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2016 June Newsletter.Cdr Information For The Serious Angler by John Martinis June 2016 stages of the tide in these Areas but it is Fishing Dates Super Spot Shrimp tough pickings when the water is Ideas for June moving really fast. Area 6 Area 6 Spot Shrimp Maps Spot Shrimp Just because a major portion of the Lawson Reef Open Daily until Puget Sound Spot Shrimp season is Eastern Bank further notice closed it does not mean the season has Dallas Bank come to an end. There are still a lot of Partridge Bank Area 7 opportunities to harvest Spot Shrimp if you are willing to travel to locations still Ling Cod Area 7 West Spot Shrimp Maps open. May 1-June 15 Park Bay Spiden/Stuart Islands Marine Area 6 will most likely be open Waldron Island Area 7 West for Spot Shrimp harvesting for a few Spot Shrimp more months. As a matter of fact, Area Open Daily until Rigging Spot Shrimp Pots for 6 is open every day of the week until Areas 6 and 7 further notice further notice for Spot Shrimp. If you go to either of these areas Area 8-1 Area 7 West is also open every day of without a shrimp pot properly rigged Ling Cod the week for harvesting Spot Shrimp. you will probably lose your shrimp pot. May 1-June 15 Area 7 West shrimp map, Click Here Here are some tips. The shrimp pot must weigh 30 pounds. Attach a small Area 8-2 Statewide shrimp map by area: Click folding anchor with a 10-foot rope to Ling Cod Here the bottom of the trap. Use a Polyform May 1-June 15 LD2 buoy and two of the regular size Even though Marine Areas 6 and 7 West molded yellow buoys for flotation. Area 9 are open every day for Spot Shrimp you These buoys will float 50 pounds. The have to take in account the tide. If the Ling Cod extra buoys will achieve two things: tides are very big it is really not worth May 1-June 15 They will float the shrimp pot and rope if going shrimping for two reasons: you the pot floats into deeper water and could lose your shrimp pot(s) or you they will prevent the rope from Area 10 might not catch many shrimp. Take a Ling Cod dragging the buoys underwater when look at a tide book before you decide on the tide is moving. May 1-June 15 shrimping in Areas 6 and 7. The ideal days for shrimping are when the tide I would not put any extra weight in the difference is less than six feet. shrimp pot making it weigh more than Shop Online at 30 pounds because it will make the Ace John’s Sporting Goods In both Areas 6 and 7, I found the best Line Hauler or Scotty pot puller slow shop.johnssportinggoods.com time to go after Spot Shrimp is an hour down. A typical shrimp pot weighs 30 before high tide until an hour after the pounds; has 10 to 12 pounds of leaded tide. Spot shrimp can be caught at all rope attached; a harness weighing a John’s Sporting Goods Web Page www.johnssportinggoods.com couple of pounds and 5 pounds or down out on Possession Bar and now you need: Gamakatsu Top and Bottom more of bait in the pot. This makes it is time to give it another try. Fish Rig #238109. This is a two hook the whole outfit weigh close to 50 rig with a swivel on both ends of the pounds. rig. One swivel attaches to the fishing Time to Try line and the other attaches to a Shrimp Bait additive weight. Attach a 4 ounce weight to Something Different the end of the rig. The last day Puget Sound was open for Sole/Flounder Spot Shrimp, I tried a new addition to The best bait to use is squid. Although the bait. I used the normal Spot flounder will bite on nearly anything, There are many anglers who just want Shrimp bait formula that most of you a small piece of squid will stay on to go out on the Sound and catch have seen on the Shrimp Pot Rigging better than most other baits. anything that bites. I realize not all of handout at John's Sporting Goods. us are “gung-ho” salmon, Ling Cod or Click here for shrimp pot rigging and Drop this rig to the bottom and hold Halibut anglers. There are many bait formula. In a food processor I the rod still until a flounder bites the anglers who just want to free mixed Icy Point Pink Canned Pink hook. Adjust the line with the themselves from downriggers, Salmon with Mackerel until it was changing bottom depth as you drift flashers and all the complicated gear almost a liquid. I added some