Possession Salmon - 2015
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Fished with Tom today and we took out a couple of my good friend's sons. We dropped in around 9:00-9:15 and boated 11 pinks by 1:00 or so. All but one I think came at 51 feet between Mukilteo and Shipwreck. We hooked into several others but they didn't make it to the surface. Not a lot of boats out and a great day on the water.
Been fishing a Coyote white/double UV blade which has been killing them. Since I put it on its catching close to 10:1 over other gear. Standard 2.5 inch pink mini squid 16 inches back.
Funny thing is, a lot of the fish we caught had bellies full of herring.
Tom's smoking recipe will be put to good work!
Been fishing a Coyote white/double UV blade which has been killing them. Since I put it on its catching close to 10:1 over other gear. Standard 2.5 inch pink mini squid 16 inches back.
Funny thing is, a lot of the fish we caught had bellies full of herring.
Tom's smoking recipe will be put to good work!
Jazzmanic":2ieknphq said:
11" Jensen Coyote 3
http://www.rapala.com/luhr-jensen/acces ... asher.html
I think it also has to do with the action. The Coyote seems to act differently in the water when compared to my Gibbs or Hot Spots. Especially at the slower speeds. Seems to make a greater rotation. I also noticed a higher catch ratio when I started letting more line out behind the boat. 25-30 feet with a flasher and 30-35 feet with a dodger. At the slow speeds there is more room for rotation as well. Could just be coincidence with a good year for pinks. Either way, I'll take it.
They make a smaller version I'm tempted to order online since locally I've only seen the larger. Might make the fight more fun on the smaller fish. However, 11" flashers have usually produced more for me than the smaller ones.
PaulNBriannaLynn
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Fishing was red hot yesterday. We showed up late, getting out there around 11. I hooked a beautiful hook nosed coho with in a couple minutes of trolling. After a 10 minute lull, both rods went off for a fun double header of humpies. Released those. I told our 3 year old daughter that the next fish is hers. The rod quickly went off and she reeled that in all by herself. Another nice coho, although smaller than the first big guy. We caught and released a few more pinks, but ended up keeping 3 of them for the smoker. We were back in the marina after lunch.
As we were headed back to the marina, I looked around at all the boats and it seemed like at least half of them at that moment had their nets out. There were plenty of fish to go around.
We were targeting coho with that type of gear. There's plenty of humpies around that will go for it but not too many coho will bite humpy stuff.
As we were headed back to the marina, I looked around at all the boats and it seemed like at least half of them at that moment had their nets out. There were plenty of fish to go around.
We were targeting coho with that type of gear. There's plenty of humpies around that will go for it but not too many coho will bite humpy stuff.
Nice work Troy!
We limitted on pinks in about an hour and a half on Saturday. We just cruised around off Edmonds and when we saw one jump we would run up on it and cast a buzz bomb. If you see one jump that is usually a big group of fish and we would have 4-8 fish follow the buzz bomb right to the boat, most of the time hooking one of them. It's a really fun way to fish.
We limitted on pinks in about an hour and a half on Saturday. We just cruised around off Edmonds and when we saw one jump we would run up on it and cast a buzz bomb. If you see one jump that is usually a big group of fish and we would have 4-8 fish follow the buzz bomb right to the boat, most of the time hooking one of them. It's a really fun way to fish.
Nice find on the coho Paul! Sunday was pretty crazy.
My mom is in town and my wife and I took her out on the water planning on going to Langley for dinner and to walk around. We figured we'd let the crab pots soak for 3-4 hours while in town. Long story short, marina filled up with a couple broke down boats and we could not get a spot. Rather than sitting while the pots soaked, we ran to Mukilteo to troll and maybe pick up a fish or two. Within 30 minutes had a smaller coho, released 3 pinks and put 3 more pinks on ice. Nice bright, feisty ones too. We dropped in around 5:00 in the evening and they all came at 51 feet on the same UV flasher. Nets up all around. Great time of the year to get kids out on the water if you can.
Ran back up to pull the pots. First pot had 14 keepers, all hardshell. Sifted through them and the keepers from the other pots for the best of the bunch for our 2 limits. Ended up with several over 7 inches and one a bit over 8 inches. In addition to all the keepers, we probably kicked back 70 more undersized and females in 5 pots. Not bad for 3 hours on the water. Great weather and seas too.
My mom is in town and my wife and I took her out on the water planning on going to Langley for dinner and to walk around. We figured we'd let the crab pots soak for 3-4 hours while in town. Long story short, marina filled up with a couple broke down boats and we could not get a spot. Rather than sitting while the pots soaked, we ran to Mukilteo to troll and maybe pick up a fish or two. Within 30 minutes had a smaller coho, released 3 pinks and put 3 more pinks on ice. Nice bright, feisty ones too. We dropped in around 5:00 in the evening and they all came at 51 feet on the same UV flasher. Nets up all around. Great time of the year to get kids out on the water if you can.
Ran back up to pull the pots. First pot had 14 keepers, all hardshell. Sifted through them and the keepers from the other pots for the best of the bunch for our 2 limits. Ended up with several over 7 inches and one a bit over 8 inches. In addition to all the keepers, we probably kicked back 70 more undersized and females in 5 pots. Not bad for 3 hours on the water. Great weather and seas too.
