Salmon report for the San Juans

[crow360]

Fished off of San Juan today and landed 5 kings and one wild coho. Limited on kings. Didn't touch any humpies but the boats around us were catching pinks.

[Gobble Doc]

Awesome! 

[lokidog]

Nice kings, released one 1/2 inch short one yesterday, caught a few pinks and a bunch of coho, all wild.  I don't understand why we have to release the wild coho when the several net boats out there are sure as heck not and if they swim 7 miles toward Deception Pass you can keep them then.   

[JackOfAllTrades]

Good news! Fish will be entering the nets on the Nooksack and Skagit soon then!
 
I was humpy fishin the Nook last Thursday... Had a big one hit and take line... Wern't no PINK!
 
-Steve

[Smokepole]

Nice king!  Looks the weather was flat calm.  You can't get no better.  Son and I set out for the Shipwreck at Mukilteo at first light yesterday.  Got down there & it was a zoo.  Forgot my wallet, so didn't have any way to pay the launch fee.  Went home & decided to fish the Skagit.  We visited all of my old haunts along the south fork & then decided to take a run up to Young's Bar to get a head count on fishermen.  It looked like the civil war.  Found a family fishing there that had 5 or 6 rods out & the father was reeling in all the fish... with babies sleeping and the mother feeding her face.  They couldn't speak much English.  When I asked the kid how many he had caught, he said "five".  It looked to me like they had already exceeded their limits as a group. I'm surprised there was no WDFW presence on the Skagit yesterday.

We found a private sand bar above Conway and had lots of nibbling using sand shrimp.  I finally hooked one nice chrome buck and cooked him for dinner.  Not bad for a humpy.

[crow360]

Went yesterday off of San Juan again and couldn't keep the pinks off!! Hooked 4 while putting my gear down. Ended up with 7 pinks and one hatchery coho. Don't get how I went from catching 5 kings and no pinks to just pinks

[lokidog]

Nice, I prefer pinks to wild coho anyways... since I get to actually eat them.   

I get my boat back in about a week.  Hopefully there will still be fish around.

[Smokepole]

Great looking pink salmon.  I caught one in the river the other day.  It doesn't take long for them to start looking nasty.  I like them out in the salt!