I've target saltwater coho till Halloween alot of years, but wondered if you could give a report or two on how it's been out there. Saw about 25 boats out this morning.... Bite time, size, date, tide info?
Thanks

Went out Saturday from 0700 to 11:45. We had three rods out in 400-650 deep water from oil docks to south of the weather bouy off Richmond beach. One rod had an ace hi, the other a Coho Killer, and I fished a CPH behind an 11 inch flasher down the middle. gear depths 50-85 feet. We went 3-5 with 4 hookups on the bait. I've heard similar results from the Sno King PSA guys who have also been doing better on bait lately.

We marked a ton of fish and it seems they arent biting too well, at least they werent saturday. We picked up all three and lost the other two in about a 45 min window.

I went out yesterday 1:00-4:00. Trolled dummy flasher with herring, just herring on Rod #2. Switched #2 to flasher/baited hoochie, no fish to keep and no wild hookups except blackmouth. Had a gill netter upwind, so trolled from tanks over to Apple Tree Cove Pt. Middle was barren on the sounder, most marks off the tanks about 1/2 to 1 mile.

Seems it's all hit and miss, day to day. That, and when you start at 1:00 pm....but it was a nice day!

We also marked a lot of fish further south yesterday morning, closer to Shilshole in shipping lane, but as noted they weren't biting very well (hootchie/strip). Was thinking it might make sense to switch to CPH and based on Sky-Guy's report would be inclined to do so.

In the South end of MA-12 the coho have lockjaw.