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Puget Sound Fishing Report: Coho Salmon, Squid, and More for October 15, 2025
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This is Artificial Lure with your Puget Sound fishing report for October 15, 2025.
We’re right in the sweet spot of the fall transition—cool mornings, mist along the water, and that classic smell of salt and cedar drifting on the sound. Sunrise hit at 7:29 AM today, with sunset coming at 6:19 PM, so you've got about eleven daylight hours to work your favorite ledges, rip lines, and shore breaks.
The tidal swing today starts with a low at 6:24 AM, peaking up to a solid high at 2:27 PM—so plan those drifts and jetty casts accordingly. The tidal coefficient indicates a moderate movement, meaning fish should stay fairly active around current seams but won’t be swept out of their holes. Water movement does slow down toward evening as the day wraps up with a 5.6-ft tide at 8:39 PM, so hit the morning and midday bites hard. According to tides4fishing, that midday tide is your best bet for mixing heavy flows with available daylight.
Weatherwise, the National Weather Service out of Seattle says Puget Sound is seeing light north winds, 5 to 10 knots, and wave action at 2 feet or less. Skies are overcast, which is just fine; these fall clouds keep bait schools up and give predatory fish the edge they like for ambush. There’s a slight drizzle by evening but nothing to scare off a hardy northwest angler.
The story of the week is coho salmon moving in good numbers, especially at first light and again into late afternoon. I’ve been hearing from local boats around Shilshole and the south end of Whidbey that silvers are hitting hard near points, especially where those classic Puget Sound rips form. Twitching jigs in pink or purple have been top—toss ‘em at current seams or just off the kelp. For boaters, small spoons like Coho Killers or needlefish, run fast across the surface or slow-trolled, are producing limits when you find the big schools. If you’re shore casting, Alki Beach and Point No Point are both turning up chrome-bright fish.
Chum salmon are just beginning to show at estuary mouths, especially where the creeks are colored up from recent rains. Swinging large chartreuse or black/purple marabou jigs at river mouths like the Puyallup or Snohomish could get your arm yanked.
If it’s bottom fish you’re after, the usual suspects—lingcod and flounder—are still hanging around most structures. Squid have started their migration as well, with pier anglers in Elliott Bay and Des Moines filling buckets after dusk using small white or pink squid jigs under lights.
Crabbing has been fair, with better action in the deeper sections off Port Madison and Quartermaster Harbor. Fresh salmon heads or fish carcass in your bait cage is still the go-to—just check the regs for any changes on keeper sizes.
For the dedicated, local shops and charters report some dandy cutthroat trout taken in the brackish pockets off the mouths of the Nisqually and Skagit, especially on streamer flies stripped slow at dawn.
Hot spots this week:
- **Point No Point**—great for coho, shore or boat, especially during the morning incoming tide.
- **Elliott Bay piers**—solid late-night squid runs, and a bonus chance for a stray salmon or early season Dungeness.
If you’re not sure what to tie on, keep these in your box: pink or purple twitching jigs for salmon, 2-3 inch spoons (Coho Killer, Needlefish), marabou jigs for chum, and the ever-reliable herring strip for trolling. For squid, stick with small, glow-in-the-dark jigs—white, pink, or green have been best.
That’s your boots-on-the-ground report from Puget Sound for October 15, 2025. Thanks as always for tuning in—be sure to subscribe for more reports and local updates. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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We’re right in the sweet spot of the fall transition—cool mornings, mist along the water, and that classic smell of salt and cedar drifting on the sound. Sunrise hit at 7:29 AM today, with sunset coming at 6:19 PM, so you've got about eleven daylight hours to work your favorite ledges, rip lines, and shore breaks.
The tidal swing today starts with a low at 6:24 AM, peaking up to a solid high at 2:27 PM—so plan those drifts and jetty casts accordingly. The tidal coefficient indicates a moderate movement, meaning fish should stay fairly active around current seams but won’t be swept out of their holes. Water movement does slow down toward evening as the day wraps up with a 5.6-ft tide at 8:39 PM, so hit the morning and midday bites hard. According to tides4fishing, that midday tide is your best bet for mixing heavy flows with available daylight.
Weatherwise, the National Weather Service out of Seattle says Puget Sound is seeing light north winds, 5 to 10 knots, and wave action at 2 feet or less. Skies are overcast, which is just fine; these fall clouds keep bait schools up and give predatory fish the edge they like for ambush. There’s a slight drizzle by evening but nothing to scare off a hardy northwest angler.
The story of the week is coho salmon moving in good numbers, especially at first light and again into late afternoon. I’ve been hearing from local boats around Shilshole and the south end of Whidbey that silvers are hitting hard near points, especially where those classic Puget Sound rips form. Twitching jigs in pink or purple have been top—toss ‘em at current seams or just off the kelp. For boaters, small spoons like Coho Killers or needlefish, run fast across the surface or slow-trolled, are producing limits when you find the big schools. If you’re shore casting, Alki Beach and Point No Point are both turning up chrome-bright fish.
Chum salmon are just beginning to show at estuary mouths, especially where the creeks are colored up from recent rains. Swinging large chartreuse or black/purple marabou jigs at river mouths like the Puyallup or Snohomish could get your arm yanked.
If it’s bottom fish you’re after, the usual suspects—lingcod and flounder—are still hanging around most structures. Squid have started their migration as well, with pier anglers in Elliott Bay and Des Moines filling buckets after dusk using small white or pink squid jigs under lights.
Crabbing has been fair, with better action in the deeper sections off Port Madison and Quartermaster Harbor. Fresh salmon heads or fish carcass in your bait cage is still the go-to—just check the regs for any changes on keeper sizes.
For the dedicated, local shops and charters report some dandy cutthroat trout taken in the brackish pockets off the mouths of the Nisqually and Skagit, especially on streamer flies stripped slow at dawn.
Hot spots this week:
- **Point No Point**—great for coho, shore or boat, especially during the morning incoming tide.
- **Elliott Bay piers**—solid late-night squid runs, and a bonus chance for a stray salmon or early season Dungeness.
If you’re not sure what to tie on, keep these in your box: pink or purple twitching jigs for salmon, 2-3 inch spoons (Coho Killer, Needlefish), marabou jigs for chum, and the ever-reliable herring strip for trolling. For squid, stick with small, glow-in-the-dark jigs—white, pink, or green have been best.
That’s your boots-on-the-ground report from Puget Sound for October 15, 2025. Thanks as always for tuning in—be sure to subscribe for more reports and local updates. 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 create