got so many resources for you to consider to get all caught up on ocean bottomfishing prep and ideas in this blog post that we have to get right to it.

Read more

Halibut Fishing Trip May 2023

Me holding 47 lb halibut up with Gaff

My friends and I recently had an absolutely epic halibut fishing trip out of Westport, WA. You know, the “early limits” back at the dock first kind of trip that you and your buddies will talk about for a long time.

This blog post breaks down everything we did in hopes that it might help someone repeat a similar level of success. And that includes me! When I write this stuff down, I like to go back and study it before the next trip so I can repeat what I did.

Read more

Don’t cancel your Sekiu trip – July 2022!

Infographic courtesy of NWSportsmanMag

WDFW Announced recently the closure of salmon fishing in Marine Area 5 on odd days in the month of July which has caused some anglers to consider canceling their trips to Sekiu.

Read more