Northwest Fishing Reports

I went through the online rules and found nada on what I can catch in area 8.1. If someone can navigate the area online please help me. Can I catch and retain salmon in area 8.1. thank you. Aug 1st it opens I just found out. Darn...

I just looked at that last week and its pretty much the same as 8-2. Regs are in the paper regs and in the PDF version on the paper (don't know why DFW doesn't put up an easily accessible version that's mobile friendly).

I'm fishing area 6, around the the north/west corner of 8-1 if you can figure it out.
Zero coho...I caught my first one 12 July last year. Totally dead.... Hoping it's going to be a mid-augaust
through Sept this year....

I wanted to fish while crabbing 8.1 but no fishing to Aug. 1st. I got smelt.

There's a half dozen guys that fish out front regularly. I'm sure just for bottomish fish. I've seen them pull in some pretty juicy flounders. I'm pretty sure you could catch any fish that likes to live in and around eel grass. The bay is full of it.
You could always go around to the mouth of the Stilly , it does split, one branch north and one south. I'd be very careful with a prop. I've found myself rowing and walking back out because of not enough water for the little boat.

I saw some guys jigging for bottomfish. I guess yesterday was a crab derby. We weren't in the derby. We just wanted crabs. Im going back this week for more smelt. Im trying to get a new smelt dip net.

racfish wrote:I saw some guys jigging for bottomfish. I guess yesterday was a crab derby. We weren't in the derby. We just wanted crabs. Im going back this week for more smelt. Im trying to get a new smelt dip net.

I saw the same. Wonder what they were going for? We were crabbing right in Crescent Harbor.