Ok, I guess I'll be the first to ask...

...anyone heard any humpy reports from out west/north yet?

I wonder what the state record is?

Pussy is opposite in Orygun. It is always claimed to be smaller than it really is.

Look at the creel checks on the WDFW website.
A few pinks plus one big fat pussy have been landed.
SF

If dat da case den Merg's chicky last year was an Oregon 120.

Well....this has been informative

lmao

Only CHUMS fish for HUMPIES MPM...they are comin...and lots of them!!!

Don't worry, you will be sick of them before you know it.

fish eggs behind the Pink schools in any river is what ive learned....

get it down quick...

A Washington 260

you mean 206...

did you seriously expect anything more? pinks are pretty low on the subject list here.

A friend found some out of Neah Bay a few days ago.

Funny chit

Already too many pinks at Neah Bay last weekend. Some surprisingly large

It's all pink on the inside.

....and slimy on the outside.

I heard they weren't very good for eating. Some better than others?

Lol, I'm particularly excited for the humpies this year because I'm expecting my 5yo daughter to land her first salmon. Who knows, maybe my 3yo boy can land one too!

Of course they both can.

Obviously you have previously done the Humpy thing.

Get it done on the water now.

Sorry for distracting these ya-hoo's, MPM.
Good luck on getting the little ones into some fish.
My oldest turns 3 in the heart of steelhead season this year. I'm going to do my best to get him into a fish.

Today there were some just North of Hoodsport. It will be interesting to see how the closure area off Sund Rock will be enforced.

Hoodsport aready? Usually don't see them until around my birthday (21st).

When do the pinks usually start coming down the Strait in force???

In about a week or so.

That's why I like fishing off the base here on Whidbey. We get a good shot at them and I don't need to fish near the weirdo's.

Every year I see people retaining and cleaning king salmon thinking they are pinks. Neah bay and Sekiu are hotspots for that.

It's good to know there aren't any weirdos in the military on the island.

Or vice verse....

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Friend found LOTS at Sekiu this wekend. Strangly most were very deep, as in 200 feet.

Caught about 592 at Neah Bay this past weekend. If you fished anywhere inside you could catch one every five minutes all day every day. We tried to king fish in there for about half an hour and then didn't try again

We got a few at Swiftsure on 7 inch plugs 225 feet deep. There are more than a few on their way.

Fish on...

Todd

one estimate is 6.8 million in PS alone..

The other estimate is 1 million Buzz Bomb throwing snaggers on the Snohomish.

Good luck

We nailed a crap ton of them out in Juan De Fuca this weekend. They were jumping all over the damn place, including inside Cattle Pass and Rosario. Got several of them with 150' of cable out pounding the bottom.

Also had a sockeye nail my 3" spoon and rip the rod out of the clip with 195' of cable out. That was very unexpected but a welcome surprise!

Some limits being caught on the Whidbey beaches. Should make the king fishery interesting.

interesting, as I think we only boated a couple at neah earlier in the week. 1 definitely came from the deep (-230 ft). they must have showed up right after I left on Wednesday.



willy

There are enough in Neah Bay now that on a lark we stopped outside of Waada on the way in on Saturday at lunch time and took out our flimsy little rockfish rods with tiny darts on them, and started chucking them around...and two of us caught the boat's limit of bonus humpies in less than ten minutes.

They were jumping all the hell all over the place in there...and are about to fill up a couple loads in the canner here in just a bit today

Fish on...

Todd

Did a load of fresh ones from the banks myself yesterday, they came out damn tasty.

Smoker fodder... my wife loves to fish for them...

I hate the little buggers. They mess up the King fishing. I'd rather wait till the run dwindles and have a better chance at a Silver myself...

Stupid Humpies...

Gary