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Easy -Silvers are destined for the table and coho are destined to the spawning grounds! Curt

As we slide into the fall it is time to look at Puget Sound Chinook fisheries and how the in-season management performance went. Coming out of NOF the main limiting stock was the Snohomish wild Chinook where to meet the harvest guidelines/quotas for the MAs with the largest impacts seeing...

All of my labs have been wonderful fishing companions! They are always ready to go at the drop of a hat, never question my choice of destination or fishing methods however they expect me to provide the lunch or at least be willing to share mime. I would get the swimming issue of the way right...

An update on my garden. It generally was a poor year for our berries, the strawberries were ok both the blue berries and raspberries were poor, and the Marion berries were great. The zucchini has been zucchini though this year I experimented with growing them vertically; will be repeating that...

For a successful product here is my recipe - 1) Start with the very best fish I get my hands on. Typically, that means a fish at nears its peak condition that is bled and cleaned within minutes of being caught before going on ice. 2) I use the simplest dry brine recipe. I filet the fish...

The last The last 3 years during that first 3 day Chinook season for MA 10 the largest number of boats checked at Shilshole was 152. The past Friday 203 were checked.

SF - Historically PS herring lived to age 9 (those horse herring) but now adult herring mortality has increased significantly. An example of that change, for the Cherry Point population; in the late 1970s that mortality rate was in the 20 to40% range and by the 1990 to 2008 period the average...

The most promising management activity to control stunted brook trout populations is being tested and seems to hold great promise is to use genetically altered brook trout that produce all males. With multiple introductions of those only males within a couple generations the wild population...

Dave - Pretty consistently the longer self-sustaining brook trout are in a lake the small the seem to become. Essentially their abundance over comes the lake's ability to produce food. The best examples I can give are several Whatcom County lakes where the initial planting of trout (in this...

Once a herring or other fish dies the acids in their stomachs continue to work on what is in the stomach resulting in what often is referred to as belly burn. By holding the herring alive in holding nets until the gut is emptied before processing as frozen bait the highest quality bait is...

Yes those drop shot hooks are a fine wire hook. I have opened the bend on a few of them. Usually, it when using two hooks and the fish is in the net in flopping the free hook becomes tangled in the net and hook in the fish opens. The thinness of the hook helps in converting bites to hook-ups...

After more than 77 years of fishing and 70 years of fly fishing that are oodles of memories of exceptional fish (some large and others not so large) and memories of special trips and days on the water. My oldest son was introduced to fishing (more than 50 yeas ago) at a young age (3?) and for...

Experience has shown that fishing tactics for sockeye and kokanee can be very similar with slight modifications based on the size of the target fish. This was driven home to me the last few years that there were sockeye seasons on lake Washington. At that time the standard approach was to fish...

Once again possession is the best defense!

Will be spinning headless herring with a buddy on the 16th. Not sure it is a given that the Chinook season will be even 3 days long! With the reduced quota and the fact that MA 10 will be closed to Chinook until the 23rd would expect to see an increase in effort in MA 9. Last year on the...

+Going into this season the pre-season forecast of just under 71,000 was below the most recent two years actual returns. Having 6,500 fish in the lake for the opener maybe down from recent years it certainly better than seen in the early years of this fishery where catch rates were pretty...

We anglers often are quick to latch onto anything that promises to produce "larger" trout. Here in Western Washington in the 1970s/early 1980s it was the "Donaldson rainbow" and more recently it has been surplus hatchery brood stock, surplus hatchery steelhead and the current rage "triploids"...

+ The poor mid field play (lack of talent) has been a chronic USA problem. This has been. especially true for the central mid fielders. Like early in this world cup the US was more than able to hold their own with second tier teams but once they step up to the top dozen teams in the world...

Without a doubt if limited to a single fly on stillwaters without any advance hatch information my pick would be a dark olive soft hackle (partridge).

Messi is human! After his missed PK, Austria is making it a game. That said it feels like it is just a matter to time before Argentina puts one in the net. And just like that Messi scores his record making goal! Curt