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I don’t think it will unless they run into a game where they lose the turnover margin by a lot. Gotta also remember that the two times Oregon blew their chance was against a great Auburn team led by Cam Newton and that Ohio State team that got carried by Ezekiel Elliot. This year, I don’t see...

I’m a Huskies fan and really hate to say this but unless something crazy happens, Oregon is gonna win the whole thing this year. I don’t see another team out there that will stop them.

I’ve never had a consistent fishing partner or buddy before outside of family or taking a friend out once every few years or so. But I do have a lot of fishing acquaintances that I’ve known for years. There’s one Puget Sound beach I fish multiple times a week each summer where it feels like...

https://westseattleblog.com/2024/11/surprise-second-wave-of-salmon-spawners-breaks-fauntleroy-creek-record/ Thought this would be cool to share.

How big do chum get on average? I caught a hen today that was 8lbs, which seems cookie cutter size. However, I have seen a few bucks easily in the high teens in the past. Do bucks usually have a few pounds on hens?

I caught a plump sea-run as bycatch while coho fishing (with gear) in a Puget Sound river this weekend. Was a pleasant surprise. So it may not be time for you guys to hang it up for the season quite yet!

There’s also another creek down there by Meadowdale that got a return of chum when I swung by there around 10 years ago. It’s along that trail that goes down to the beach and under the train tracks. I wonder if they still show up there.

Sad that we may lose this fishery. I can personally confirm that Tokul still has some years that produce fish in catchable numbers, even though of course it is a fraction of what it used to be due to the reduced plants. The survival rate there is definitely higher than at Reiter or Whitehorse...

My lucky tan Hippy Stompers have got it done in the blue lines all summer for trout of all colors.

I think the Huskies will have a solid year despite all the pieces they lost. It’s early but Jonah Coleman looks like a really good running back, one that we haven’t seen in Montlake for a long time.

Already heard of some chromers being seen in the rivers. Even when I get completely teased by lockjaw coho there are very few things better than breathing in the crisp October air on the river and coming home to watch football.

Not expecting much (if any) opportunity in terms steelhead and kings (outside of people fighting over what we have left just like we are experiencing now). But I do think that coho will still be here in decent numbers and pinks are appearing to be the climate change winner. It really depends if...

Rule of thumb is that Ocean runs don’t show up in the Sound in good numbers until Labor Day weekend, give or take a week. I would expect that to be the case this year. We just gotta cross our fingers for cooler weather and rain.

Last month my mom came home with a salmon from QFC. She threw the packaging away and baked it for us. I knew something was up with it after I tasted it so I dug through the trash to find the packaging. It turned out that it was a chum packaged from China (probably caught somewhere in...

There was a section in there earlier today saying that 3,049 of the 3,900 were caught in MA 9 as well as around 2/3rds of the quota being taken in MA 7. Looks like the writer deleted it for some reason.

Not much left in terms of the MA9 chinook quota. Over 3,000 caught in a 3 day period (~1k per day is absolutely ridiculous).

On the beaches that I frequent hooking into an adult, migratory king is rare. You do see small schools here and there beginning with the S-river bound summer runs in June, but most years I haven’t seen them until the first week of August (since the peak of the fall run is generally right around...

More like Puget Sound Chinook salmon fishing is becoming an endangered species. The quotas are shrinking while the gear fishing fleets get more concentrated to specific areas due to constant closures. I wish I had a more positive outlook, but it looks like these short weekend fisheries are...

I was actually thinking about that but figured that a few Roman candles won’t hurt. I never get over excessive with fireworks, while other people like my neighbors treat the 4th of July like it’s a war. Paved surfaces are actually the biggest source of water pollution in the Puget Sound fyi...

Was lighting fireworks today off a MA 9 beach and saw thousands of small fish jumping out of the water from the shoreline to 30 yards out. Probably 2-3 inches long and did not act like herring or sandlance (or other baitfish). Rather, it was like observing the smolts you see jumping in the...