Let’s take a deep dive look into all of the *proposed* and nearly finalized salmon seasons for Puget Sound in 2024.
Blackmouth
Puget Sound Salmon Forecasts 2024
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.
2024 Winter Chinook Blackmouth Fishery to open 4 days a week
For many Puget Sound anglers, this announcement of our winter chinook fishery beginning on March 1st, 2024 is absolutely exciting. March is often the beginning of the recreational fishing calendar for those with a boat. This announcement is also a reminder of the challenge and difficulty of fishing seasons in Puget Sound the last few years with the restriction of being only open for 4 days a week.
We cover all the details of this WDFW news and provide links to helpful resources in this blog post.
Explaining the Marine Area 10 closure, re-opening in August 2023
The summer salmon season in 2023 was one of the absolute best in quite some time!
The abundance of coho and chinook results in many wonderful fish-catching adventures throughout the Puget Sound, Strait, and Ocean.
However, many anglers will best remember 2023 for the two very confusing, confounding, and anger-inducing closures that occurred in Marine Area 10 and Marine Area 11.
This blog article attempts to explain the Marine Area 10 closure in much greater detail than how most of us have previously understood it.
Changes I made to stop losing big chinook while trolling
If you’ve been a follower of our YouTube channel (you should be!), you know that we ran out to Neah Bay not long after the June salmon opener for a single-day incredible turn-and-burn trip. And on that trip, we hooked into 8 quality chinook but lost 6 of those, and only landed 2.
I’ve recently made some changes and have gone 11 for 11 on quality chinook since those changes. This blog post is to highlight what exactly I changed.
Salmon fishing suspended in Marine Area 11 (Tacoma-Vashon Island)
FISHING RULE CHANGE
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
July 13, 2023
Salmon fishing suspended in Marine Area 11 (Tacoma-Vashon Island)
Should we lie to WDFW about the fish we caught?
You might be thinking this is a ridiculous blog post just from the title, but it’s actually a really important question to think through with a full understanding of how our fishing and catching data is used by WDFW. By attempting to apply logic and reason to this question we will hopefully illuminate some things we may not fully understand.
Salmon fishing suspended in Marine Area 11
June 13, 2023
Salmon fishing suspended in Marine Area 11
Action: Closes to all salmon fishing.
South Puget Sound Salmon fishing is hot! June, 2022
I don’t usually like to be the guy who sounds the alarm on a fishery to give it even more attention but…if you are thinking you can wait to get in on the incredible chinook fishing going on in Marine Area 11 right now, you may be disappointed
Puget Sound Salmon Forecasts 2022
The 2022 Puget Sound Salmon Forecasts have been released! Here’s my coverage of what was shared via Zoom by WDFW.