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Puget Sound Fishing Report: Coho Crush, Chum Charge, and Crabbing Crunch
Published 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is Artificial Lure and here’s your Puget Sound fishing report for Sunday, October 5th, 2025. As the sun comes up at 6:53 this morning and sets at 7:13 tonight, we kick off with classic early October conditions—clear skies, a morning temp around 51 degrees, and the water holding steady at 52. The tide is headed out early with a low at 9:35 am (0.46 ft), then swings back for a solid high tide at 4:37 pm, close to 10 feet. That’ll give you sought-after moving water throughout the day, with the best opportunities around the late afternoon tide push and that juicy dusk window.
The fall bite is absolutely underway. Cooler nights are stacking up coho—or silvers—along those familiar rip lines at first light. Local anglers are seeing coho put on the feedbag, especially where points and current seams coincide. Right now, the go-to tactic is twitching jigs or working a small silver spoon tight to structure. Don’t ignore those darker twitching jig colors, like purple or black/chartreuse, when the light’s low or after a recent river push.
Word from the folks at “Puget Sound, Washington Daily Fishing Report” is that we’re still feeling the strong run of coho, and while the pinks have mostly tailed off, there’s still the odd straggler being caught from the beaches, mostly on spinners. There’s been a notable uptick in chum showing down near estuaries, too—a classic October scene as the rains tease the lowlands.
Bottom fishing is steady for those targeting rockfish and a few lingering lingcod in the deeper stuff, and crabbing season's in the final stretch. WDFW and the Suquamish Tribe are actively tagging Dungeness crab in Central Sound, so if you haul up a tagged crustacean anywhere from Alki to Kingston, give ‘em a call and help the biologists track those movements. Pulling crab pots early on a flooding tide with fresh fish or chicken still rules the game; limits are there for folks putting traps in 40-80 feet.
Major fishing times today are lining up well for the tides: the hottest bites should run 9:43 to 11:43 am and again 9:52 to 11:52 pm, with minor windows at dawn and late afternoon. Beach anglers at Edmonds and Browns Bay have been hooking into a solid mix of coho and a few late pinks; twitchy jigs or a sand lance imitation spoon are your best bets. Other hot spots locals are buzzing about: Shilshole Bay Marina for mixed bag action, and the south side of Bainbridge along Point White for consistent evening coho.
Baitwise, salmon anglers drifting the rivers have been seeing real success with egg loops tipped with roe for both coho and early chum. Out on the salt, a pink hoochie behind a dodger or a simple chartreuse spoon on a long leader are top picks. For the hardware crowd, a 3-inch silver/green spoon or anything imitating candlefish is money on the Sound's open edges.
Weather’s looking forgiving—light breeze (about 4 mph), barely a cloud, and visibility is excellent. Keep an extra layer handy as things cool off quick once the sun drops.
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The fall bite is absolutely underway. Cooler nights are stacking up coho—or silvers—along those familiar rip lines at first light. Local anglers are seeing coho put on the feedbag, especially where points and current seams coincide. Right now, the go-to tactic is twitching jigs or working a small silver spoon tight to structure. Don’t ignore those darker twitching jig colors, like purple or black/chartreuse, when the light’s low or after a recent river push.
Word from the folks at “Puget Sound, Washington Daily Fishing Report” is that we’re still feeling the strong run of coho, and while the pinks have mostly tailed off, there’s still the odd straggler being caught from the beaches, mostly on spinners. There’s been a notable uptick in chum showing down near estuaries, too—a classic October scene as the rains tease the lowlands.
Bottom fishing is steady for those targeting rockfish and a few lingering lingcod in the deeper stuff, and crabbing season's in the final stretch. WDFW and the Suquamish Tribe are actively tagging Dungeness crab in Central Sound, so if you haul up a tagged crustacean anywhere from Alki to Kingston, give ‘em a call and help the biologists track those movements. Pulling crab pots early on a flooding tide with fresh fish or chicken still rules the game; limits are there for folks putting traps in 40-80 feet.
Major fishing times today are lining up well for the tides: the hottest bites should run 9:43 to 11:43 am and again 9:52 to 11:52 pm, with minor windows at dawn and late afternoon. Beach anglers at Edmonds and Browns Bay have been hooking into a solid mix of coho and a few late pinks; twitchy jigs or a sand lance imitation spoon are your best bets. Other hot spots locals are buzzing about: Shilshole Bay Marina for mixed bag action, and the south side of Bainbridge along Point White for consistent evening coho.
Baitwise, salmon anglers drifting the rivers have been seeing real success with egg loops tipped with roe for both coho and early chum. Out on the salt, a pink hoochie behind a dodger or a simple chartreuse spoon on a long leader are top picks. For the hardware crowd, a 3-inch silver/green spoon or anything imitating candlefish is money on the Sound's open edges.
Weather’s looking forgiving—light breeze (about 4 mph), barely a cloud, and visibility is excellent. Keep an extra layer handy as things cool off quick once the sun drops.
Thanks for tuning in to your Puget Sound report with Artificial Lure! Subscribe so you don’t miss a tide or a bite. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated content.