2022 Salmon Chatter
- Thread starter JayB
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Not the coast, I’ve been watching the MA 10 creel reports since it opened plus a couple other places I see reports. Some fish being caught. Nothing big but that is to be expected at this time of the year. Tasty little guys though.
May try a few local spots but won’t fish much until MA 9 opens. That will give them about a month to grow since MA 10 beaches suck compared to MA 9.
Will take a 9 day coho staycation sometime in September. Bummer we are losing the last week of the month in MA 9.
Hopefully 2022 isn’t the continued trend of the 3 lb PS coho…….
SF
May try a few local spots but won’t fish much until MA 9 opens. That will give them about a month to grow since MA 10 beaches suck compared to MA 9.
Will take a 9 day coho staycation sometime in September. Bummer we are losing the last week of the month in MA 9.
Hopefully 2022 isn’t the continued trend of the 3 lb PS coho…….
SF
Can't speak to coho specifically, but I know when the spring commercial season opened on May 1 the trollers were absolutely crushing chinook out here in area 2. I have also personally put eyes on more salmon this spring than I've ever seen while bottomfishing. There were a few days in late April when I was seeing upwards of 20 jumpers a day while fishing lingcod, and one day we had several small schools of salmon swim right by our boat just under the surface.
All forecasts are calling for a banner year down here, and from what I've seen I expect that to be the case for sure.
All forecasts are calling for a banner year down here, and from what I've seen I expect that to be the case for sure.
Johns sporting goods? Never heard of it, looked them up and wow…in Everett too. Nice website. Thanks for the post. I’m slightly embarrassed I never heard of them.
If fishing is anything as good as it was in the limited opening of 11, it could be real good.
He's been around for a long, long time.
Yeah since 1953 according to their website. Just never knew.
Hillbilly Redneck
wishin I was fishin
Ted’s in Lynnwood. John’s in Everett. It’s where you bought your gear in Sno. County before the internet.
Was that the Ed's in Mt. Vernon?
Ed’s Surplus was on 196th in Lynwood.
skyrise
Steelhead
John is the guy to talk if your fishing gear up north here. Especially the San Juan islands. Back in the day I’d have gone to Mike (Ted’s) first about Puget sound. Mike did some guiding back then and knew the skinny on fishing the sound. Ed’s surplus was great back. As was Jerry’s surplus for many years. Family owned very nice folks.
There used to be a sporting goods store in M.V. called Ed's ..something or other.
It was by the base of the bridge downtown.
Yeah, what the hell was that called...
The building that it was in is now a parking lot. Probably a combo of downtown MV needing more parking and the skagit flooding there multiple times back in the 90's/00's
Wasn’t there a fly shop that used to be in that strip of buildings that are now gone. Something like Skagit Angler?
SF
Oh yeah, I think that's right. I guess I forgot it was a fly shop. I was remembering it more as a general fishing place.
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