Gilly and summerun and crew certainly bucked the average today....... I should have known better than to do my own thing when Matt is fishing with nobody else around.... Gotta keep an eye on him to keep him honest.

Neal was that you I saw ripping through P.A. with the F/V Tartar Sauce?

Ya Neal, that Matt is a sneaky dude:) A huge shoutout to Matt and Tyee Charters. To all that want to get dialed in on the MA 10 fishery give him a call but he is booking up fast so ya better hurry up. You will have fun AND catch fish, good combo in my book.

No pics but we landed 4 keeper kings from 8-16lbs and a nice fat coho. The ones that got away were the story today as we had two obviously huge fish shred our 40lb leaders, violent hits n huge runs then snap! Guess thats what makes ya come back. Better tides towards the later part of this week will get the bite going off more consistently as today we had a great morning bite that lasted an hour or so with other fish mixed in throughout the rest of the day. I need a nap...cheers

Now you know where he got the name Astroglide.

With the kids hanging out the window with corn dogs and MnM's? Yeah that was me. Fished about an hour and a half at CQ saturday morning for kings with not a touch. Didn't try for silvers, cuz the kids both had to go poop.....

Friggin hilarious!

Yes. I almost pulled out in front of you when you turned right onto Lauridson Blvd...... If you used your turn signal, it isn't working.

That's funny about your kids... king fishing slowed down out there, the fish checker out there is the son of owner of the charter boat I operate. He checked 6 kings for 23 boats on Saturday, 2 of which were illegal undersized blackmouth, two were barely legal blackmouth, and the others were about 8 and 15 lbs. Notso Hotso. But the silver fishing has been good.

I'd like to encourage people to take a little more time and care in identifying their fish, both for species and size....

So you were the guy I cut off Sorry about that! Seriously, I was trying to hear myself think over my son wailing from the back seat that he was either going to vomit or poop his pants. He came down with a stomach bug while we were out at the cabin. We were on the hunt for a bathroom, and it was a last minute decision to make that turn! Thankfully we made it to Safeway in time....
I have a hunch less than half the people fishing out there can tell the difference between a pink and a BM.... The Game Warden was at the dock when I pulled out, so hopefully there was some edjumucation going on....

haha no worries man. sounds like you had your hands full.....

sorry to hear the little guy had a rough go.

the funniest/saddest thing about the humpy/bm mis-identification trip, is the people that bring in adipose-clipped undersize bm, then argue strenuously in favor of them actually being pinks. in case anyone's not aware, there are NO hatchery humpy's.

A guy at work witnessed a 32lber being caught on the Edmonds pier on Sunday, but overall it was slow.

well we had our yearly Carlsen fishing derby Sat and Sun. 27 Anglers in the party 0 keeper fish....Pretty frustrating...We only saw 1 other boat release a nice 20+ native...Started Eglon trolled with tides thru Point no point, finishing out of Skunk Bay...Saturday tried Fowl Weather Bluff...Can't believe 0 fish for all of us...Sunday Fish checker, checked 0 fish when we pulled out of Kingston at 10:30am...We will carry the purse and the rod sage made for us until next year...

Must all be up North still.....

We got all ours right on the bottom. One hit when the ball was laying on the bottom paying out downrigger cable, go figure.

We fished top, middle, deep and dragging downrigger ball....Don't know what we did wrong... o-well, next time

Saturday took the girls to Jeffhead ended up with one 20+ for 6 hours trolling. after tide switched run over to the oil docks for a leisurely pass up to carkeek just for a looksee, I liked what I saw but the tide was wrong > So Sunday my buddy and I O darked thirty up to Richmond Beach , 3 passes 3 kings and as soon as the sun hit the water it was over nothing big but mature fish, when we went in fish checker had 5 fish for 30 boats so we were smiling!!!PEACE

you would be surprised how many people cant tell the difference...i have been on the dock filleting my fish and people throw those up and i cant help but give em a earfull....they say they are humpies, and i say no that is a text book chinook....of course i alway explain...people should not keep fish until they know what they are...it does not look good at north of falcon when we cant control sporties...stupid people...anyway....

was thinking of heading up to Seiku again...sorry i didnt post a report...ill have to do that...sorry...c

No pics as I was solo on Sunday, but she was a beaut.

Good to see Supcoop and Parker out there this morning. Tally for Team Q today was 2 wild 18-20# kings cnr, 1 dink 8# clipped king bonked and 1 3# silver bonked. All fish came on either the green or purple haze hotspot and purple haze ace high fly. We'll be out again tomorrow.

Keith's reports this morning while I was driving N from Chico were killing me. Didn't know he was fishing with Gilly. Makes sense now!
Cap Q sounded like he did alright from his spot as well.
I'm looking fwd to getting in the game later this week.
Truck is going into the shop for a week starting tomorrow morning.....any body feel like towing my boat about 4 miles to and from the ramp (Shilshole) give me a shout! Before anybody says it 3 Rivers has been through the boat and she's running great :-) The boy will be at mom's and then out of town camping for the next 12 days.
Hope y'all didn't catch all of em.

My boat went from nasty dirty pollen coated spiderweb farm to the old shiny fish killin' machine in about 4 hours tonight. I've been so busy with work and house projects I hadn't touched it in months. Surprisingly, for once in my life, everything checked out and works great after being stored for several months. Trailer lights, electrical, battery in good condition...I was amazed!


...hope I didnt just jinx myself

Looking forward to some MA9 coho trips with Rico and crew, and hitting MA9/10 a ton over the next month....

Question....kind of new to the downrigger game. I was fishing meadow point on Sunday (all day), marked fish but they wouldn't bite. Went with hoochies, and coyote's in 120 - 180ft of water with ball down around 80-110. In the morning two guys caught kinger's but overall appeared slow. Around 11:30 the flood tide got trucking and I found large schools of fish, and big bait balls pushing up against the point. Managed to entice one shaker on a jig of all things, he went back to his friends, and had another shaker hit the coyote. Now these fish were in a zone of 200-250 ft of water down around 150-180ft. The question is what would you run and how would you do it. I got down deep and trolled through the zone but nothing. Help a guy out please. Colors, depth, leader length, fast troll with the tide, how bout deeper water toward the fishing lanes? Thank you in advance. This is frustrating. I went to the locks this evening and teener kings in the window. I gave them the finger and left. Thanks.

Try talking to them softly next time, and it may work out better for you!
Sounds like you did as well as most on sunday. You say your depth range is 80-110. In the morning, start shallow (30-50 ft). Then go deeper as the day goes on, or the bait warrants. If you are marking fish at 180 (its probablly bait) drop it down to 180! Remember the throw back decreases the depth your lure is at, so adjust accordingly to be at the depth the fish are haunting.
Good luck.
Neal