July 16 opener

[h20hunter]

Jeff Head?

[WAcoueshunter]

Jeff Head, Oil Docks and Richmond Beach.

[Stein]

How's the baitfish population in MA 9?

SH** ton.  From at least there all the way to the Pacific from what I hear.  Most of them are super small herring, like 2-3" from what we saw jumping and on the Sabiki rod.  The coho we picked up in 10 yesterday were stuffed with them.  I didn't see a bunch of bait in 10, but 9 was loaded.  We spent most of the time in 10 way out, so there may be more bait in close.

In 9 I had bait schools on the graph 50+' deep and a couple hundred yards long.  I could see them hitting my fishing line, but alas no chinook were with them.

I did PR on sand dab, I should have taken a picture.  We got 2 big ones and one small one trolling for chinook in 10, going for a fish fry tomorrow night with those two and resident coho.

[blackpowderhunter]

ive felt like my sonar is broken.
marking so much bait but so few fish.
they'll be here eventually...

[WSU]

I wonder if the tides were part of the problem?

[blackpowderhunter]

i think the tides were great, concentrated bait where it needed to be, etc.
think back to the opener last year, red hot (my opinion at least)
but it was about 10 days after this years opener.  I think the fish are just stacked up further out..

[brocka]

ive felt like my sonar is broken.
marking so much bait but so few fish.
they'll be here eventually...

We thought the same thing. We thought the transducer was messing up. Crazy amount of bait.

[MADMAX]

north wind and minus tides
had a nice boat ride today

[blackpowderhunter]

im trying not to think about it much at this point.
spending this week getting caught up at work, spending this weekend in idaho doing some scouting, and hoping next week is hammer time 

[ryanfam]

Tuesday gave up on the kings as I was catching small blackmouth and dog fish. Switched to silvers and we caught three. Jeff head area.

[CP]

Any recent reports from MA 9?

[Stein]

I just looked up the creel reports, Everett ramp had 0.05 chinook per angler on the 26th.

[MADMAX]

Fished Jeff head and apple tree this morning
50 plus boats on Jeff head
2 Sub legal blackmouth
2nd dogfish on a spoon
Beautiful morning
4 trips zero keepers

[ryanfam]

Tide change yesterday afternoon. 14 pounds spoon on the bottom 160 ft.

[WAcoueshunter]

Found one this morning. Seems like things are picking up.