Just lookin for some feed back...Have any of you guys fished it over the weekend? I'm trying to get over there this week and was curious. Thanks in advance!

Might be headin out there myself this week. How hard is lodging going to be to find on like Wed or Thurs?

Check out Olson\'s . You can give them a call for reports and lodging availabilities.

Also, here's the link to the Chamber of Commerce for more info about lodging choices.

My guess is lodging shouldnt be a problem...Are u headin over by urself mawd?

Me and my pops-in-law are heading over early Thursday morning and will be staying until Friday some time. You gonna be over there around that time? Just got a brand new 19' Smokercraft Osprey a couple of weeks ago and need to put it to use. It's black and silver w/ Scotty electric riggers...give me a yell if you see us.

Good luck calling Olsens. Everytime I have they tell me how good it is. Once they told me it was the best they had seen in 10 years and when I went I found out that it had been dead. I talked to a guy who fished Sekiu today. It was slow. Lots of small fish. Pillar Point gave up some fish over the weekend. Lots of fish in the mid to high teens. Quite a few hatchery fish. These were local guys. They were picking them up mooching herring.

I checked my source at the Coho Resort. Fishing has been a bit slow, with some hatchery kings, most about 10-15 lbs with a few larger. Silvers were 2-6 lbs, but they had to wade through the wild fish to find some bonkers. Only a few pinks taken.

The terminal gear used by most folks varied, but the trash trollers (flasher & hootchie) seemed to produce the best results.

I'm headed up there Friday through Sunday.

I fished Saturday along with the other 500+ boats and had mixed results. Everything said so far is about what I saw too.
Saturday morning was perfect weather and I only saw 1 king kept and 3 released for a ton of boats between slip point and Mussilini area. I had several shakers and one good fish that jumped twice and threw the hooks, I'm sure it was wild.
Saturday night was the exact oppisite, the weather was nasty till about 830PM and few boats were out, we trolled in the same general area and between 730 and dark had a fish on every 10 minuets or so, I think we got 7 to the boat and could have kept three. All were smaller fish, largest was low 20's that we released followed by a few in the teens, keepers tended to be low teens. Also saw very little bait in the AM but it was everywhere at night.
Just a warning I heard from a very reliable source at WDFW that the quota may not last as long as they were hoping as a lot of smaller fish (clipped blackmouth or small kings) are being caught, with a two fish limit 3500 will not take that long, maybe as short as 10-14 days, hope its not true, I want to go again.
Hope this helps some, good luck to others.

NEN

thanks for the info....keep em coming

We got into the kings west of the caves just at daylight on Saturday. Brought sixteen fish to the boat and kept two. One was ten pounds and the other was fourteen. We released a few small legals and two really nice natives. It shut down at about 6:30 or 7:00 am like someone hitting a light switch.

Saturday afternoon no chinooks, zip, nada, nothing.

Sunday morning no chinooks, zip, nada, nothing.

Sunday afternoon from 4:30 pm until dark we released three nice natives, two probably in the high teens and one beautiful high twenties hen.

Oh well, still beats hell outta workin.

On a sour note:

We were super carefull with the natives. Kept the pressure on and didn't put a single one in the net but we saw fish regularly being released from the net and we also saw some floaters. Makes one wonder just how many natives the selective fishery actually saves.

This is my first year fishing chinooks at Sekiu and it reminds me too much of bouy 10 in August. So I'll probably stick to Canada and the ocean for my Chinooks in the future.

Just got back was there since the 3rd first two days got three silvers
That where hatchery just jacks know real size sat. Had 9 fish on two
Kept 1 king about 18lbs one silver 5lbs Sunday had 6 release and one was 40+
We where fishing just north of the sequ river in 230 ft of water with hook ups
From 10 – 50 feet small dodger and cut plug with 4’-5’leader
If I were you I would wait till the 13 or so. Good luck hoped this helped

I got in on the Pillar bite at 0 dark 30 on Monday- was about as hot as I've seen, wound up hooking 3 kings in a total of 1 1/2 minutes of actual fishing time, all were hatchery fish, kept a 10 and an 8. The bite fell way off when the sun came up, had to go to PA for a meeting anyway so that was fine with me - save some quota I used the downrigger with a hotspot and coyote instead of mooching as I usually do when I fish Pillar Point, as I didn't want to have a bunch of fish I was figuring on having to release swallowing bait, and the doggies were bad, even got one on the spoon The local moochers sure gave me sour looks :p

Now I'm chompin at the bit...thanks gents!

