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Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« on: June 23, 2025, 08:19:43 AM »
I used to fish as a kid and I just got a license and regs. Isn’t this a pink year? Am I reading this wrong? Area 8-2 near mukilteo you have to release pinks?

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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2025, 09:16:50 AM »
That's how it reads, release all pinks.


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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2025, 10:07:36 AM »
I think your new license allows you to watch them swim past in the millions. Stay back 400yds and no flash photography I believe

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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2025, 11:05:01 AM »
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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2025, 11:10:46 AM »
I always put the app ahead of anything else. I don't see the mention of pinks in there.

That would make zero sense for a near record run.

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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2025, 11:46:04 AM »
The paper regs + emergency rules.  The app often wrong.
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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2025, 12:32:38 PM »
I think your new license allows you to watch them swim past in the millions. Stay back 400yds and no flash photography I believe

Don't forget to shut your motor off and for good measure tilt it up out of the water.   :chuckle:

I imagine the app will be updated before Aug 1 although WDFW advertises it is updated realtime.  They also advertise e-catch cards in 2024 or early 2025, so unfortunately to be safe you need to check multiple sources to be 100% sure.

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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2025, 05:09:09 PM »
The paper regs + emergency rules.  The app often wrong.

How can the paper regs be the source of truth with so many changes they push every other week?

https://www.eregulations.com/washington/fishing/marine-area-8

Even here, no mention of pink release.

Wouldn't this website hold up if a warden questions you?

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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2025, 08:32:49 PM »
“Marine area 8-2 is open Aug 1st through Sept. 24 for non-selective coho only. There will be no pink salmon retention in Marine Area 8–2 due to a low forecasted pink salmon return to the Stillaguamish River.”
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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2025, 12:42:57 AM »
The App is a little off sometimes. Its getting updated on July 1st. So everything in there should be good after that

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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2025, 06:36:49 AM »
my guess is it's to protect the kings that run through 8-2 to the stilly since they are the main driver of a lot of the closures.
I am saying this because the amount of uninformed idiots who keep small chinook and think they are pinks is ASTOUNDING.
Seriously.  but then id be giving WDFW too much credit for thinking of something smart.
2 years ago the amount of guys i saw showing up and pulling their "pinks" out to show off to the counter, that were in fact juvenile chinook was disgusting.

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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2025, 08:56:33 PM »
Kinda crazy you can’t fish for humpies in humpy hollow!  Oh well, not far to area 9. Or a little further to 10 and you can keep 4. As always, just gotta adapt a little when it comes to salmon. Lots of opportunities out there.

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Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2025, 08:35:10 AM »
The paper regs + emergency rules.  The app often wrong.

How can the paper regs be the source of truth with so many changes they push every other week?

https://www.eregulations.com/washington/fishing/marine-area-8

Even here, no mention of pink release.

Wouldn't this website hold up if a warden questions you?

The emergency rules is how.

If they open  it eventually it’ll be in the emergency rules when they do.


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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2025, 08:39:11 AM »
The e-regs have not been updated yet:


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Re: Can’t fish for pinks area 8-2?
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2025, 08:42:30 AM »
The e-regs have not been updated yet:

Right.  Low return aka no return to the Stilly last year so they close it. There are still a few pinks even on even number years.


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