King Salmon Off Point No Point

 Caught a 24 pound King Salmon off Point No Point Wednesday, August 8, at tide change. Mooching with a whole herring and a 6 oz weight in about 120 feet of water.  
 Fishing for Kings has been good at Point No Point - look for fish to be holding an hour before and an hour after tide change.  
 Skunk Bay is a good place to troll after tide change on an outgoing tide. Fishing has been good, but sporadic.  This is the case at Point No Point usually.  
 Look for fishing to really start heating up on the north and south end of Vashon Island and also off Manchester-Blake Island area.

Cowlitz River

April 17, 2012: Cowlitz River - Excellent fishing for spring Chinook.

Boat limited out before 1:30 PM using diver and cut plug herring rigs. 12-24 pound fish. Nice chrome-bright hatchery spring Chinook. Look for good springer fishing in the

next few weeks on the Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers. Also above Bonneville

Dam on the Columbia at Drano Lake and Wind River outlet.

Fished the Columbia below the mouth of the Cowlitz and at Dibley Beach,

Oregon on the weekend of April 21-22. Two springers from 3 fishermen

and our boat caught 12-14 pound fish. Fishing wasn't quite on fire

yet. Seems like the main group of springers hasn't come through at this time.

Kitsap Lake continues to be wide open on the trout bite. Trolling spinners and small spoons or cast masters on a flat line work great. The fish are on top since the weather is getting warmer and the water temperature has come up a few degrees. Look for more lakes to be opening on the 28th. All stocked lakes should be pretty good fishing in Kitsap, Jefferson, Mason, Pierce and Thurston Counties.

Cowlitz River

Tuesday, November 29th I caught this Coho using a pink marabou jig with a Slimer pink worm leech on the hook. It weighed 10 pounds. I was at the upper Cowlitz River in between the barrier dam and the boat ramp at the salmon hatchery. The run of steelhead is looking pretty strong at the trout hatchery at Blue Creek on the Cowlitz.  I was able to see 4 or 5 nice, chrome-bright, 5-7 pound steelhead caught.