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My son and I fished out of Point Defiance from about 8am to 12 pm. The tides were high 9:15am at 9.8 feet with low at 5.8 feet 2:40pm. Water temp was 57 degrees. It was mostly cloudy around 70 degrees. A little breeze.
We headed towards Owens Beach using the electric trolling motor. It was the only time we could use it. We were going about 2.7mph in 84 feet of water. My son was at 40 on the downrigger I was at 60. It looked like there was squid on the fish finder with a few other marks also. I was getting my camera ready when my son said he had one on. We were using a small piece of squid on our lures.
We went from 40 to 100 feet on the downrigger in 80 to 450 feet of water. Speed was from 2.7 to 3.4mph. But that was the only fish. Not even a shaker or bites.
We did get to see a porpoise that I could not get a picture of. The Orcas I did manage to get a second of. It is hard to zoom in and hold steady with waves rocking the boat.

Jekbate

10/8/2024 1:26:27 PM

Thanks for the report and the quick video of the orca. We saw them from the shore at Dash Point pier. A first for us. Though only one fish it was a stout one!

Toni

11/9/2024 4:17:49 PM

Thank you for the comment. I almost missed the whales watching out for the boats

greenrowboat

11/10/2024 12:26:35 PM

Nice fish! Fat.... be sure to limit your fish intake in Area 11--- the epicenter of the clean-up since they started dumping the nasty stuff in the bay and over our heads from 1905. https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/food/fish/advisories/puget-sound/marine-area-11

Need to get rid of the slag- I remember them dumping it for the breakwater and all the steam rising before fishing Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon.
--- https://semspub.epa.gov/work/10/100482544.pdf

Now we just can't eat the crab, shrimp (also a bottom feeder- up and down the water column] and baby sole that the bigger ,fish eat due to the TPCB's from the rivers nearby= https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/02335/wdfw02335.pdf

Thanks for posting.

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