going out again this eve to work the flood... slow fer us, i did cracker a fish early on that was probably a keeper n dumped a few shakers...its off and running finally and should be a damn fun season. my guess is the quota might last a little longer this year but we will see how the catch rates look over the next 4-5 days...cheers

Fished PNP. No Kings, but 2 silvers on green splatter back hoochies. Hooked and landed 8 total silvers with 6 wild fish.

Only saw two nets come out for kings.

Sleddder, CanyonMan, and Parker got 3 mini-halibuts and no real fish. We left that quota unchanged.

We did manage to get 5 keeper crabs, though. My in-laws are thanking Sleddder for donating his share to "the cause".

Got an eight o clock phone call from two friends mooching off the light house at PNP in 85 feet of water. They had 2 keeper kings at 17# and 22#. I have not talked to them again to see how they did after that. -T B J

Fished off Jeff Head from 6 to 11. Two lines in the water, one hit, one hookup, and one 15 lb keeper in the box. We tried mooching for a while but good numbers of dogs stopped that.

i blanked from 1:00 Am to 11:00 AM at J H. Seems like most were being caught at around 80 feet on the DR. I dont think the moon (almost full) and tide helped today at all. I was the guy with the 3 orange buckets behind the Capris

hit possesion from 5 to 9, couple of shakers and 2 silvers. I hit one silver about 6lbs at 6am and the other about 9. I would of cut the second one loose but he was bleedin' bad. Saw one other fish caught, looked like a little silver. I will hit it again tommorow looking for a king.
I also dropped 2 pots near columbia beach, full of nice salmon carcasses, chicken legs and old herring. Went to pull them on my way home and they were chock full of crab, I was grunting just to pull them up. The sad part is they were mostly males exactly 6 inches across. One keeper in the bunch. Wish we could get a shot before the commercials just one time and let them pull pots full of barely sub legal crab.

wow 1AM thats crazy early, and you still got blanked.

Two friends of mine fishing on MidChannel Bank in PT each ended up with a keeper, releasing several wild fish each. Both said their keepers were 10-12 lbs. and wild fish were all teeners. Nothing big... And, a lot slower than last year.

fished posession this am, two rods landed 6 fish, 3 keepers, 3 "wild", 3of them mid teeners, 3 smaller keeper size. all on coyotes/flasher. a good day in my book, better than most we talked to anyways!

Launched out of Ballard and headed over to JH for a bit. It was pretty slow so we scooted over to Kingston. Still nothing going on, so we kicked over to PnP. Decent bite there that was off and on so it kept us interested. I was only able to pick up a couple silvers though . There are fish to be had...

Looks like mixed results out there today. My plans went into the toilet when my wife had to have some minor surgery yesterday. I elected to take care of her today rather then my original plan to fish this eve, then in the morning.

I am off to Tofino for the weekend. Then on to Alberta at the end of the week so I may miss the whole thing this year.

posession is fine for around here but i wouldn't feel like i was missing anything if i was headed to tofino! i'm jeaous

fished yesterday from 4 to 7:30. Had one huge takedown about six. 0-1

Picked a keeper up last night at Pilot pt, hit it again this morning and it was DEAD for us, didn't see any nets flying either.

I"m going to hit it tonight and tomorrow with my new top secret weapon... Sols new lure inspired me. I"ll post the results.
Neal

We went 3-6 yesterday with two kingers and a coho yesterday after hammering the water all day. We also missed a couple big takedowns that didn't get hooked.

All the fish came on gear trolled deep, 90-120 on the wire. Ace hi Flys and straight cut plugs seemed to work best.

Here's a shot I took of of Tommy Jr. of the Carrol Clan and one of their keepers:


What a boot...

This morning FishRanger went 3-? with Two coho and a nice clipped teener kinger.

Over the last two days out of the 30(ish) some fish weighed at Shilshole, Tom's boat and ours has 11 of them..

The quota will run into August this year for sure IMO...back at it again odark 30 tomorrow with a little different game plan...cheers

We headed out of Shilshole today by gps, low vis. on the way back over to the West side.

Slow for us today, one silver for six hours.

New game plan for tomorrow.

Good luck out there in the a.m., 03:30 at the home launch.

GO NORTH, young man!