Puget Sound

[wanderingrichard]

Awww shit....

Sorry guys I made 2 posts in reply to this.

One was asking if the cartoon lady in the pink bathing suit was Amy Wong from Futurama, and the 2nd was a screen grab of her in a bikini .

Nether of them posted that I can see. Thus the reason for this post that originally started out "awww shit".

-[WR]

 

[Stonedfish]

Fished the canal today from 6:30 until 10:30. Not my favorite tide, but you have to fish when you can.
Overall super slow, with six cutts to hand. Size was way lacking. The biggest may have been 10”.
Lots of fry getting blasted, but mostly way out over the eel grass which is well beyond casting range. Most the fish I saw chasing fry looked small. I only saw one attack that looked like a decent size fish. The bigger fish have been MIA the past few weeks on this beach but I expect them to start showing back up soon. Caught the fish on a chum fry. Couldn’t buy a sniff on a shrimp pattern. Nice cool wet day. Could have actually used a bit more wind.
SF

 

[Kfish]

More wind? We would have done better with none!

Fished with @jasmillo and @copperJon this morning for a short window of time before we got blown out of the water. Wind and white caps sent us for safe harbor fishing for cutts instead. Ultimately I had to take a ferry back to Seattle and take an Uber to my rig

But not without some lings and rockfish! I caught a ling on the dock while waiting for the Whaler to show up. Not big but it hit the fly with some authority. Sink type 9 on my 9wt, waited for the fly get close to bottom and stripped back.

Also got my first rockfish on fly, little guy. Jason got the bigger one.
Also some flounders was had jigging gears.

 

[jasmillo]

A couple of Rockfish took my ling flies and a flounder on gear. Would have been nice to hit a couple other spots before the weather went south!

 

[jeradjames]

New north sound beach produced today

 

[Jake Watrous]

Seagull tried to hit me with a striped crab today. Any ideas what this thing is besides slightly squished?

 

[Stonedfish]

Seagull tried to hit me with a striped crab today. Any ideas what this thing is besides slightly squished?

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Maybe an invasive European Green crab?
SF

 

[Cabezon]

Seagull tried to hit me with a striped crab today. Any ideas what this thing is besides slightly squished?

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Juvenile Dungeness crabs can have that coloration.
Steve

 

[Jake Watrous]

Maybe an invasive European Green crab?
SF

Thank you!

 

[Jake Watrous]

Juvenile Dungeness crabs can have that coloration.
Steve

Thank you!

 

[Divad]

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New north sound beach produced today

Good feeling when a new beach produces, nicely done!

Casual reminder to jot down the location, tide, date, fly/line used and any other relevant details and send them to me.

 

[NRC]

Good feeling when a new beach produces, nicely done!

Casual reminder to jot down the location, tide, date, fly/line used and any other relevant details and send them to me.

PMs are only visible to the recipient(s). It’s more efficient if you just include all details in the post.

 

[jeradjames]

Cutts were slamming the fry and shrimp patterns this morning. Drove an hour north to a new beach and realized when I got there I forgot my rod tip…drove an hour home and just fished a beach near my house. Had to cut the leader off at the fly because one inhaled it…sucks when that happens.

 

[Tallguy]

The Puget Sound Pink Salmon Lure Harvesting Grounds are still yielding up some late season holdover bounty. 6 examples located: 4 overmature, 1 marginal, and 1 near prime. As the Puyallup (and others) say "when the tide is low, the table is set".

 

[Mossback]

Termites are flying on the North Canal today...
Not a lot, but they are out, seen a few dozen so far.

 

[Stonedfish]

Fished MA 10 from 5:30 until 10:30. Caught some fish. Most were snaky. Lots of fry getting hammered. Way too bright and hot.
SF

 

[Mossback]

Too hot...

 

[Stonedfish]

Forgot to mention in my earlier report.
Had a guy walk up to me today and ask, “what are you fishing for, pinks?”
God damn I love the cast of characters you meet beach fishing. I should have answered, “no humpies.”
SF

 

[Matt B]

Low tide playing with the kids—what are these critters? The larger green version are decent swimmers and great at hiding on eelgrass; the smaller reddish brown one moved by bending and unbending its body in a U-shape. @Cabezon

 

[Cabezon]

Low tide playing with the kids—what are these critters? The larger green version are decent swimmers and great at hiding on eelgrass; the smaller reddish brown one moved by bending and unbending its body in a U-shape. @Cabezon

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The green crustacean in the first image is an isopod. It is in the same group as the roly-polly / pillbug from your garden.
The dark brown organism in the second image is a caprellid amphipod ("skeleton shrimp"). These are related to the scuds in freshwater (though there has been some phylogenetic revisions to the amphipods). They use their back legs to hook onto the substrate and then use their front legs and/or antennae to gather prey. They are kind of like marine preying mantises.
Both isopods and caprellid amphipods are paracarid crustaceans, along with mysids, cumaceans, and tanaids. In this group, the females retain fertilized eggs in exoskeletal pouch, the marsupium, under the thorax. The fertilized eggs complete their entire development in the marsupium and the offspring emerge as miniature adults (no separate planktonic larval stage).
Steve