Another nice one from Gig Harbor, ehy.
Nice Coho! SilverKing!

Thnx Summer-Run, the natives are arriving I turned a similair wild coho loose, buddy caught and released a wild coho yesterday, so it looks like the run of fishery may be coming to a close.

I cnr another wild Coho and Steelie today, I've noticed that all the wild Coho I've caught have been really tore up, missing lots of scales, skin ripped off, holes in gill plates. Is it just coincidental? Why would the native fish be getting so hammered while still in the sound?

They get hammered in the salt from Sekiu out into Canadian waters.

SilverKing,
You're a beach fishing king!

I'm wondering if the damage on these fish are from commercial nets...

Nets could explain it I guess, will see if the trend continues. Just seems odd the hatchery fish seemed in near perfect condition but all the natives are beat up.

All this rain must be pushing the Coho up the rivers didn't catch or see anything but Steelies all morning.

Fished for 4 hours in the rain Sat, nothing but Steellies, saw a few large fish jumpinp but nothing landed.

My local beach has turned back on! Went down for the first time in a week this morning. Had four fish on in about an hour of fishing. Landed a nice hooknose buck and a hen, both marked hatchery fish, both in the 6-7 lb range. All fish hit within 30 yards of the beach. Maybe I can salvage my season yet!

Tight lines....

Congrats, I didn't have any luck this morning... Glad to see someone is.

When you guys fish with scents how often do you refresh it. I haven't tried any yet, water is so clear I figure they'll see the flash way before they smell it.
I would think scents would work best in low vis.

The most important thing about the scents is that they mask human odors which are turn-offs for the fish. I use Mike's herring on my lead, and it seems to stay on pretty good. I probably re-scent every hour or so.

As good as it was yesterday, my beach was dead this morning. A few jumpers, and I had one fish chase me in to my feet and decide not to hit. I saw a few schools swim by in shallow water and sight-cast ahead of them without a strike. Was a pretty morning, though, and the worst day fishing sure as heck beats going to work.

The boats are all working the shipping channel out in 500 feet of water.

Went 1-2, ending up with a small Buck. Funny thing was when I set the Hook a huge Silver jumped right out in front of my line, I was in hog heaven till I realized he was not the fish I had on, turns out 2 were moving together and the smaller coho got to my spinner first, just my luck!

The sound was active today, Silvers came barreling through unfortunately with the lack of wind they were primarily in the center of the channel, did catch one native about 10lbs, lost 2 others.

Went 2 for 2 today with a nice 12+ lb Buck, but both were native Coho.

Here are some bank caught silvers taken on the skykomish from the bank. Took 2 on jigs (swimming\twitching - no float) and 2 fly fishing. The first pic is a pair of 10lbers and the second pic is of a 6-8lb fish and a 13-14 lb fish.


Picked up this pair before work on Tues:



Picked up this pair after work on Weds:

Nice fish and on fly rod to boot

Nice fish, guess I need to move to a river so I can keep the wild Coho, lol

I went 1 for 3 this morning. Ended up taking home a 31.5 x 19.5 chrome slab. I'll post a pic Monday (no one else was hooking fish while I was there)