2025 Area 9 King Opener

[Stein]

“Did you release anything today?”

Nope, not a thing.   

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.

[bigdub257]

Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" kings this year? 

[WAcoueshunter]

Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" kings this year?

Way more wilds.  And way more hatcheries too. Lots of fish around. Catch rates are historically high, just lots of fish. 

[Mfowl]

Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" 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.

[OltHunter]

https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/01580/wdfw01580.pdf

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

[CP]

The mayhem is over, and I doubt if it will reopen.  Time to start looking for the pink buzzbombs?

[brocka]

Does anybody else think there's way more "wild" 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!