Fishing Puget Sound

Fished today just North of the shipwreck South of Mukilteo.
trolling South past the 8-2 line and then picking up and going back North and starting over again
we had 5 on and landed 4 nice silvers.they ranged from 4 lb. to 12 lb.
we were out in the middle of the channel and were fishing at about 110 feet on the downrigger depth guage, using blue flasher and white glow in the dark squid with herring strips.

was a fun day. we saw Mac & Linda on Two Lucky Fish out there and said hi to them.
 
It was great to see you Roger - thanks for saying hello. We stayed out for ~2 hours but didn't catch anything besides seaweed. I'll try the herring strips tomorrow - and match the current. Hoping for better luck!

Mac
 
Jeez Roger - your post made me sad :cry:.... I fished today too - from about 6:20-9:00AM. Was in my friend's 14' Lund. Spent our time in front of Edmonds and a bit south. Two poles in the water - one with a green flasher on the down rigger. One with a cut plug. 2hours, 40 mins and NADA, ZILCH, NOTHING, ZERO. Not even a hit. No shakers, no dogfish just an occasional weed or two. This was the slowest couple of hours I've ever had on the sound and I've had some slow ones.

I did see a couple of fish being caught in other boats but not many. I guess I wasn't holding my mouth right or was thinking too many impure thoughts... :wink:

Roger on the SeaDNA
 
Ran into C-Fisher today while fishing at Shipwreck. Yep, Wayne was just finishing cleaning his last fish - they caught their limit and had to head in.

I, on the other hand, got to enjoy the entire day on the water 'cause I never did catch my limit. Did bring in one 6# coho 5 minutes after C-Fisher told me how. Thanks!

Mac
 
I'm heading out tonight for the derby this weekend.

Sounds like Roger and Wayne are in the 10% category. Nice job guys.

My uncle has been averaging about two fish per day all week, except for Monday. He's been hanging right around the shipwreck.

I guess the fish are still out at Seiku. Maybe there will be a few more in by the weekend.

I'll try calling people on the radio. I'll be monitoring 16, and try calling Sensei, C-DNA, and C-Fisher. I'm on the Hooligan, (22' Angler with no name painted on, still need to do that).

We are spending the night at the Edmonds marina Friday and Saturday night if anyone wants to swing by for a beer. We are in slip U-5. No relation to U-571.

- Ross
 
Hey Ross, good luck on the derby! Alisa and I won't be out there on Saturday as we both have to much to do that day. We hope to be out Sunday if the wind stays down.
Not sure if the school we hit will be in the same place but if they are try straight out from the wreck in 200 ft of water 60 to 90 ft down. We got hit every pass we made, twice with double ups. Got 4 fish in an hour, 2- 10lb and 2- 6lb and lost 4 others. 2 of which felt like derby fish. Nobody else around us were catching anything, pretty weird, hehe.

Wayne
 
Today we were out at shipwreck and we had 4 to the boat and landed 3. they ranged from 12, 10, 5 lbs.two nice hook nose,all males.
I aint getting anywhere near that area this weekend. it will be a real zoo out there with the big Everett Derby goin on.

saw Sea Turtle(22 cruiser) out there and also a no name green trimm 19 ft.
 
Well we did the derby thing this weekend. 12 fish for the weekend.

The fish were definitely there. We limited both days with three people on board, although our biggest fish was only 9.21 lbs.

It's surprising to me that we talked to a lot of people that got no fish. We were fishing white or green hoochies on white flashers from 75-40 feet. We had a double yesterday when a fish hit as my wife was getting raising the gear for me to play the 9.21 pounder.

It was surprisingly uncrowded both days. There were actually more people out during that hot pink fishing weekend than there were this weekend. My uncle who used to run the derby said that there were half as many participants this year. The winning fish was 18.3 lbs, but we actually had three fish that got prizes. Nothing great, but some decent fishing tackle that we can use on the boat. I'm not sure if people thought the fish weren't in, or if they just didn't want to spend money on gas.

I'm going to head out this coming weekend. I think my uncle is going out tuesday, so I'll post a report if I hear anything. They are still catching a good amount of fish out at Sekiu, so hopefully we will have a few more weeks of good coho fishing to stock up the freezer.

Saw a couple C-Dorys out there, talked to one guy on a green 22 cruiser, but didn't chat with any of the C-Brats.
 
What area were you fishing in - near Shipwreck or elsewhere? I hear that things were generally slower down by Edmonds than up by Mulkiteo...
 
Hey Roger.

We were actually south of shipwreck, out in the middle of the channel west of Browns Bay, a bit south of Possession. Our latitude was around 51.6 minutes on the GPS. That was kind of where we centered for most of the weekend. The tides were small, but we fished closer to the east shore as the day went on.

We spent Friday and Saturday night in Edmonds, which worked out well since we didn't have to run the gauntlet down the river out of Everett in the morning. I hate that run if there's nooby out, but during the morning on derby days, it's brutal.

I did like the name of one of the boats I saw this weekend. "Wallet Slayer".
 
Thanks for the update - if I get my boat back from the shop in time for this weekend, I might give it a try. I took the boat to the factory for some repairs about 2 weeks ago - thought I'd have it back sooner but the decided to fix a few things I didn't ask to have fixed under warranty - in particular, they're replacing the boards in front of the fuel tanks with the new mounting system (to avoid the bulge loosening the chocks problem). Gotta give C-Dory credit - they're sometimes a bit slow (due to the amount of work they have), but they definitely take good care of the customers!
 
Hey Roger, let me know what they do to fix the gas tank boards. One of mine is already starting to pull out. I will probably take mine in as soon as I stop fishing.

Wayne
 
Hi All,

Seems like maybe the rain brought a lot of fish up the river. Fished Sunday, with mediocre success.

We got one small silver, about 4 lbs, and that was it.

It was cold and rainy out there, and they wouldn't let us fish Brown's bay because of the helicopter crash. There were several coast guard boats that would run over and yell at you if you got south of Picnic Point.

I talked to several other boats, and nobody else even caught a fish. guess it was just slow all over.
 
Susan and I fished the brown waters of the lower snohomish on saturday and I wish that i had'nt, No fish and lots of debre floating down the river. the water clearity was 0ft. I heard, back at the dock, that the salt water guys got 90 slivers for 80 boats saturday. Sunday susan stayed home while I fished the salt. With the storm coming in and the rain and wind passing thru the fish kept there mouths shut. From the radio chatter I would say that in front of edmonds marina was the hot spot. Ran in to C-DNA but he had no fish when I left at noon.
 
I stayed around a bit longer than Tom but not much. I didn't put a salmon in the boat on Sun either. Maybe next time. Also, maybe they'll open crabbing again.... oh well.
 
I'm gonna try down by Westpoint just north of Elliott Bay this weekend. According to the creel counts from the weekend, it looks like more fish were caught down there than up north.

I think there are still fish out there, and that we should have at least two more weekends with good numbers of silvers in the area. Looks like they were still catching them out at Sekiu this past weekend.
 
Put in at Shilshole on Sunday. Usually I would have fished over by West Point, but since the only boats out were right in front of Shilshole, we fished there.

Ended up catching two silvers, about 7 and wight pounds. We actually lost four others. Had two leaders break. Had two that pulled of the dowrigger, started taking line, but just didn't hook.

I didn't see a ton of fish on the finder, but they were out there.

Guy counting at the ramp said the average catch was 1/2 fish per boat, so I wouldn't call it red hot.
 
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