Northwest Fishing Reports

Considered the premier saltwater fish of the Northwest, let's hear how many of you have caught what species and how big they were:


Fortunately I've been blessed to be able to catch all 5 and a steelhead
King: 42lbs Sitka AK
Silver: 17 lbs Queen Charlotte Islands BC
Pink: 8lber Area 9 Puget Sound
Sockeye: 9 lber caught in Lake Washington last year using the dodger/red hooks combo
Chum: Skykomish river 2007..


Let's unroll the carpet and see who's caught what species, where (if you wanna give up your spot), on what lure/setup (if you feel like sharing that as well!), and the biggest fish!

Interesting Thread I like it!

Steelhead 8lb -- Lucia Falls with Purple #5 Blue Fox.
Silver 20+lbs --- Lucia Falls with Little Cleo Spoon.
Chinook 28lb -- Kalama on a Silver/bronze Brads with chartruese tape.
Sockeye 10lb -- IN Kenai river in ALASKA, not Washington unfortunately.
Pink --- not yet
chum --- not yet

Chinook- 33 pounds-- bouy 10 (area 1, mouth of Columbia)
Coho- roughly 10 pounds-- Toutle River
Chum- 8 pounds-- Hoodscanal
Steelhead- 6 pounds-- Cowlitz River
Sockeye- have never caught one
Pink- have never caught one

The steelhead and coho were taken on corkies (the coho's was pink, I don't recall the steelie's), the king was caught on a plug cut herring (trolling), the chum was caught on a whole herring under a bobber from shore.

Chum = 7lbs. Sky with a float-n-jig
Silver = 3lbs. Vedder River with corkies and yarn

Pink= 0 Never had a chance for these yet, I'll have to wait another two years
King= 0 I've tried but no luck
Steelhead=0 I thought these were the mystical fish like a unicorn. I've went out several times and nuthin!

Chinook = 40+ pounds - Humptulips River - Corky and yarn and eggs
Sockeye = 10 lbs, 6 ounces - Lake Washington - red U 20 Flatfish - 07-28-1983
Coho = 14 pounds - Humptulips River - Corky and yarn
Chum = 16 pounds - Hoodsport Hatchery - Corky and yarn
Pink = 6 pounds - Puget Sound - Pink squid and white doger
Steelhead = 16 pounds - Lake Washington - Crankbait while fishing for smallmouth
Steelhead = 14 pounds - Columbia River - Shrimp under a float @ Methow River Confluence
Steelhead = 14 pounds - Cowlitz River - corky and yarn @ Blue Creek
Steelhead = 14 pounds - Snohomish River - shrimp and yarn @ Raging River Confluence
Steelhead = 10 pounds - Green River - Spin n Glo and pink grub

Chinook-22 pounds Sinclair Inlet
Coho -13 1/2 pounds Yukon Harbor (my favorite catch caught on a 8 weight fly rod set up and a pink fly)
Chum-18 pounds Yukon Harbor

Only been fishing for Salmon once, with my fathe in-law. We drove about 3.5 hours north from Tacoma and we were fishing out in the ocean. We caught 4 salmon that the smallest was 12lbs and the biggest was 19 lbs 5 oz. IT was a great day and fun. I think the might have been steel heads but not sure. First time ever seeing Salmon in real life, I will find out and let you all know.

Jason

I'm not a very experienced salmon angler, but I have had the opportunity a few times with those in the know.

Chinook - 26lbs.
Coho - 12lbs.

Both were caught at Bouy 10 on the same trip. Guide Dale Damron.

Chinook-35lbs Canada-Cut plug hering
Silver-14lbs Canada-Cut plug hering
Sockeye-8lbs LK Washington-Red hooks and a flasher
Pink-Never cared how big my pinks where but I am gusseing around 8lbs- cut plug herring desmoins
Chum-Update about 12lbs
Steelhead-14lbs Chrome native hen C&R secret river drifting eggs

Well so thats all I got so far hopfully I will get some bigger ones next season

felts_jf wrote:Only been fishing for Salmon once, with my fathe in-law. We drove about 3.5 hours north from Tacoma and we were fishing out in the ocean. We caught 4 salmon that the smallest was 12lbs and the biggest was 19 lbs 5 oz. IT was a great day and fun. I think the might have been steel heads but not sure. First time ever seeing Salmon in real life, I will find out and let you all know.

Jason

Sorry to break this too you buddy, but Steelhead are part of the Trout Family. If they were Steelhead though, a 19.5 would be a once in a life time fish! Steelhead record for WA, is some where in the 32-35 rage or something according to this Website that gave the only Fishing reports from Washington that I could find.
http://mrriver.com/records.html
If that was a steelhead, then Congrats to you my friend, because that is one of my dreams. Is to someday catch a Steelhead that big or bigger.

The other day me and my dad where fishing our favorite secret river and saw about a 3 ft long stellie. Couldn't entice the bite but wow that was a fish of a lifetime. But my dad's freind has a 24.4lber from the same river mounted on the wall, and way back in the day before the BOLT decision he landed a 30lb spawned out steelie. We never counted spawners as stellie since he used to be a catch and keep fisherman so he never thought there was anything special about it.

Bass Tracker wrote: Sockeye = 10 + pounds - Lake Washington - red U 20 Flatfish

Was this caught before the invention of the plain red hooks behind a dodger setup?
Or do you still run them now?

To Sam K. Yes, that fish was caught before sockeye anglers starting using bare red hooks. The date on that fish was 07-28-1983. It was actually 10 pounds and 6 ounces and 30 1/2 inches long. Quite a bit larger than the average sockeye. I was in error on my biggest steelhead on that report -- I caught a 16 pounder on a crawfish crankbait while smallmouth bass fishing just past the Cedar River in Lake Washington.

Bass Tracker wrote: I caught a 16 pounder on a crawfish crankbait while smallmouth bass fishing just past the Cedar River in Lake Washington.

Wow! That must have been a pleasant surprise!

It was a pleasant surprise. I was fishing with my son and because we were bass fishing we had no net. It took almost an hour to tire the fish enough so my son could grab it by the gill plates and put it into the canoe. It was a long time ago but I think it was a legal fish to keep. At least I hope it was.

Was it a hatchery?

King = 0
Silver =10lbs Snoho River chartreuse Blue Fox
Pink = 6 lbs Kayak Point BuzzBomb white with Pink stripe
Chum = 0
Sockeye = 0

This is my first year salmon fishing and I'm finding it to be pretty addictive. I look forward to catching a big King! I have seen a thread about chum salmon and will be trying for them as well.

Edmonds,
You will like Chum fishing more then pinks. They are atleast a few pounds bigger and still have a very strong run into many of the area's rivers...

i have only caught a steelhead but this is my fisrst year trying my first trip was last weekend i got the fish in my picture on the left im also goin to try for chum asking questions in the river sections at the moment