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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: singleshot12 on July 14, 2008, 11:54:41 AM

Title: Silvers
Post by: singleshot12 on July 14, 2008, 11:54:41 AM: anybody hear if it is going to be a good year??
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: hogsniper on July 14, 2008, 12:54:25 PM: The Skagit is supposed to have a good run this year!!! Ill believe it when i see it...Love catchin em so hopefully they come through......
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: Mortgage Hunter on July 14, 2008, 01:08:33 PM: I just got back from 4 days of fishing in Sekiu....not 1 Silver. I spoke with the WDFW guy who was checking fish at the dock and he said he hadn't checked a Silver all season, but thought 1 might have been caught in Neah Bay???.....pretty scary.
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: hogsniper on July 14, 2008, 01:19:39 PM: That is terrible news.......I hope they are on their way!!!!
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: T-ROY on July 14, 2008, 01:25:24 PM: sounds like they may not open the skag for hummpies. i now they are nasty but i still like catching them. after the bear tags are filled
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: WAcoueshunter on July 14, 2008, 01:26:36 PM: The migratory silvers are still a month or more away from Sekiu, so not having fish there now doesn't scare me too much. I've been there in July when it's been chock full of smaller silvers, but at that time the fish are just cruising around looking for food and could go anywhere...they're not on their way back to the rivers yet. Two years ago was similar...no coho inside, they all stayed out in the ocean feeding until they were ready to head for the rivers. We caught a ton year before last at Swiftsure, but guys who stayed inside the straits got nothing.
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: WAcoueshunter on July 14, 2008, 01:28:09 PM: Quote from: T-ROY on July 14, 2008, 01:25:24 PM
sounds like they may not open the skag for hummpies. i now they are nasty but i still like catching them. after the bear tags are filled

With a few exceptions, the humpies only return in odd years, so not surprising that they won't open up the fishery in an even year.
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: bucklucky on July 14, 2008, 02:41:39 PM: >:(
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: Mortgage Hunter on July 14, 2008, 02:59:09 PM: Yeah, I know it's still early. We go over the second week of July every year, this is the first year that I haven't caught some small Silvers. We should at least be seeing more reported out of Neah Bay, since lot of those guys are going 10-20 miles out. LaPush hasn't reported any Silvers either. It's weird that they're not even seeing the small ones....I guess they'll show up, when they show.
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: Professor Chaos on July 14, 2008, 10:38:27 PM: had a friend go out to neah a week+ ago and they caught a bunch of silvers.
Title: Re: Silvers
Post by: Mortgage Hunter on July 15, 2008, 10:27:58 AM: That's good to hear!