IN THIS ISSUE: OFFICERS NOTEBOOK, SALT PATROL, FISHING TAILS , COLUMBIA RIVER REGION, SPORTFISHING INSTITUTE, FISHING CLUBS, AND MORE… By Mark Yuasa The gavel hit the table at the […]
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I’M PUMPED UP!
In fact, I’m so pumped up I hardly know where to start. As things come together for late spring, summer and early fall fishing, my note pad and creel list […]
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FLATTIES & LINGS
By John Keizer
Ocean halibut fishing is short, a challenge, and most of all an adventure and what great memories are made of, along with a chance of harvesting some of the best eating fish in the world. As a bonus in most areas deep water, the lingcod is also open on halibut days.
Fishing locations inside:
One of the most popular is the Garbage Dump, located just to the west of Neah Bay, WA. This area is close to shore and very popular, as it tends to be less lumpy. You can normally see the dump burning up on the hill making it easy to find fish the 300-325 ft. water.
The next inside spot that has accounted for many of my halibut is the area just west of Duncan Rock. About halfway between the Canadian boundary line and Duncan Rock the bottom comes up to about 300 ft. You will need to work the tide and…
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OFFICERS NOTEBOOK
By Becky Elder
LAKE STEVEN BOAT PATROL
Officers Peters, Wicklein, and Sergeant Willette conducted a boat patrol on Lake Stevens. In addition to practicing docking and driving skills, the officers made several fishing contacts on the lake. One vessel was contacted for not having a valid registration. The subject provided a valid registration later in the day.
OVER THE RAINBOW LIMIT
Officer Delp and Sergeant Mosman responded to a report of a subject taking multiple limits of trout from Pampa Pond in Whitman County. Officer Delp contacted Whitman County Sheriff’s Office and State Patrol to see if they had anyone in the area, since it would take about an hour to get to the pond. When Officer Delp arrived, he found Whitman County Deputy Miller had already contacted the group and found they had twenty-three trout in a bucket with them at the pond. Deputy Miller said he had asked if they had any more fish back in their vehicle and they tried not answering the question. Officer Delp contacted the group and found two adults with fishing licenses, two subjects, who were seventeen, with no license, who stated they caught some of the fish, and three kids fourteen and under. Officer Delp asked if the bucket of twenty-three was all the fish they….
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Columbia River Region
By Terry Sheely
HOW THE SUMMER/FALL SALMON SEASON SHAPE UP
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Coho Boom Predictions for Sockeye, Ocean Season Set, Will Corps Bail on Stocking Mandates, Sea Lion Toll Rises, More Licenses, Steelhead by Satellite, Trout, Bass, Shad, & Bottomfish, The Monkeyface Prickleback, And more…
State fishery managers in Washington and Oregon would like to paint a rosy façade on the summer/fall salmon forecasts but truth out—except for an optimistic sockeye prediction—we’re looking at smaller runs of summer and fall kings and coho.
It’s not shaping up as a disaster for king and coho fisheries, by any means, but the runs are going to be below average, below last year and marginal at best, according to the best guesstimations. The bright spot in the forecast is upriver sockeye which are expected to pour into the Big C sixteen percent above the 10-year average with a mega popular Lake Wenatchee forecast for 97,000 that has fish managers leaning toward allowing a late summer lake sport season.
Sockeye aficionados point out that last year the official sockeye forecast for Lake Wenatchee was only 44,300 but the actual return blew the doors off at…
ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE
By Jim Tuggle
The otter slid silently into the mountain stream, surfacing only a few seconds later with a Dolly Varden char dangling from his mouth. This was the otter’s home – his world of clear waters and bountiful fish. I was not here to disrupt his day, but only to share in the wealth of Dolly Varden, called “trout” here, so abundant in this particular secret stream. I, however, would release my catch – a Whaler’s Cove Lodge policy – so that the Admiralty Island small streams near the lodge would continue to provide excellent sport for their guests.
My guests, Al, Warren and Dick, had decided to try some wilderness creek fishing after the saltwater angling on this, the last day of their week-long stay. After we landed the boat, we walked to the bank of the creek with a minimum of advice from me. “Approach the water quietly, cast across and slightly downstream, keep your Blue Fox lure as close to the bottom as you can without entangling it. In a few casts you will have it all figured out.”
The first pool of the creek, still inundated with salt water from the tide, had only a slight current. The tide would need to fall for another hour to concentrate the fish in a stronger current here, but upstream
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