Puget Sound
- Thread starter Stonedfish
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God answered our call for clouds!
SF
You know the old saying....with the first cloudy weekend of August comes the sea runners
Thankful for that for sure
If it makes you feel better, I’m 0 for 9 over the past three days. I can’t even look at this thread right now, lol.
0 for 1 with Yoda on my back
Pink Nighty
Legend
Agreed! It's not as long as you think before they don't fit anymore.
Lots of fun memories though.
Long day 12 hour day. Ended up 2 for 3 on coho plus one pinkus roped.
Excellent fishing weather. I hope we get more.
This person must have a engineering degree.
This thing ate my clouser. I’ve never seen smelt on this beach.
A couple fish pics. One had fur-bag diaper rash.
SF
Excellent fishing weather. I hope we get more.
This person must have a engineering degree.
This thing ate my clouser. I’ve never seen smelt on this beach.
A couple fish pics. One had fur-bag diaper rash.
SF
Absolutely perfect fishing conditions out there today.
@jasmillo and I spent a full, action packed day out there. On the water at 5am and reeled in just after 530 pm. Clouds and zero wind all day. Dreamy
Started off super foggy and our first two or three hours we had solid coho fishing with a few pinks mixed in. Didn't take many fish pics today but we each released some nice coho, lost some nice coho, and missed plenty of grabs. Fog finally burned off so we headed out in search of humpy mania and boy did we find it. From when we got to our destination and doubled on basically our first casts until we reeled in at the end of the day it was pretty much consistent action. Just school after school of pinks moving through. My wrist is legitimately sore. I don't care what anyone says, I love chasing those things!
As has been the trend lately there was just non stop herring everywhere we went.
Plenty of fish were caught, plenty were lost. Just a great example of Puget Sound being Puget Sound.
For some reason every fish I hooked in the morning wanted to run towards the trolling motor and make me run around the console and end up with line all over the damn boat.
Only fish pic I snapped today. One of many doubles
Rods were bent all day long
Beautiful evening on the run in
Does anyone know what this setup is? Never seen this before. Just north of the bridge on the north side of the canal
@jasmillo and I spent a full, action packed day out there. On the water at 5am and reeled in just after 530 pm. Clouds and zero wind all day. Dreamy
Started off super foggy and our first two or three hours we had solid coho fishing with a few pinks mixed in. Didn't take many fish pics today but we each released some nice coho, lost some nice coho, and missed plenty of grabs. Fog finally burned off so we headed out in search of humpy mania and boy did we find it. From when we got to our destination and doubled on basically our first casts until we reeled in at the end of the day it was pretty much consistent action. Just school after school of pinks moving through. My wrist is legitimately sore. I don't care what anyone says, I love chasing those things!
As has been the trend lately there was just non stop herring everywhere we went.
Plenty of fish were caught, plenty were lost. Just a great example of Puget Sound being Puget Sound.
For some reason every fish I hooked in the morning wanted to run towards the trolling motor and make me run around the console and end up with line all over the damn boat.
Only fish pic I snapped today. One of many doubles
Rods were bent all day long
Beautiful evening on the run in
Does anyone know what this setup is? Never seen this before. Just north of the bridge on the north side of the canal
Nice work gents!
Thanks for having me out @Nick Clayton. That was a ton of fun. 12 hours of fishing went by in a flash. I’ve caught plenty of pinks incidentally off the beach but never targeted them specifically from the boat. Some of the best see a fish, cast to a fish, hook a fish fishing I’ve ever experienced on the sound. What a blast. Thanks again for an awesome day!
Awesome. Looks like someone slipped into my spot. Was out this evening. There were some cutts in the shallows. Lots of bait.
Greggor
'Schooled' by Roy Patrick
Fished a beach for most of the incoming this afternoon. Some interesting patterns of filtered sunlight peaking through mostly cloudy skies. A nice change! Beautiful!
There were a few times when the actiion would really pick up, and the Sound would just seem to come alive. And I don't think I've ever seen so many legal dungies crawling around about my feet.
I went 1/1 on a rezzie, no fin! Almost considered releasing it, but I needed to renew my hall pass, so I brought it home for the bbq. Had only one solid hard grab, but literally dozens of grabs on a fast stripped clouser.
The flat fish and sculpin were looking up and going vertical! I landed at least a dozen, again fast stripping! Some of the flounder and sole were larger than average. A hoot, quite fun. Tug is the drug, even if just consolation prizes.
There were a few times when the actiion would really pick up, and the Sound would just seem to come alive. And I don't think I've ever seen so many legal dungies crawling around about my feet.
I went 1/1 on a rezzie, no fin! Almost considered releasing it, but I needed to renew my hall pass, so I brought it home for the bbq. Had only one solid hard grab, but literally dozens of grabs on a fast stripped clouser.
The flat fish and sculpin were looking up and going vertical! I landed at least a dozen, again fast stripping! Some of the flounder and sole were larger than average. A hoot, quite fun. Tug is the drug, even if just consolation prizes.
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