Possession Salmon

[tcr_pnw]

Anybody putting in time out in Possesion? If so, how have you fared?

Before they closed Chinook, last weekend on the Bar, one small silver and one native Chinook then fished the tide rips due south of the Bar and boated another silver and a humpy. 3.5 Silver Horde Kingfisher spoons landed them all. Green hootchie with a herring chaser hooked the largest dogfish I've seen in some time...a good 5-1/2 feet.

Last Wed evening fishing Humpy Hollow, one humpy in the evening on the typical white flasher & pink hootchie.

Skunked this past Saturday fishing Humpy Hollow and Possession Bar. Trolling from Shipwreck to Possession Point hooked into something good that spooled 200' of line...gained most of it back then went through a massive minefield of kelp and other outgoing tidal crap that caught the line popped the spoon...if a King it'd have to go back but would have been nice to get it to the boat.

Anyway, curious to see what's working and what's not. May have an open seat for an evening run or two this week and next. Boat's slipped in Everett. Try to motor out by 4:30-4:45 and fish until a bit after sundown. PM if local and free in the afternoon/evenings during the week.

Troy

[redbaronace]

Cruised through there 2x this weekend. Ton of boats on the water trolling. Must have been over 100 boats between shipwreck and possession. Did not see a single fish landed on any boats as we passed through.

[localboy]

Buddy went out last week for a few hours. Landed one hatchery King just under 20# and lost another huge one.

[G Gallagher]

I was one of those boats out there Sat. Somewhere between 60-70 of those boats were participating in the Wounded warrior program called "Salmon for Soldiers. It was a big event with around 120 veterans participating , most of them have wounds from the last several wars.


I volunteered my boat a 22 ft Ocean Pro Hewescraft " Reel Salty"- so I skippered and had a deckhand and 2 warriors on board. We put 3 Pinks in the box and had several more hits, but they refused to get in the boat. A number of boats did not get fish,but it appears that maybe 2/3's brought something back.There was a weigh-in and I believe the biggest was a king of a little over 28 lbs caught near Kingston.

We fished in the middle between Possession and the shipwreck ,so you know we did not get the big one. Our biggest was about 4.5 lbs All were caught between 7AM and 10:30. After that , not much

All boats in the event were sporting the American flag.

Gary

[starcrafttom]

I fished the Richmond beach area kingston and the humpy hollow area saturday and sunday for kings and pinks.

We ended up with no salmon on saturday. very slow for the whole fleet. After talking to several people since then I thing the people that went deep got fish. 130 ft or more.

We did get 10 crab with a whooping 8 1/4 inch dungy being the biggest. Its the biggest crab I have ever seen. Had to tape it twice just to believe it. All the rest were 7 plus.

sunday we finally got in to fish at presidents point on the west side. One pink in the boat and one long line released.

Call me I am up for a half day any time this week but friday.

[C-Dawg]

Y'all need to head West.

Westport mid-teen Chinook.


A day's limit.


90 minutes of "work."


Flat seas.

[Salmon Fisher]

I'll be out later this week.

My past experience has been to fish the west side of Possession during this time when the humpys are not in big numbers from Shipwreck to Mukilteo. They will cross over the bar soon, but until then hit the west side. Also try to stay off the shallow areas and "orange" drift lines. They are full of dog fish feeding on shrimp spawn, that orange stuff. Use typical humpy gear, pink mini squid with two 2/0 red hooks 16-20 inches behind a silver or white dodger.

[SENSEI]

we went out yesterday (Monday)to Humpy Hollow and fished from Mukilteo to Browns Bay and back. we didn't get started fishing till about 9:30 am. we trolled white flasher and pink squid at about 65 ft for a half hour. we had one strike and that was all. we then dropped down to about 115 ft and within 10 minutes had a double . we landed one pink and lost one. then about 10 minutes later we hit another double and landed both. then we had a long dry spell. about an hour and a half went by and then we changed one rig to a small 8" silver dodger and a pink squid. 30 minutes later the silver dodger had a hit and we lost it. and then it hit again and landed another pink. we were about to shut down and the other rig hit and I was able to land the biggest pink I have ever caught. all in all we fished from 9:30 to 1:30 and caught 5 nice pinks.

[T.R. Bauer]

I love the photos and the dialog here. It looks like you guys are doing really well - escecially C-Dawg! I am so envious of the flat seas as every time I have gone out this year it has been ugly.

I have noticed something when fishing over the years and that is if you are consistently losing fish that are striking, you really need to sharpen your hooks - even brand new ones. They should be sticky sharp - the kind of sticky sharp that you don't want to touch them or have any mishaps with them at all. If they are, you really will hook and land a lot more fish. In fact, losing fish becomes a rare occurance and not the norm. If you don't have a hook file on your boat and you're not sharpening your hooks nearly everyday, you're going to lose fish you should have caught!

[Jazzmanic]

[tcr_pnw]

Great input! Possession such an fun & easy evening run from Everett around the corner. Will drop deep for a few to see if they are still hunkered down.

And yes Rick, making the trek west to the coast is the way to be! Nice haul! Hoping to get to Sekiu or Neah for some Coho fun after Labor Day.

[Jake B]

how does your cdory do in the bar at westport cdawg? when we went through it (only time i've been there) at the WTC I was wondering how my boat would do while we were crossing back in nothing bad just a little sloppy nothing big in the SS but would of felt it in the dory.

[C-Dawg]

Normally it's fine, given decent seas. I usually time my crossings out during a slack tide or during a flood. However, depending on how the fishing is, you may be coming back during an ebb flow. I've come back in during a max ebb on a smaller exchange and it created a slight pucker. The North side is usually better water. The South side near the sunken jetty is called the Slop Hole for a reason. I've found that if it gets a little dicey, I just slow down, keep the bow trimmed up, and try to stay on the top of the swell to avoid surfing in that area.

The C-Dory handles it all fine, it's just a matter of getting used to driving in those conditions. With your time around Neah and La Push, you'll pick it up quickly.

Salmon Fisher goes out there often, too, so he may have more to add.

[Salmon Fisher]

We went to Westport last week and got 4 kings and 4 nice hatch coho Fri and Sat.

About that bar crossing...It was a bit rough on Fri leaving at 6 am and max ebb at 6:30. Saturday, we leave at same time figuring max ebb is about 45 min later. Well, WRONG, or else I picked the roughest part. Was pretty much scared for 15 minutes and could not turn around for fear of capsizing. Seas were crazy rough and stacked short and and high. Finally made it through, obviously since I am typing here. Will never, ever cross that close to a max ebb ever again!

Previously, I have watched the weather and the max ebb timing and all has gone well, in fact, smooth. So just don't get complacent and you all will do fine on the crossing.

BTW, we had to go out to 300' of water to fish, that's where the fish are, coho on top and kings, 180-200' on the cable. Biting on hoochies on a short leader, believe it or not.

Good Luck!

[forrest]

During strong ebbs at Westport, you can cross (head south) at the end of the south jetty and avoid the bar. You are essentially out in the ocean once you pass the end of the jetty. There is a narrow slot between the jetty and the old washed out sunken jetty. Ten seconds of terror versus an half hour of dire water.