2019, Pinks Reports

[h20hunter]

My goal is to land a few on 8lb line with my koke set ups. Please post updates and reports.

[WSU]

Try twitching jigs too.  Good fun in the salt with no trolling.  Find jumpers and throw jigs at them.

[7mmfan]

Try twitching jigs too.  Good fun in the salt with no trolling.  Find jumpers and throw jigs at them.

   Or buzzbombs/rotators with a pink mini squid over the hook. Highly effective.

Why don't you up the ante and just go to a snoopy rod?

[h20hunter]

I'm down for that.

[CP]

Try trolling a Coho Killer or similar flutter spoon with no dodger or flasher.

They are already here in decent numbers and good size.  I'll send you a PM.  There were only a few boat there today; I'd like to keep it that way.

 

[h20hunter]

Yup, or text me.

[CP]

Shipwreck.   

[7mmfan]

Theeeeyyy're heeerrrre

[WAcoueshunter]

I got into a batch of them yesterday off Jeff Head, crazy deep for pinks, 105 - 120' on the wire! 

[CP]

A couple of bucks this morning.

[Parasite]

Ya know ... Moving here last year, I had no desire to catch pinks after catching them in the tributaries to the Great Lakes. However, these fish look much better prior to spawning. I might just have to give it a shot. Good work guys!

[Stein]

Bleed them, put them on ice and they are excellent eating.  They aren't Columbia springers, but then again you can't catch springers in Puget Sound.  I would consider myself a fairly snobish fish eater and I have no problem cooking pinks up.  Like any salmon, treat them well and don't overcook.

If you toss them in a hot, empty fish box when it is 85 degrees out with sun beating down and troll around all afternoon, they won't be that great for sure.

I just got the boat trailer back in service and will be out in the next few days.

[Dysfunctional Vet]

Got one on the vintage zebco!

[CP]

Got one on the vintage zebco!

That's awesome.  A 202 trophy for sure.  Does the drag work?

[CP]

Ya know ... Moving here last year, I had no desire to catch pinks after catching them in the tributaries to the Great Lakes. However, these fish look much better prior to spawning. I might just have to give it a shot. Good work guys!

Yeah, come late September and they’re a few miles up their river, they won’t be so appealing.  Kind of like the swimming dead; slimy, tight scales, skin peeling off, humpback zombies.