Pinks!

[Whitenuckles]

I was just above the Donkey hole on the lower Sky yesterday hanging out with the family on a private farm beach and they were boiling, the really deep hole with the rocky outcropping.We call it the "Silver Mine"

 I know the hole well. We know it as the "Indian hole".

[Bullkllr]

Same here. Started fishing just after first light and we were thick in the fish.  But after 1.5 hours, I'd had enough of the supidity.  I've fished the Puyallup for 20 years and never seen it as crowed as it was Saturday.

Sounds bad. I wasn't aware it could get much worse.

[highside74]

Is the Puyallup evenings any good?

[Bullkllr]

Is the Puyallup evenings any good?

Can be, in my experience. The color certainly affects fish movement and I think spreads it out substantially. Lower river tidal effects are probably more important than time of day. 

[RC]

Any word if the humpsters are in the Snohomish yet?

[highside74]

Not that I want evening competition but I decided to detour home and stop by the river 1st. Water is way down. Just watched 2 fish get caught in the 5 min I was there. A nice lady said everyone had been catching all day.

[Crunchy]

I fished it this AM.  I thought it was marginal fishing.  95% pinks getting caught where I was.  actually out of maybe 25 fish or so caught from 5am-730 only one was a small native king that was foul hooked.  I caught a few but all pinks so I left.  I am not a fan of eating pinks. 

[trophyhunt]

I fished it this AM.  I thought it was marginal fishing.  95% pinks getting caught where I was.  actually out of maybe 25 fish or so caught from 5am-730 only one was a small native king that was foul hooked.  I caught a few but all pinks so I left.  I am not a fan of eating pinks.

we have let a few pinks go, but I did smoke a few and they are tasty smoked!!

[highside74]

Fished 2 hours after work. Caught 4 pinks

[Mfowl]

Took the ferry from Edmonds to Kinston today. Pinks were jumping like crazy on both sides of the sound. Not so much in the middle but both shorelines were nonstop jumpers.

[pickardjw]

Caught a one man limit between two of us last evening. Pink 2.5" buzzbomb with a white glo hoochie was the hot rig. Probably 30-40 other people fishing and we only saw one other guy catch.

[Stein]

They're in as thick in 9 as I have ever seen, we drifted from shipwreck through Brown's bay and put 16 on the boat.  Spoons, jigs, buzz bombs, pretty much anything with a hook.

I had a fun experience when I thought my jig hook might have wrapped around my line so I was flipping it around and it hit the water 1' from the boat and 3 pinks swarmed and fought over it until one got it.  I set the hook like I was in a pro bass tournament and it was like an explosion happened.  I'm surprised I didn't break it off, fighting them on 5' of line isn't ideal.

My buddy had a strike, fought it a bit and then it popped off.  He's reeling in and says bring the net back it's still on, I can see it right there.  He gets it behind the motor and turns out it isn't hooked, just following it all the way to the motor.

We took two nets for the first time in my life and still had to double net a couple of times.

Good to feel like I know what I'm doing occassionally even if every boat on the water was looking like a pro.

[pickardjw]

Did a bit of “run and gun” today with the buzz bomb. Drive around in the boat until I see them jumping then cruise in and cast in front of the school. Reminded me of casting to Bonita schools in the gulf. You know you’re gonna get bit, so much fun.

Forgot the net though so I only got two in the boat before it slowed down.

Only did that because I couldn’t figure out trolling depth. Chased deeper marks (60-100’) on the fish finder all morning, think the pinks were up higher and not registering. Gonna give it a go tomorrow again and troll higher up around 25’

[Stein]

One thing I noticed that is different this year and two years ago is that I didn't see too many huge schools of pinks.  There were tons of fish, but they seemed to be everywhere in 3-5 fish groups instead of a single ball of 1,000.  Might have just been the day, sample size of one, but my graph wasn't telling the same story as runs before.  There was an obscene amount of fish just below the surface all over from 15' deep all the way across during the bright sun and middle of outgoing.  My son was standing on the railing and calling out where they were, if you are a couple feet in the air with polarized glasses you could see them swimming by the boat.

[Happy Gilmore]

Same here. Started fishing just after first light and we were thick in the fish.  But after 1.5 hours, I'd had enough of the supidity.  I've fished the Puyallup for 20 years and never seen it as crowed as it was Saturday.

Sounds bad. I wasn't aware it could get much worse.

Wasn't aware it could get worse than it always is?