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Charters for guided Salmon fishing trips near Seattle & Everett Washington for Winter Blackmouth, Spring and Summer Chinook. We also catch Fall Chinook, Coho Salmon Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon and Sockeye Salmon. Bottom Fishing charter boats in this area head out daily to catch Lingcod, and Rockfish.

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Puget Sound Fishing Charters are located in Edmonds, Washington right on the Puget Sound. They offer year round fishing charter boat services just minutes from Downtown Seattle.

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National Marine Fisheries Service APPROVAL
of Harvest Management Plan for 2005-2010

WDFW and the Puget Sound Indian Tribes have completed a multi-year plan for management of Puget Sound Chinook, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The "Comprehensive Management Plan for Puget Sound Chinook - Harvest Management Component" has been approved by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) under Section 4(d) ESA.

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Info thanks to the WDFW Washington State Dept. Of Fish & Wildlife And Puget Sound Fishing Charters

NMFS evaluated the joint resource management plan (RMP) for harvest of Puget Sound chinook salmon provided by the Puget Sound Treaty Tribes and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act and under sections 4(d) and 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NMFS issued an Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) providing their analysis of the impacts of the plan on salmon and other factors in the environment. Following the EIS, an Evaluation and Recommended Determination (ERD) was drafted, issued for public comment, and finalized. Pursuant to the FEIS and ERD, NMFS made decisions related to the three different review paths underway. A Record of Decision (ROD) documents the NOAA decision relating to the FEIS. A Section 7 Biological Opinion (BiOp) was also completed in consultation with other federal agencies affected by the proposed action. Finally, a Decisional Memorandum relating to the fundamental ESA compliance mechanism – section 4(d) limit 6 – was completed, and a federal register notice filed notifying of the completion of this process. The Puget Sound Chinook Harvest Resource Management Plan has been approved by NMFS under section 4(d)(6) ESA for the period from May 1, 2005 through April 30, 2010.

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) recognizes the value in setting aside certain areas of Puget Sound marine waters for the protection and preservation of species and/or habitat. These are generally known as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). This web page provides links to specific information about the MPAs that WDFW administers, to information on the science of MPAs, and to other web sites about MPAs administered by a variety of agencies.
Conservation Areas Marine Preserves

Sea Cucumber and Sea Urchin Commercial Harvest Exclusion Zones

The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) analyzes implementation of the Puget Sound Chinook Harvest Resource Management Plan (RMP). The RMP regulates commercial, recreational, ceremonial, and subsistence salmon fisheries potentially affecting the listed Puget Sound Chinook Evolutionarily Significant Unit within the marine and freshwater areas of Puget Sound. The FEIS examines the effects of various harvest management strategies on a range of issues including fish species, economics, federal treaty trust responsibilities, subsistence and wildlife.

NOAA Sustainable Fisheries ESA web sites:

 

North Puget Sound

Fishing: Anglers are reeling in chinook and coho in Puget Sound, where crabbing is still an option and two additional marine areas open for salmon Aug. 1. Meanwhile, anglers are having some success at Baker Lake, which recently opened for sockeye salmon.

For the first time, anglers are fishing for sockeye salmon in Baker Lake, where the fish are returning in significantly higher numbers this year. Anglers fishing Baker Lake can retain up to two adult sockeye salmon that exceed 18 inches in length from Baker Dam upstream to the mouth of the Baker River. All other salmon must be released, and no fishing is allowed between the dam and the log boom at the lower end of the lake.

"The fish are biting, it’s just a matter of finding them," said Brett Barkdull, fish biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). "Most anglers have done well once they get over them, and hopefully that will continue into August."

The sockeye salmon fishery at Baker Lake is open until further notice, said Barkdull, who reminds anglers to check for any rule changes at WDFW’s website at http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations . Separate sockeye salmon fisheries on portions of the Skagit and Baker rivers run through July 31.

Elsewhere, anglers can still find some steelhead along the Reiter Ponds section of the Skykomish River. But most freshwater anglers are gearing up for Sept. 1, when the Stllaguamish, Snohomish, Skykomish and portions of the Skagit, Snoqualmie and Green (Duwamish) rivers open for salmon fishing.

Beginning Aug. 16, Lake Sammamish will also be an option for freshwater salmon anglers, who will have a daily limit of four salmon, and can retain up to two chinook . All sockeye must be released, and fishing is closed within 100 yards of the mouth of Issaquah Creek.

