Does anybody know when sea-runs usually spawn? The reason I ask is that I recently went to fish a Puget Sound beach that used to be a consistent producer of some dandy fish every time I went down there. This time, however, despite the tide and other conditions being what I have found to be ideal in the past, I didn't so much as see a fish, let alone catch one. Figuring it simply couldn't be anything I was doing wrong, I decided that, for whatever reason, there just weren't any fish around. My next thought was that it was mid-January, which is a time of year I had never tried before. Since many of the fish I had caught there in November and December had been starting to show color, I reasoned that the absence of fish might be explained by the fact that they are in the rivers and creeks spawning at this time of year.

Anyone know if I might be on to something?