Scudley Do Right
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Sounds like I'm not hitting no point Saturday morning. Better call in sick if you want to fish 9.
Puget Sound
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I may be an optimist but based on previous years, I am thinking 9 stays open to coho and pinks through the scheduled close. They’ve closed king fishing early in MA 9 pretty much every year I’ve fished salmon while leaving other species open. 2016?? might be the exception. At the same time they have taken different approaches to other MA’s.
That said, the politics of chinooks has changed a lot in the last couple of years so who knows. Hope I’m right but you know the old saying.
Wish I one hand and shit in the other and see what fills up first.
At least we have a BFT fishery nowadays
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That said, the politics of chinooks has changed a lot in the last couple of years so who knows. Hope I’m right but you know the old saying.
Wish I one hand and shit in the other and see what fills up first.
At least we have a BFT fishery nowadays
.I wish they kept it open 7 days a week for shore-fishing only (or some other modification of the current rules to reduce Chinook encounters).
I don't like how this July fishery for rezzies and pinks is dependent on the amount of kings caught by all those guys with the $50k boat with fancy downriggers and electronics
I don't like how this July fishery for rezzies and pinks is dependent on the amount of kings caught by all those guys with the $50k boat with fancy downriggers and electronics
Is there a closure in MA9?
Most likely regarding the changes to the MA2 Salmon fishery. No chinook retention on Fridays and Saturdays now.
speedbird
Life of the Party
Extremely memorable day out on the water! Took some friends out for the first time, both people i regularly fish with but never on the boat. Unfortunately it’s a dirtbag report today. Hit the water at 6 am and started trolling, setting the gear at the bottom. I saw the herring balls at the surface Nick was talking about, definitely made me wish I brought my fly rod. I didn’t get a sight at any salmon feeding up top but that would have been something else. We put a plug out at the surface for a bit but no luck. I’ll start keeping a plug rod on hand every morning, it could be worthwhile. Sometime later we picked up this nice silver, looking at its gillplate it was feeding on candlefish like the kings. One of my friends had work so I had to pull back into the marina, the wind Nick mentioned but me in the ass and sent my boat crabbing sideways a little. Mid morning the bite dropped off, nothing but shakers. I was marking very few fish at the bottom, and all the shakers were silvers. I tried targeting silvers for a bit but no luck. As mid morning turned into early afternoon I we headed north and I suggested to my friend that we pack up. She didn’t hear, so I changed my mind and decided to send our gear to the bottom one more time. I made sure that our gear was sitting perfectly on the bottom, and got trolling. 5 minutes later, port side rod starts bouncing, and I quickly figure out we got a nice king. My friend grabs the rod, as never having fought a salmon before I’m coaching her fighting it. In hindsight the reel I gave her was undergunned, 300 series tekota. I’ll need to try fighting a king with it myself before deciding if I want to relegate it to jigging/mooching or coho trolling but for her, it was definitely not enough reel. She was winching more than reeling the fish in, even with the drag tightened all the way.
Putting someone on their first fish, especially one of that quality, is an incredibly good feeling. Even if it was with the dirt baggiest of dirtbag gear
Putting someone on their first fish, especially one of that quality, is an incredibly good feeling. Even if it was with the dirt baggiest of dirtbag gear
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Quick "local" session before work today, tidal movement was non existent but the creek produced a nice little rip and there was fair amt of bait around.
Landed one unclipped coho. Then it turned into pretty decent cutthroat fishing with a smedium blackmouth in the mix.
Can't complain, that was a good little fix since I can't fish this weekend
Landed one unclipped coho. Then it turned into pretty decent cutthroat fishing with a smedium blackmouth in the mix.
Can't complain, that was a good little fix since I can't fish this weekend
Decent morning on the beach before work. Fished the first beach for an hour. Just a couple of sculpin. Hit another and went 5-6 over the next hour. Mix of clipped and unclipped fish, pinks and coho. Finding bait was key. Bait with moving water was even better.
Finned friend prior to release.
Kept these guys for the freezer.
Both fish kept had piling perch??? in them. Is this correct?
Fly that produced.
Finned friend prior to release.
Kept these guys for the freezer.
Both fish kept had piling perch??? in them. Is this correct?
Fly that produced.
Yep some kind of perch, nice matching the hatch there!
I fished a MA9 beach this morning and went 4 for 6 on resident silvers. Two unclipped and two clipped. Nicest fish was a fat wild silver that jumped six times. Good practice for the bigger silvers to come. Also saw a couple schools of pinks that pecked/tugged my fly.
I better fish again on Friday
I better fish again on Friday
Yeah sometimes the July to October FOMO is not great when you keep reading this thread, particularly when people are smashing it and the meat pictures are rolling in.... Still, A few years back I started viewing this thread different, more as vicarious immersion where my happiness was coming from others having fun and doing new things, with me picking up some tips on the side, stuff I'd want to try (or avoid).
Now that the OG, AKA Original Salmo G (let alone Dimebrite, Nick, Stones, Jas etc), is on the water, the fish, as @Nick Clayton points out, will all soon be gone so it doesn't really matter if I am stuck at work or not... nothing I can do about it, serenity prayer etc etc
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Yes, both a 4-inch Bob Popovic's banger popper (@VAGABOND tie and one of my fish below) and a similar sized Leland Miyawaki's popper (@Chucker tie and fish below) have been getting some surface coho love from my boat, including my first cohos on popers ever a couple weeks ago. Those fish were trashing herring at the surface, so no shiner perch colors tried so far.
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These 20"-22" resident silvers are fun to catch when around in good numbers, but are not worthy of jealousyYeah sometimes the July to October FOMO is not great when you keep reading this thread, particularly when people are smashing it and the meat pictures are rolling in.... Still, A few years back I started viewing this thread different, more as vicarious immersion where my happiness was coming from others having fun and doing new things, with me picking up some tips on the side, stuff I'd want to try (or avoid).
Now that the OG, AKA Original Salmo G (let alone Dimebrite, Nick, Stones, Jas etc), is on the water, the fish, as @Nick Clayton points out, will all soon be gone so it doesn't really matter if I am stuck at work or not... nothing I can do about it, serenity prayer etc etc
. The big beach chinook that @Stonedfish caught last week was worthy of envy though.
