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Fished dolphin point in the AM saw tons of bait but very few fish. We landed one small king. In the bay we landed 1 hooked 2 all on the bottom. Overall report would be poor. Tons of boats few fish taken. This fishery is no worse than Lake Washington only far less fish.

Not to bad on elliot bay. Say 3 fish being landed near the seacrest pier. guy was trolling a herring and a squid . Their must be more fish because the guys from seacrest pier have been averaging 8 fish per morning ranging from 15 lbs. to 27 lbs. hope that helps, good luck tpp all.

thanks, Matt. hmmm?

Finally got launched at about 4:45 this morning. Mooched, as the motor was running poorly. Caught nothing but dogfish. One of the guys I was fishing with even caught two at once. We didn't even see anyone hooked up. Heard a bit of hootin' and hollerin' but didn't see anything. The checker had 12 for 36 boats (including one over 30)at 9:30. Maybe tomorrow.

Good Luck
Fishguts

HAD 2 NICE KINGS ABOUT 15# IN THE BOAT BEFORE LIGHT. TOTAL MORNING BITE HERE. MOOCHED HERRING. MARKED ALOT ON THE FISH FINDER & THEY WERE JUMPING EVERYWHERE. LOTS O'BAIT TOO.

Went Friday from noon-6PM. Caught 2: 16,18#. Saw maybe 4 others caught. Seemed slower than previous noon opening. Went this morning = zip. Seemed real slow. Saw 4-5 fish. Heard of one +30 though. Also C&R of chinook at West Point was HOT - hopefully these fish show up in the bay (not further south), then Sun-Mon, next week could be better (except nets of course). It definitely seems slower than previous openings. Oh, and trollers seem to be doing better (am a moocher), which indicates fish are deeper and probably mid-column.

We got 3 on the night bite 22-14lbs. Overall the fishing seemed pretty slow, I think we just got lucky. Then again half the guys out there are trolling for sailfish or something cause they are going 10 mph too fast. Lots of fuzzy-butts!

Why is it that ther is reports of so many chinooks being caught at seacrest and edmonds and their is no sign of them at the head of elliot bay? Are they running late or the counts just off.

Saw a few fish (3) come in to be cleaned at Seacrest dock between 5am to 8am on Sat 5th
Spread the word that all watercraft are to stay away 100 yards in front of the Seacrest pier. Check the regs. Give those less well-heeled folks on the dock, who don't have access to a boat, their space and opportunity
to catch their fair share.

Went out Saturday kind of got a late start, but put 6 hrs in and did pretty good! Trolling cut plug just west of the waterway just fast enough for the bait to spin, very slow approach. We didn't have downriggers either so we were long lining w/ 6 & 8oz. We had to keep a constant eye on the angle of our lines and quite often we would kick the trolling motor out of gear to let our lines catch up. Every time we had take downs was when we kicked the motor out of gear!! We were also fishing near the bottom. We had 4 takedowns 1 landed about 8# and 1 lost right at the dam boat!! He was about 16 - 18#. All in all we did pretty good.

Went out Friday night around 7:00 and caught 1 about 12 lbs,.
Seen 3 others caught, madhouse..*L*