Puget Sound

[IHFISH]

Did you get her number?

That little blue pen in a zip-loc with my license and catch card isn't just for X-ing out humpies, pinks, and hatchery silvers and coho. No, in all seriousness, I'm not worthy of her.

 

[Divad]

For those on the ferry consistently are you buying a ticket each time at $40 round trip, the monthly pack or is there another option I’m missing?

 

[Jake Watrous]

For those on the ferry consistently are you buying a ticket each time at $40 round trip, the monthly pack or is there another option I’m missing?

Multi-use pass, or have a buddy pick you up on the other side.

 

[Wiznet]

Went to a popular presidents beach. Hit it at 5am, crowds rolled in at 6. Plenty of action and saw lots of folks catching. One guy caught a freaking clipped chinook! It was a good day. I did cheat though and was fishing gear. I’ll make sure to do my Hail Marys.

 

[WonderBrad]

Well I have a canoe, a hobie Mirage Kayak, and livingston boat. I have a wheel cart. The issue for me is boating in the sound. My Grandfather fished point no point everyday in an 8 foot livingston. Some days no problem, other days we were sure he would not return...

 

[Jake Watrous]

Well I have a canoe, a hobie Mirage Kayak, and livingston boat. I have a wheel cart. The issue for me is boating in the sound. My Grandfather fished point no point everyday in an 8 foot livingston. Some days no problem, other days we were sure he would not return...

Windy is an awesome app.

 

[Greg Armstrong]

Wife and I did a nice little day trip yesterday, and I fished a new to me beach for a bit. Sporadic cloud cover, a nice rip, but not much activity.
Went one for one on Shiner Perch, but had to release it unharmed as I’d snagged it!

Nice evening on the beach though.

 

[DimeBrite]

Fished the beach again this morning (before the heat & sun build in). Cool and partly cloudy with a light breeze. Baby herring 2" kept the coho feeding near the beach, and waves of pink salmon were leaping on the outside. August fishing has been bountiful.

I finished 7 for 10 with resident coho (2 - 3.5 pounders) and 5 for 6 on pink salmon. Bonked a 3 pound rezzie for the BBQ.

 

[Dave Boyle]

Headed out for a half day solo outing.

First stop I went 0-5 during a 30 minute window early then the salad moved in and the current just never seemed to do much.

Made a run into the land of the humpy and and spent the next few hours with plenty of action. Also managed one hot hatchery coho during this period.

Headed back and stopped at one more location where I haven't fished in a handful of years, and ended up hooking another half dozen pinks, landing 4 of them.

Off the water by 1. I kinda dig getting out solo once in a while

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Well Nick if you get bored in your solitude give me a shout
Dave

 

[Stonedfish]

5 coho and 4 pinks in a short morning session before a rod failure ended my day.
The rod failure probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d put my ocean coho leader on correctly.
SF

 

[Merle]

Uh oh... what happened to the rod?

 

[Stonedfish]

Uh oh... what happened to the rod?

Snapped in half right in the middle of the third section. Not near either ferrule. Second time I’ve busted it in the past five months. Hadn’t broken a rod for a long time before that. Having a golden retriever stomp it with excitement while I was landing a searun cutt awhile ago probably didn’t help the rods cause. It’s been clouseratized a few times as well.
SF

 

[Divad]

I hope it’s not a Sage or else you won’t get a replacement until next summer. Middle of third section smells like dumbbell eyes not that I’d know…

Nice fish though especially that last one. Oh shoot, I see it’s a Sage

 

[Wetswinger]

Snapped in half right in the middle of the third section. Not near either ferrule. Second time I’ve busted it in the past five months. Hadn’t broken a rod for a long time before that. Having a golden retriever stomp it with excitement while I was landing a searun cutt awhile ago probably didn’t help the rods cause. It’s been clouseratized a few times as well.
SF

Sorry about your rod. I got so traumatized about flies hitting my rod, I started lowering it to horizontal on the forward cast. Open loops! Who cares, it's the ocean...

 

[Dave Boyle]

Snapped in half right in the middle of the third section. Not near either ferrule. Second time I’ve busted it in the past five months. Hadn’t broken a rod for a long time before that. Having a golden retriever stomp it with excitement while I was landing a searun cutt awhile ago probably didn’t help the rods cause. It’s been clouseratized a few times as well.
SF

Clouserized, I love that word. I did that to a 9wt T&T that I'd borrowed from a guide. It was like a knife through butter; 'click' and a 1 piece instantly became an uneven 2 piece...The fucker claimed it wasn't under warranty and it ended up costing us $300, this was in Dubai mind you where everything comes in at a very high price, except the gas.

Dave

 

[Shad]

5 coho and 4 pinks in a short morning session before a rod failure ended my day.
The rod failure probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d put my ocean coho leader on correctly.
SF

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That last one is a FATTY! Woo-hoo!

 

[jasmillo]

Worked from 4:30 am to 9:30 am, then hit a beach for the incoming. 5-8 overall. 1 adult but smallish resident coho that came home and 4 pinks. Not a pluck for the first 2.5 hours on a proven beach with great looking water. Then thick pods of pinks rolled in with hookups or plucks happening with pretty much every pod within casting distance for the last hour I fished. The rezzie caught was part of the mix. Good sized pinks though. One even got me on the reel.

Typical size. Caught one that was bigger as well.


No hate for a fish that chews up my fingers like this. That said, I was casting and stripping for 2+ hours in saltwater before the first pink ripped me up a bit. Forgot my tape…again.

 

[Kfish]

She’s washed, oil changed and pissing. I’ll fish the beaches tomorrow before work as well as Friday afternoon but this weekend, the goal is to take the shine of those decks with some coho blood and pink slime for the first time this season….weather permitting.

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Edit:….and yes @Kfish, the boat keys are already in my truck and the plugs are already in .

I'll start stretching my netting arm now.

 

[DKL]

A few years ago I ditched the tape for the elastic finger sleeves you can get at the drugstore. They last a long time if you don’t lose them. I’m on the original package I bought a few years ago. I think the line goes over it easier than the tape too.

 

[Wadin' Boot]

Always loved a good relief map. In this case comic relief.


Solid beach art....respect to whomever did/added to this one:

Harbor porpoise

2/4 pinks, 6 cutts, one perch, one resident coho. Pinks and cutts caught on both a pink fly and a non pink fly, though the cutts far preferred the non pink. It was cool to fish a site where SRC and salmon were overlapping, plus a new-to-me spot, and no crowds