SLOW. acouple of shakers, didn't see a fish caught. Spent the morning of Todds. I guess the boats and the fish headed to Lake Washington. Any other news from the front??

i fished elliot this morning, friday, people weren't catching anything near todd's but they were north of the launch. everyone that i heard about getting into em started early, 4 am or so. i saw one 16# that guy saw a 26# and an 18#caught by one boat all before 4:30, trolling herring. i'll be back there on sunday after tommarow on lake washington.

Nice, all before 4:30. Going to cut into my beauty sleep! Thanks for the info

Southworth is producing respectable size kings. No need to get up early, fish the evening high.

My friend and I managed to boat a 22lb. king and three 5lb silvers just north of the boat ramp. I was happy. Marc

Fished Pt Defiance all weekend- not even a bump from a shaker. Didn't hear much of anything either. All the boats I passed said they have seen nothing caught. Where's all the fish? Maybe we'll see a fresh spurge shortly.

Downriggin'

Nice to see there are some fish in the bay. 22#, not a bad catch. Thanks for the update

The kings in Elliott Bay must be a little late this year. Kind of like the sockeye.

if it's light enough to tie a knot (w/out a light)when you first start fishin you're too late for Kings!!

Don't believe everything you read. We got 8 fish from 9:00 to 11:00 and without a cloud in the sky.

The biggest king I ever caught (28 lb) was at 10 AM. This was two years ago in Elliott Bay.

How deep in what water depth are you catching those kings, if I may ask? Anyone do any good by pier 90, 91 or Todds / Salty's the ticket for kings?

I go against conventional wisdom when it comes to kings in Elliott Bay. I fish right on the surface, rods almost touching the pilings that hold up TODD's. Massive amounts of bait fish hold up in those pilings. I only let out 20 feet of line with an 8oz. banana weight in front of my dodger and hoochie. Gotta be fishing at 0400 to get the morning bite. Once the sun is on the water you are better off going deep right in front of the mouth of the river since that is their destination. I have seen guys jig for kings right under the west Seattle bridge with good success too.

Looking forward to some weekend updates. Hope the run is in and the lines are tight!

Was at the ramp today and saw a 27.7 pound king that was cleaned. I figure around 34 other wise. Great looking bright fish

That be a nice fish. Look forward to some weekend reports

Fished this afternoon/evening and saw two nice kings caught right at tide change (18:30). One fish must have been pushing 30lbs. All I got was a huge ling cod while I was jigging for kings.

Fished it yesterday, they were really short striking. Did manage to get one in the boat. 17.5lbs The fish/boat ratio has gone up alot. The police traffic is also pretty heavy. You can get them to hit the lights/horn for you if you boat a fish

I MANANGED TO LOSE 3 FISH TODAY!! :>(

A friend of mine fished Elliot Bay near the west boundry and limited (4 kings 14' to 18') Friday
morning. They were trolling on top with Hot Spot
flashers and Cop Car spoons.

Cigar

i caught one 8# king in elliot today, had one on yesterday shook off, bummer, looked nice from 20'. overall it was slow today. o'well maybe next weekend( that's starting to sound old isn't it. )

My buddy Blair landed a 10 lb king (see pix in other forum) this morning around the tide change. We only saw one other fish caught and that was at first light. We saw Sushis' fish. Hey Sushi was that a small king or big silver?

Fish are in today hooked five!!! Lost the pig,snapped him off on the vanish line 20# test man was I mad just a pig> Manned up to the 40# test after that and ended up with some nice fish you got to move around for them, if your marking fish hang in there if your not move on every time we found a few fish we hooked up and they are around next week should be awesome and I got to go to eastern Oregon yuck!!! PEACE

Anyone fish Elliott with a deep six? do you put a dodger on it as well? or just the lure. I don't have downriggers yet and can't afford them for a while.

Deep Six's will work. Use heavy leader between it and your dodger, at least 30# test. When I use to use them I would put the dodger at least six feet behind the Deep Six. Use a good level line reel so you can count how much line you are letting out and you should catch fish. With most level line reels each time the line guide goes across from side to side that is 5 feet.

Hey Busy,

Me and the fellas from the jobsite
always fight over the dr's,
(since I only 2). Anyway,
my buddy has it down to a science.
Just listen to Carl, he'll point ya'
in the right direction.
Just make sure not to let anyone
cross your line with dr wire.
It's cut your line, and those deep six's
can get spendy after a while!

Ken

Kennyray you are right the do add up fast $$$$. We had a boat saturday turn right behind my sled tearing up two of mine. Not one hour later he did it agine. this time we back up the sled to help with the mess. My partner leaned over with his leatherman and with one little snip it was bye bye downrigger cable and ball. Did not have trouble the rest of the day. Go figure.

Remind me to stay away from you Drifboat!.... Just kiddin!

People must realize they are boaters first, not fisherman. It always amazes me that folks think "the rule of tonnage" is in effect at all times... A little common sense goes a long way in today's age... But, as Easy Limits puts it, "Common sense isn't so common anymore."

The Point Defiance Zoo is not on land like most folks think. It's off the beach!

Downriggin'

the thing that gets me about combat trolling is when you are headed in a staight line at one speed and some turkey cuts your way and eventually gets mad at you for being there. every day that i'm out it seems that it starts to happen around 700 am. i try and remain patient and breath deep but after about the fifth time i'm cut off my blood heats up.

one guy today came in on me, i slowly turned to parrallel him, he tells me he's pulling about 100' behind him on little weight so i angle off hard to get out of his way within a minute he he's right there again. turn off again. by this point i'm going 90 degrees off my origanal troll. look up within a minute there he is AGAIN! i notice that once he's really close he puts hand down to his kicker and parrallels me gives me a dirty look lets go of his motor and it drifts off to a pretty hard angle in my direction. if it had happened once fine, but after three times i was pretty mad. couldn't get behind him because i would have crossed his lines with my cable. eventually i did what i always do and gunned it hard to get infront of him. the thing that got me wasn't that he was getting in my way and wouldn't move it was that he refused to turn off after i had twice and then kept letting go of his kicker only to drift my way again.

sorry i had to vent. i agree we should all remember when fishing from a boat that we are boaters first, anglers second.

easy, it was a small king the size and color through me for a bit.

Downriggn we would have done nothing but two times he turn right behind us so near I thought we would hit each other. We just showed him that he should watch out for others.

Elliott Bay Salmon
1.people will fish out of any thing that floats safe or not
2.50% of the people fishing are ether Brain dead or clueless
3. watch the people behind you.they will cut off your fish .
4. If your boat catches more then one fish they will follow you around like dogs.
:p :p :p :p

things are picking up. 37 fish out of 54 boats, every boat that checked in after me had two or more in it. i caught a 14# king at high tide this morning, bite only lasted about 30 minutes. hopefully a sign of good things to come.

now i goto bed

I'll take those numbers anyday. Very nice. I'd forgotten it was Friday till I got up on the Viaduct to see the flotilla out there on my way to work.