anybody fishing for lake washington silvers yet? any reports on fish.

Easy fishery....troll Red/Black Wiggle Warts real fast about 5 feet above the schools out in front of Wolf Bay, Hunts Point or Juanita Bay area.

Cigar

Hey Cigar,

Any idea where to get numbers for the coho count?
Coyote spoons have been working well for me for both kings and silvers this month.

Hi Jim,

I heard the week before last there were about 2000 through the locks so far. Check your email.

Cigar

Cigar,

Thanks for the heads up. I talk to the folks you mentioned fairly frequently at the launch. I'll give a wiggle wart a try this weekend to see if that doesn't stir things up a bit.
You might remember putting me on to some cutts last year off the yardarm when my fishfinder was on the fritz.
Some of us that fish the lake regularly were C&R some nice kings in that area a couple of weeks back.
Here's hoping a little rain this week will spark some more action!

Cigar, was hopeing for some additional info on this silver fishing in lake wa. do you use flashers? how long are your leaders? you mentioned trolling real fast like three miles per hour or what? if you do not want to share this with the board you can e-mail me at glennstroup@hotmail.com Thanks ahead of time for your help Glenn

Gleenski,

Now is the time! I caught two in 45 minutes this afternoon. No need for a flasher.
My setup: snap swivel on the end of your line, 5-6 feet of leader, tie directly to a Coyote spoon or Wiggle Wart. I have been trolling 45-50 feet deep in 55 to 75 feet of water. My fishfinder shows my trolling speed at 2.5 mph.

Hi Jim, thanks for the quick response What color and size on the spoon?

Glennski,

3.5 inch in green glo or army truck.

Only tried for L W silvers one time with no action, I will try out the above tips. Thanks. On that trip near hunts point , at sunset ,all the silvers in the area jumped at the same time. Something to see. Is this a common thing for silvers to do or was it a freak occurence?

You folks best fish Lake Wash. silvers tomorrow...the nets are going in Sunday night and stay until the fish are all harvested.

Cigar

Cigar, Thanks for the heads up. 'll be hitting it for sure in the morning. I'll be putting your tactics to work.

The Houghton/Kirkland waterfront was packed with silvers this morning. I'm afraid between the nets and the rain it will be slim pickings net weekend.

Hey Cigar, where do nets go in, the ship canal?

Don't think they are allowed to net in the canal. Last year I about killed one of them jerk offs as they were all netting at night up at the north end. No lights right in the middle of the slough... really bright thing to do.

Yee Ha! Man I wish I had fished these Silvers before today! I couldn't believe the fish on the screen and on top of the water.
My mother and I, went 4 for 6 this morning. 6, 7, 8, and 10#.
It sure is nice to play a fish without dragging a flasher with them.
We got 1 on a Wiggle Wart, and all the others on the green and white Coyote fished at 60' on the wire and 2.5 mph. Water depth from 70' to 90'.
Jim and Cigar, thanks for the info.

nice report Charr! Good going.

Ok so now I want some, but are they going to net the Bejesus out of them tongiht?

Someone clue me in so I can set up a trip in the next day er two.

Why not let them net? Why should we get any scraps of a fishery?

I called the hotline and apparently they'll be either in Lake Union or the ship canal. I will be out after 9:00am tomorrow.

How'd you do today Ryley?

Really well!
Limits in 3 hours fishing (9:00 am to 12:00pm)between Hunts and Yarrow Point. 80-100 feet of water running the Wiggle Warts pictured straight off the downrigger at 60 feet. Quite a few fish in there right now, saw several other caught. Boats coming in at Magnuson park were all limited when were were putting in.
We also saw a side-scanning sonar boat running up and down the lake, so I assume the netters will be in there soon, go get them now!

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Nice

I fished Kenmore Sat. with no bites. A few jumping around and flipping me off but no biters. Looks like some nice fish headed that way.

At least I got to watch the game cop chase off the snag em and bag em crowd. Fairly humerous.

Skyguy, Nice pictures. I really like the one of the plugs. Reminds me of my Wiggle Wart just seconds before my mom sat on it!
And she blamed me!
I run 2 down riggers and the kicker motor and I'm suppose to watch where she sits?
Jeeez! Sorry Mom!

Nice job guys! Glad to hear this fishery produced for you. Sometimes it can be lockjaw, which is REALLY frustrating when you see all the fish on the depthfinder and jumping around you. Maybe I should go out tomorrow...

Has anybody been out today? I'm wondering if there will be any fish left by Sunday?

We went out this evening. Plenty of fish both jumping and down 50-60 ft, but the netters were deploying even as we were fishing, so there you go. We caught one and lost one on wiggle warts.

BTW, the one we caught was snagged so I released it back to the water so the netters could get him. Man, did that seem weird. In fact, the tribe bat asked us did we catch the fish and when I told him we did but released it because it was snagged he just couldn't stop laughing...

Mike, Will this be a complete sterizilation of the lake, or will there be some fish around by Sunday?

went this a.m.--no fishies--saw one jumper to my surprise--marked fish--but the net I saw dimmed my hopes

I have a buddy out there as I write and there are still fish boiling but there are five boats and they have not seen a fish caught.

I would think it will be tougher now and the fish will be pretty spooked.

Does anybody know if this is the last of the netting for the week?

My friend Sok just reported that he and his friend Tim limited on Lake Washington silvers Saturday within two hours. They launched at 8:30am and were all done by 10:30. Who'd a thunk after all that netting.

Cigar

Well I guess I know where I'll be this weekend!
Thanks for the heads up Cigar!

would that be the would have been record holding cut Sok?

Yes indeed, it was that world famous cutthroat killer! He called me several times Saturday to crow about it. I tried the same area and techniques on Sunday without success. There are some fish around but they are starting to get dark and it is much more difficult to get them to hit.

oops. Are you the guy that was with him launching and loading at Kenmore when Parker was there a few weeks back?

Thankx for the update... seeing them still out there netting this morning. Was thinking about getting out there again but was thinking it may be river time.

Supcoop,

No, I wasn't the guy at the ramp. However, I was the guy that introduced Sok to that dandy 15lb. cutthroat.

Cigar

Supcoop,

Yeah, I'm the guy that was with Sok the day you and Parker were putting your coho clinic. I went out yesterday and drew a blank. The netting seems to scraped the lake clean as I marked very little around the three fingers and nothing at all in the northend. Oh well, next year!

Got out today and the only fish I saw was rolling at the boat launch. Went all the way to the bridge and didn't even mark a fish let alone have any strikes... like you said next year.