Would like to hear the reports from salt and fresh.
How about it boys?
My home river has a latte look so it's been slow, what about yous guys?

Caught some bass in my secret lake and they were hitting hard!

Between me and my dad, we caught 14 trout between 1 1/2 and 3 pounds! Lost one that was much bigger!! All on a secret lake, too.

Went to the Nisqually this weekend, seen a few roll, but didn't see/talk to anyone that even had so much as a bump.
Little early yet, I'm waiting on the Puyallup to open/clear up. Right down the hill from me. Woops that's right it is open!!!! What am I thinkin?? Guess I'm waiting for fish.
It to has that latte'/coffee with cream look to it.

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Spent the weekend fixing up a little Jon boat I bought this week so I didn't get out. Took it out for it's maiden voyage after installing a new transom and a fresh coat of paint, My little 6hp kicker got it up to 22mph, per GPS !!! I don't think that it was meant to go that fast, so I'll keep the speed down. The fish will have to hide from me next weekend. Andy

Have continued to fish the middle Columbia since july 15th and have been killin' 'em. We have fished ten mornings and now have 37 kings in the boat. Still very nice fish, tarnished colors but excellent flesh. Plus 25% are over 20 pounds.

Fished the beach off Point no Point for Silvers. Couldn't make early morning so fished through low tide change at noon. Saw people with nice Silvers both Sat. and Sun., of course catching them before I arrived! Also heard of 20# Chinook landed (and hopefully released). But I miised the bite both days. Apparently the morning bite is doing pretty well. Looks promising as it should only get better. :p

-rbf

Fished Sinclair Inlet for those Gorst Creek Chinook on Saturday getting ready for the derby again. Had a few take downs including one solid hook-up that took a hot spot and bucktail fly with him. A $15 fish that I never saw.
A couple other trips on the downrigger is it. Saw fish rolling and finning in 60- 140 feet of water, and saw a small fish at the launch around 8 lbs, all the fish i have seen have been small averaging 10-12 lbs. Any body else going to fish the derby?

NEN

Fished with Geoff Grillo on the advantage out
of west port.We had the limit for the boat,62
salmon by 9:55 A.M..What great fishin it was for the second year in a row.The coho were runnin around a 7lb average and the nookies
were runnin on the small side of around 10-12lb average.The biggest nook was 21-22lb and
the biggest ho was 12-13lb.It was nice being
home by 3:00 P.M. on a sunday from a fishin trip for once.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Saturday:
Pinks in the hood canal, what a day,
hooked over 20 and landed our limit of 8 between my buddy and me.

Sunday:
Jigged off the green can on the Nisqually flats, nada, didnt even see a fish touched.

Tuna fishing westport, six guys 110 fish bigger than last year it was a blast!!!

Whooooah, lemme tell ya about Sekiu!

Fished Fri, Sat & Sun, I have never seen so many coho this early!!! Just run 2 miles out from sekiu Point and use a small cut plug, 1 ounce of lead, use your light tackle!! We went through 6 dozen herring each day by 8 a.m. About one marked (hatchery) coho for each ten. There are some very nice fish near 10 pounds already.

Got some nice Steelies the last couple of days that rain really turned them on. I went 9 for 13 between yesterday and today. Hooked my biggest summerrun ever today and it tore me up. It went an easy 18# and might have been bigger. The smallest one I got the last two days was a 10# buck with sea lice. thats the one I took home for dinner. Not as many fish this year as the past couple but much bigger on average. Most fish seem to be running between 10 nand 12# vs 6 to 8# in years prior.

Way-to-go-rich,
Now, where and how sir?

hey rich,
where are you getting these steelies? that's awesome your tearing it up!

Spent 3 days at Neah bay, and it was definitely the good old days revisited! Like General Zog said, LOTS of early silvers. The first evening we went to the rips just outside Waddah island. As soon as our herring was out, it was fish on! After chewing through 2 dozen in about an hour, we switched to surface skipping flies. This has to be my favorite salt-water technique. Watching silvers slam the fly on the surface,
trolling at 5-6 mph is something else! Next morning we went outside and fished the rips NW of Duncan rock, and found a few kings mixed in with the bigger silvers that were out here. Biggest king went about 27#. The silvers outside averaged about 8#, with a few in the low teens. The only problem (if you want to call it a problem) was all of the pinks, inside and outside. It's amazing how well plankton feeders take a cut-plug or Coyote spoon, while puking up wads of small shrimp. The clipped to unclipped ratio was about 1-5 for us. Hopefully this is a good sign for wild silvers, and not just a lot of missed clips in the hatcheries. I don't think fishing herring was really necessary, the silvers, pinks, and even some kings were taking the Coyote spoons just as well. 3oz. mooching sinker, and a spoon or cut-plug, that was all it took. Didn't even need the downriggers, You just gotta love it!

There has really been only one place I have fished summerruns this year? Ive been fishing a couple different ways. Some on Jigs and some on small corkies with prawn or egg drifted with a #5 splitshot. Also it looks like the cutties are showing as well caught a half dozon of them 14 to 19". OK ill tell. Ive been on the Clawah but you wont find me with the general population. Those fish around the ponds are just too spooky.

Hey Bill,

Did you try any hardware on those Sekiu silvers? I only ask because it would be nice not to need a gross of herring for a couple days fishing up there.

Heading up there next month when the silvers are a little bigger......