Just got back. Fished out of Olsens the last 2 days, then stopped at our cabin on Hood Canal on the way home for some rest last night and a limit of crab in 1 pull this morning. Great trip.

Hit the water at Sekiu Thursday morming at 07:00 hooked 13 silvers (2 kept) by 10:00. Not all that big, but tasty. Headed to sail rock and got 2 limits of rock fish and a nice ling. After a much needed nap back on the water at 7:00 PM. Hooked 7 kings in 1 1/2 hours (1 kept 7 lb) had to release 2 over 20. Then hit a ling at 27 on DR in 150' of water.....weird.

Friday hit water at 0:400 cought and released 5 silvers and 1 king (0 kept) by 09:00. Gave up on that and ran to sail in the fog. Got a ling and a few bottom fish and lost a huge ling.

All in all well worth the drive to see the old man fighting fish and cruising the new boat.

Glad to hear oyu had a good trip. How big were the silvers that were out there? Thanks

The keepers were 3-5 released a couple wild fish closer to 8-9. Spent 2 days trying to convince the old man that smaller hatchery fish taste better.....he wasn't buying it.

I fished Monday through Thursday. 22 kings and not a single clipped. Although most of these cookie cutters have got to be unclipped hatchery fish. Mine ranged from 10 to 28 pounds with most around the 15 pound range. On a sad note....I was forced to watch one bleeding like a pig 15 pound king sink to the bottom belly up. What a waste. I still very much disagree with the direction of this fishery. I highly doubt you will be able to ever keep an unclipped fish again at Sekiu. It's a transfer of wild fish to the commercials (which includes the tribes). Also, it seems to be a blatant bias towards small boat fishermen since you can keep the same fish at Neah Bay (shouldn't area 4 have already reached it's quota and been closed? Sekiu lasted 4 days last year). Also, with the pojected 3rd largest hatchery king return ever in the Columbia, 220,000, why isn't the ocean required to release non-clipped? Lastly, people are saying "won't this be great if they can get the percentage of clipped to non-clipped up? Is that really the direction we want to go? To have a large percentage of the fish in the salt be hatchery? Something really stinks here and it ain't the fish in my boat.

Not sure what is going on here, must be karma from all my releasing of "native" springers on the Columbia, but I've put in 3 days at Sekiu, landed 7 kings, and 6 of them were clipped . This is definately bucking the trend, everyone I talked to was releasing more like 10 to 1. On the minus side, most have been 8 pounders with one 13. But hey, they fight like hell at that size and sure taste good, so I'm not complaining :p

I agree with spawnout, had friends that fished the PA area and they got 5 keepers for 3 people and only had to release one. It would be nice if the keepers were a little bigger though. Think maybe they travel in schools and you just have to hit the clipped school that is heading to the hatchery? Thats my logic!


NEN

Sekiu gets 10 times the pressure as Neah bay, and neah has a 26" minimum size limit. I'm not sure on the exact numbers but I think the quota is bigger at Neah too. No way is this an attack on small boat owners. You can fish a smaller boat at Neah, you just cant always take it out into the ocean. If you watch the marine forecasts daily, you'll see that the central strait (sekiu/PA) has a lot more small craft advisories than the west entrance (neah). Nearly every afternoon the wind picks up in the central strait and it gets bumpy. Most people just dont like the extra half hour on that crappy road out to the reservation.

If you watch, the area 6 fishery will close before the big fish show because everyone is keeping 8lb blackmouth... There are a lot of them and they are easy to catch.

Area 4 has the right idea in raising the minimum size....

As far as the hatchery/wild fish question.... in a perfect world everyone would like to see all wild fish. It isn't a perfect world I'm afraid....