I wanted to hit it one more time before it closes. Any reports?

Hat Is./Racetrack, been a number of good reports from there in the past week to 10 days.

I will be fishing Area 11 ( Redondo) tomorrow morning.

I just happen to have an open seat too. If you would like to join me let me know via email or Private Message.

Fished Hat this morning before gettin blown off the water in my lil boat. A few shakers was all I was able to get . Quite a few sea lions playin' water polo with the ones I should have caught. We did see a whale or 2 off the s.e. end of the island and had a nice chat with coasties while they were checkin' the boat over on the way in.

The available seat in my boat is SOLD (not literally) to Little Fish!

A friend of mine and myself fished the Race Track this morning. We got 2 fish at 7:45 in the morning. A 10 & a 7lber. I got mine on a Glow Hot spot and 5.0 Cop Car Coyote, and My buddy got his on a chrome Herring Dodger and Hoochie. It got real rough out there.
We did manage to nail a nice Native crab trap.
It had a water logged float so we didn't see it.
It seemed to be of commercial origin so we stuffed the rope and floats inside of it and took it in to 300ft and gave it a proper burial.
I can't believe how many traps have been dredged up this year. Easy has got 2 I believe and I have also got 2. We are neck and neck in the Crab Trap Derby.

Right on! I will see if I can't get me another crab pot today.

Went out Sat. morning. Fished S.E. Hat area. Started 6:30 am released a 5lbr and a shaker by 8:30am & landed a 10lbr not long after that, done by 8:50am which was just as well cause that wind chop was starting to push 4ft once the tide started to move out. Easy - one more cab pot for you and you'll have to change your name to "Easy Crab Limits"?

Well we wound up fishing area 11 (redondo) Sat morning due to the weather report and area 8-2 is a long way from Des Moines when yer gettin beat by 3 footers
First off, right as I was sending down the second DR the first one hooked up and my son landed his first salmon ever! 6.5lbs
Guess this puts me in the running for the first annual crab pot derby...

Fished out of Pt Defiance this morning from 7:00 to 11:00. Two 21" shakers..... Just couldn't stretch them. Only hits of the morning.

I hit Point Defiance on Saturday morning and got a 9 1/2 lb Blackmouth. Jack

You guys are catching up to me in the Crab Pot Derby.

Little Fish and I fished off of Redondo Sunday also. Pretty slow for us even though we did have a double hook up. No keepers to the boat.

Hey Easy, thanks again for a good day on the water. Those almost keepers were fun to land despite being a little under the legal limit.

For anyone who has a chance to fish with Easy Limits, don't miss it. He's a wealth of fishing knowledge and worked hard at getting us into fish (I felt a bit lazy lounging in the front of the boat since it was difficult for 2 guys to work the downriggers in the back).

Easy Limits, when we have the opportunity, we can head North and take my boat and I'll do the work.

James

JohnnyD. He looks like a happy camper! Good job with your new fishing partner

Nice fish JD. Congratulations to your son. I'm looking forward to get my son into his first fish this summer.

JD, Congratulations to your son. Doesn't that make you proud to be a father. My son is 4 and for some reason he is scared to death of the noise from the outboards. I hope he gets use to it. I don't want him spending the weekends at the mall with mommy!!!
Anyway, It seems we have a tie for first place in the Crab Trap Derby!!! I'm afraid that I'll lose a downrigger on one of those bast@rds.
There must be hundreds of them floating around.

We fished the Sekiu Derby this weekend. To get on the board in 5th place you had to be north of 20.5 pounds. Winner was around 24.75 or so. Saturday was the best fishing we've had in the past 8 derbys up there. We boated 5 to 16.5 pounds and had another 3 or 4 to the hooks. Sunday was slower with 25 fish checked for 30 boats (More typical of this time of year). Bait was a lot spottier on Sunday. That's Blackmouth fishing for you!!!

Yuppers, He's a happy boy...

I damn near lost my DR to the second crab pot.

But then I pulled the first one up on 20lb test...I would have never believed it could be done,
Hey Easy..I have had almost all my hookups just to the south of the beach and north of the flat thats at about 120'...Trolled all the way down to the grassy hill and back and had several more hits once we got back to Redondo?
Sound about right? and does it reverse for the incoming tide?

JD, you were definately in the right spot. We got all our fish trolling the shoreline north of the launch. The fish we caught were suspended (50' down in 100' of water).

BTW, what was the deal with the poor water clarity? The water seemed really stained with only a foot or two of visibility.

Easy

That nice warm weather we got started an algea bloom...went to olympia in the boat Sunday and it looked like mud all the way down there and back...from what I heard it cleared up pretty good at about 80'.
We tried in to about 80' deep and never saw much on the fishfinder(not that that means much) saw a lot at about 140 to 180 in 200+ no hits though and did not stay out there too long.
Glad you went south Sat. Looks like the CR was good to you guys.

I may get to hit it one more time on Wed... One of our customers regional managers wants to go out,