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Offline WAcoueshunter

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Pinks!
« on: July 29, 2025, 06:17:57 PM »
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! 

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2025, 06:20:19 PM »
What ya jigging with?   I haven’t done that in the salt
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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2025, 06:33:42 PM »
Good news, can't wait for Friday.

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2025, 06:07:41 AM »
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?

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2025, 06:38:51 AM »
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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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2025, 06:52:07 AM »
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.

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2025, 09:03:16 AM »
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.

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2025, 10:09:14 AM »
I've had good luck jigging with normal coho twitching jigs like you'd use in rivers.  Both with fur/feathers and hootchies.

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2025, 02:56:56 PM »
That would be so fun!!
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2025, 03:10:45 PM »
No pinks found around the shipwreck this morning.  Slow, slow, slow.


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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2025, 08:20:08 PM »
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.
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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2025, 05:48:03 AM »
Seattle beaches are already crowded and putting out limits. 

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2025, 05:58:04 AM »
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
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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2025, 07:12:17 AM »
They were thick at the Oil docks, Appletree and JH all weekend. The shotgun rod was busy busy.

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Re: Pinks!
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2025, 09:19:07 AM »
What a zoo!  But it looks like everyone is having fun.


 


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