Non-Fly 2025 Summer Salmon

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Graduation celebration trip! Trolled in the general vague vicinity of the yellow bouy and caught our limit 4/6 in less than 2 hours midday. (Buddy forgot to buy his license lol, probably could’ve caught six in another hour or less.

They’re really tiny this year, last time I did resi coho in june the fish were at least twice the size of these guys
 
Put a couple of these in the freezer over the last couple of days. The jig bite was super slow for me yesterday. 9 hours for three salmon bites and one landed fish. Luckily I don’t mind floating around on the sound within close proximity of 100 other boats on my day off 🤣. Even if it’s not fly fishing, it still beats work…

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Graduation celebration trip! Trolled in the general vague vicinity of the yellow bouy and caught our limit 4/6 in less than 2 hours midday. (Buddy forgot to buy his license lol, probably could’ve caught six in another hour or less.

They’re really tiny this year, last time I did resi coho in june the fish were at least twice the size of these guys
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Nice catch and fun celebration!

Question - yellow buoy at Golden Gardens?
 
jasmillo said:
Put a couple of these in the freezer over the last couple of days. The jig bite was super slow for me yesterday. 9 hours for three salmon bites and one landed fish. Luckily I don’t mind floating around on the sound within close proximity of 100 other boats on my day off 🤣. Even if it’s not fly fishing, it still beats work…

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How many dogs?
 
ThatGuyRyRy said:
How many dogs?
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Ha, I was like Joey Chestnut out there. The moochers seemed to have it worse off than the jig guys though.

First time I’ve ever seen an eagle swoop down and snag a recently released one from another boat. That was pretty cool.
 
Hit the tulalip bubble following last weeks optimistic creel reports, only good thing to report about today was the relative lack of crowding. Only 100 of my closest friends instead of 300. Saw one nice one landed and 3 lost. Hooked a chubby 14" blackmouth though
 
speedbird said:
Hit the tulalip bubble following last weeks optimistic creel reports, only good thing to report about today was the relative lack of crowding. Only 100 of my closest friends instead of 300. Saw one nice one landed and 3 lost. Hooked a chubby 14" blackmouth though
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WDFW’s creel reports show 85 boats with 84 chinook for the bubble today, so pretty good fishing overall. I wonder how crowded tomorrow will be?
 
Went halibut fishing off the Oregon coast Thursday and it was as dead a day as I'd seen. So we switched gears for quick n easy coho limits. Didn't even go searching... Just pulled halibut gear and started trolling about ten miles off shore 😂

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Evan B said:
Went halibut fishing off the Oregon coast Thursday and it was as dead a day as I'd seen. So we switched gears for quick n easy coho limits. Didn't even go searching... Just pulled halibut gear and started trolling about ten miles off shore 😂

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It’s amazing to me that you can find coho just like that 10 miles out in the vast open. Is this pretty usual?
 
Kfish said:
It’s amazing to me that you can find coho just like that 10 miles out in the vast open. Is this pretty usual?
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Not only is it pretty usual, I'd consider it one of the easiest fisheries in the PNW. Coho rival albacore in their mindless feeding frenzies in the ocean. Just stupid, aggressive, and not particularly hard to find most times.

Granted, it's still fishing and it's a big ocean, so results may vary... but my halibut, lingcod and albacore trips typically end with a quick coho sesh. We get them almost every time.

You can even just drag a fly in the prop wash on a sinking line and catch em.
 
Went out of the Columbia River mouth yesterday (July 5) and got limits for two on some tasty critters. Last fish in the box by noon which took longer than I anticipated 😂 coho were doing their best escape artist routines yesterday.

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Oh, and we had an angry, frothy ocean yesterday



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Though, we did well to plan our escape before early afternoon when the wind kicked up. We crossed the bar coming in right after the ebb started and it was already really chunky. Had to put the rain gear on because the washing machine was sure to get us all kinds of spray.
 
Evan B said:
Oh, and we had an angry, frothy ocean yesterday



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Though, we did well to plan our escape before early afternoon when the wind kicked up. We crossed the bar coming in right after the ebb started and it was already really chunky. Had to put the rain gear on because the washing machine was sure to get us all kinds of spray.
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What kind of setup is this? Are you trolling with a diver? Or crank bait?
 
Kfish said:
What kind of setup is this? Are you trolling with a diver? Or crank bait?
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Running line with a slider on it. Lead weight clips to slider. I typically use about 10-12oz in the ocean. Then about a 20" bumper to a pro troll flasher, then typically a spinner about 20" behind that.

I run that about 25-45 on the line counter depending on the spread we're running. Probably only fishing down about 10-20'
 
Evan B said:
Running line with a slider on it. Lead weight clips to slider. I typically use about 10-12oz in the ocean. Then about a 20" bumper to a pro troll flasher, then typically a spinner about 20" behind that.

I run that about 25-45 on the line counter depending on the spread we're running. Probably only fishing down about 10-20'
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Spinners in the ocean is interesting!
 
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