Got out Thursday morning with Jer & enjoyed a fabulous day on the water between Kingston and PNP. Radiant day, calm seas, no wind and TONS of bait. Along with the bait were lots of birds, seals, blackfish and gorged salmon. The usual stuff wasn't working so we decided to match the hatch and jigged up a couple dozen herring. Ran up to PNP and fished the end of the ebb. Marked a lot of fish throughout the area, but nothing doing until the tide turn when things got fast and furious for a few minutes at the chimney hole. Final score: 2 silvers on, 1 in, and 3 BM released. Didn't observe anyone else with fish on either from the bank or boat. (db - never saw you) I am sure the amount of bait made fishing more difficult than usual because the BM we released still had bait sticking out of their mouths as we brought a couple to the boat. The silver I kept had eight herring in it's belly along with some large spotted shrimp and absolutely no room to spare for the two herring and my bait still in it's mouth (look what greed will get you). On our way back with the flood, silvers were surfacing in the calm waters all around us and I was blown away as I watched something I have never seen before; two nice silvers come up side by side and ride off the bow briefly like a couple of porpoises as we trolled back to Kingston. Awesome.

Thanks, Lord. Glorious day, beautiful place, good time, great friend and a nice coho to top it all off.

Nice report. Thanks.

Agree, excellent report, nice pictures.

Kev

Good job, I fished Wednesday morning and lost one next to the boat. Didn't land any saw about ten boats and 1 fish caught. I fished of of apple tree. I was thinking maybe the commercial were fishing at night, since I went out Monday Evening a got my limit in 2 hours and then went out 36 hrs later and had one bite in 3 hrs of fishing.

buckmaster,

I was the one who mentioned the commercials the other day (see pics below). But I have seen no sign of them since Tuesday with the exception of the one seine boat off Edmonds. I'm wondering now if this wasn't a "test fishery" exercise rather than the full meal-deal. But the goeduckers are sure swarming Apple Tree and working it hard up to PNP right now. Its unusual, as I recall, for silvers to be netted around these parts. Seems like they usually net them at the terminal areas but target the chum here much later in November so they can get them before they are overipe at their terminal areas. Maybe someone out there knows better?
In any event, I don't think we can blame the slower fishing on the nets. There are a lot of fish out there right now and it's typical at this time of year when the coho start getting more serious about making tracks for the rivers and they're not loitering too much anymore. The amount of bait out there right now doesn't made it any easier either. So when the fish really start to move like they are right now I key on the "fish gates" (PNP, Pilot, either Apple Tree point, and President) on the ebb and troll only with the tide on the flood. It sure can be frustrating though to know there are all these fish around you and not have them bite as they did earlier. But the good part of it is that even if they aren't getting easier to catch they are getting bigger, fatter and juicier. Quality or quantity, always seems to be the question doesn't it?

Maybe we'll see you out there.

Picture of the seiner working off the oil docks at Edmonds:



These are tribal goeduckers working off Eglon. Most crafts are refitted gill netters. Alot more money in mollusks than salmon these days.

Nice score and report Mooch, thanks!

I was wondering where all those tribal geoduck boats went out of Kingston...thanks for the visual confirmation. See my post on geoduck.