Puget Sound

jasmillo said:
Hit the sound with a gear buddy today looking to add some coho to our freezers. Pretty hot fishing. Many landed, many lost. Wrapped coho fishing early AM and spent the rest of the morning harassing pinks.
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Now if only these silver bastards would show more consistent off our beaches….
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I had pretty good luck trolling gear for coho with a friend yesterday morning, too. No luck on silvers, though.
I’m curious how the pink chasing went, if you don’t mind? What you found, how they were acting, MA10? ...either here or in a humpy thread.
 
Matt B said:
I had pretty good luck trolling gear for coho with a friend yesterday morning, too. No luck on silvers, though.
I’m curious how the pink chasing went, if you don’t mind? What you found, how they were acting, MA10? ...either here or in a humpy thread.
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We found enough to keep it interesting and they were acting like pinks. A good cast resulted in a hookup most times. Definitely slowing down but enough around that chasing down pods was effective (hooking…landing not so much, tough day for both of us on that front). Bigger schools with multiple jumpers/finners were more productive than single jumpers.

Definitely more pinks around than in 9 the day before. We saw few if any covering a lot of water there on Saturday.
 
rotato said:
Pretty close
I’ll ask the captain again
But I believe it was launched from the Petritch yard in the late 20’s early 30’s
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New Oregon was built in 1929 at the JM Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. This according to “The Fleet”- Gig Harbor, WA. It’s a great little book for anyone interested, and it lists many of the boats in the fleet, as well as their owners and their histories.

@wanderingrichard Many of the boats are over a hundred years old and are still in existence. They had to be maintained to keep working. I and others here know, because we worked on them.
 
Greg Armstrong said:
New Oregon was built in 1929 at the JM Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. This according to “The Fleet”- Gig Harbor, WA. It’s a great little book for anyone interested, and it lists many of the boats in the fleet, as well as their owners and their histories.

@wanderingrichard Many of the boats are over a hundred years old and are still in existence. They had to be maintained to keep working. I and others here know, because we worked on them.
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I worked on the Andrew Z ll in the 70s and 80s.
She was built in 1913 in Tacoma.
She sank at the dock in Friday Harbor in late 90s.20150307_091812-1.jpg20150223_203005.jpg
 
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Greg Armstrong said:
New Oregon was built in 1929 at the JM Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. This according to “The Fleet”- Gig Harbor, WA. It’s a great little book for anyone interested, and it lists many of the boats in the fleet, as well as their owners and their histories.

@wanderingrichard Many of the boats are over a hundred years old and are still in existence. They had to be maintained to keep working. I and others here know, because we worked on them.
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So I was doing a little sleuthing and found this
It lists the original owner as Andy Blair
Who is the current captain
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rotato said:
So I was doing a little sleuthing and found this
It lists the original owner as Andy Blair
Who is the current captain
:)
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Here’s what it says in my book… says he’s been skipper for 40 years. The book was written in 2023.

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Wanative said:
I worked on the Andrew Z ll in the 70s and 80s.
She was built in 1913 in Tacoma.
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Mid ‘70’s I crewed on the Poseidon, A Delta 58’. She was a drum seiner and the 2nd boat out of the mold so brand spankin new. She had a yacht-like teak interior.
Crewed out of Gig Harbor the next year on the St. Bernadette, a Whitney Fidalgo boat.
The skipper bought the Pacific Dawn, and I crewed on that the following season.

Looks like both of us were skiffman based on your photo?
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Greg Armstrong said:
Mid ‘70’s I crewed on the Poseidon, A Delta 58’. She was a drum seiner and the 2nd boat out of the mold so brand spankin new. She had a yacht-like teak interior.
Crewed out of Gig Harbor the next year on the St. Bernadette, a Whitney Fidalgo boat.
The skipper bought the Pacific Dawn, and I crewed on that the following season.

Looks like both of us were skiffman based on your photo?
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In the Pic bringing the fish over the stern I'm in the blue sweatshirt on the left.
My first season was 1972, 17 years old right out of high school.
I was the skiff man my first year, deck hand second year.
After that I pursed or ran the drum along with being the cook. I fished for 10 years straight then got a real job.😅
I used my vacation time from work to keep fishing as the skipper wanted me and the openings were down to one or two days and sometimes only hours.
 
Now that the pink crowds have dwindled, earlier this week I went down to a beach I used to fish a lot for coho. I probably haven’t been there in maybe 10 years.
At first, I thought someone had forgotten their Home Depot fishing bucket the night before. Turns out there were several of these on the beach to dispose used fishing gear in.
I’m not sure who did this, but kudos to whoever did.
No adult size coho were harmed in the making of this report. 😂
SF

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Stonedfish said:
Now that the pink crowds have dwindled, earlier this week I went down to a beach I used to fish a lot for coho. I probably haven’t been there in maybe 10 years.
At first, I thought someone had forgotten their Home Depot fishing bucket the night before. Turns out there were several of these on the beach to dispose used fishing gear in.
I’m not sure who did this, but kudos to whoever did.
No adult size coho were harmed in the making of this report. 😂
SF

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Sooner or later somebody's going to lay a deuce in there.
 
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