Information For The Serious Angler by John Martinis June 2018 Dates New Videos by John Video #3: Shrimping Gearing Up - This These Seasons video was produced by Sean at Buck and Limits Martinis King Outdoors and was shot by Sean May Change and myself at the John Martinis Store. In Many of you who have recently looked this video we show the separate items at “John’s Sporting Goods Facebook” required to catch Spot Shrimp. I call this Area 7 have now seen my newly created July 1-30 hatchery Chinook video, “The Anatomy of a Shrimp Pot”. videos. Two were produced by myself Click here for link to video. August 1-September 3 wild or and two were produced in association hatchery Chinook with Sean from Buck King Outdoors. The Video #4: Razor Clamming on the new videos are: Catching Spot Shrimp, Washington Coast - Want to go Razor July 1-September 30 wild or Spot Shrimp Bait, Spot Shrimp Gearing hatchery Coho digging but don’t have the Up and Razor Clam digging. These slightest idea about what is involved? videos, I hope, should help you Area 8-1 This video is for you. It is a good tutorial overcome any apprehension about on digging, cleaning and cooking Razor August 1-September 30 wild trying something completely new. In or hatchery Coho Clam. The location for this presentation addition, many of you who are well was at Mocrocks/Roosevelt Beach on versed in this activity might gain a the Washington State coast. Produced Area 8-2 nugget or two of information to August 1-September 30 wild by Sean at Buck King Outdoors. Click improve your outdoor endeavors. I here for video link. or hatchery Coho hope you enjoy the videos and I hope you pick up some good information Quiz: Where does Tulalip Bubble opens May 25- from these presentations. September 4. Opens every Chinook Fishing week Friday, Saturday, Video #1: Catching Spot Shrimp - This Sunday and until noon on video is an A to Z tutorial for rigging and open in Puget Sound Monday baiting a shrimp setup on the water Area 9 which was made in the Straits of Juan de on May 25th? July 16-August 15 hatchery Fuca. Produced by John Martinis. Click Chinook or until quota is here for video link. Answer: Tulalip Terminal Area attained (Tulalip Bubble). The Tulalip Bubble Video #2: Spot Shrimp Bait - This video opens on May 25th for Chinook fishing July 16-September 30 is a presentation of the creation of the and you can keep two Chinook with or hatchery coho only Spot Shrimp bait which has been used without an adipose fin clipped by myself and others to get successful (hatchery or wild). To make it even Area 10 limits of shrimp. In addition, is my better, the Bubble is one of the few July 16-August 30 hatchery innovative idea for using one tube of areas in Puget Sound where you can Chinook or until quota is thin bait and one tube of chunky bait. have the use of two rods if you have the attained. Produced by John Martinis. Click here two-rod endorsement on your fishing for link to video. license. However, there are some June 1-November 15 wild or additional Bubble rules: The Bubble is hatchery Coho. open every week Friday, Saturday,

