What's the verdict- endure the crowds at Pt. Townsend, stick closer to home near Apple Tree, or secret spot?

Secret spot...along with the rest of the people who know about it.

Joe

We'll be fishing where the fish are and not so much were they aren't. Hopefully.

Got 20 lb very fat hen at oil docs at 930 am. 115ft of braided bangin bottom with green hootchy. Lost a king earlier at picnic point.

My secret spot in the middle of the channel up by the Bank was decent. Limited by 9 but the grade of fish appear small this year based on my observations. Saltys 20lb fish is the first fish Ive heard of around 20.

Crabbing is borderline dismal, I dont think Ive ever seen so few dungeness.

We got our fish mid-day. Like SG said, the grade is pretty underwhelming. 10, 10, and 10 for us, cookie cutters. Lost another to a seal that looked to be the same size fish. We did manage a few out in the staits last week that were in the upper teens and a 20+ with a fin, so there are a few bigger ones around.

The one thing I will say is that all 3 of the fish we cut had 2-3" tiny baby herring in their bellies....

I was hoping to fish the bar with my son yesterday afternoon/evening but circumstances conspired against us. Hopefully y'all will save some for us to catch sometime this week!

Really slow at my usual spots on the west side of A-10. We got one decent high finner king and some dink coho. Lots of effort, a few nets flying for dink coho, but I personally did not see a good king taken on the morning tide. Pretty disappointing, hopes were high as there were quite a few fish around the area in early July. Heard mid-channel was pretty dead also, probably should have made the run to Possession .

my secret spot was a dry hole- no birds, no bait , no bites. Jeff Head had some rezzie coho landed but was slow too. Possession looking like a better choice this week(?).

Possession was slow due to the weak tides. We long-line released a clipped solid 20+ at the boat and let a keeper go when it ran in to the kicker. The donkey show continued as we pulled our 4 pots to find a good number of over sized crab. Too bad 99% of them were softies. I was mostly an observer on the boat...and realized I should have stayed in Craig. Our salmon are stupid, but not in the good kind of way.

Ended up with one keeper hard crab. No salmon.

Saw a lot of nursery fish caught at Possession, with a few keepers here and there for some. Spoons and plugs. I bet the bigger tides next week will push the bait back in and things will heat up.

Heard that the channel in the middle was on fire, but not as much bait as normal. I wouldn't be surprised to see those fish come on down the pipeline and fill in the normal MA 9 and 10 locations soon.

It was slow in our spot, but I was able to scratch up a SUPER fat 14 lb buck. All of the bait was super tiny 1" or less. I heard of several 20+ lb fish caught at some of the usual spots. Lots of resi ho's in the mix as well.

Three coho off the beach.
All unclipped so they are still swimming. Must have missed them at the hatchery clipping table....

Did see one nice king jump and some bait getting bullied.
Tides sucked, lots of salad and the cloud cover burned off too quickly for my liking.
More sandlance this year then I've seen in a while.
Baited up about 30 crabs off the beach on last weekends minus tide, not one legal.
SF

quota has been met.

The day started of slow but picked up right at the tide change. we hit a couple of resident coho and barely legal chinook all within a half hour of each other... we lost one large chinook at the boat and had a couple of other coho put on a nice aerial getaway display...

Good work Piper.
Your kids are getting big!
SF

West Point for 3 hours this morning. Nothing. Lots of bait and fish on the screen though.

Hey Salty - we fished by you on the opener.

Any surface bait today and if so, what was the size?

No surface bate. I cut the 20 pounder open and there were very small, skinny candlefish I believe.

Yep - teeny tiny 1" candlefish. It would be great to see some herring show up!

Good luck,

Why the sandlance hate Nick?
SF