Puget Sound

VMP said:
Nice to meet you on the water @Nick Clayton! Similar day for us, we only fished the outgoing tide, things slowed down quite a bit for us once the bright sun hit the water. We just could not find the bait that we had seen till recently. We got a few coho followers, missed strikes, refusals, and a group of 5-6 chunky coho just cruising subsurface right by our boat but not interested in our offerings just as we saw you for the 2nd time when we were working a great looking tidal/wind rip. We boated one on the fly, missed one that was following the hooked one and got scared just when it was going for the other fly. Got a few others dirtbagging trying to find a king, which we didn't. On the other hand, fishing was red hot for flatties :), fishing 30' to 50' of water, some were not so close to the bottom, or we were effectively getting flies down while trying to dredge a king.
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We never saw any of that bait that's been so heavy in that area either. We found quite a bit out at Jeff, but real tight to the bottom. We spent the last hour or so mooching on it. We had a few bites that didn't stick, caught a couple rockfish, and just a single flounder. I did lose one chinook near the boat but it would have barely been legal sized even if it was clipped.

We saw our best action basically straight across on the other side from where we saw you, about halfway into the incoming, but still nothing too exciting.

The charters that I talked to that didn't run north did OK but not great. Couple keeper chinook for each of their morning and afternoon trips was the report I got from the three or four captains I talked to.

Clouds should definitely help! Looking at Monday as my next potential day.
 
First beach this morning were all unclipped, hooked 4 and landed 2.
Second beach it was fish on at first cast, I wasn't really expecting it because a seal popped up close to where my fly landed then the line went tight to a hatchery. 2 more hatchery fish hooked then released since they were on the smaller side.
It was dead for a while, then out of nowhere where a fish hit and I saw several others chasing that hooked fish. Second hatchery to complete the morning.

3 and 3.7 lbs.

Edit: didn't see any bait first beach and there were some bait here and there at second.
 
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I stared at the water prior to fishing and saw a fish jump, so I knew the run had started. 😉
3 for 6 this morning. Bonked a couple hatchery fish for the bbq. Nothing special size wise but tasty. These weren’t searun coho but they weren’t deep so they couldn’t be rezzies.
One was stuffed with sandlance and one with krill.

Way too bright, sunny and hot for my liking.
SF
 
Stonedfish said:
I stared at the water prior to fishing and saw a fish jump, so I knew the run had started. 😉
3 for 6 this morning. Bonked a couple hatchery fish for the bbq. Nothing special size wise but tasty. These weren’t searun coho but they weren’t deep so they couldn’t be rezzies.
One was stuffed with sandlance and one with krill.

Way too bright, sunny and hot for my liking.
SF
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Nice work Brian, but needed to make a small correction. Those couldn't have been sandlance in the one fish's stomach because as everyone is aware there just isn't much bait in the sound right now. ;)
 
IHFISH said:
Landed 3 keeper-sized rezzies during a short first light bite. 2 were unclipped. Things slowed down at this beach after the sun was above the horizon. Only euphausiids in the belly of the fish I cleaned. A fly guy near me also landed 3 rezzies in the same bite window. 2 of his were clipped. No bait or shakers to be seen.
*edited to correct clipped/unclipped ratio for the other fly angler :)
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That may have been me. Were you to my right landing the double? I also landed 3 on Friday am, one unclipped. Of the water by 5am.

One more this am for me. Heading out for some evening action on the wicked tide swing 😏
 
copperJon said:
That may have been me. Were you to my right landing the double? I also landed 3 on Friday am, one unclipped. Of the water by 5am.

One more this am for me. Heading out for some evening action on the wicked tide swing 😏
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Yeah that was me. I stopped by a different beach for a little bit this morning but made my way back over there and got a couple clipped keepers before 6. Good luck tonight.
 
I almost didn’t do it because of the meh tide but I got out this evening after work and fished a MA9 beach from 6:30-9pm. Five hookups, three landed, all clipped. All decent sized for this time of year. First one had some gnarly red spots on it, not sure what it was but I let it go. No shakers around which is abnormal in my experience for this spot at this time of year. Not much bait either. Nice way to start my weekend.
 
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I put my feet in three beaches yesterday all with various temps and arrived at some questions. Do these coho hang around in warmer bays? If so, are there any differences to behavior that is expected?
 
Divad said:
I put my feet in three beaches yesterday all with various temps and arrived at some questions. Do these coho hang around in warmer bays? If so, are there any differences to behavior that is expected?
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Maybe a bit early for them to be hanging around in bays. That seems a bit more like staging activity. They are readily feeding right now.
There might be some around, but fishing warm water and salmon or cutts for that matter would make me head to a different area with more tidal flow and cooler water.
Just my opinion.
SF
 
@Stonedfish thank you, needed that help. Makes sense now why nobody else was fishing in the bays I was at 😁

Think I have a good game plan to stick one or two for dinner later in the week. Accepting the drive is the hardest part, but I’m all excited to try the new Spider-Man stripper XiJin just came out with.

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Stab a few long bobber pegs in the bottom and waBAM, game-on all you silver stealing bi***es 🙃
 
Was headed to pick up a client for an airport run to SeaTac, down passed Allyn. Saw a big black fin out it the bay.
Made my way to the public dock in Allyn and got an amazing show. 5 Orcas that swam right up to the dock and under it . Very cool and scary at the same! Lots of bait rippling all over.
 
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