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Puget Sound salmon fishing last week of July 2025. Will we get more time in MA9 and MA10?!?
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Jul 28, 2025
Will we get more openers in MA9 and MA10? That's the question everyone wants to know. While I don't know the answer to that question in 9, I'm certain we will get more time in 10 based on looking at the creel data in 2025 vs 2024. I will break it down in the video, and you can see exactly what I'm talking about. First, you have to suffer through a few minutes of my crew salmon fishing last week in MA9 and having some decent success too!
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There you go.
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Hey everybody, PNW Best live here. Just
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want to share a quick video of a little
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bit of Puget Town salmon fishing. Last
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week we uh decided to take advantage of
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the one day Mariner 9 opener and we went
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up to possession.
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Got one fish on a plug, but it uh got
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off. We hit the boat. So, uh fishing was
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tough at first. I think we were there
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kind of at the wrong wrong time, wrong
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part of the bar. And so, we decided to
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head over to Pointe Point and fish kind
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of the EB going west of there and Skunk
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Bay.
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Felt it out of the house.
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Hurry up, Nick.
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And we proceeded to hook quite a few
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fish. Had some different gear failures
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and uh different reasons for not getting
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them into the net. Although we, you
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know, we finally did get a few fish to
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the net.
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It was still coming up as he grabbed it.
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So,
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yeah. Good. Get it.
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It's pretty. I yelled as soon as I saw
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it. You pulling any line or a little
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bit.
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Doesn't feel like a monster, but
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Got it.
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That stupid knot.
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It's too
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coh
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at all.
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Yeah, I would.
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There we go.
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Fill that fish.
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wondering
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pinky.
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I forgot you didn't have a plug on. So,
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and uh you know, overall overall great
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trip.
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I can't see with you there.
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Let's talk real quick about where we are
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in the quotas. You know, it's we don't
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know exactly how to translate Creole
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data to the WFW quota numbers. But, you
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know, given that Marine Area 9 and 10
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basically hit their quotas, we're very
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near in 2024, you can kind of look at
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that data
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to to estimate where we might be so far
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this year. But first, let's just look at
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the the angller versus catch data for
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for each of these areas. So, here we're
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looking at nine. And you can see, you
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know, kind of the typical pattern. The
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first day is the best day, and it kind
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of goes down from there. there was
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enough fish left on the table to get us
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one more day and nine potentially two
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more days. Now, let's look at take a
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look at uh marine area 10 and you could
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see that really not a whole ton of fish
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have been caught in Marine Area 10.
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Hasn't really turned on although from
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you know Friday to Saturday it got
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better in terms of uh the the shnook
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that were creed and probably will be at
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its peak here over the next week and
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then I do believe we're going to get
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another opener. We'll look at that in a
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second. Marine Air 11 still slow, still
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waiting for fish to to push down into
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the typical areas, but there's already a
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lot of pinks around in some different
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areas. Um, and that's something that you
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might want to focus on, and those should
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be showing up more and more every day.
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Just take a look at the the the graph so
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far comparing 2024 to 2025
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total so far just from the Creole data
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and you could see we're not yet at the
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total number caught in Marine Area 9 in
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2025 or sorry in 2024. So there's a
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chance we could get another day in
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Marine Area 9. Um I'm not holding my
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breath but the data shows we're
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underneath that of what we hit last year
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with 10. You can see we're way off the
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numbers uh from 2024. So, there's a
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chance we might actually get a season
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out of 10. Uh I'm hoping the department
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will consider opening 10 on this next
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opener and just leaving it open u
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through through August until we hit the
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quota for Shnook and then, you know, CO
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and Pinks uh should be open after that.
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And uh continue to be open, I should
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say. Marine 11, as you can see, we're
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well off uh you know, where we were, and
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we didn't even get all our fish in 2024.
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So, there's a lot of work done to be
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done still in Mariner 11, which is why
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it's open 7 days a week. And we'll we'll
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have a two fish limit, I believe,
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starting August 1st, which should help
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uh quite a bit as those fish push into
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that in this uh in these in this other
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section. So uh my next video is going to
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be about this week coming up and what
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I'm doing and where I'm targeting these
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uh these salmon next. So, I hope you all
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get into them this week. Lots more
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salmon fishing to be done here.