On Puget Sound, anglers can fish for salmon in marine areas 7 (San Juan Islands), 9 (Admiralty Inlet) and 10 (Seattle/Bremerton). Those fishing Marine Area 7 can keep one chinook as part of their two-salmon daily limit, but must release wild coho and chum starting Aug. 1.

Anglers fishing marine areas 9 and 10 can keep hatchery chinook - marked with a clipped adipose fin - as part of a two-salmon daily limit, but must release wild chinook. Those fishing Marine Area 9 also must release chum salmon, while anglers in Marine Area 10 are required to release chum beginning Aug. 1.

The chinook selective fisheries in marine areas 9 and 10 run through Aug. 31. Beginning Sept. 1, anglers in those two marine areas will be required to release all chinook and chum. Anglers are reminded that regulations vary for inner Elliott Bay, Sinclair Inlet and public fishing piers in those marine areas.

August brings other opportunities in the region to catch and keep salmon. Beginning Aug. 1, marine areas 8-1 (Deception Pass, Hope Island and Skagit Bay) and 8-2 (Port Susan and Port Gardner) open for salmon. Anglers fishing those two areas will have a daily limit of two salmon but must release chinook.

 

South Sound/Olympic Peninsula

  • Fishing: Late spring storms have slowed salmon fishing off the coast, but anglers have been finding chinook in the calmer waters of southern Puget Sound. Meanwhile, sport fishers still have a chance to catch late-season halibut on the north coast and shrimp in some areas of the Sound, and three marine areas will open to crab fishing June 18.

    Rough weather put a damper on all coastal fisheries during the first week of June, including the salmon season that opened in all four ocean areas. Anglers fishing off of Westport and Ilwaco averaged one salmon for every three rods, and catch rates were even lower off the north coast, said Wendy Beeghley, WDFW fish biologist. But on Sunday, June 7, when the waves flattened out, creel checkers counted 65 anglers with 42 chinook at the dock in Westport.

    "The first week in June was especially tough on the north coast and few anglers were on the water," Beeghley said. "We'll get a better idea of how good the fishing really is once the weather calms down and more anglers get out on the water."

    Under this year's rules, anglers are limited to one chinook salmon per day from June 1-28. All other salmon species - including coho - must be released during that period. Starting June 29, the daily limit will increase to two salmon per day, including one chinook. As in past years, anglers may retain fin-clipped hatchery coho, but must release any unmarked wild coho they intercept.

    Salmon fishing in Marine Area 1 (Ilwaco) is open seven days a week from June 1-28 and will shift to five days a week, Sundays through Thursdays starting June 29. Marine Area 2 (Westport) is open five days a week, Sundays through Thursdays. On the north coast, marine areas 3 and 4 (La Push and Neah Bay) are open Tuesdays through Saturdays.

    Salmon fisheries in marine areas 5, 6, and 12 (Sekiu/Pillar Point, the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca and Hood Canal) will open July 3, seven days a week. Because each area has specific rules and regulations, anglers are advised to check the 2008-09 Fishing in Washington pamphlet before heading out (http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/regs/fishregs.htm).

    Weather has also been a factor in the recreational halibut fishery off the north coast, but anglers will get four more days to fish in June. Fishing will open June 14 and 21 in marine areas 3 and 4 (La Push and Neah Bay) at all depths, followed by a nearshore fishery June 17 and 19. In the nearshore fishery, halibut fishing will be restricted to waters no more than 30 fathoms deep. Coordinates and other regulations are included in the 2008-09 Fishing in Washington pamphlet and available online at http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/creel/halibut.

    On inside waters, halibut fishing will close June 13 from Port Angeles to Puget Sound (marine areas 6-11 and 13), but anglers can still fish five days a week in Marine Area 5 (Sekiu) through July 21. Those fishing in that area might want to sign up for the 13th annual Sekiu Halibut Derby, which will be held June 14 and 15. For a $15 entry fee, anglers will get a chance to win the $10-per-pound purse. Call Olson's Resort for more information at 360-963-2311.

    Lingcod fishing closes June 15 throughout Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, but remains open through mid-October on the coast. Shrimp fishing remains open daily in marine areas 4, 5 and 6, while fishing for non-spot shrimp (coonstripe and pink) is under way in marine areas 11 and 13. All spot shrimp caught in those areas must be released.

