Information For The Serious Angler by John Martinis July 2016 previously) is open Friday until Monday Dates July 1 at noon for hatchery Chinook July 1: Area 9 opens for catch and Area 7 Here We Go! release salmon fishing July 1-31 Fishing July 15: Area 7 South opens for Chinook, hatchery only, Dungeness Crab Limit 2 Opportunities Galore July 16: Area 9 opens for Hatchery August 1-Sept. 30 Chinook Only 1 Chinook, wild or As much as we all dislike the closures, July 16: Area 10 opens for Hatchery hatchery there have been plenty of opportunities Chinook to harvest fish and since August 1: Area 7 opens for Hatchery or January 1st. This is what my year looked Wild Chinook Area 8-1 like so far: fished winter Blackmouth Nov 1-April 30 until it closed; went razor digging Marine Area 7 Chinook Daily limit two until it closed; caught Ling Cod at Chinook, hatchery only Possession Bar and in Area 7; harvested If you are planning on fishing the San Spot Prawns in Area 8-2; caught Coon Juan Islands for Chinook, the vast Area 8-2 Stripe and Pink Shrimp in Area 8-1 and majority of the Chinook around the Nov 1-April 30 then trapped Spot Shrimp in Area 6 on perimeter of the Islands are headed to Daily limit two Eastern Bank. Washington State offers the Fraser River in Canada. Guess Chinook, hatchery only an incredible amount of opportunities; what? The Canadians don't mark their you just have to explore new ideas hatchery Chinook. That's OK because Area 9 when some of your favorite fishing the Chinook fishing will still be decent July 1, Catch & Release areas are closed. throughout Rosario Strait. In fact, the July 16-Quota first two weeks of the season almost Daily limit 1 Starting July 1, again we can get back to always provides good Chinook fishing at Chinook, hatchery only the fishing areas we all enjoy. Let me do Eagle Bluff, Thatcher Pass, Lopez Flats a quick limited run-down of the July and Point Lawrence. On August 1, all seasons. Chinook may be retained, hatchery or Area 10 wild. The popular Chinook at July 1 Catch & Release July 1: Area 6 should remain open for Eagle Point on the west-side of San Juan July 16-Quota Spot Shrimp with the limit now set at Island should just be heating up on Daily limit 1 160 August 1. Last year when I was fishing at Chinook, hatchery only July 1: Area 7 opens Chinook fishing for Eagle Point, I caught most of my hatchery only Chinook using a flasher with an July 1: Area 7 West should remain open Anchovy. for Spot Shrimp where the limit is now Shop Online at 160 Marine Area 6 Spot Shrimp John’s Sporting Goods July 1: Dungeness Crab opens in most shop.johnssportinggoods.com areas of Puget Sound If you have not experienced shrimping July 1: Tulalip Bubble (opened on the SE corner of Eastern Bank, you

John’s Sporting Goods Web Page www.johnssportinggoods.com have been missing an incredible by the time you get back to the dock catching Dungeness Crab. opportunity. Anne and I went with a limit of crab. shrimping on Eastern Bank toward the Crab Pots: If you want inexpensive, end of June and easily caught our limit If you live on or near Camano Island, the SMI Square folding pot #19019 is of 320 Spot Shrimp. Not only were launch at the State Park on Camano about as good as it gets in the folding the shrimp easy to catch, the size of and head over to Baby Island or pots. This particular crab pot has a the shrimp were enormous! The map Langley to get a limit of crab. top loading hatch that makes access of the good shrimp area is in my book, to the crab much easier than similar “Saltwater Fishing Journal”. If you are In the Edmonds/Shilshole area, the brands. John's Sporting Goods has going, plan on shrimping one to two big bay near Richmond Beach is full of this pot on sale for $14.95. John's hours before high tide. If the tides are crab. A little further to the north of sells complete crab pot kits for $39.95 small, you can start shrimping two Edmonds I would recommend the and includes the pot, crab measure, hours before high tide. If there is a lot very north end of Browns Bay for bait bag, harness and 100 feet of of water movement don't put your Dungeness and Red Rock Crab. leaded rope. pots in the water until an hour before If you want a deluxe setup, the SMI high tide. A good starting depth for crab would Octagon/Round #19037/19035 crab be 50 to 60 feet deep. If two of you pot is the best crab pot money can Marine Area 7 West Spot are putting out four pots, I would start buy. John's runs either of these pots Shrimp the first set like this: One pot at 50, the on sale for $79. Both have 10-inch- next at 60, the next at 80 and the last wide doors that make it easy for large Area 7 West is also part of the one at 125 feet deep. After pulling crab to enter. Both pots also have a expanded Spot Shrimp limit of 160 the first set of pots, reconfigure all of built in bait container that is much shrimp per person. Near Friday them to the depth you found to be the easier to use than a separate bait box. Harbor the shrimping is quite good at most productive. Park Bay and Point Caution. A bit Marine Area 10 Catch and further to the Northwest, good Crab Bait: Chicken (fried or raw), Release Chinook Now Open shrimping can be had on the west-side turkey, salmon, canned mackerel and of Waldron Island. The tides will canned Pink salmon are all excellent I will let you in on a little secret. Area dictate when you can effectively baits for Dungeness Crab. This is how 10 near Kingston/Apple Tree Point has shrimp in all of 7 West. Plan on