oatmeal along. This time of year flounder will and regulations associated with to make the slurry thicker. I poured be in 65 to 75 feet of water. catching some of these fish species. If the contents into a 6-inch bait barrel you fit the mold, I have the perfect until the barrel was 7/8 full and froze The best spot to catch flounder is thing for you and you will catch loads it. I took the bait barrels out of the slightly east of the Langley Marina. of fish. freezer on the morning I went Click Here for Map. I fished this spot shrimping. In each of my shrimp pots three weeks ago for flounder and Everywhere else south of us on the was a 9 inch bait barrel with the caught flounder every time I let my Pacific Coast catching Rock Sole, Sand regular Spot Shrimp Bait and a 6 inch line to the bottom. Many times I Dabs and English Sole is a big deal. bait barrel with the frozen slurry. This caught two flounder at once. There Let's call these sole “flounder” for lack seemed to work rather well. The are so many flounder in this area it will of a better description. There is close frozen slurry leached out of the bait take only a few seconds to get a fish on to twenty species of sole/flounder in barrel at just the right rate. By the the end of the line. When I say “a few Puget Sound. Most of these fish look time we were done shrimping at 1PM seconds”, I mean it happens the so identical to one another that you the 6 inch bait barrels were now half moment the rig gets near the bottom. can't tell the difference. The one full. On that day seven of us caught thing they do have in common is their 560 Spot Shrimp. If you want larger flounder but fewer great quantity. When I say great of them, head to Mutiny Bay on the quantity, I mean there are loads of I purchased the Icy Point canned Pink south side of Whidbey Island. flounder in Puget Sound. Some areas Salmon at Bartells when they ran it on Flounder can be found in Mutiny Bay of the Sound have greater sale for $1.99 a can. in 75 to 100 feet of water. The populations than others. There are flounder here are dinner plate size. some places which have the small Sand Dabs and other places which Puget Sound Another place to catch good sized have flounder which are dinner plate flounder is on Possession Bar in 35 to size. Ling Cod 45 feet of water. Rock Sole, Sand Dabs and English Sole Puget Sound Ling Cod is still open until The limit on sole is 15 fish per person. are easy to catch without any June 15. The crowds have really died If there are two of you fishing, you will complicated fishing gear. This is what Shellfish Hotline 1-866-880-5421 have 30 flounder in no time. Things to Consider Remember, the barbless hook rule is Lake Roosevelt: Huge Kokanee and also in effect for these fish. Rainbow trout are being caught. Cleaning flounder: cut around the Lake Stevens: Good kokanee fishing perimeter of the fish and then pull the will last through June. brown skin off with a pliers. Leave the white skin on the fish. Cut the gut, Lake Chelan: Kokanee and Mackinaw head and tail off of the fish. will be quite good through June. Frying flounder: Coat the fish with Icicle River: near Leavenworth will your favorite fish coating and fry open Monday (May 16) until further them. The white skin easily pulls off notice for hatchery-marked spring the fish after it is fried. chinook fishing. Kelp Greenling: A very under looked and under-fished fish that are extremely good eating. These fish are Sole and Flounder Recipes readily available around all kelp beds Click here in Area 7. Lower Columbia Spring Chinook: Anglers fishing the lower Columbia River can catch and keep spring chinook salmon for four more days in May – including Memorial Day weekend – and up to 13 days in June under an agreement reached today by fishery managers from Washington and Oregon. Click Here for full story Shellfish Hotline 1-866-880-5421 Everett Steelhead & Salmon Club Presents: King and Sockeye Salmon Opportunities on the Upper Columbia River by Mark Gavin who is a Longtime PSA member and Salmon University Staffer Mark will cover 3 outstanding fisheries! The Summer Sockeye fishery, the Summer King (aka “June Hogs”) fishery and the world famous Fall King fishery (aka Upriver Brights).
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