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Puget Sound Fishing Report: Blackmouth, Squid, and Winter Flounder Bite During Stormy Conditions
Published 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Puget Sound fishing report.
We’re riding big winter tides this week. Tideschart’s Puget Sound table shows a predawn low around minus two and a solid mid‑morning flood, with the best bite window lining up with that 6:45 to 8:45 a.m. major period and an evening push from about 7:24 to 9:24 p.m., which Tideschart also flags as prime fishing time. Work those beginning and end‑of‑movement windows and avoid slack.
Marine Weather from NOAA’s Puget Sound and Hood Canal forecast is calling for a Small Craft Advisory rolling into a Gale Warning later today. Expect stiff southerlies, building chop, and plenty of rain as the atmospheric river rolls through, with Fox 13 Seattle calling for near‑constant, occasionally heavy showers. Plan on low 40s, raw and wet. Sunrise is right around 7:50 a.m., sunset near 4:15 p.m., so it’s a short gray window to work with.
Despite the weather, fish activity’s decent for early winter. Resident blackmouth are showing in the usual haunts, with local chatter and recent Puget Sound charter reports talking about legal fish coming from mid‑water on the ebb. Troll 3‑ to 3.5‑inch spoons or hoochies behind an 11‑inch flasher; green/glow and UV white are putting fish in the box. Run gear 10–20 feet off bottom in 80–140 feet.
Squid are the other big story. A recent Bashi Fishing video from the Seattle water taxi pier showed steady daytime action on “banana” squid, four to five pounds in about an hour and a half, working jigs deep in 20 feet or more. With the dark skies, daytime squid from Edmonds, downtown Seattle piers, Alki, and the Tacoma waterfront are all in play. Go with size 2.5–3.0 jigs in pink, chartreuse, or glow, and keep that line tight so you can feel the tap.
On the bottom side, a few winter flounder and the odd dogfish are chewing sand flats off West Point and inside Elliott Bay. Simple high‑low rigs baited with clam, herring strips, or a bit of shrimp will keep the rod bending when salmon are quiet.
Best lures and baits today:
- For blackmouth: **UV green or Irish cream spoons**, white/green hoochies, 30–40 inch leaders, and a Pro‑Troll or similar flasher.
- For squid: **glow and pink jigs**, worked deep and slow with short hops.
- For pier mixed bag: **herring under a float** or jigging metal in 1–2 ounce sizes; tip with a bit of squid strip if you’ve got it.
A couple of hot spots to circle:
- **Possession Bar**: classic winter blackmouth structure. Work the east side on the flood, west edge on the ebb, staying tight to contour changes.
- **Edmonds Fishing Pier and Seattle Water Taxi pier**: solid bets for squid and the occasional bonus herring or juvenile salmon around the lights and pilings.
Water’s cold, wind’s up, but if you time the tides and hide from the worst of the gale, there’s still plenty of life in the Sound. Dress for a car wash, keep an eye on the marine forecast, and don’t push it in the small boats once that gale kicks.
Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe for more daily Puget Sound intel. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
We’re riding big winter tides this week. Tideschart’s Puget Sound table shows a predawn low around minus two and a solid mid‑morning flood, with the best bite window lining up with that 6:45 to 8:45 a.m. major period and an evening push from about 7:24 to 9:24 p.m., which Tideschart also flags as prime fishing time. Work those beginning and end‑of‑movement windows and avoid slack.
Marine Weather from NOAA’s Puget Sound and Hood Canal forecast is calling for a Small Craft Advisory rolling into a Gale Warning later today. Expect stiff southerlies, building chop, and plenty of rain as the atmospheric river rolls through, with Fox 13 Seattle calling for near‑constant, occasionally heavy showers. Plan on low 40s, raw and wet. Sunrise is right around 7:50 a.m., sunset near 4:15 p.m., so it’s a short gray window to work with.
Despite the weather, fish activity’s decent for early winter. Resident blackmouth are showing in the usual haunts, with local chatter and recent Puget Sound charter reports talking about legal fish coming from mid‑water on the ebb. Troll 3‑ to 3.5‑inch spoons or hoochies behind an 11‑inch flasher; green/glow and UV white are putting fish in the box. Run gear 10–20 feet off bottom in 80–140 feet.
Squid are the other big story. A recent Bashi Fishing video from the Seattle water taxi pier showed steady daytime action on “banana” squid, four to five pounds in about an hour and a half, working jigs deep in 20 feet or more. With the dark skies, daytime squid from Edmonds, downtown Seattle piers, Alki, and the Tacoma waterfront are all in play. Go with size 2.5–3.0 jigs in pink, chartreuse, or glow, and keep that line tight so you can feel the tap.
On the bottom side, a few winter flounder and the odd dogfish are chewing sand flats off West Point and inside Elliott Bay. Simple high‑low rigs baited with clam, herring strips, or a bit of shrimp will keep the rod bending when salmon are quiet.
Best lures and baits today:
- For blackmouth: **UV green or Irish cream spoons**, white/green hoochies, 30–40 inch leaders, and a Pro‑Troll or similar flasher.
- For squid: **glow and pink jigs**, worked deep and slow with short hops.
- For pier mixed bag: **herring under a float** or jigging metal in 1–2 ounce sizes; tip with a bit of squid strip if you’ve got it.
A couple of hot spots to circle:
- **Possession Bar**: classic winter blackmouth structure. Work the east side on the flood, west edge on the ebb, staying tight to contour changes.
- **Edmonds Fishing Pier and Seattle Water Taxi pier**: solid bets for squid and the occasional bonus herring or juvenile salmon around the lights and pilings.
Water’s cold, wind’s up, but if you time the tides and hide from the worst of the gale, there’s still plenty of life in the Sound. Dress for a car wash, keep an eye on the marine forecast, and don’t push it in the small boats once that gale kicks.
Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe for more daily Puget Sound intel. 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