I prepare my bait: I use one SMI bait been red hot for putting your shrimp pots out one hour box for fish parts or chicken. I use one Chinook fishing. Get on over to the before high tide for the best SMI 9” bait tube with bait that is south side of Apple Tree Point and shrimping. frozen solid. My frozen bait consists improve on your Chinook catching of canned Mackerel, shrimp heads skills. Fish with the standard Gibbs Puget Sound Crab opens July 1 that I saved or canned Pink salmon. I Red Racer flasher followed by a take any one or all of these Kingfisher #964 3.5 spoon. the Everyone has their own favorite place ingredients and blend them in a food spoon 42 inches behind the flasher t o c a t c h D u n g e n e s s C r a b . processor. Once liquefied I pour in and tie it together with 30-pound Fortunately, these critters are broadly oatmeal to thicken the mixture up and leader material. dispersed throughout Puget Sound. If to absorb the scent. I put the mixture you want easy crabbing: launch your in a SMI 9” bait barrel and freeze it for Area 8-2 Tulalip Bubble (only) boat at the Everett Boat launch, go a couple of days to make it rock hard. I Chinook Fishing is now Open down the river and put your crab pots take the bait barrels out of the freezer the morning that I am going crabbing. out in front of the Everett Jetty. This Until July 16, the Tulalip Bubble is the Raw meat/fish and the frozen is as good as it gets and you will only place in the North end of Puget probably only burn two gallons of fuel concoction is a deadly mixture for Shellfish Hotline 1-866-880-5421 Sound that is open for keeping Depending on tides, this is my salmon, of which one (1) may be an Chinook. The Bubble is open every strategy for fishing Puget Sound adult hatchery chinook and two (2) week Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Chinook. I fish at Pilot Point when the may be sockeye. Release wild adult until noon on Monday. You can also tide is coming in. If I don't get fish at chinook. fish with two rods if you have the two Pilot Point on the incoming tide, I will rod endorsement on your fishing run to Mid Channel and fish the ebb Area 2: Columbia River from the license. The best fishing at the Bubble tide. I will do the same thing in Interstate 182 Bridge to Priest Rapids is the first hour of the day and the last reverse if the first tide of the day is the Dam (CRC 535, 536) hour of the evening. I would ebb tide. In this case, I go to Mid recommend a Gibbs Red Racer flasher Channel first and fish all the way to the Daily Limit: Daily limit of six (6) followed by Goldstar OG142R end of the ebb tide and then head to salmon, of which two (2) may be adult Green/Glow squid 42 inches behind Pilot Point to finish up the day. hatchery chinook and three (3) may the flasher. You can keep two be sockeye. Release wild adult hatchery Chinook. Recommend Chinook Tackle chinook. Gibbs Red Racer Flasher Marine Area 9 Opens July 16 Kingfisher Spoon 3.5 #964 Other information: Anglers must use for keeping hatchery Chinook barbless hooks when fishing for Kingfisher 3.5 #395 salmon and must have a current Kingfisher 3.5 #675 This is the granddaddy of Puget Sound Washington fishing license, as well as . All of us wait all Pline 30lb Flourocarbon Leader a Columbia River Salmon and year for this much anticipated season. Sampo X3CB Snap Swivel Steelhead Endorsement (CRSSE). This Chinook season will last from 12 Anglers may fish with two poles with to 15 days depending on how good Recommended Crab Gear the Two-Pole Endorsement, except for sturgeon. the fishing goes. Let's go fishing! SMI 19037 Octagon Crab Pot SMI Bait Container Last year on opening day, I fished at Reason for action: The sockeye run Mid Channel Bank with more than SMI Heavy Duty Harness has exceeded the pre-season forecast 100 other boats. Yes, it was very SMI 5lb Weight of 102,000 fish returning to the river crowded but the fishing was still very mouth (currently ~240,000 at good. If you don't like crowds, don't Hanford Reach Open for Bonneville thru 6/26 with the total return now projected to reach go near this place. Normally I would Sockeye Fishing fish in 90 to 100 feet of water at Mid 400,000). Barring extreme high water Channel, but on opening day last year temperatures like 2015 that caused Actions: Opens sockeye salmon to I fished in 60 feet of water and I did unprecedented pre-spawning retention quite well and it was a big stress mortality, sufficient escapement of reliever being away from the crowds fish to meet spawning needs in the Effective date: June 28 through Aug. out in the deeper water. I have two Wenatchee and Okanogan Rivers 15, 2016 rigs I prefer for Mid Channel: Gibbs should be realized. Over 110,000 Red Racer flasher with a 3.5 #964 sockeye have crossed McNary Dam, Species affected: Sockeye salmon Kingfisher Spoon or a Gibbs Red Racer and consequently, sockeye retention flasher with a Cookies N Cream Coho upstream of the Hwy. 395 Bridge at Area 1: Columbia River from Hwy. 395 Killer spoon. Tie either rig together Pasco to Priest Rapids Dam can now Bridge at Pasco to the Interstate 182 with 30-pound leader material and be opened. Bridge at Richland near Columbia make the leader 42 inches in length. Point (CRC 534) The best time to fish Mid Channel Daily Limit: Daily limit of three (3) Bank is when the tide is going out. Shellfish Hotline 1-866-880-5421 Special Purchase Tackle For The Serious Angler Crab Pot Sale July 1-30

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