Species to target regardless of location or technique
As I write this blog post, I’m getting ready to head up north to fish for coho out of the Port of Everett for 3 straight days culminating with the Salmon for Soldiers Day of Honor fishing event on Saturday, Sep 14th.
After an early push of some ocean coho, things have been quite slow in Areas 9 and 8-2. There are still good numbers of coho being caught in Area 10, and there is a pile of coho out at Sekiu.
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.
I’ve missed a good chunk of August already due to fishing in Port Hardy for a week and trying to play catch-up on my return.
The peak fishing in the South Puget Sound has occurred over the past few weeks and should continue into this week. This post is more of a summary and run down of the opportunity in this coming week.
Fishing in the South Puget Sound in July has largely been a grind-it-out program for most, though some may have it really dialed in. For others, it has been a significant challenge to hook anything. In this article, we will go through some of what we’ve been doing, summarize what we’ve seen and think, and project it forward to the month of August in terms of what’s coming up.
Have you ever wanted to make a trip to fish for Salmon in the Strait? Fishing in early July in the interior of Puget Sound can be good, but it also can be a grind-it-out affair as we wait for the bulk of the run to make its way inland.
Why not go to where the fish are? We will attempt to share everything we learned from our 3-day trip out west that might help you have a successful trip fishing the Strait for salmon in early July.
Crabbing can be one of the most fun things to do as a family on Puget Sound.
If your kids are like mine, they don’t love downrigger trolling or pulling up shrimp pots from 275 ft, but the much more relaxed and potentially faster action of crabbing is more their speed.
In this post, we will cover the crabbing report from the opening day on Hood Canal and some ideas for making crabbing fun for the whole family.
I’m sure you’ve heard something about the Marine Area 11 Salmon 2019 Season Opener at this point but are probably curious on what is the truth of how it went and what it means for the rest of the season.
We were out there on the water and will share everything we observed while on the water and what we learned later on compiling the various reports to equip you with everything you need to know.
Next week will begin a series of season openers for the 2019 salmon season for the Strait and interior of Puget Sound. For the last several years, I’ve attended the opener out in Port Angeles and had excellent results. This year may be even better, for a number of reasons we will discuss in this post.
WDFW announced the upcoming 2019 Puget Sound Crab Season on Jun 10th with details on specific dates and locations. Every year this announcement is greatly anticipated as crabbing is one of the most fun harvest activities you can participate in from a dock or from a boat.