Puget Sound
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Pinks come before humpies, everyone knows that.
Just like the coho typically start arriving a bit earlier than the silvers
Just like the coho typically start arriving a bit earlier than the silvers
but at what elevation do pinks become humpies? Same elevation where deer become elk?
That first fish is wild. I wanna say Blackmouth but I swear that looks like a Pink jackGot out to the Gig Harbor side on the way home. Harbor porpoises,s and a couple young eagles fishing it was quite the wildlife display. And on the walk back I was encouraged to come see a red headed woodpecker by a bird watcher to top it all off.
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Went 1 for 3 with the landed resident at a little over a pound, say 1.5, and one of the lost coho in the 2lb range. Forgot my net doh! Tons of grass and various foliage that fish were surfacing in.
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A weighted squimp was the goto with the 3wt today.
Divad
Whitefish
It has encouraged me to explore in the salt more, don’t know what’s out there until you get out there kind of thing.
The serotonin rush from the hookups fishing puget sound are up there with steelhead. (Could be due to the cast/catch ratio aspect
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I'd better get some.You mean the cute little local humpy that couldn't? Word is out on PinkHumpy.net about the first landing!
Sand Panko futures are skyrocketing.
SF
My Key bank has tanked.
Everyone knows the silvers show up a day after the Coho show up.
I know it, just can’t help chumming the waters
Next you’re gonna try to tell me that I don’t need three separate patterns for dog fry, keta fry, and chum fry!
in odd years that may be true, but in even years everyone else knows it is the other way around.
Unless the year end in a 0 or a 5. Then they both arrive on the same day.
Great example of the larger male Dungeness crab "guarding" a smaller female in anticipation of her molting (and he having an opportunity to fertilize her eggs).
Steve
And when you're a star, they let you do it!
I emailed Professor Tom Quinn at UW, who has coauthored quite a few photos about salmonids and he concurs that this appears to be a Resident Pink!Got out to the Gig Harbor side on the way home. Harbor porpoises,
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Went 1 for 3 with the landed resident at a little over a pound, say 1.5, and one of the lost coho in the 2lb range. Forgot my net doh! Tons of grass and various foliage that fish were surfacing in.
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A weighted squimp was the goto with the 3wt today.
Headed south this morning to try for cutts. A couple small fish to hand, but overall pretty slow. Some fry present, but not a lot.
Always fun when you encounter bycatch.
Best beach find today.
Added a few pieces to my beach glass collection.
Overall a nice day but just too hot for this wimpy PNW lifer.
SF
Always fun when you encounter bycatch.
Best beach find today.
Added a few pieces to my beach glass collection.
Overall a nice day but just too hot for this wimpy PNW lifer.
SF
Lots of paddling today though finally snapped a salt slump with plenty of fish, resident coho and SRC. 50/50 on skinny vs not. Probably should have tied some new flies earlier than last night, though suspect it was still finding the hold
Brian that perch is huge! could you tell it wasn't a SRC before you saw it?
Mike,
The take and fight were very different, so I suspected it might be something different but seeing some chrome flashes during the fight threw me off. I was still very surprised what it was when it finally popped up out of the water.
SF
