Preparing for Puget Sound Salmon in June 2022

Happy June 1st, and happy opening day of the summer salmon season in the Puget Sound!

That’s right, today, things get underway in Marine Area 11 with chinook salmon season opening on June 1st. But wait there’s more!

According to the WDFW 2022 Puget Sound Season summaries: We are supposed to get our Marine Area 10 Coho season opening up on June 16th.

I’ve also updated my own post following the salmon season developments from WDFW and included my commentary, thoughts, and charts on them here.

There are plenty of opportunities to keep us busy until July when things really take off! Like most years, I will be out in the Strait taking part in that annual epic beatdown of returning hatchery chinook salmon.

I want to take this opportunity to announce a few new things happening at the blog that you will see more and more of as we go through the season:

1. We have built a database that is automatically updated daily and weekly of the creel reports and escapement reports for all marine areas and rivers in our state.
2. You will start to see charts like the two below examples and many more as I scale out the capability appearing in content throughout the blog. The purpose of these charts is to help you make good trip decisions on “when to go”, and maybe even save a little bit of gas in the process.

These charts come from the new pages Marine Area 11 Chinook Salmon Fishing and Marine Area 10 Coho Salmon Fishing respectively.

I will be adding more of these types of pages as we go through the month of June. If you have a request for a particular style of data visualization that would help you, feel free to drop it in.

We will be doing this for rivers as runs start to trickle in as well.

And this is only the beginning!