Fished Redondo sunday. Had one double take down all morning. Landed one of the fish. Just a keeper. Never saw the other one, but it was lthe larger of the two.
Did manage to land the second crab trap in the last three weeks at redondo. It was in over 200' of water with 100' of rope. Donated it to the "needy".

Juggernaut....forgot my manners. Nice meeting you Sunday. Thanks for the crab pot. It looks like it has a few hours on it laying around at the bottom of the Puget Sound, but I'll test it out when the crabbing reopens.

The fish on the right was caught on the south side of Hat and the other one caught by my son (his first BM) on the Race Track Sunday.
We where boarded by the WSF&W, they checked it all, hooks, tages, punch cards, luckley I rembered to get my new license the night before.

Them are some nice B-mouth!

You guys were boarded by F&G? That is pretty rare.

Nice catch guys The little ones look happy!

Took a friend and his son out in our 18 footer to the racetrack yesterday (Monday) morning,
launching out of Everett, to try for some BM.

Tuned the marine radio into weather channel 4 as we no-waked out in sight of the ported Navy destroyer.
They reported winds would be up to 25 (can't remember if they said knots or mph - doesn't matter) and wind waves 3 to 5 feet. Debated on turning back in, but went out anyway. Got to the racetrack, wind picked up somethin' fierce and the waves were just as they said. Secured the canopy down, tried fishin' for a awhile, then decided to head back in.

No fish to the boat. Won't get another chance for a few weeks.

It was a mighty wet carnival ride back, with a majestic Coast Guard ship keeping their eye on us. Made it back with no problems.

It's nice to know the CG is there if you need them.

I would have a dumm question except that the only dumm questions are the ones you don't ask. where is hat Island. I thoughtit was off of everett but the only Island in that area is gedeny island. Are these the same place by a differtent name or am I looking at the wrong maps. Tom

Hat, Gedney, same place.

Tom, I wonderd the same thing. I did find that the Thomas Guide lists it as Hat Island...non of my charts do though


I will be up there at first light in the morning, I managed to worm my way into a day off to go fishing because I will be taking one of our customers out on the bosses dime
The best part is he knows the area really well

Starcraft Tom, If you're in search of the real Hat Island, It is north of Anacortes. Just south of Saddlebag Island.
When I first started fishing out of Everett, I was always looking at the map trying to find Hat Island myself.

Thanks that answers my question but leads to another one. if there are two hat islands which one are we talking about the most. the one in everret right? also can any one tell me what happened to the may king fishing in the everret area? did It get closed? my land lords plumber was going to take me out to do some mooching in may ( he got 30 kings last year out of his boat) but I can't find the opening date anywhere. just the closing for black mouth. Tom

johnny deep how did you do.

Well I got up this morning at 4 to a message that he would not be able to make it up to Everett so I put in @ armeni and ran down to the Des Moines area, fished for a bit and then met him at the DesMoines Marina and wound up Fishing Redondo again at about 930 or so...took me about a half hour to find bait and as soon as we did WHAM! this thing came out of the water about 5 times, I've never seen a BM jump like that! )

Done At 10:05 with one 10.5lb football and one 5 lber,
Had the whole day off so we went over to Maury Island and fished for pile perch 'till about 4

JohnnyD:
Nice pics of them BM. What electric DR are you running in the background there?

Nice B-mouth!

Too bad blackmouth fishing is over now.

Star,

The Hat Island (Gendy Island) the everyone is talking about is in Everett. The 'Race track' runs between the North end of Hat and the South tip of Camano. If you launch out of Everett when you come to the end of the Jetty Hat will be directly to your right about two miles out. Coming from the Edmonds area Hat is directly East of the Kingston. ferry dock.

The King fishery actually starts in June at the Tulalip Bubble. It started in June last year and the year before. So either your friend had his dates messed up on he was fishing at the wrong time. The Bubble fishery is an entire hatchery scene. The kings are planted by the Tulalips and are programmed just to come back to the Bubble. Once they get there they have no place to go so they either get caught, netted or end up dying. There is no place for them to spawn. There is an expected return of 6000 kings there this year. If your landlord got 30+ kings there last year he did better than anyone else I heard of. I fished there every Friday and Saturday from June 1 till the silver started showing and it was a mediocre fishery at best.


Hope this helps

LOOKS LIKE YOU DID REALLY GOOD.

PMARTIN Thanks for the info. I probly got the dates wrong. after I get moved to everret we should get out in my boat and you can show me the area. always ready to meet people from the board. Tom

crwcbtrk...
Thanx
The riggers are canon digitroll II's
Picked 'em up on e-bay for 190 clams...

Johnny D:

Cool deal on the digitrolls!
I have been contemplating getting electric DR's and considered e-bay, but have been leery of the quality of merchandise.

I suppose one should buy from a seller with a
good history and reviews.

Any advice is appreciated, since I have not succumbed to the e-bay experience yet.

By the way, I may be treading on soft ground here,
did you buy the digitrolls because of the price, or because you prefer them to other brands?

I keep hearing Scotty, Scotty, Scotty from others.