MA10 chinook closed

https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/emergency-rules/chinook-salmon-retention-closed-marine-area-10-seattlebremerton-area-2023-08

~33% of the sublegal quota filled three days into the season. Saw this coming a mile away but still sucks hard.

Really bummed. Didn't fish for them once in MA 10 since I saw the CPUE graphs made by workhard. Ended up going to MA 9 twice by taking the ferry and it worked out great, but still disappointed that I never got to try for kings in my area when the CPUE is actually high in early August.

A couple years ago the powers that be allowed sublegal encounters to hit 213% in MA10*; there's a small part of me holding out hope that chinook retention will be opened when data show the ocean fish are in.

*https://web.archive.org/web/20220307200545/https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/creel/seasonal#ps-summer-chinook

A couple years ago the powers that be allowed sublegal encounters to hit 213% in MA10*; there's a small part of me holding out hope that chinook retention will be opened when data show the ocean fish are in.

*https://web.archive.org/web/20220307200545/https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/creel/seasonal#ps-summer-chinook

In-season management criteria was on sublegal encounters this year you’re not comparing apples to apples. I will also hold hope for a reopening once the more recent data is looked at.

A couple years ago the powers that be allowed sublegal encounters to hit 213% in MA10*; there's a small part of me holding out hope that chinook retention will be opened when data show the ocean fish are in.

*https://web.archive.org/web/20220307200545/https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/creel/seasonal#ps-summer-chinook

In-season management criteria was on sublegal encounters this year you’re not comparing apples to apples. I will also hold hope for a reopening once the more recent data is looked at.

Shoot -- so much to learn, so little time. Thanks for the correction!

Start clearing out your calendar for this weekend...

https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/emergency-rules/additional-days-chinook-fishing-open-marine-area-10-elliott-bay-and-sinclair-inlet-2023-08

Start clearing out your calendar for this weekend...

https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/emergency-rules/additional-days-chinook-fishing-open-marine-area-10-elliott-bay-and-sinclair-inlet-2023-08

I'll be trolling at the oil docks tomorrow morning. Will report back!

A couple years ago the powers that be allowed sublegal encounters to hit 213% in MA10*; there's a small part of me holding out hope that chinook retention will be opened when data show the ocean fish are in.

*https://web.archive.org/web/20220307200545/https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/creel/seasonal#ps-summer-chinook

In-season management criteria was on sublegal encounters this year you’re not comparing apples to apples. I will also hold hope for a reopening once the more recent data is looked at.

Yay! But also looks like the press release indicates E Elliot Bay has a limit of two chinook regardless of mark status, while the actual rule change has a rule of one marked chinook?

Attachment 'wsr-23-17-053' is from https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/about/regulations/filings/2023/wsr-23-17-053.pdf
Attachment 'Press release' is from https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/emergency-rules/additional-days-chinook-fishing-open-marine-area-10-elliott-bay-and-sinclair-inlet-2023-08

Looks like unmarked kings are on the menu.

I'da thunk that the doc signed by Susewind woulda been the end-all be-all, but I'm very ok w/ being wrong in this instance.

Got mine this morning, hope everyone who put in the effort was rewarded!           

Terrible king season in terms of length, but made the most of it and really felt like my jigging program advanced this year. Gutted I'm out of town for the rest of the weekend however.

Looks like unmarked kings are on the menu.

I'da thunk that the doc signed by Susewind woulda been the end-all be-all, but I'm very ok w/ being wrong in this instance.

Those state employees, I swear they don't do anything right.

Looks like unmarked kings are on the menu.

I'da thunk that the doc signed by Susewind woulda been the end-all be-all, but I'm very ok w/ being wrong in this instance.

Those state employees, I swear they don't do anything right.

Haha didn't mean to be critical -- I appreciate what the folks at WDFW do for our fisheries. Can't imagine having such a public facing job, nail 99.9% of the stuff right on the head and get called out for the .1% of stuff that went sideways. If future generations are able to see salmon, y'all are the reason.

I did get a little spooked at 03:15 when I was suddenly unsure of what and how many I could retain.

Glad to hear BPM got into some. I got mine this morning... however many of what that is

Trolled the oil docks. Got nothing but pink after pink on a kingfisher spoon. Done for the weekend so likely no more king fishing this year for me. Here's to 2024!

Think I bagged my last king for a good long while -- nice 16 pounder out of Elliot Bay. About to disasemble this one, hope it doesn't have Henneguya like the two I cut up yesterday. That crap gives me the heebie-jeebies.

One silver lining of the shutdown is that it makes focusing on other stuff easier.

Weekend 2: Electric Boogaloo?