sweet job guys...cant wait till tomorrow!!!.....c

We hit Jeff Head around 5:20. 3 grown ups and 1 kid. Pulled 2 hatchery kings out in about 2hrs of fishing. The pump crapped out on the sled, thankfully we picked the perfect day and tide for motoring back to the dock with the kicker. Due to the engine issues we cut the fishing time short, had to be back at the dock at 10am.

Hit a 9lb fish on a coho killer 100+ feet deep, hit a 14lb fish on a hoochie at 50. The 7 year old did most the reeling on the larger fish, way cool. Was not sure we'd ever get the stank off the sled after last years salt excursions with no fish, good to be smelling fishy again!

Once we finished our 1hr putt back to the dock we managed to scrape out 7 crab to join the kings on the table.

All and all a good day!

Started off slow in the fog in north area 9. But a good trip over all. Kept three kings 34, 34.5, and 35.........inches, no scale, but all were thick hens guess around 19, 20, and 21. Worst part was keeping a 4 pound clipped coho early that was bledding and having to release two clipped kings at the end of the day when we were "rock sole fishin". Back at it in 7 hours, can't wait.

Nice to see everyone getting into some fishie's! Sounds like it's shaping up to be a good year and nice to know they are spread out a bit-sort of like two years ago. It's very cool that there is no quota this year so that those of us who didn't fish today will still get a chance at the pie!

I also caught a bunch of true cod at Sekiu two weeks ago. It had been so long since I'd seen one I had to ask the fish checker what they where. He told me more had been reported this year then he had ever seen. Also good!

Tightlines all!

Wow, Wish I could have made it out yesterday. Look like some nice fish out there. Anyone hear how the afternoon/evening tide change bite was? Going out this afternoon to get after em...

I caught a couple of true cod 10 years ago in the kelp beds south of Mukilteo out of my float tube on a fly rod. They were small--- good to see them recovering.

No love for me today 1 high finner and lost another good one. I gotta quit doing that......

Cousins had a few to many beers in him this morning, slow fishing so he decided to trail a buzz bomb behind his green glow flasher....Released a 28 pound native...Crazy, that fish might of had to many beers also..

Was he fishing just south of PNP ? I thought I saw a guy cast something like that ahead of his boat as he was trolling? ?

Maybe that will be this years hot got to lure. .... . what color??

Lost 2 at the boat @ PNP this am. One was a hatch King about 8lbs and the other was medium size silver ( I think).
Loss due to girls (friends 20 yr old daughter) first time fighting a salmon, good to get her hooked up though. By the end of day she was cut plugging and hooking her own herring and running the DR. Second fish was on her rod she had deployed herself, way to go Jess. Now we have to figure out how to get them in the boat !!

Beautiful day out there.

What a difference a day makes.

Yesterday the damn phone was off the hook with calls and pages from the "cool people" text list. Everyone was on to fish.

24 hours later and you could hear the crickets chirping.

We boated 4 silvers and 1 jack. All resident clipped doinkers. No real fish. Didn't see any nets all day.

Heard it was like that all over the Sound.

Best guess? Water visibility was awesome, except for the "dog food chunk" in the water. I bet that put the fish off the bite.

I hope theres a better evening bite tonight then, heading to jeffhead when done working. Got the big goose egg at pnp last night, 1 of 4 boats there, seen no nets. Was very disappointing after reading about everybodys success here.

Its odd that it died off so quickly. Typically the bite stays on if you can find the fish when there is even barometric pressure.

Maybe all the biters were mopped up yesterday?
Any other reports?

That's too strange. I hear that Midchanel was on fire yesterday and it too was reported as dead today. I agree with Ryley, there is no weather related issue that I can see.

Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it does'nt. I will be out tomarrow giving her hell again. They'll turn back on soon. With a vengance!

Well, it's the same thing that happened up in MA7 two weeks ago...on fire and limits of big fish on Wednesday and Thursday, deader'n a doornail on Friday and Saturday...and I didn't get there until Friday

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. I'll try again tomorrow and Sunday...

couldnt make it happen yesterday but managed to put a couple in the boat today, including a friends son's first king. Nice work Evan! Should have had a few more fish hooked up but the kids had some difficulty in paying attention to the rods even though they were blocking my path to them. The smaller fish had a bunch of candlefish in him, while the larger fish was empty. Only saw 2 other nets fly.

My brother and I went 2-3 this morning at PnP. Lost a mid teens King before we got a good look at the fin or lack of. Hit a 10lb hatchery King next pass,and also got a small resident Silver.

We had the second and third fish checked at Everett.

Heard of one boat that got 3 and that they were trolling much faster than everyone else. Anyone trolling at Warp 9 today pick up any fish (above 4 knots)?

....just trying to figure out what you 10-percenters did different today.

We really wanted to blame Summerrun for the lack of fish, but unfortunately, that's not it...

I usually troll fast. 4.5-5 mph isn't unheard of in my boat. Today we were only running about 3 though.

I was blanked today, threw the tackle box at 'em with no luck. didn't see any other action from the other boats. Another 5 nice crab so the day wasn't a total bust. will hit it again next week, gotta get some work done before I get to play again.