That and you guys really need to give a recipe a try which Tom supplied. The stuff disappears faster than I can catch fish and make it. My change below. Original has teriyaki sauce in place of the worcestershire and syrup and the addition of some powdered ginger. I didn't have that so subbed the worcestershire and syrup. Both are versions are great, my slight preference is below. Probably the best smoked salmon I've had to date. With fresh pinks, you would not be able to decipher from any other salmon other than the size of the fillets. Below is roughly enough to double layer fillets in a 9x11 glass baking pan. I needed to make threes times the recipe to brine 6 fish in a ceramic crockpot dish.
1-1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup kosher/non-iodized salt
4 teaspoons course ground pepper
2 teaspoons lemon pepper
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup real maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke
2-3 bulbs minced garlic
4-5 bay leaves broken into large chunks
Blend the dry ingredients. Add the wet and minced garlic and bay leaves. Stir until a consistent slurry. Cover fish with mixture and put in refrigerator for 8-12 hours. Remove fish, place on racks. Don't rinse or pat dry the fish after removing from the brine (I do pick off any bay leaf pieces). There is not a lot of salt comparatively, so they don't get too salty at all. This leaves the tops of the fish speckled with cracked pepper and garlic and the remnants of the sweet brine. Amazing.
Allow to sit with a fan on them for 2-4 hours to form pellicle (longer the better). Smoke at 180-200 for 2 or more hours until desired doneness. I use alder or a mix of alder and apple chips.
1-1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 cup kosher/non-iodized salt
4 teaspoons course ground pepper
2 teaspoons lemon pepper
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup real maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke
2-3 bulbs minced garlic
4-5 bay leaves broken into large chunks
Blend the dry ingredients. Add the wet and minced garlic and bay leaves. Stir until a consistent slurry. Cover fish with mixture and put in refrigerator for 8-12 hours. Remove fish, place on racks. Don't rinse or pat dry the fish after removing from the brine (I do pick off any bay leaf pieces). There is not a lot of salt comparatively, so they don't get too salty at all. This leaves the tops of the fish speckled with cracked pepper and garlic and the remnants of the sweet brine. Amazing.
Allow to sit with a fan on them for 2-4 hours to form pellicle (longer the better). Smoke at 180-200 for 2 or more hours until desired doneness. I use alder or a mix of alder and apple chips.
Salmon Fisher
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Troy you have that dialed in on the pinks.
I'll be out Thursday, Friday and Sat. Maybe Sun with my wife, too.
Recipe sounds great, all I use are the first 2 ingredients and apple and alder chips on the big chief smoker. May try the new recipe, too.
I'll be out Thursday, Friday and Sat. Maybe Sun with my wife, too.
Recipe sounds great, all I use are the first 2 ingredients and apple and alder chips on the big chief smoker. May try the new recipe, too.
starcrafttom
Active member
fished today and landed 8, missed two. this was with just one rod. Also pulled 10 crab. All fish were 50 to 60 feet all day. this is different then years passed were fish would go deeper as the sun rose. Smoking fish in the morning.
Salmon Fisher
Member
Am hearing of smaller than normal humpies.
Has anyone tried deeper? I remember catching some big bucks at around 100 feet on the downrigger. However, I will start at the 50ish mark.
Has anyone tried deeper? I remember catching some big bucks at around 100 feet on the downrigger. However, I will start at the 50ish mark.
Salmon Fisher
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Went and limited on humpies this morning. Was a little choppy and cloudy, wind out of the south.
Fish found between 65 and 75 on the wire just off the houses south of Mukilteo. Got one nice male, about 6 pounds.
Fish found between 65 and 75 on the wire just off the houses south of Mukilteo. Got one nice male, about 6 pounds.
Had a couple guys up from Fort Lewis to fish today. Not able to make Salmon For Soldiers next week so have been doing trips on other weekends.
We dropped in at the houses past Mukilteo around 8:15 or so. We put 2 limits in the boat in a couple hours and lost a few more. 65 and 80 feet were the two depths we fished. Then ran to Scatchet Head around noon to fish the outgoing an hour or two for some early coho. Caught one coho, lost one coho. Also picked up a pink and lost other pink while trolling for coho. Fish caught at 65 and 80 again out there.
Sent the guys home with 10 fish, a few crab, and some good memories.
I'm off to DC until the 2nd, hopefully the silvers are flowing through by then!
We dropped in at the houses past Mukilteo around 8:15 or so. We put 2 limits in the boat in a couple hours and lost a few more. 65 and 80 feet were the two depths we fished. Then ran to Scatchet Head around noon to fish the outgoing an hour or two for some early coho. Caught one coho, lost one coho. Also picked up a pink and lost other pink while trolling for coho. Fish caught at 65 and 80 again out there.
Sent the guys home with 10 fish, a few crab, and some good memories.
I'm off to DC until the 2nd, hopefully the silvers are flowing through by then!
I had a great day with my grown sons yesterday at Humpy Hollow. It was the first time I have fished with both my sons together on C-Dancer and we had a blast. We limited with 12 pinks at different depths, starting at 40, then down to 60 and then 100 feet. I even used the port lazarette with its intended use as a fish box for the first time. Pictures below:
Salmon Fisher
Member
Nice catch Peter!
I'll see you out there this Saturday!
I'll see you out there this Saturday!
Since I don't have any down-riggers, I used a "Deep Diver" and got this on Saturday just north of shipwreck. I was just out messing around and having fun while M drove the boat. I don't even have a rod holder.
http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php :lol:
Going back out w/ my brother again next week. I wanna catch some larger coho.
http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php :lol:
Going back out w/ my brother again next week. I wanna catch some larger coho.