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DimeBrite said:
Paper chinook
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Its hard to feel confident in the number of fish that are "paper fish". Using MA 9-11 numbers just released, 66% of MA 9 fish, 67% of MA10 fish, and 57% of MA11 fish are paper chinook (defined as the difference between reported quota fish and actual fish checker counted fish). I am at least glad its different across the three areas, but would definitely like to know and see the data that translates actual counted fish to quota fish.
 
dep said:
sorry, but I'm confused as I thought the sound was closed for kings at this time. I do like the fish though.
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MA9 is closed to salmon fishing.

MA10 and MA11 Open July 25, 26, 27
 
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Gary Knowels said:
Am I reading the regs correctly?

If I am on a MA10 beach tomorrow (Sat 7/27) and I manage to land some coho, I am allowed to harvest 2 coho, no minimum size, and it doesn't matter if they are clipped or not.
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That is correct.
Please substitute one of your coho though with a clipped king. 😉
SF
 
I fished 4:45-9:15 at a new to me MA10 beach.

The bad:
I went 0-0
I destroyed 2 flies on the rocks behind me
There was very little water movement
A family of 5 strolling the beach thought my back cast range was the best place to stop and stand for a while and were unhappy that I asked them to continue on

The good:
The weather was super comfortable
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There were some fish around, mostly shakers, but a few nice sized fish jumped in casting range
Lots of bait around early
An osprey nailed a flounder in about 2 feet of water 40 feet to my right
Meeting @IHFISH

The interesting:
A large dungeness crab slowly walked along them as soon as it got a foot from me bolted right at me and attached my wading boot. Grumpy guy.
About 8:30 I saw a large shiny object in the top few feet of water slowly coming towards me from 60-70 feet away. When it got to about 40 feet I realized it was a flasher, when it got to 25 feet I realized it was being towed by a fish. At 20 feet away it turned and swam parallel to the beach right in front of me. I threw a few casts at it to no avail. Since it was going down the beach I backed out of the water and started to follow it. I caught a few good looks at it, a nice sized king. I chased it down the beach throwing casts in front and over it trying to floss up the flasher to no avail. After about 300 yards of this it turned and went straight away from the beach and I didn't see it again.

Still hunting for my first real coho from the beach...
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Gary Knowels said:
About 8:30 I saw a large shiny object in the top few feet of water slowly coming towards me from 60-70 feet away. When it got to about 40 feet I realized it was a flasher, when it got to 25 feet I realized it was being towed by a fish. At 20 feet away it turned and swam parallel to the beach right in front of me. I threw a few casts at it to no avail. Since it was going down the beach I backed out of the water and started to follow it. I caught a few good looks at it, a nice sized king. I chased it down the beach throwing casts in front and over it trying to floss up the flasher to no avail. After about 300 yards of this it turned and went straight away from the beach and I didn't see it again.
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I also saw a flasher being towed around yesterday - offshore near the troll fleet. It was one of those lighted ones with blinking LEDs, looked like chartreuse on one side, pearl on the other. Took a few casts at it with a spin rod, and actually managed to hook up, but it did not stay attached. Got a jump out of the fish though, so I could see that it was not a monster or anything, just a standard 8 ish pound chinook. I’m 0 for 3 in lifetime stats for landing fish towing flashers. It’s harder than it might seem.

As for the fishing, I got one nice one in the teens, which had a fin so continues to swim, a 23” blackmouth and a bunch of coho. Also saw a humpback, which was way cool.
 
After not fishing at all for 3 months+ because regular life popped up outta nowhere I've hit the beach the last 3 mornings in a row for hour and a half per session at dawn. 0/0 to-date with not even a grab yet. These are the same couple of beaches that last year from mid July to mid August had alot of 2-3 # rezzies and good consistent action for me. Lots of baitfish around but have yet to see a single jumper, looking forward to a couple of upcoming cloudy days and changing tides, still lots to figure out.
 
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