yes... pinks are fairly numerous off the beaches. Of course that depends on the beach though. It will be tougher in your area as opposed to PnP or areas further north, but there is always a chance. I wont target them, but i do catch them on pink clousers.

As for chums... a slowly fished chartruese spider can be deadly. pretty much anything green that is fished slow has a good shot.

Oso Beach up on N Whidbey is good from the beach.

It seems like those estruary coho and chums heading up the creeks are lockjaw and very finicky. Once that fresh water hits them does it turn them off ? Ive personally only caught a few legaly hooked with a cut plug herring and one on a fly. Theres a lot of fish around easily with in casting distance even almost right at your feet. Thanks for the info but still very confused on why they are so picky.

are you fishing Chico? gorst? Eating at this point is the furthest thing from their mind. They have no desire to eat anything for food value once they start to stage at the mouth of a creek.
There are plenty of places to catch fish that will take a fly, but a lot of the time the sheer amount of people in the water will spook them. If you have a lonely beach with staging cohos, you should be able to catch some on soft hackle or spider patterns, same with chums.

Im fishing at Als in olalla and I will definetly try the spiders.

send me a PM and we can meet up at Peninsula Outiftters in Poulsbo sometime and I will show you which patterns have worked the best for me, and how to tie them if you are interested.

Nice .....He's most likely in Manitou Springs or Woodland Park .I'm Heading down that Way Sunday with My Float tube .Lots of Good Mt Lakes to fish down there .