John’s Sporting Goods Web Page www.johnssportinggoods.com Sunday and until Noon on Monday Gear for Fishing the Bubble water to keep them alive. If you don’t from May 25th to June 30th, 2018. want to mess around with catching Sole, When the new rule book comes out Gibbs Red Racer Flasher try using cut herring. on July 1st, additional fishing dates 3.0 Kingfisher beyond June 30th will be noted. A good technique when fishing Cookies n Cream Spoon Possession Bar is to take slices of the Bar 3.0 Gibbs G Force on each drift you make across the face of Let’s take a peek at what makes the Paddy Wagon Spoon the Bar. Try to keep your fishing depth Bubble fishery tick. All rules governing 30-pound Pline Fluorocarbon leader between 45 and 65 feet of water. Chinook fishing get thrown out the Sampo X3CB Ball Bearing Swivel window at the Tulalip Bubble. The first rule that gets tossed is the need to fish I would also try the New Pro Troll North Puget Sound close to the bottom. Fishing can be Flasher with the LED blinking light for good in 60 feet of water and just as this late day/near night time Chinook Coon Stripe Shrimp good out in 200 feet of water. Say fishing. what? Talk about making fishing easy. Coon Stripe Shrimp and Pink Shrimp open Really? You’re saying Chinook fishing Note: The first two weeks of the in most areas of Puget Sound on June 1st. The limit is 10 pounds of whole shrimp does not have to be technical and Tulalip Bubble Chinook fishery were difficult? with the heads on if the area is only open good last year. The overall Bubble for Coon Stripe and Pink Shrimp. The Chinook fishing has greatly improved heads of the shrimp can be removed Many Chinook anglers including in the past two years. So, don’t look at while in the field but must be retained myself have discovered that fishing 30 this fishery as a side note that you just while on the water. to 60 feet deep at the Bubble works ignore. quite well. And it does not matter If you are thinking about using your Spot whether the depth is 60 feet or 200 Shrimp Pots think again. Spot Shrimp Pots feet deep. I would suggest keeping a Puget Sound will not work for Coon Stripe and Pink line at 30 and one at 60 feet. These Shrimp because the mesh size is simply Chinook are headed to the hatchery in Lingcod Update too large. SMI makes a square wire Tulalip Bay so they are queuing in on shrimp pot that has a mesh size of ½ inch that top layer of water that is coming The Puget Sound Lingcod season started (#19023). I have frequently used this equipment and they are very good out of Tulalip Bay. out with little fanfare. As the fishing pressure dropped off, the Lingcod fishing shrimp pots. These pots need additional has started to improve. I am not saying weight, so they weigh 20 pounds. I also discovered over many years of that the Lingcod fishing got very good. fishing the Tulalip Bubble: The late What I am saying is the fishing has Rigging a Coon Stripe/Pink day/evening fishing after 6 PM is improved. The Lingcod anglers that have Shrimp Pot really the best time to go after these stuck to fishing Possession Bar have been Chinook. This makes it a great after finding the fishing to be better than a SMI ½ inch mesh pot (#19037) work fishery. The last few times I average. If you gave Lingcod fishing a try with enough weight to make them a fished the Bubble in the evening, I set and didn’t have any success it might be total of 20 pounds. Rig these pots with at my lines at only 30 feet and was time to give it a second look. I have found that in most , “when the least 175 feet of leaded 5/16 or ¼ inch fishing in 60 to 100 feet of water. line. Use two medium size yellow floats. These fish seem to come right to the pressure slacks off, fishing frequently improves.” surface at the end of the day. The bait will be the same bait mixture If you are heading out for some Lingcod that is in the video at the beginning of this fishing in Puget Sound, take time to catch Fishing Journal. some Sand Sole for bait. Keep the Sole in an ice chest or bucket and circulate the I simply ran out of places to research for Hotline 1-866-880-5421 the maximum depth allowed for Coon been announced. Nevertheless, we need If you rig your crab pot with just one of Stripe and Pink Shrimp. I could not find it to look at crabbing since most crabbing the standard red/white molded buoys either in the rule book or on the WDFW areas in the Sound will probably open on there is a good chance the buoy will be web site. I am sure it is there but it is or about July 1st. under water for hours when the tides are certainly not easy to obtain this at the strongest level. Your first thought is information. Note to WDFW: Include the Do you have a shellfish license and a that someone has stolen your pot when maximum Coon Stripe/Pink Shrimp Puget Sound Crab endorsement? in reality the buoy is hiding from you fifty fishing depth with each Area prior to the Everyone needs a catch record card for feet below the surface of the water. opening date. This is easy to do and it Dungeness crab no matter what age a makes the information much easier to person might be. If you wait to the last Rig your crab pots correctly the first time: obtain. Please? This would be good day or two to get a crab license, you will It will save you a good deal of money and information prior to June 1st because not like the lines nor the time it takes to will make crabbing a lot more enjoyable. shrimp anglers are assembling their gear get a license. in advance and it would be much easier to Baiting a Crab Pot rig the gear correctly the first time. Rigging Crab Pots

I believe the maximum shrimp fishing Good baits to use for Dungeness Crab The majority of people crabbing in Puget include: any kind of fish or fish parts, depth after June 1st, in Area 8-1 is 150 Sound use the standard fold up crab pots , chicken, turkey, squid, canned feet. Don’t take my word for this, I am which weigh nine pounds. A crab pot that only doing this from memory. However, weighs nine pounds does not have mackerel and canned salmon. The the maximum fishing depth will not enough weight to go to the bottom and real secret to successfully baiting a matter because I have found that the best stay in one place. The Puget Sound crab crab pot is to use as much bait as you depth for Coon Stripe/Pink Shrimp in season coincides with the greatest tides can afford to put in the pot. Simple Area 8-1 is right at 100 feet. of the year, so you must prepare your crab math, “more bait equals more scent”. pots to withstand the currents that are Just like shrimping, the more scent If you are looking for good areas for Coon produced by the water dropping or put into the water column, the more Stripe Shrimp and Pink Shrimp: Start in gaining 10 feet in a six-hour period. That’s crab will be attracted to your crab pot. Area 8-1, Saratoga Passage, Whidbey a lot of water moving around. Dropping a Island side, Greenbank to Penn Cove. There are so many people crabbing nine pound crab pot to the bottom is like you want your crab pot to have the dropping a feather in a 10 knot wind. most and the best scent. Do not plan on leaving your shrimp pots Neither the feather nor the crab pot will out for more than one hour. I have remain in one place for any period of discovered that after a one hour soak the time. My point is, “put at least ten pounds Last year I purchased a 25-pound box shrimp start leaving. Do not plan on of weight in your crab pot.” Putting of frozen sardines for crab bait. You putting a shrimp pot out and coming back weight in the crab pot will accomplish might have seen some of the crab much later only to find a handful of two objectives: 1) the pot will still be in photos Anne and I posted on the shrimp in the pot. This is also the case for the same place when you go to retrieve it. John’s Sporting Goods Facebook. The Spot Shrimp. After one hour the oil/scent 2) Crab will be more likely to enter and photos, I thought, were impressive. I has leached out of the bait and will not stay in the pot if the pot is perfectly still. must admit I was amazed that a attract any more to the shrimp pot. specific bait such as sardines could be The pots should be rigged with a crab pot so good. I will try to get some 25- harness and with at least 100 to 125 feet pound boxes of frozen sardines to sell Puget Sound of leaded rope. At the end of the rope there should be at least two standard as we get closer to crab season. Dungeness Crab sized red/white buoys. SMI has come out with a round red/white inflatable buoy. I The Puget Sound crab season should really like this inflatable buoy and it does open July 1st, for areas that will be open not look like the thousands of other to recreational crabbing. As of today May standard molded red/white buoys. 20th, 2018, these crab seasons have not

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