I did well until the last 2 days. Now nothing but dogfish. I have been fishing Possession Bar.

How did you do?

ps nice talking to you at the Gas Dock Ryley

Unfortunately only second hand knowledge this year but from what I heard it didn't sound like I missed much.

Uh oh. No reports spells one of two things: 1) no one catching 2) Catching is so good people have become zipper lipped.

Hope things get a little better by Friday!

1 king limits should make for better stats...but not so good for sporty catch us... Thanks Co-Managers...whatever ;(

A few fish were caught in the usual MA 10 areas with a better bite being on the West side than the East side.

When we pulled into Shilshole at noon, the fish checker had checked 5 fish for 35 boats. One boat that just pulled in had 3 of those.

We released a 10-12 ruddered king. Hate it when they have their rudder still attached.

Secret lure is the one Captain Q has told you ALL about a million and half times. Look it up. It just works...time and time and time and time again....for kings and coho.

Oh well, off to try again tomorrow and Friday.

But yes, I've seen better openers down this way. I guess that is good as it keeps the quota down and the season longer.

Kinda disappointed to see people and charters whacking fish in the 5lb. range. Don't they realize we are under a quota? Oh wait, money talks I guess. Fortunately, all the fish checked at Shilshole were of good size - at least that's what Courtney told me.

When I hit Everett at 1, the checker had 34 fish for 103 boats. I got mine, little 12 lbr but sounds like a lot of skunks!

I think we are dealing with the former here.

IrishRogue and I spent the day with two other buddies in south and central MA 9, where it was very slow for us. We managed to return to the dock with one 13# buck that disappeared in a flash off several BBQ's last night, leaving me wanting more.

The lock counts for Chinook are dismal right now, there are few to no fish going through at all. Overall a very slow morning opener? Thats the concesus I believe...however-
In my network of buddies there were a few caught here and there in the AM on the opener, but I'll disclose that some people did really really good, last night. Maybe this is one of those times where due to tides or whatever...there is a better evening bite right now?

We saw very few nets flying at Midchannel. We managed to scratch out a decent king, but took felt lucky to do so. Tonight it to will disappear on four different BBQs.

I know of 3 to 13 boats yesterday am, one of those boats took 2 of the 3. Otherwise, I know of a nate released last night, so 1 for 7 boats. Went out before a conf call this am, 0 for 7 boats but I was off the water at 7:15.

mid A10

I have been fishing Salisbury and PNP. At Salisbury I have hooked a couple Resdiential Coho and at PNP I have seen a 10# buck steelhead caught and a smaller coho. Not much happening right now. Tons of bait jumping everywhere just nothing working them to prove a decent amount of fish exist.

Nothing for us at Mid-Channel or PnP yesterday.

Ran to A10 this morning for a resident coho and a mid teens King with too many fins.

Back at it tomorrow.

Roughly 200 boats at mid-channel Wednesday. Crazy. About half that many Thursday. Catch is pretty slim talking to the guys here at Fort Casey.

Jim

Well hell, I feel pretty good about our 1- 10# Hatch we got now. . . Was good to be out on the water finally . .. good to see some familiar faces as well. Saw 4 other fish caught between PNP and the Green Can on W Poss.

Report I got was that it was slow at Mid Channel, though a few scratched out a limit or two.

Maybe these fish will come in soon. Seems as though nothing is out there.. fingers crossed

We were out of beer Chuck
Targeted the wrong tide I suppose.
Going to do the same dumb thing today due to other commitments.
Then something different for the next few days.
Good Luck!

My uncle reported this morning from skunk bay...nothing and very little bait. His friend had one at the rock near mid-channel. I will be out at pilot and skunk bay tomorrow.

Joe

I personally have not touched a fish in 3 days and at least 18 hours on the water. We chased reports today and paid the price - of no fish. I knew better. There were fish caught a lot closer to home for us. The reports from the Shilshole fish checker's were poor. Everyone must be lying.

No touches on the opener for us. We hit the afternoon tide change yesterday, fished Jeff Head. Got one resident coho and one take down with no hook up. We did see a couple of boats with fish on but not sure what they were. There are fish there but weeds, trash, slime, and jelly fish all over make trolling difficult. Mooching or jigging on the tide changes might be more productive. The Shilshole check at 8:00 PM was something like 10 salmon (all species) for 67 boats. We are waiting until Monday, hoping the big tides will clean things out and bring a few more fish in.

Im trying out PNP in the morning.. hopefully a postive report for yall tomorrow..

if you go, best get out early. check the forecast: 5kt early 13-18 SSE later. wind waves to 3'. sounds like the shrimp opener. lack of fish and time combined with the weather will keep me off the water tomorrow. off to baker lake monday, hope the numbers keep coming up!



willy