Went fishing out of Westport on Friday with two friends. Started out in the fog and it lasted most of the day offshore and ran back into it on the way in. I wouldn’t consider going there without a good GPS. We started fishing about 0800 northwest of the jetty in about 160’. We trolled west to about 220’ without any action other than one very good sized black rock fish. After about 4 hours we landed a 13 lb marked coho. I had been getting pretty concerned about the lack of fish, but the coho lifted my spirit. Shorty after that I caught and released what may have been a state record hake. As the tide approached high slack we picked up two more marked coho at 7 lbs each and a 13 lb blackmouth. We were in about 270’ due west of the jetty. During a few more hours of searching we release several unmarked coho. After a long dry spell, I switched over to a chartruese Kone Zone with a cop car coyote spoon and within 15 minutes we caught a 28 lb king and 12 lb backmouth at 45’ down to close out our limit. All of the other fish were caught on flasher and squid with a herring strip between 20’ – 40’ except the hake and rock fish were at 90’. The last two Chinook came at 15.4 miles west southwest of the jetty in 310’. I know that the salmon bite is significantly affected by the tides in Puget Sound, does anyone know if that is the case in the ocean? The tide was running from a –1 to +8.2 throughout the morning while we had the big dry spell. I suspect that the problem was that we just weren’t where the fish were. When I got back into port, I was informed that the charter boats had run 20 miles out and had limited.

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