Post by: RB on July 17, 2025, 10:40:43 AM
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Post by: CP on July 17, 2025, 04:15:13 PM
Post by: RB on July 17, 2025, 04:19:56 PM
What's the hot lure?
Heard a couple different lures, one buddy said 5-6 inch Tomic plugs and one said they did good on a Coho Killer in Herring Aid.
Post by: RB on July 17, 2025, 04:20:45 PM
We went 3 for 4, biggest @ 17lbs the other 2 were cookie cutter 6lbers. The one we lost was a nice drag screamer. We saw 15 or so fish netted with most in the 6lb 25" class. We were back at the ramp at 10:30, fish checker had 21 fish for 14 boats and 39 anglers not including us.
Nice! Hopefully will see something like that tomorrow :tup:
Post by: Mfowl on July 17, 2025, 04:44:12 PM
What's the hot lure?
Needlefish hoochies 22" behind the flasher got it done for us. 1 on white w/chrome skirt, 3 on green spatterback w/chartreuse skirt. All tipped w/herring strips. On or within 10' of the bottom.
Post by: WAcoueshunter on July 17, 2025, 06:58:35 PM
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Post by: 30.06 on July 17, 2025, 07:05:59 PM
I lost my clipped 12 lb ish King at the net about 9am on Herring Aid Coyote 3.5, yellow and dark green flasher. He did the dive in the motor maneuver after the last run. !
Post by: bigdub257 on July 17, 2025, 08:16:31 PM
What's the hot lure?
Needlefish hoochies 22" behind the flasher got it done for us. 1 on white w/chrome skirt, 3 on green spatterback w/chartreuse skirt. All tipped w/herring strips. On or within 10' of the bottom.
22" is a pretty short leader for kings, but hey it sounds like it worked well for you. May have to try it! What brand of flasher were you using?
Post by: Gentrys on July 17, 2025, 09:07:41 PM
Post by: Mfowl on July 18, 2025, 03:01:44 AM
What's the hot lure?
Needlefish hoochies 22" behind the flasher got it done for us. 1 on white w/chrome skirt, 3 on green spatterback w/chartreuse skirt. All tipped w/herring strips. On or within 10' of the bottom.
22" is a pretty short leader for kings, but hey it sounds like it worked well for you. May have to try it! What brand of flasher were you using?
HotSpot, white/glow and chartreuse/glow.
Post by: bigdub257 on July 18, 2025, 04:24:55 AM
What's the hot lure?
Needlefish hoochies 22" behind the flasher got it done for us. 1 on white w/chrome skirt, 3 on green spatterback w/chartreuse skirt. All tipped w/herring strips. On or within 10' of the bottom.
22" is a pretty short leader for kings, but hey it sounds like it worked well for you. May have to try it! What brand of flasher were you using?
HotSpot, white/glow and chartreuse/glow.
:tup: Heading out soon in area 11. Will give it a try!
Post by: CP on July 18, 2025, 08:18:42 AM
Post by: OltHunter on July 18, 2025, 09:37:08 AM
I would imagine this is the only 3 days we'll get unfortunately.
Man was it a stressful traffic jam though. I don't get why 90% of the boats are trolling the same lines parellel to each other, and you got those random few trolling perpendicular!
Post by: The scout on July 18, 2025, 10:22:13 AM
Post by: storyteller on July 18, 2025, 10:27:58 AM
Post by: CP on July 18, 2025, 10:52:09 AM
It looks like we are allotted 3900 chinook for area 9, reviewing fish counts from yesterday, I think we will have another opening or two. Cheer up.
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so, not in MA 9 anyway. Fish counts are only part of the algorithm. The aerial boat counts are going to be huge.
Post by: Stein on July 18, 2025, 11:02:57 AM
Is there live data posted somewhere? The WDFW page I looked at is all blank.
I'm actually surprised it's going 3 days with the catch rate. Remember, there are several limits - legal, mature w/fins, and sublegal. Some guys are going through several legal but smaller fish to get the one they take.
Post by: OltHunter on July 18, 2025, 01:41:13 PM
Adjust the boats to actual boat surveys and encounters to creel reports and test fisheries and their survival rates and that's how you get to the 3,900 real quick.
I don't believe it's 3,900 tagged chinook, but again, could be wrong.
Post by: CP on July 18, 2025, 01:44:15 PM
Nope, not a thing. :rolleyes:
Post by: Mfowl on July 18, 2025, 03:00:14 PM
Hopefully there will be some more days ahead.
Post by: fishngamereaper on July 18, 2025, 04:07:30 PM
“Did you release anything today?”
Nope, not a thing. :rolleyes:
That doesn't matter anymore
The DFW test boats are fishing
If they release 10 then everyone is in that range
There will be no additional days....they will gladly stay under quota, but hate going over...
