MA 7 Subarea 5 Year Round Salmon Closure

[KP-Skagit]

Curious to hear if anyone has any insights as to why subarea 5 within MA 7 is closed year round to salmon fishing. Just to make us spend more on fuel? Open all around this area at the moment.

I heard speculation its to protect bottomfish but they are open in the area. Just salmon is closed.

[Tball77]

That area is closed to protect the Skagit river Summer and Fall run chinook.  They opened it 5 years ago for one season.  It was always open for winter blackmouth as well but that is a thing of the past.

[KP-Skagit]

About what I figured... Good amount of nonsense if you can fish silvers in 6 and 8-1 as well as 7 West.

[Stein]

Lots of area for improvement, likely we will never see it.  Just south of shipwreck in MA9, you can't keep an unclipped fish.  That fish is either going south to 10 where you can keep it or north to 8-2 where you can keep it.  End result is more fish getting killed for no reason.

[KP-Skagit]

Seems no matter what I do I am fishing on the line. Fish out in front of deception a lot. If I am on the Area 6 side of the line it hatchery coho only, the 8-1 side its any coho. You know they are all Skagit River coho...

4 humpies per day in Skagit Bay, 2 humpies per day in the Skagit River.

Lots of nonsense. Unfortunately all they will likely do is keep partitioning these areas into smaller and smaller subareas and further complicate matters.