It’s that time of the year when we change up our normal fishing routines and break out a jar of Power Bait or salmon eggs, a container of nightcrawlers or your favorite lure or spoon. “We are doing our best to create some trout fishing opportunities at a time when other fisheries are winding down,” […]
Nighttime along many Puget Sound piers has come to life and the motive behind anglers hanging their hopes off the sides of these structures are the massive amount of squid now pouring into marine waterways. Squid – known in the culinary biz as “calamari” – are very plentiful marine creatures that attract hordes of anglers […]
If you like to Dungeness crab as much as I do, then you’ll be glad to know that some marine areas are reopening Tuesday (Oct. 1) for a winter crab fishing season. The highly anticipated openings were approved by fishery managers after summer catch assessments by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) indicated […]
The term “happy as a clam” is sitting just fine for those along the southern coast at Long Beach where razor clam diggers will likely get around 100 days of digging, a dramatic jump from just four days last season, and the first three-day dig this Friday to Sunday started off on high note! “It’s […]
It has been another smashing year as far as some state fishing records go, and another that would’ve easily topped the current record if it wasn’t for one hang up. On Aug. 29, Larry Phillips, the Region 6 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Director, made the 24-mile run on a glassy ocean from […]
The front end of a long silvery coho salmon train – a fish better in the angler realm as “silvers” for their shiny chrome-bright bodies – has been steaming into the western Strait of Juan de Fuca off Sekiu in strong numbers for the past couple of weeks. “Coho fishing at Sekiu really picked up […]
Not sure where the term “happy as clam” came from, but clam diggers will be very giddy with the news leaking out of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) regional office in Montesano. The WDFW staff has been busy this summer conducting razor clam abundance assessments and have just one more portion of […]
By Mark Yuasa A bunch of Pacific blue fin tuna caught off the southern coast including a verified 90-plus pounder hitting the decks of the Ilwaco Tuna Club. Multiple white croakers reeled in by a surf angler off Westport. Catches of thresher, blue and Mako sharks to striped marlin as well as mahi-mahi and Spanish […]
We’ve turned the corner on summer and are now headed into what I refer as one of the busiest times for Pacific Northwest anglers although many feel like the clock is working against them as they nail down as much time on the water before fall chores or back to school duties become the priorities. […]
No matter what color you choose – pink, yellow, silver or flashes of chrome mottled with purple and black – anglers can expect a rather colorful fishing experience in the months ahead. Let’s first take a look at what will be blushing across Puget Sound and that’s a modest return of 608,388 pink salmon (a […]
