Pinks!

[WAcoueshunter]

Didn't see many through Saturday, and then all the sudden they were everywhere when I was pulling pots in MA10 on Sunday.  Jigged up a few on a 7' saltwater spinning rod, so stinking fun.  Felt like I was on a Florida fishing show catching snook or something with the braid screaming off the reel.  Go get em!

And, just for the record, I grilled one that night despite 20 lbs of chinook in the fridge from Friday/Saturday (and fresh crab from Sunday).  It was fantastic! 

[bear]

What ya jigging with?   I haven’t done that in the salt

[Stein]

Good news, can't wait for Friday.

[buglebuster]

Never done it before but where is a good place to take the kids and catch them from the bank, freshwater when they start running?

[cavemann]

Never done it before but where is a good place to take the kids and catch them from the bank, freshwater when they start running?

Depends were you live..  there are beaches, especially on points you can fish from shore and be very successful with simple set up.  The rivers are successful but fish quality is significantly worse and the holes get crowded.  Beaches are crazy too but a little more manageable.  Shoot me a DM

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[Utzie]

Never done it before but where is a good place to take the kids and catch them from the bank, freshwater when they start running?

Browns point by the lighthouse with pink buzz bombs has been good for me in the past. The Puyallup river can be fun.  Those spots are both gonna be plenty busy, but I’ve always been able to fish with my kids there.

[WAcoueshunter]

What ya jigging with?   I haven’t done that in the salt

I was using little 1/2 oz. pink hootchie jigs I got from John's. Just casting to jumpers.

[WSU]

I've had good luck jigging with normal coho twitching jigs like you'd use in rivers.  Both with fur/feathers and hootchies.

[C-Money]

That would be so fun!!

[CP]

No pinks found around the shipwreck this morning.  Slow, slow, slow.

[Stein]

I picked up two in Brown's Bay, we were crabbing near Shipwreck and didn't see many being caught so we went south a bit.

The fish checker at the ramp tried to convince me one was a jack chinook.

[CP]

Seattle beaches are already crowded and putting out limits. 

[trophyhunt]

Killed a couple big pinks trolling around 85’ in 11 on sat.  They aren’t that fun to catch on a salmon set up, like reeling in a side hooked dog fish.  They’ll smoke good but the meat looks terrible compared to my 18 lb king.  This was our biggest pink

[brocka]

They were thick at the Oil docks, Appletree and JH all weekend. The shotgun rod was busy busy.

[CP]

What a zoo!  But it looks like everyone is having fun.

[buglebuster]

What a zoo!  But it looks like everyone is having fun.

Where the heck is linkin park

[Gentrys]

Lincoln Park

[Smokeploe]

Any reports from Carkeek park?  Up by Ballard.   Going to see the grandkids they live a few blocks from there.

Smokeploe

[brocka]

Any reports from Carkeek park?  Up by Ballard.   Going to see the grandkids they live a few blocks from there.

Smokeploe

Boats were netting them left and right in Elliot Bay last Friday morning, then we caught the heck out of them by the oil docks/Richmond beach so I would assume there would be some at Carkeek Park on the beach

[cavemann]

Anyone at browns point yet?

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[Stein]

I caught 3 there last time out, fishing around the slack is the key until they get really thick.  I was fishing for coho and keeping the pinks that really wanted to come home for dinner.

[cavemann]

What a zoo!  But it looks like everyone is having fun.

Where the heck is linkin park

Beach/Park just south of West seattle

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[Stein]

Where the heck is linkin park

They play Toronto tonight!   

[hookr88]

Any reports from Mukilteo/ Shipwreck? Thinking of taking my grandson out Sunday morning after a couple of slow days at Baker Lake.

[Stein]

Picked up 4 (lost 4) trolling for coho at 95' doing 3.8 mph today, so they are in there in decent numbers.  It's not lights out yet, but if you fish around the tide you should do well.  Don't be afraid getting away from the crowds, all our fish were out in the open water where the nearest boat was never under a couple hundred yards.

[fishngamereaper]

They are coming
CQ is absolutely bonkers right now...
20-30 an hour is the norm.

[metlhead]

1/2 mile off Dash Point today. Put 20 to the boat in quick order twitching jigs. Really aggressive things with multiple fish competing for the bite.