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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: fishngamereaper on April 07, 2025, 07:44:52 PM

Title: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: fishngamereaper on April 07, 2025, 07:44:52 PM: Lasted less than a week....
Don't you just love WA....
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: trophyhunt on April 07, 2025, 07:48:33 PM: What? So how many do they think were caught?
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: fishngamereaper on April 07, 2025, 07:50:49 PM: .
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: trophyhunt on April 07, 2025, 07:55:39 PM: I just don’t believe those numbers if I’m reading that correctly.
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: Mfowl on April 07, 2025, 08:01:18 PM: Dang! I should've stayed home and fished the Sound instead of trying for springers on the Columbia late last week. About every report I saw said it was screaming hot fishing out there.
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: Stein on April 07, 2025, 08:06:46 PM: Pretty much highlights the problem. Sublegal encounters is only 36%, yet it's over because all kept chinook count as one even though they are resident hatchery fish and the threatened stock are probably 1,000 miles away.
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: WAcoueshunter on April 10, 2025, 07:16:07 AM: Quote from: Mfowl on April 07, 2025, 08:01:18 PM
Dang! I should've stayed home and fished the Sound instead of trying for springers on the Columbia late last week. About every report I saw said it was screaming hot fishing out there.

Yes, it was pretty nuts. Catch rates were 0.5 chinook kept per person against a one fish limit, you don’t see that very often. Problem is we had a ridiculously low cap for unclipped fish. 735 unclipped encounters doesn’t go very far when you have 200 boats at Jeff Head for four days.
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: Sundance on April 10, 2025, 07:20:02 AM: I made it out Thursday with my son, we caught 1 @5lbs, lost a good fish, and cut back a sub legal. Fun day on the water, but lots of boats and most people I know caught limits everyday they were out. We bailed for youth turkey early Friday, so now it’s just halibut I guess. So much for the “month long” season they anticipated.
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: metlhead on April 14, 2025, 12:01:22 PM: Still open for CnR the way I read the regs. Place to yourself and just mow through em while trolling for steelhead.
Title: Re: Ma 10 Closed
Post by: Jake Dogfish on April 14, 2025, 04:43:34 PM: Some people need more complicated rules.