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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2025, 02:01:11 PM »
Possible scenario is that we never caught the rest of our quota for June, it appears unlikely July quota will get caught since today is last day.  They might emergency rule keeping it open until July quota is filled.  Other possible scenario is that the WDFW "research" boat has been fishing Pt D area three times since it closed at end of June.  In those three tips they did not catch one fish.  That might mean they get nervous and who knows what happens with August.  Not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing.

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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2025, 03:12:41 PM »
We fished the evening slack and it was slow.  Around the white research boat and they didn't catch much.  Pretty slow for everyone.  Heard the morning bite was decent.  Bait fish were tough to find until about 5pm.  Fish checker said 14 fish all day.

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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2025, 05:07:01 PM »
We fished the evening slack and it was slow.  Around the white research boat and they didn't catch much.  Pretty slow for everyone.  Heard the morning bite was decent.  Bait fish were tough to find until about 5pm.  Fish checker said 14 fish all day.

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I think the crowds this year made it tough for people who preferred to troll.  Jiggers and moochers get in the slot 140-200fow and you just can't troll where you want and end up too deep or too shallow.  Therefore jiggers and moochers did very well.  Most of the fish I caught trolling were in over 200fow.  I have a mean case of tennis elbow and jigging all day is out of the question. 

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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2025, 08:58:05 PM »
I hear you on the jigging.  I lasted about 45mins and the wife said no thanks as well..  lol.  And yes, quite a few jigging but wasn't too bad for crowds actually.  It was busy but not as busy as I expected

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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2025, 10:46:45 PM »
 Kings are great, but when you can limit on coho every day, why spend so much time and money trying to catch the unicorn, when coho are so easy to catch and are arguably better table fair? :dunno:
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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2025, 05:59:13 AM »
Kings are great, but when you can limit on coho every day, why spend so much time and money trying to catch the unicorn, when coho are so easy to catch and are arguably better table fair? :dunno:
For me, just nothing like it when a big fish hits your rod.  When it pulls away from the down rigger, sets the hook by itself and strips your line, I swear I'm about to have a heart attack at that moment.  I do stress too much about losing the fish, need to relax there, but when you get it in the net and it doesn't have a fin, friggin fun!!  I'm not a huge fan of salmon for dinner, but I'm a huge fan of smoking them. 
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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #21 on: July 21, 2025, 04:42:10 PM »
Kings are great, but when you can limit on coho every day, why spend so much time and money trying to catch the unicorn, when coho are so easy to catch and are arguably better table fair? :dunno:
For me, just nothing like it when a big fish hits your rod.  When it pulls away from the down rigger, sets the hook by itself and strips your line, I swear I'm about to have a heart attack at that moment.  I do stress too much about losing the fish, need to relax there, but when you get it in the net and it doesn't have a fin, friggin fun!!  I'm not a huge fan of salmon for dinner, but I'm a huge fan of smoking them.

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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2025, 05:18:34 PM »
 Went out yesterday for the first outing of the year, lots of kayaks! :o

 I was amazed how many people were casting for pinks, they were jumping everywhere. We managed to get our coho, but it took us a while, tough keeping the pinks off.

 Coho should be coming in numbers any day, going try again in the morning.
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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2025, 05:55:42 AM »
Went out yesterday for the first outing of the year, lots of kayaks! :o

 I was amazed how many people were casting for pinks, they were jumping everywhere. We managed to get our coho, but it took us a while, tough keeping the pinks off.

 Coho should be coming in numbers any day, going try again in the morning.
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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2025, 03:06:58 PM »
Went out yesterday for the first outing of the year, lots of kayaks! :o

 I was amazed how many people were casting for pinks, they were jumping everywhere. We managed to get our coho, but it took us a while, tough keeping the pinks off.

 Coho should be coming in numbers any day, going try again in the morning.
Don't forget to release those big beautiful kings now..... :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

 Actually got two of them today. :bash:
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Re: Area 11 2025 - Well?
« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2025, 04:19:46 PM »
damn, that sucks to let them go. 
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