    Dungeness crab fishing starts June 18 in three marine areas, with more to follow. Here's the summer line-up:

    • June 18: Marine areas 4 (Neah Bay east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh line), 5 (Sekiu) and 13 (south Puget Sound) will be open seven days a week through Jan. 2, 2009.

    • July 2: Marine areas 6 (eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca), 7 South (San Juan Islands), 8-1 (Deception Pass to East Point), 8-2 (East Point to Possession Point), 9 (Admiralty Inlet), 10 (Seattle/Bremerton), 11 (Tacoma/Vashon) and 12 (Hood Canal) will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays only, plus the entire Labor Day weekend and will close the evening of Sept. 1 for a catch assessment. These areas will reopen in the fall if recreational harvest quotas have not been met.

    • July 16: Marine Area 7 East (Bellingham and Samish bays) will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays only, plus the entire Labor Day weekend and will close the evening of Sept. 27.

    • Aug. 13: Marine Area 7 North (Lummi Island/Blaine) will be open Wednesdays through Saturdays only, plus the entire Labor Day weekend and will close the evening of Sept. 27.

    Like last year, crab fishers will be required to record their Dungeness crab catch on two separate catch record cards - one for the summer season and one for the fall/winter season. Also like last year, they will have the option of mailing in their catch cards or reporting their catch on the Internet.

    Meanwhile, salmon anglers in Marine Area 11 (Vashon Island/Tacoma) have had some success since the season started June 1, said Steve Thiesfeld, WDFW fish biologist. A WDFW creel check reported about one fish for every four rods over the June 7-8 weekend.

    "There are fish to be caught, but anglers going out this time of year need to be persistent and spend some time on the water," Thiesfeld said. "We expect better results when the main run comes in about mid-July."

    Thiesfeld also suggests anglers try fishing in south Puget Sound (Marine Area 13), where salmon fishing has been open since March 1.

    The fisheries in both areas run seven days a week, with a limit of two salmon a day. Minimum size for chinook is 22 inches, with no minimum for other species. Commencement Bay is closed to salmon fishing until Aug. 1. Selective fishing rules are in effect, requiring anglers to use single, barbless hooks (no treble hooks) and release any wild chinook.

    Details on rules and regulations are included in the 2008-09 Fishing in Washington pamphlet, http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/regs/fishregs.htm.

    Sport fishing for spring chinook continues on the Sol Duc, where salmon have begun to return to the hatchery. Salmon fishing will open July 1 on the Bogachiel, Calawah, Quinault and Nisqually rivers. Regulations vary for rivers throughout the area and anglers are advised to check 2008-09 Fishing in Washington pamphlet before heading out.

    Visit the WDFW website for more current updates to this report.
PUGET SOUND SPORT FISHING RESULTS
June 9 - 15, 2008
       
                  Other   Other   Other  
Date Site Boats Anglers Chinook Coho Chum Pink Sockeye Rockfish  Species Other # Species Other # Species Other #
06/10/2008 Narrows Properties Pk 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/10/2008 Pt Defiance Bths 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/10/2008 Pt Defiance Rmp 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/10/2008 Redondo Pier 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/10/2008 Redondo Rmp 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/11/2008 Narrows Marina 4 4 3 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/11/2008 Pt Defiance Bths 28 40 16 0 0 0 0 0 Flatfish-general 2   0   0
06/11/2008 Pt Defiance Rmp 10 19 3 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/12/2008 Zittels Marina 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/13/2008 Pt Defiance Bths 46 67 26 0 0 0 0 0 Flatfish-general 45   0   0
06/13/2008 Pt Defiance Rmp 50 98 5 0 0 0 0 0 Lingcod 9 Flatfish-general 35   0
06/14/2008 Gig Harbor Rmp 26 51 7 0 0 0 0 1 Lingcod 1 Flatfish-general 25   0
06/14/2008 Narrows Marina 6 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lingcod 3 Flatfish-general 9   0
06/14/2008 Pt Defiance Rmp 70 153 8 0 0 0 0 0 Lingcod 7 Greenlings-general 3 Flatfish-general 4
06/15/2008 Luhr Beach Rmp 7 11 1 0 0 0 0 0   0   0   0
06/15/2008 Pt Defiance Bths 47 83 15 0 0 0 0 4 Lingcod 1   0   0
06/15/2008 Pt Defiance Rmp 90 209 6 0 0 0 0 14 Lingcod 6 Greenlings-general 4 Flatfish-general 4

The info above was from the http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/creel/puget/ website. Please check out the website for more current updates as this info changes daily.