Got back from Sekiu yesterday! Took my dad and brother in law. The fishing was pretty steady. Got 20 salmon to the boat on Saturday, 1:30pm to 8:00pm, and 33 more on Sunday, 5:30 to noon. Only counted 27 boats at the most. Saw two guys get ticketed for kings, small ones at that, that they kept. Patrol boat stopped us, talked about 5 minutes, then went on their merry way. Make sure you do it the right way, 'cause they're watching.

5 kings, 4 pinks, and the rest silvers. Only kept 1 pink, last fish on Saturday night. No real size to any of the kings, biggest was maybe 7lbs, biggest silver was about 9lbs, but the rest averaged about 6 lbs. They're getting bigger!

Used light steelhead gear to troll plug cuts w/o flashers off of the downriggers and really reduced the number of pinks that we caught. Sunday morning we used 2oz. banana sinkers to troll from 5:30 t 8:00 because it took too much time to set the riggers, and about the time that I was hooking our lines into the release, we already had a fish on. they were hitting right on top. Our first fish of the day was when I had stripped five feet of line off of my reel as the first bait hit the water. Fished the downriggers at 45' after about 8:30am on Sunday and pretty much caught fish at will.

It is a bit of a drive, but the numbers are there to more than make up for it. This weekend was the best water I had seen all year. A little swell, 1 to 2 feet, but almost no wind waves.

Andy

Thanks for the report.I'll wait tell september when they are a little bigger.
Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

The nice thing about September is that they average aroung 12 pounds, with some as high as 19, (my best about 12 years ago), and you can keep any silvers you want.

We weren't trying to show off, it just took us that many fish, and 10 dozen herring, to get there. My dad must have crackered 20 fish! Really! I kept on telling him not to set the hooks, just to ease into the fish, but then you know parents, they never listen. I lost about 5, my brother-in-law about 8. This didn't count the tip-offs from the downrigger that resulted in no fish.

It was a riot with four doubles and 2 triples. I hope it stays that way for August and September. My next chance to go is August 18th.

Andy

Sounds like a lot of fun, Dogfish.

All my fishing partners backed out, so I just worked on the boat all day Saturday, then fished the Elwha a little while on Sunday. I can't wait to get back out to Sekiu, though... got a wedding this weekend, so my next chance is the 12th, other than that, it's the 18th... can't wait!!

-N.

It has gotten to the point where we can actually identify what type of salmon before we see it. Big Kings, of course, are real easy, but silvers and pinks are a little different if you know what to look for, but the most difficult ones are the little 5-10lb kings, or the pig pinks (one was about 8 pounds). They fight differently.