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Coho Salmon Fishing on Puget Sound at its best!

The first week of September was red hot fishing most trips! Great weather and even better fishing. I expect this to continue well into October!

Coho Salmon Fishing is going strong!

Morning trips have been limiting most days while the afternoons have been a little harder. Its been a great start to the coho run and we expect the hot action to continue well into October!

2024 has been a great Chinook Salmon Season!

It has been a very action filled Seattle Salmon Fishing Charter season. The Puget Sound has produced some great fish! The fish are heading into the rivers quickly which only means the Seattle Coho Fishing is about to get hot! We are starting to see Ocean fish caught and its just a matter of days before the bulk of the run enters Puget Sound! Coho fishing is a great way to spend time on the Puget Sound and is usually pretty fast action!

Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Tail August 2024, Seattle Fishing Charter

Chinook Salmon are entering the Seattle area waters of Puget Sound

With the weather finally acting like summer Chinook fishing is ramping up! This customer traveled all the way from Japan to attend PWC Women’s PGA event but said he enjoyed this experience more than the golf! These King Salmon really put up a fight! We drift fish with cut plug herring and it’s exciting to feel the grab!

Puget Sound Chinook salmon fight! These King Salmon put up a great fight!

It's been a busy spring!

Well. I must apologize for the lack of reports! We’ve been very busy commissioning and new boat and getting her ready for the Puget Sound.

The new boat is a Grady White Fisherman 236 powered by a Yamaha F300. Its an incredible machine and rides like a much large boat. She’s equipped with the latest Simrad electronics, including a 48-mile radar for safety and a very high-end transducer for seeing what under the surface of Puget Sound!

We are all set now and we’ve fished hard the entire month of June. The resident coho catching has been consistent and not quite as hot as last season. We are starting to see more and more Chinook salmon entering Puget Sound! It looks to be a great summer season!

Grady White Fisherman 236 with Yamaha F300 engine

Great Ocean Coho fishing on the Puget Sound

The coho are here in big numbers! We have been mooching and trolling up limits most days! Pinks are thinning out, so Coho is the target fish!

September is the most consistent fishing on the Salish Sea! We expect the coho fishing to be good well into October. For 2023 the state has opened Chum fishing in area ten! While tough to catch the chum are the hardest fighters of the Puget Sound Salmon. Late October is typically when the chum are in town!

August and the next 8 weeks!

Salmon fishing in the Puget Sound is as good as it gets right now! I expect the hot fishing will go on for some time. We are getting chinook (releasing), Pink, Resident Coho and are starting to see the ocean coho.

The next 8 weeks should be exciting if the strong ocean coho return predictions are correct! The Pinl Salmon run is coming in way over the predictions!

Pink Salmon is on fire

The Chinook fishery is closed in most of Puget Sound. All chinook caught will be released until 2024. It was a great year for the King of Salmon.

Pink Salmon are very abundant this year with a forecast of 3.9m returning to the puget sound. This fish put up a great fight and we focus on using light tackle. Its a blast feeling the hook up on these fish!

We are still getting resident coho and are starting to see Ocean run coho returning. Ocean coho can be in thick as early as the third week of August but are always in around labor day. This should be a strong coho season lasting well into October.

Chinook going strong and we are seeing some Pink Salmon in the Seattle Area

Chinook fishing in Puget Sound has been very solid! We are starting to see Pink salmon each day. They will be thick in the coming weeks and the coho are just around the corner!

Chinook and Resident Coho has been strong

The coho keep biting and the Chinook fishing is getting better each day! Pinks are just around the corner and the ocean cohos too!

Great Summer Fishing on Puget Sound near Seattle!

Great memories are being made this year on the Puget Sound! Resident Coho are still biting and we have had plenty of hatchery Chinook fishing! I love the smiles when a King Salmon is in the net! The second half of August looks to be a great time with the pinks, while chinook is scheduled to be open through August. Coho will follow them up in September!

Its Chinook time on the Puget Sound and maybe some crab!

Very excited to change gears and focus on the 2023 Puget Sound Chinook Fishery! Crab is open Sunday and Monday only this year so we set pots Sunday.

2023 Resident Coho Fishery is still going strong

The resident coho fishery on Puget Sound started off hit and miss and the past week or so has been the hottest fishing I can recall. While the coho are small they provide great times and good eating.

We are looking forward to the much larger hatchery chinook season just around the corner!

Summer has arrived

Its been a great start to the summer season. The weather has been perfect and the mountain is out most days!

Resident coho fishing has been great one day slow the next but we are starting to see chinook salmon, more and more each day. The chinook go back until the retention of hatchery chinook salmon opens mid-July.

Our flounder trips have been super fun this year. Its a great time getting kids onto fish. We do these trips as catch and release for the most part. We also can split our salmon trip and do flounder at the customers request.

Resident Coho off to a good start

The weather has bounced around this month and so has the fishing. As the summer moves forward I expect the weather to play a lesser role!

We have managed to get some of these great eating fish in the box and have also started catching Pink salmon which is very early in the season for them to show. Should be a crazy year with so many pinks expected to return.

Resident Coho Salmon Catch June 2023