I have been on the same plan as 4salt. Sounds like I should have hung around a little longer Sunday PM. That South wind wore me down. I called it about 7:30p Never touched a fish, not even a shaker.

I think I can get up a little earlier. See you out there Tuesday AM!

Damn is hard to listen to these reports from 900 miles away! Save a few for me for a month from now.

Dad and I went 0 for 2 today. I had a mid-teen king about 20 ft from the boat, when Mr. Seal paid me a visit. I fought and chased him for about 15 min before my leader finally broke. There was a good early bite this morning. Mooching cut-plugs on the deck.

Jeez...Todd and his hat are that easily recognizable? We hadn't even dropped the kicker in the water and somebody starts cussing at us from 300 yards away? WTF? Good seeing everyone out there....

Parker is correct....best King bite I've ever seen out on Bar. More action than a Humpy year...no kidding. Friday, despite a brisk SW wind and snotty conditions, was unreal. When you actually had time to take a breath and look around you noticed that nearly EVERY boat within sight was fighting or netting a fish. Wind/waves/weather was nicer on Saturday morning and the bite was still good, but not as good as Friday. Distinct lack of a tide change bite on both mornings from what I saw....early morning show for sure. Anybody else notice the lack of shakers? I caught zero in two days....weird.

Anybody catch any Coho? I heard of only 1 on Friday...nice fat 8 lbr.

So the regs say this fishery is open 'til August 31? Any guesses on how long it will remain open? I don't think there is any way they will let us impact the wild Chinook that long, especially if everyone told the truth about how many wild fish they released. I'd be shocked if it remained open into August.

Thanks again Broodbuster for a most excellent weekend...one for the books.

Ike

I have heard of virtually no wild fish being caught in area 10 so you area 9 guys must be whoopin up on em if you think they're gonna close it. Every fish I have brought to the boat since Tuesday has been clipped. BTW Kingston was void of bait, boats, and fish this morning. -TBJ

We've released no wild fish yet either.
Except for the lack of you catching a fish....Glad to hear about Kingston TBJ, that means you guys left all the fish for me tonight Shoving off @ Shilshole 'Round 3:30 for the night shift.

I heard of wild ones being caught, but the majority were definitely clipped fish...but with the high pressure due to high catch rates, I'd wager the impacts are being burned at a greater rate than they figured before setting the closing date...we'll have to see how it goes.

Fish on...

Todd

I'm bettin' the catch rates drop off dramatically this weekend too. Remember 2 years ago... it was light's out on the opener, then slowed down afterwards.

Rumor has it that posession slowed down a tad yesterday. I was at 3 rivers and heard a couple reports. Kings still being caught but more time and effort were needed. Maybe theyre moving south? Anybody else?

Was out last night and two of us went 7 for 10 in 2.5 hrs...didn't exactly feel like a "slow down"...lol AceHi's 100-140 ft. down in 150-160ft. of water. Unreal chinook fishing for Puget Sound. Pretty awesome fishing when you can cull through 10-12lbers and limit on 14-16lbers.

CM

If you need a net bitch.....

Made two big passes on Jeff Head last night, not much bait, no fish, ran up to PNP, no fish, little bait.

:|

I've released two nice wild fish at Possession so far.

Must be me. All I could catch last year were wild kings.

Sounds like you should have followed Canyon Man around Ryley.

As a matter of fact, he called me after they had two in the box at PNP, and it was so nice out, ....excuse me, the nicest night I have ever seen in my life on the sound.... I decided to pick up at Jeff and Run up there. Water was flat as a parking lot throughout the sound..Fishingwise, Just wasn't our night, and that's the way it goes sometimes...

I hear ya!

Your story is MUCH more typical of the evening 'bite' than Canyon Man's.

Some guys are just lucky... I guess?

I fished Jeff Head Saturday evening and after about 7 pm the Sound looked like a duck pond. No love for me until the last hour. There ain't much bait out there and I think I got lucky and happened upon a pod migrating through.

We were out yesterday evening, tried President Point for the tide change and then went to Jeff Head. Same success as you, no hits and little bait. It was an amazing sunset, well worth the time on the water.

Sunset 7/19/10 from near Meadow Point.

Must be my "luck" as well. Sleddddder brings 15 fish to the boat over three days with two of those being wild....and I catch both of them.

Hopefully that streak doesn't continue for me at Sekiu.

Nice work guys. Good to see such a great opener.

Evening number two in the books with another limit...overall we were two for six on solid hookups with a couple other maybe's. 15 and 10 lb clippers. Same deal...acehi's 27" behind a hot spot down 100 to 120 in 130 to 150 ft. of water. Another beautiful night except for the two lost about a foot from the net...lol...oh well

CM