Puget Sound

[VMP]

I missed the earlier coho bonanza due to a deluge of work travel and meetings, it felt good to hit the water early today. First fish was the biggest of the day, lost after a couple jumps and walking on water, honestly looked like a 10 lb coho. Found some seagulls working on surface bait and picked a couple coho in short order, both females 6 and 7 lb, not huge but decent size compared to my earlier coho catches this year. Zoomed in picture to show the "dazed and conefused" 5 inch fly that did the trick and also the deformed pectoral fin, did I kill Nemo? . On the way back I spotted some small birds feeding among a thick line of seagrass, they looked like migrating red-necked phalaropes, sorry for the poor picture. Lots of purpoises around, no whales. I desperately needed some fish therapy, it felt great.

 

[Zak]

Is this someone on here?

 

[jasmillo]

I was out of town for 8 days so not much fishing as of late. Got home today and had a couple hours to kill this afternoon so hit a local beach. Fished the tail end of the incoming and found a fish. Fresh salmon for dinner. Pretty cool place we all call home here in western WA .

 

[Gary Knowels]

0-0 from 6:30-11:30 this morning. For a 30 minute period the buzz bomb guys went absolutely nuts, beaching 40-50 fish including many large coho. Most fish were hooked 100+ feet off the beach.

The quest continues.

 

[Merle]

0-0 from 6:30-11:30 this morning. For a 30 minute period the buzz bomb guys went absolutely nuts, beaching 40-50 fish including many large coho. Most fish were hooked 100+ feet off the beach.

The quest continues.

That’s frustrating seeing those guys hook up at 100 ft out when I’m struggling to get a clouser to land cleanly at 60 ft.

 

[Semper_Fly]

Is this someone on here?

Not me but I've been busted once on home water. Made it my profile pic.

 

[Pink Nighty]

Not me but I've been busted once on home water. Made it my profile pic.

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Shout out to the waist deep kid in a backpack profile pic gang!!

 

[Kfish]

Weekend recap.
Fished Saturday morning with @mtskibum16 , was really slow, did not see any salmon jump and very little bait around. I kept pounding a deeper hole until a random fish showed up, small 4 pounder.



Fished this morning on @jasmillo boat using gear. A little unconventional but it was pretty damn effective, could have limited out at 9am but we released 2 so we can keep on fishing.

Pic showing part of the dirty gear in question, if you know, you know at least a fly was used!
We must use this new found power only for good, not evil.

 

[jasmillo]

Good morning with @Kfish. The plan was to hit some hot spots where gear guys have been doing well. Jig rods in hand, we headed that direction. Well, also, the night before, we had this exchange…




Well, the diver work. Really well actually. I think we hooked 5 or 6 and landed 4 or 5 in a couple hours using it (we only had one). Lou got one on a jig he also released. Good morning though. Lou had to call it at 11 so we headed in with three fish. Lou kept two, I kept one because…well, I had other plans for the afternoon .




After dropping off the boat at home, I headed out to a local spot with the fly rod to rinse that nasty gear stank off my me..ha. Hit the incoming about perfectly and landed a couple in about an hour of fishing. I love fishing, pretty much any kind of fishing but the take of an aggressive fish on a fly rod is unmatchable IMO. 2-2 on the beach with the fly rod. Kept one. Let the other go. Puget Sound is a cool place indeed…



Let this guy go.



Two keepers for the day.

 

[NRC]

 

[mtskibum16]

0-0 from 6:30-11:30 this morning. For a 30 minute period the buzz bomb guys went absolutely nuts, beaching 40-50 fish including many large coho. Most fish were hooked 100+ feet off the beach.

The quest continues.

Beaching 40-50 fish in 30 minutes!? Don't think I've ever witnessed a scene like that in my years of beach fishing the PS! Especially from the buzz bomb crowd. That must have been one hell of a school of coho!

 

[Gary Knowels]

Beaching 40-50 fish in 30 minutes!? Don't think I've ever witnessed a scene like that in my years of beach fishing the PS! Especially from the buzz bomb crowd. That must have been one hell of a school of coho!

At one point I could see 9-10 bent rods simultaneously! 5-6 different times 3+ bent rods at the same time. Fish were about 50:50 wild:clipped

 

[Pink Nighty]

Beaching 40-50 fish in 30 minutes!? Don't think I've ever witnessed a scene like that in my years of beach fishing the PS! Especially from the buzz bomb crowd. That must have been one hell of a school of coho!

Once (circa 2007) down in mutiny bay a wall of coho came down the beach like nothing I've ever seen. Every swell had coho in it and they were spitting distance from shore. Maybe 20 minutes for everyone on the beach to limit.

We were there for pinks!

 

[mtskibum16]

Once (circa 2007) down in mutiny bay a wall of coho came down the beach like nothing I've ever seen. Every swell had coho in it and they were spitting distance from shore. Maybe 20 minutes for everyone on the beach to limit.

We were there for pinks!

I first stepped foot on a PS beach in 2008. But 2008-2012 or so I do remember there being significantly more days where you would "see" the school coming as the rods started bending one after another and anxiously awaiting your turn. It still happens but sure seems like with less frequency.

 

[mickey rat]

Thursday, I was washing down the deck in the Everett Marina and my wife was hollering and pointing at the water behind the slip. There must have been about 30 or 40 coho schooling by. They went down the channel about a hundred feet. They churned the surface and beelined back past us in the opposite direction with a couple seals in pursuit. I’ve been in the marina for about fifty years and saw a number of individual salmon but nothing like that. Pretty cool.

 

[Paige]

Probably 35-40 yrs ago we were camping in our boat in Friday Harbor. One night there was a bait ball busting up under a lamp on the dock and there was some big ass kings going to town, lile 30# sized kings.
Well I grabed a Point Wilson Dart and proceeded to hook nothing, was so disappointed, LOL!

 

[Northern]

18" Lion's Mane (I think... I'm no jellyfish expert) posed for some closeups from the yak

 

[DimeBrite]

Spotted Ratfish visiting with me in the shallows.

 

[speedbird]

Probably 35-40 yrs ago we were camping in our boat in Friday Harbor. One night there was a bait ball busting up under a lamp on the dock and there was some big ass kings going to town, lile 30# sized kings.
Well I grabed a Point Wilson Dart and proceeded to hook nothing, was so disappointed, LOL!

The amount of bait up here at night is insane, pipefish and small Clupeiformes that I so far can only guess to be juvenile herring. The water has so many ripples you'd think it was raining, then you look down and see nothing but baitfish. Have yet to see any salmon crashing it though

 

[BriGuy]

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Spotted Ratfish visiting with me in the shallows.

Those things look much cooler in the water than out of it.