Puget Sound

_WW_ said:
The short creek answer seems reasonable.
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Several years ago I headed to Camp Runamuck which is up a small creek that drains into the Canal. At low tide, the creek was dry, no visible surface flow but apparently there was still some scent during high tide (subterranean flow??) as the next moring at low tide there were a dozen or so chums that hadn't followed the tide out and had died in the dry creek bed..... Huh?
 
How big do chum get on average?

I caught a hen today that was 8lbs, which seems cookie cutter size. However, I have seen a few bucks easily in the high teens in the past. Do bucks usually have a few pounds on hens?
 
I’ve posted a couple dead chum pics to represent the size of the run in some spots. My in water phone pics of the fish have not captured the volume of fish all that well. I’ve only been fishing for chum 6-7 years but this is by far the biggest run I’ve witnessed. Cool to see a salmon species in at least some watersheds having such a good year.
 
Stonedfish said:
Crabs are going to eat well once this coming week’s weather is over with.
SF
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In the areas I’ve seen there are piles and piles of dead chum that have clearly not spawned. Perhaps they are just exhausting themselves, trying to compete with too many other fish and too small of an area? Anyway, there’s a lot of them around this year for some reason.
 
Sounderman said:
In the areas I’ve seen there are piles and piles of dead chum that have clearly not spawned. Perhaps they are just exhausting themselves, trying to compete with too many other fish and too small of an area? Anyway, there’s a lot of them around this year for some reason.
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I curious as to how you can tell that they haven't spawned... I've been wading/kicking through piles of dead fish but noticed nothing that indicates a lack of a happy ending.
 
Sounderman said:
In the areas I’ve seen there are piles and piles of dead chum that have clearly not spawned. Perhaps they are just exhausting themselves, trying to compete with too many other fish and too small of an area? Anyway, there’s a lot of them around this year for some reason.
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Did you share this theory from your boat with an astonishingly handsome shore angler in a throwback Boston Red Sox hat this past Friday? If so, nice to meet you from afar and kudos for asking that netter WTF he was doing throwing rocks at the fish you were casting too in front of your boat. If that was not you, another angler I ran into said the same thing to me.
 
jasmillo said:
Did you share this theory from your boat with an astonishingly handsome shore angler in a throwback Boston Red Sox hat this past Friday? If so, nice to meet you from afar and kudos for asking that netter WTF he was doing throwing rocks at the fish you were casting too in front of your boat. If that was not you, another angler I ran into said the same thing to me.
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No, that was definitely me hahaha. Nice to meet you too.
 
Very healthy numbers of Calico/Silverbrite/Keta/Chum/Dog salmon around. Took the kayak out this Monday to chase them in the salt and try to clear my head a bit before the shack nasties got too bad. Alas, it got really windy real fast, making it hard to spot schools and stay on them, so I ended up fishing more protected brackish water most of the outing under a deluge of rain, still found plenty fresh and bitey fish pushing through and had a great day out. Love those stripes and big teeth! Only kept a male and a female (last picture) for a middle school dissection and show and tell...now that will be fun!

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Semper_Fly said:
Took advantage of the afternoon weather conditions today here in MA9. Was able to bring one to the net and that was plenty for this short 45 minute lunch outing. Had a second one on shortly after but it shook loose.

Found this bonus fly on my way down. Maybe its owner is on here.

Now for some faux boxing.

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Thats looks like a homebrew/varient soundsearcher Dave Mccoye / emerald water anglers like to promote for SRC.1000005144.jpg
 
It was a good morning on @Kfish boat. Fished a not new, but new from a boat spot. Dare I say there were too many chum around. We were not there during a great bite window but got a number of fish to eat. Seemed like the strategy that worked best was a cast in front of a moving pod coming towards you in deeper water. That elicited some eats. Casting in front of the pod so your fly intersected with them did not work well with fish stacked so thickly through the whole water column. More often than not, it led to a foul hooked fish. No bueno. I landed 3 fair hooked fish but hooked a number of others in the mouth that came off. Small barbless hooks make it tough but I would rather lose a bunch than foul hook tons with a giant wide gapped hook.

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Kfish said:
View attachment 132947View attachment 132948View attachment 132949Chum fishing this morning with @jasmillo , legit hooked several but lost most and landed two on the boat. Had one fish dumped all his wild oats on my
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Kfish said:
View attachment 132947View attachment 132948View attachment 132949Chum fishing this morning with @jasmillo , legit hooked several but lost most and landed two on the boat. Had one fish dumped all his wild oats on my boat :)
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Think I watched you motor by this morning on your way out. If you were in the deeper reaches of the south sound.
 
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