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This is a report for the past 3 days - every day was great! Lots of fish on the line (although most were shakers) and only 1 native out of the bunch! My report below is specifically for Friday, which was the most productive day of the bunch. Over the 3 days we totaled 6 keepers (about 40 lbs. of fish total)
Started off near Shilshole. Not a lot of action, just a lot of weeds but it was totally amazing when we saw a pod of Orcas feeding/swimming in between a few boats that were trolling. That's quite the site to see for sure!
After about an hour, we motored over to the main line-up off Edmonds. There must have been 100 boats and we didn't get a bite for over 3 hours. Saw only a few pulled out.
We finally headed back just south of the Woodway oil docks and it totally went off. We caught our limit of 4 in about an hour. We tried a bunch of different rigs, but the most successful was a small silver flasher with white edges and a iridescent purple squid hoochie. They just seemed to NAIL it and only a handful that hit the hoochie were shakers. Get out there - it's hot right now!
One thing I saw that REALLY bothered me was Indians stringing a NET all the way across the entire sound between Woodway docks and Jefferson Point! I'm sure I'll get a lot of flak for saying anything about this, but how many generations have to go by before we are done "paying retribution" to a specific type of person with a certain DNA strand for issues that somebody else's great-great-great Grandfather did? I mean - they net completely across the rivers, but do they also have to take every single fish out of the Sound as well? >:(
Please - no haters in the comments. Don't give me any BS lines about how "they need it for sustenance" - I've NEVER met a more disrespectful group of fishermen. They pull the fish out of the nets, throw them into a truck to suffocate (w/out bleeding them), and if it's chum salmon, they just cut them open, take the eggs to sell and leave the bodies to rot! How is this any worse than the White Man killing buffalo just for the tongue? Fair is Fair, but enough is ENOUGH! Laws need to change and get into the 21st Century!
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