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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: yajsab on August 19, 2011, 12:38:39 PM

Title: fishing reg
Post by: yajsab on August 19, 2011, 12:38:39 PM: Not sure if this is the right forum to ask.

I was unclear of the fishing reg and hope that someone can clarify it for me. Basically, I'm fishing for pink only but would like to understand the reg. Here is what I'm confused on (page 42):

Min. size 12". Daily limit 6. Up to 4 adults may be retained, of which
only 2 may be any combination of CHINOOK, COHO, and CHUM.
Release wild adult CHINOOK.

So, for pink, how many can I keep?

Newbie so please go easy on me. :)
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: CP on August 19, 2011, 12:41:03 PM: 4
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Post by: h20hunter on August 19, 2011, 01:12:14 PM: Yep, 4. Make sure you are barbless and mark your fish. Pinks are easy to tell apart. They love to write tickets this time of year. Hope you whack 'em.
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: yajsab on August 19, 2011, 01:59:44 PM: Thanks for the clarification.

Then what's the "daily limit 6" mean?

Yep, barbless! Just starting to try salmon fishing.
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Post by: h20hunter on August 19, 2011, 02:02:39 PM: Also on those pinks, go sloooowww. You want that flasher just waving back and forth, not really spinning. Don't put those lines to far back either. 15 feet is far enough. With lots of boats out there you don't want to be the one guy tangling lines up. Get up, whack em, bleed em, ice em, smoke/grill em, go back out and do it again.
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: bigtex on August 19, 2011, 02:05:54 PM: Quote from: yajsab on August 19, 2011, 01:59:44 PM
Thanks for the clarification.

Then what's the "daily limit 6" mean?

The daily limit 6 refers to you can keep 4 adult salmon and two juvenille (jack) salmon. For pinks an adult is anything over 12 inches long. So if you were to find a pink salmon that is less then 12 inches long (which you most likely won't) then you could keep that as part of the two juvenille salmon.

But since 99.9% of the pinks will be over 12 inches you should just remember that you can keep 4 pinks.
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: yajsab on August 19, 2011, 02:11:51 PM: Quote from: bigtex on August 19, 2011, 02:05:54 PM
Quote from: yajsab on August 19, 2011, 01:59:44 PM
Thanks for the clarification.

Then what's the "daily limit 6" mean?

...

But since 99.9% of the pinks will be over 12 inches you should just remember that you can keep 4 pinks.

Ah, 12" is the key. Thanks.

I will be fishing from shore/river. No boat yet. I was going to try the Puyallup.
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: jackmaster on August 19, 2011, 02:25:29 PM: so chop his head and tail off and it will be under 12 :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:, i am kidding
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Post by: h20hunter on August 19, 2011, 02:28:50 PM: Ah, from the shore. Stick with your pink jigs and dick nites. Everyone "sweeping" rods is flossing or snagging. Don't be one of those guys.
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: FC on August 19, 2011, 02:41:44 PM: What is sweeping?
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: h20hunter on August 19, 2011, 02:45:09 PM: That is what I call the motion that folks use when jigging very aggressively with a oversized jib or buzz bomb. If done with enough umpf it is really no different than snagging with a treble.
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Post by: FC on August 19, 2011, 03:01:48 PM: Sounds like a dumb way to fish, with stinks you don't even want to jig much! Give 3 cranks and twitch, 3 cranks and twitch...
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Post by: h20hunter on August 19, 2011, 03:08:05 PM: I agree with you on the jigs. You can tell who is snagging and who is jigging. Big difference. However, its always the same...you throw a few 10k fish coming in and it brings out all kinds of people. I remember watching a kid throw a pink hoochie slipped over a treble hook with a sinker about 3 feet up. He would throw out, let it sink, WHAM!...fish hooked in the side, bonked, put on a stringer. Funny thing 10 minutes later when the gamie showed up he had no fish on a stringer, no hook on the end of the line, no fish marked, and apparently had some place he needed to be. Somewhere down river a seal was having an easy meal on humpys with a big hole in their side and pre bonked.

I know, I know, they are just humpys and why would people do it.....don't know, but there always people like that
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: Button Nubbs on August 19, 2011, 05:15:19 PM: Good luck getting anything to "bite" in the puyallup. Flossing is standard. I was just there today and flossed a bunch. :chuckle:
Title: Re: fishing reg
Post by: Cap.Silver on August 19, 2011, 07:43:02 PM: Also YASAB ,I called the WDFW and it was said that once you have kept 4 pinks you have to stop fishing !!!!!!!! -so you cannot fish for chinook or coho . :bash:
Juvenile COHO (jack) is less than 20" and juvenile chinook (jack) is 24" in length . Just FYI ,hope it helps .