Early season Chinook always draw a crowd to Sekiu, and if you’re interested in fishing for salmon along the rugged coastline of the Olympic Peninsula, you’ve got your first chance of the year starting on April 14!
Chinook Salmon

Marine Area 10 & 11 Blackmouth Season Announced!
Puget Sound will open for Blackmouth fishing on April 2nd in Marine Area 10 and 11.

2024 Puget Sound Winter Blackmouth season begins March 1
2024 Winter Blackmouth Season begins on March 1 in Marine Areas 10 and 11.
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Fishing Report for Seattle & Washington State – June 2023
Lot’s to get excited about this month! June 2023 Halibut, Salmon, Shrimp and Crab fishing report for Seattle and Washington State.
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Tacoma’s 2023 Salmon Season begins June 1 with a Chinook Opener
Salmon fishing around Tacoma and Vashon Island is back starting June 1, 2023 and anglers all over the South Puget Sound area are ready to get back out on the water!
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12 Great Fishing Lures for Chinook Salmon Fishing in Saltwater
I’ve put together a list of what I think are the best Chinook Salmon lures for fishing in saltwater areas, hoping that it will help you land your next trophy
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Seattle’s 2023 Salmon Season kicks off on June 1
Seattle’s Marine Area 10 portion of Puget Sound opens for salmon fishing on June 1 this year! We should start catching Resident Coho, followed by Chinook, Pinks and Ocean-range Coho.

Your Guide to the Washington 2023 Salmon Fishing Seasons – Marine Areas
Easy to use guide to Washington’s 2023 Saltwater Salmon Fishing Seasons.
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That time we went Blackmouth Fishing in Sekiu – March 2023
Our annual March Blackmouth fishing trip to Sekiu, Washington was a big success!
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Seattle and Washington State Fishing Report – March 2023
March 2023 is going to be a good one! We have saltwater fisheries all up and down the Washington Coast opening up, Steelhead fisheries on the Olympic Peninsula, North Puget Sound and Southwest Washington, local Kokanee and Trout, and a Columbia River Spring Chinook fishery that is about to explode in popularity once the first …
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Seattle Salmon Fishing Report – August 2022
If you can’t tell from all my recent posts and reports, I absolutely live for salmon fishing in Puget Sound during the summer months. The early alarm clock wake-up is welcomed on every day I get to push out of the slip or boat ramp and cruise out to the fishing grounds. If you are …

Seattle and Washington State Fishing Report – August 2022
August is all about Salmon fishing in Puget Sound and the rest of Washington State. Every corner of the state has a robust and happening salmon fishery going on right now. On top of that, crabbing has been good, lake anglers are cooling off in the evenings with some pretty incredible Largemouth Bass action, and …
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Seattle and Washington State Fishing Report – July 2022
If you are a Washington Salmon fisher, this is your summer! Across the state, all areas open to salmon fishing are seeing historically high catch rates, Chinook quotas being caught fast, and anglers buzzing around to their favorite fishing haunts, making the summer of 2022 one to remember. Most anglers haven’t seen fishing this good …
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Salmon Fishing Trip to South Puget Sound
I have been eagerly anticipating my first salmon charter of the 2022 season this weekend with Best Seattle Fishing. Our favorite local salmon spots near the Shilshole Marina slip are still a couple weeks from opening, the plan was to make the long run down to Marine Area 11 and fish around Tacoma and Gig …

Seattle and Washington State Fishing Report – June 2022
I needed to cast a wide net to capture even half the great fishing opportunities we have in Washington State this month. Every corner of the state is brimming with fisheries that are worth your time. I want to thank all the great charter captains and guides that shared their reports with us. Have a …
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Washington’s 2022 Saltwater Salmon Fishing Seasons
Washington’s 2022 Saltwater Salmon Fishing Seasons by Marine Area

Seattle and Washington State Fishing Report – May 2022
The month of May is so jam packed with fishing options in Washington State it’s tough to not go overboard with a report, but I did it anyways. Every corner of the state is boiling with fishing opportunity. Well enough of an intro, I want to give a huge thanks for all the guides, charter …
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Marine Area 10 Reopens Daily for Blackmouth Fishing through March 2022!
Winter Blackmouth fishing has been pretty decent this year, and although our openers have only been a couple 3-day periods in early January and again starting back up in late February, Puget Sound’s Marine Area 10 will now be open to salmon fishing 7 days a week until the end of March! WDFW gave us …
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Seattle and Washington State Fishing Report – March 2022
It’s becoming a little tough to focus on work with all these awesome March fishing options in front of us, the age old struggle of a fisherman! Saltwater fishing around Seattle and the Washington Coast is going to be great, we have Blackmouth fishing in Seattle, South Puget Sound and Sekiu. Lingcod and Rockfish season …
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Seattle Winter Blackmouth Report – February 27, 2022
Well, we anxiously watched the marine weather forecast build and build, but decided to go out anyways and had a hell of a day on Puget Sound. My buddy Jake invited me, Jerome and Dan out for our first stab at the Marine Area 10 Winter Blackmouth season. After a couple reviews of the weather, …
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