Northwest Fishing Reports

So I have limited experience fishing for salmon. Did really good during the last pinks run. Put in time for kings and silvers last year but got skunked the whole season. This is just for fun like the biggest trout thread.

Chinook - 1 shaker in the sound
Coho - 7 pounds
Chum - never tried
Pinks - 3 to 5 pounds
Sockeue - Does kokanee count haha, if so, than 12 inches

Hoping to catch a keeper king next weekend at the Bonneville dam.

I've gotten all of them, got my first sockeye last year.

King - 35 Lbs Samish Ditch
Coho - 15 Lbs Area 9
Pink - 9 Pounds Snoho River
Chum - 20 Lbs Whatcom Creek
Sockeye - 7 Lbs Baker Lake

I will try and dig up some pics later, I think I have pics of me holding all species except maybe a chum.

I've got my five species:

Chinook - 45 pounds - Humptulips River
Coho - 12 pounds - Humptulips River
Pink - 6 pounds - Hood Canal
Chum - 15 pounds - Hood Canal
Sockeye - 10 pounds - Lake Washington - and yes, this one was weighed.

These are all as an adult - when I was a kid I would go out to Westport with my grandma - at the time the fish were almost as big as me and my grandpa had to hold em up for the pictures because they were too heavy for me. No records of sizes tho.

Chinook - 15# - Duwamish
Coho - 12# - Duwamish
Pink - Cookie cutters - Area 10, Snohomish, Skykomish, Duwamish, Green
Chum - 15# - Duwamish & Wallace
Sockeye - not yet..

I have never put a salmon on scale or measured. But have not got a sockeye yet. No big steel either, just small ones best around 6 or 7 pounds.

I caught all six species. Dont forget a few years ago off Bainbridge we were catching Atlantics too after the farm pens broke.

racfish wrote:I caught all six species. Dont forget a few years ago off Bainbridge we were catching Atlantics too after the farm pens broke.

Ewwww lol

Ive caught all 5 as well

King- 45lbs estimated as it was a native Sekiu
Coho- 19lbs weighed Ketchikan
Chum- 18lbs Ketchikan
Pink- 8lbs Sekiu
Sockeye- Almost 9lbs Lake WA

Ive only caughten 3
But im only 13 so I guess thats pretty good.

King-13 Pounds-Skokomish River
Silver- Not yet-This Is My Year..
Chum-19 Pounds (chromer)-Puyallup River
Pink-7 Pounds-Puyallup River
Sockeye-Only place I know of is lake washington, and i have no expierence there !

chinook: 42lbs cowlitz river 2009
coho: 18 lbs out of westport on a charter 2009
chum: 16 lbs minter creek 2009
pink: 10 lbs off dash point pier 1995
sockeye: still chasin the evergreen slam!
steelhead: 18 plus (wild fish was c&r without hittitng the scale) cowlitz river 2010

since i don't have a boat the sockeye's have been a thorn in my side. i'm hoping if baker opens up this year i can figure a way to get one outta there.

Not to be Professer Fishing but a Steelhead is a Trout not a salmon species. Just as a FYI.

Ive caught them all yes. All 5 out of the rivers, and only kings and silvers in the salt. Hopefully this year Ill catch a few personal bests.

Kings - If shakers count, yeah I've caught a few in the sound
Silvers - Sky 10lbs
Pinks - typical size in the Sky and Green
Sockeye - 0
Chum - Sky 10lbs
Steelhead - 11.4 lbs at the Sky

racfish wrote:Not to be Professer Fishing but a Steelhead is a Trout not a salmon species. Just as a FYI.

Mmmm, yes and no Rac. They are all members of the family Salmonidae so they are all very closely related, this INCLUDES rainbow trout AND steelhead.

king- 20 pounds Wallace
silver- 10 pounds richmond beach ( on a boat)
Chum- 0
Pink- Salt* 3-5 pounders humpy hollow
Sockeye- o but almost had one the other day off edmonds
Atlantic- 0
Steelhead- 8 pounder South Fork Stillagumish river

king- 30 or so pounds out of the wallace
silver- 13 pounds humpy hollow
chum- 20 pounds give or take a little, skykomish
pink- 11 pounds, possession point
sockeye- 13 pounds, lake washington
never caught an atlantic before
steelhead- 12 pounds, north fork stilligaumish

I've caught all 5 species, however, I'd like to pick up a chum and a sockeye in the salt. For some reason I can't ever get myself to target them when there are slivers and kings to be had.

Chinook: 52lbs 60z on a certified scale Caught in 2002. If you wanna know what river message me. It's small and mostly private.
Silver: Largest fished I weighed was 16 1/2 Humptulips
Chum: Right around 20lbs
Pink: 7lbs Point No Point
Sockeye: 6lbs last year.

Thats a huge king at over 50 pounds Steelheadman. Got any pics?

Got a hard copy pic somwhere. Was too poor at the time to own digital. Will look for it and post it as soon as I do. Have unopened boxes from last move and the move before that. Good time to go through them I suppose.