headed for sekiu on thursday and will be there thru sunday. what seems to be the hot setup? i have fished quite a bit in the sound around tacoma and have gear as such. will the same gear work up there or do i need to go shopping? there will be 7 of us on two boats. this will be the first time i have ever been fishing there. TIA
thanks for the spelling lesson sol.

There's a lot of stuff that works when the bite is on. My personal favorite is a white or silver flasher with a short leader and a "army truck" colored hootchie. If I'm using cut-plug, I brine em' first and use a longer leader. For the slower bite, I seem to have better luck with cut-plug.

For silvers, I seem to get a better bite running them from Deep Six divers rather than downriggers. I'll probably be there myself this weekend even though the forecast is looking pretty bad. Good Luck!

HEY BULLSHOOTER, DONT BOTHER GOING ALL THE WAY UP THERE!! THE RAIN HAS PUSHED MOST OF THE FISH PAST SEIKU INTO OTHER AREAS! LAST WEEKEND WAS DEAD FOR C/Q STANDARDS...DONT LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE SAYING THE FISHING IS PEAKING...ITS NEARLY DONE,DUE TO THE UNUSAUL RAIN TOTALS OF LATE. FISH INNER PUGET SOUND!!

Sky # er, you forget about the fish at sea that just entered the barrel due to the rain. Sounds like you were between waves of fish, as it were. At least I hope so, I'm headed up Thursday as well.

SK#er you are always just so negative man do you have some issues. Not loved as a child or something by the way take the cap locks off it is getting pretty irritating

Was there last Fri - Sun, limited everyday, with some big hatchery fish. I will be out there again this coming Thur-Sun, fish are still there.
Gimme a friggin' break :rolleyes: ! Eveything mentioned above works just fine or you can go very simple. Drag a cut plug herring around on a 5ft leader with 4/5oz weight, start at 15-25 pulls early in the morning and work down to 50-65 pulls as you get closer to Noon (depending on the Sun/Clear skies).

Kev

Just to chime in. Just about anything works in Sekiu!!! What was hot as AM said was the "beads", plain 8mm faceted beads from the local craft shop. 4 to a leader, alternated in either black/red, black/green or black/white on a 18" leader behind a dodger. We were trolling at silver speed (2 - 3 mph). I was a non-believer until last week!! Cut plugs work, army truck or green spatterback hootches work, coyote spoons work, not much doesn't work!!! As for the fish, ya there still there. Sunday morning was a coho rodeo out in the shipping lanes, 3 triples and to many fish to count, including at least a 1/2 dozen that were pushing 15lbs. We did get blown off of the water on Monday after 45 minutes, to much wind.
Good luck and tight lines, Jeff

It's a matter of creditability.

Sky#er posted this in another CQ thread he started thread 9/13

posted 09-13-2004 07:47 AM

HOW WAS THE FISHING UP THERE THIS WEEKEND? WAS THE WEATHER DECENT?

Bullshooter, my experience at Sekiu is that it doesn't matter what you use, it only matters where you are. If you aren't catching fish, move! Keep going out until you find fish. Sometimes, out ends up being way out. If you find a ripline, stay on it. You can't troll too fast for silvers so cover some water until you find the fish, then slow down to stay in the zone.

FISH WHERE THE FISH ARE and pray for nice weather. Nothing better than fishing a calm September morning at Sekiu. Enjoy.