Ma 10 Closed

[fishngamereaper]

Lasted less than a week....
Don't you just love WA....

[trophyhunt]

What? So how many do they think were caught?

[fishngamereaper]

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[trophyhunt]

I just don’t believe those numbers if I’m reading that correctly.

[Mfowl]

Dang! I should've stayed home and fished the Sound instead of trying for springers on the Columbia late last week. About every report I saw said it was screaming hot fishing out there.

[Stein]

Pretty much highlights the problem.  Sublegal encounters is only 36%, yet it's over because all kept chinook count as one even though they are resident hatchery fish and the threatened stock are probably 1,000 miles away.

[WAcoueshunter]

Dang! I should've stayed home and fished the Sound instead of trying for springers on the Columbia late last week. About every report I saw said it was screaming hot fishing out there.

Yes, it was pretty nuts. Catch rates were 0.5 chinook kept per person against a one fish limit, you don’t see that very often. Problem is we had a ridiculously low cap for unclipped fish. 735 unclipped encounters doesn’t go very far when you have 200 boats at Jeff Head for four days.

[Sundance]

I made it out Thursday with my son, we caught 1 @5lbs, lost a good fish, and cut back a sub legal. Fun day on the water, but lots of boats and most people I know caught limits everyday they were out. We bailed for youth turkey early Friday, so now it’s just halibut I guess. So much for the “month long” season they anticipated.

[metlhead]

Still open for CnR the way I read the regs. Place to yourself and just mow through em while trolling for steelhead.

[Jake Dogfish]

Some people need more complicated rules.