Post by: 30.06 on July 18, 2025, 06:53:45 PM
Saw a lot of decent ones caught but yeah slowed way down. Kept a 6lb fish about 8:30.
We did witness a trolling collision! Pretty loud impact, too. Looked like one boat was white and the other red.
We also saw a guy bravely net one for his wife with a kid watching and it looked risky in the chop out on the motor bracket.
Post by: Encore 280 on July 18, 2025, 09:18:12 PM
Post by: 30.06 on July 19, 2025, 03:39:47 PM
So nice that we had a 3rd guy on board. Kept a coho as a consolation prize. Burned fuel tank down near E and then gas pumps only had a trickle available at Everett.
Post by: Stein on July 19, 2025, 03:59:54 PM
“Did you release anything today?”
Nope, not a thing. :rolleyes:
That doesn't matter anymore
The DFW test boats are fishing
If they release 10 then everyone is in that range
There will be no additional days....they will gladly stay under quota, but hate going over...
Lucky for us they don't seem to be incredibly effective at fishing, at least the times I watch the green boat in 8-2/9.
Post by: bigdub257 on July 19, 2025, 08:29:57 PM
Post by: WAcoueshunter on July 19, 2025, 09:02:46 PM
Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" :chuckle: kings this year?
Way more wilds. And way more hatcheries too. Lots of fish around. Catch rates are historically high, just lots of fish.
Post by: Mfowl on July 19, 2025, 10:19:48 PM
Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" :chuckle: kings this year?
I thought it was odd that of the 7 Chinook we landed total including 2 sublegal, every one of them was clipped. It also seems like very few fish we saw landed in other boats were being turned loose. Just about everything that went in the net was going in to the boat too.
Post by: OltHunter on July 20, 2025, 09:57:10 AM
Here's the pdf on how they come up with their numbers. Will be interesting to see what they come up with this week.
https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/creel/seasonal#ps-summer-chinook
Post by: CP on July 20, 2025, 03:00:27 PM
Post by: brocka on July 21, 2025, 05:36:56 AM
Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" :chuckle: kings this year?
I thought it was odd that of the 7 Chinook we landed total including 2 sublegal, every one of them was clipped. It also seems like very few fish we saw landed in other boats were being turned loose. Just about everything that went in the net was going in to the boat too.
This was my experience, we killed 7 kings, only 1 had to be thrown back. Nice grade of fish this year. That was a great 3 days at Mid Channel!
Post by: hookr88 on July 21, 2025, 06:38:30 AM
Man was it a stressful traffic jam though. I don't get why 90% of the boats are trolling the same lines parellel to each other, and you got those random few trolling perpendicular!
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You gotta turn sometime. I know I don’t pull my gear, turn on a dime, drop my gear and resume trolling in the opposite direction.
Post by: bigdub257 on July 21, 2025, 06:54:37 AM
Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" :chuckle: kings this year?
I thought it was odd that of the 7 Chinook we landed total including 2 sublegal, every one of them was clipped. It also seems like very few fish we saw landed in other boats were being turned loose. Just about everything that went in the net was going in to the boat too.
This was my experience, we killed 7 kings, only 1 had to be thrown back. Nice grade of fish this year. That was a great 3 days at Mid Channel!
My buddy and I were fishing area 11, so I did kind of comment in the wrong thread. We did bonk 5 kings for 3 days fishing the tides for about 3 hours each day. Four were mid teens and one was 25# so no complaints. Released about the same amount which seems higher than in the past and we witnessed many others being released. Different runs I guess, or somebody was asleep at the switch running the clipping machine :chuckle:. Overall success rate according to WDFW data in area 11 shows about 15% success rate so hoping we get another 3 days this week! :dunno:
Post by: 30.06 on July 21, 2025, 09:45:27 AM
[quoteYou gotta turn sometime. I know I don’t pull my gear, turn on a dime, drop my gear and resume trolling in the opposite direction.
Man was it a stressful traffic jam though. I don't get why 90% of the boats are trolling the same lines parellel to each other, and you got those random few trolling perpendicular!
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There were some total buffoons on the helm in 10% of the vessels. It's like they were completely clueless.
I do pull one side and spin on a dime. We all want the same thing from the same place.
Post by: CP on July 21, 2025, 09:49:16 AM
Post by: 30.06 on July 21, 2025, 11:07:51 AM
Post by: OltHunter on July 21, 2025, 11:36:16 AM
Just my style. If you want to keep your gear in and troll in front of the majority of boats, just be ready for that verbal warning!
Post by: CP on July 21, 2025, 11:53:21 AM
Post by: RB on July 21, 2025, 09:59:49 PM
Post by: 30.06 on July 22, 2025, 07:36:20 AM
But Two crab pots for 3 people was plenty. Stuffed with 80% large males. Some with real dark backs. A tribal guy showed off a 8"+ stud when we put in on Wednesday.