Area 10 has been fishing well for those targeting resident coho with fly rods. Big tidal days are producing the best fly fishing, with lots of moving water concentrating food. Cruise the biggest rip lines you can find and look for signs of feeding fish. This can be very obvious as fish aggressively crash bait, …
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Seattle Salmon Fishing Report July 13th
Saturday offered us the perfect tides and weather to share a little salmon fishing action. I invited a few of my favorite coworkers, who rarely get out on the salt, and we had a great day fishing in Marine Area 10. After dropping a few crab pots, we raced over to Kingston to do a …
Marine Area 10 Salmon Fishing Report July 7
Took a couple really cool clients out on Sunday and the chew was on! Mooching is a great way to really connect with Puget Sound’s salmon, and once you feel your first mooching bite, with the rod in your hand and get to battle a beautiful salmon on light tackle, it is difficult to transition …
Seattle Salmon Fishing Report June 23
Marine Area 10 – Great Fishing! We made it out for another exciting weekend on Puget Sound. There is no shortage of great salmon fishing action going on right now and plenty of other folks have keyed in on this! We fished Marine Area 10, Seattle’s backyard, and found a healthy mix of Coho and …
Seattle Salmon Fishing June 16
Puget Sound Salmon Fishing Report This is the beginning of our favorite time of year, summer salmon season on beautiful Puget Sound! It’s a time when the salmon start to come home. Shoals of herring can be found around the edges of our large underwater banks that surround Seattle’s marine environs, and draw in Chinook …
Puget Sound Spot Shrimping and Lingcod Report
This morning was thrilling, productive, bitter sweet and full of milestones all at the same time. I spent the day with two good friends (three… sorry boat dog Miles). We experienced the best Puget Sound shrimping with the fastest limits I’ve seen in my life. Beautiful weather. The very first day of shrimping that we …
Kingston Chinook Salmon Fishing
Salmon Fishing near Kingston, Washington Kingston was named after one of its founding fathers, but it most certainly could have been named after the Chinook, or King Salmon that congregate in great numbers in front of the harbor. This is one of my all time favorite places on the planet to salmon fish, and it …
Blackmouth Fishing at Racetrack January 20
Never trust a marine forecast. I can’t tell you how many times I have been blindsided by the weatherman. It is rare that summer weather will be intense enough to keep us from fishing, but winter is a completely different story. Today was one of those days that gave us a nice surprise. Last night, …
Puget Sound Orca Survival: Don’t Scapegoat Sportfishing
Protecting Puget Sound Orca Whales and Preserving Sportfishing is a Win-Win This piece originally appeared as a Letter to the Editor published in the Seattle Times on August 9 under the headline: Orcas’ survival: Don’t scapegoat fishing. I’m disappointed to see out-of-context calls to “stop chinook fishing” in orca coverage. I’m even more disappointed in reports …
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12 Great Lures for Chinook Salmon Fishing in Puget Sound
Best Fishing Lures For Catching Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Fishing for Chinook Salmon is one of the most popular things to do on Puget Sound. Every summer, every fisherman in the Puget Sound area waits impatiently for the Chinook Salmon to return and the fishing season to start. Everyone has their favorite lures, bait rigs …
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Quick Salmon Mooching Trip Seattle
I got the ultimate last-minute invite today from the Seattle mooching legend himself, Captain Keith Robbins, the big kahuna over at Spot Tail Guides, an exclusive mooching salmon fishing and fly fishing charter based out of Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. We headed out for a couple hours of fun-fishing, there was a pretty inviting midday tide …
Easy Breezy Resident Coho Salmon Fishing in Puget Sound Report
Resident Coho Salmon Fishing at Jeff Head I figured I would share another Seattle fishing report with you all. The Resident Coho Salmon may not be monsters right now, but they are biting and there are plenty of them out there. If you are looking to have fresh salmon for your next summer bbq, I …
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Epic Resident Coho Salmon Fishing Report For Seattle
Seattle Summer Salmon Fishing Season Shakedown Run. Now that our inaugural salmon fishing shakedown trip just wrapped up, I feel like summer has finally started! The boat is in the Edmonds Marina for all of salmon season. And you know what? I am so excited to get in on great salmon fishing so close to …
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The Ultimate Puget Sound Dungeness Crabbing Guide
Summer wouldn’t be the same in Puget Sound without going crabbing for Dungeness! Puget Sound is a summer paradise and Dungeness Crab are arguably the most sought after bounty. Small boats work the nearshore waters, the baiting and setting and pulling of pots all for a payout of big hard shell crab. Dungeness Crab are …
Mid Channel Bank Chinook Salmon Fishing
Mid Channel Bank Chinook Salmon Fishing near Port Townsend, Washington Mid Channel Bank usually offers the most fast and furious Chinook Salmon fishing in Puget Sound during our summer fishing season. It is the first spot that Chinook Salmon will stop in Admiralty Inlet to gorge on Candlefish (Sand Lance) before heading south into Central …
Point No Point Chinook Salmon Fishing
Point No Point Chinook Salmon Fishing near Hansville, Washington Point No Point, Pilot Point and Skunk Bay are a few of Puget Sound’s best Chinook Salmon fishing spots. Most Chinook Salmon that return to Puget Sound swim by here, often stopping to feed on the massive amount of bait that collects in the tide rips …
Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Fishing Hot Spots
Best Places To Fish For Chinook Salmon In Puget Sound Many Pacific Northwest residents are excited to wet a line this year for salmon in Puget Sound. The return of Chinook Salmon to the Sound draws the greatest excitement, after all they are the King of all Salmon. The chance at a hefty Chinook leads …
Rigging and Setup for Dungeness Crab
How to Rig and Setup Crab Pots. Dungeness Crabs are abundant in every bay and inlet along the Pacific Coast and are considered a summertime delicacy. The beauty of living near the saltwater and being able to head out in even a small boat and catch these tasty shellfish is not lost on thousands of …
Puget Sound Lingcod Fishing
Lingcod Fishing in Puget Sound Puget Sound’s underwater rockpiles, reefs, ledges and breakwaters become a big interest point for local anglers like myself around early May each year, I’d say right about the time that fishing for Lingcod opens up. The Lingcod is a large bottom-dwelling fish that are found throughout Puget Sound and thrive …
Puget Sound Lingcod Opener Success!
Possession Bar Lingcod Lingcod fishing in Puget Sound opened Tuesday May 1 and we decided to try our luck! I can’t recall the last time I was out on opening day for Lingcod. But with four willing friends and a decent weather forecast we made an appearance on Possession Bar. I took out my good …