I fished Shipwreck and the green can at Possession on Sunday and caught a bunch of immature blackmouth that looked like the trout plants in the local lakes. Hopefully, these guys grow fast! Did anyone see the killer whales in this area. I must have just missed them, buth the fish checker said there were a couple of pods, up to 17.

I fished the Kingston / Jeff Head area, hoping for some late coho. I had the same troubling results as Jeff'ed - lots of blackmouth smolt. I quit fishing so as to not hurt any more tiny shakers. I hope this is not an indicator of what we will get in November

Also saw a lot of bait and chums jumping. Also plenty of seiners and gill netters

One of my buddies said there is a pod by the Manette Bridge and that they were moving up in to Dyes Inlet. I hope not a few years back they were in there and the Chico Chum had a low amount returning. I can't confirm about them being in dyes Inlet or under the Manette Bridge personally.

All those shakers represent a good trend and more like the way it used to be out there in the fall. Those are next spring's legal blackmouth. They do grow fast but I can't see the point in catching and bonking them at 22". That's troubles me, but I know that they are mostly hatchery and that's what they are planting them for, so whatever. The November opening will kill a bunch of 'em for sure.

To avoid them this time of year, switch gear and/or tactics. Pull out the big plugs for trolling and put the hoochies and herring away for awhile. If you don't want to troll, then whip out the jigs and use a single pinched siwash hook on them. Makes for real easy releases and in my experience, catches plenty of the legal sized ones while avaoiding the smaller shakers.

I am surprised this year, with all of the good success stories, to not have heard of the October 40 pounders in the south sound though. Almost every year that I can remember, during October, someone catches a 30-40 pounder, and a lot of them have come from the narrows. Well, maybe they did and I didn't hear, but usually those stories travel pretty far and fast. So maybe they're still out there and we'll get em' in November.