Northwest Fishing Reports

As far as I can tell, there were no herrings on the sabiki when the small salmons hit. The hooks are pretty small, #6 I believe. A couple of weeks ago I tried again, in the Tacoma Narrows on Gig Harbor side. There were tons of herrings; lots of birds and seals chasing them. I only managed to catch t...

I'm going to get some Gamakatsu sabiki rigs and give them a try.

I have some size-6 sabiki rigs from amazon. I drop one in the middle of a giant ball of anchovies, and pulled up 3 little Chinook salmon instead. What am I doing wrong???

You can keep some species of rock fish in area 5, which is technically part of Puget Sound... But I doubt area 11 will open for rockfish anytime soon. I caught and released many copper rockfish in the are between Tacoma, Vashon Island, and Gig Harbor; but they were always very small. Never seen any ...