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Puget Sound Fishing Report: Winter Blackmouth, Coho, and More Despite Stormy Conditions
Published 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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This is Artificial Lure with your Puget Sound fishing report.
We’ve got a classic winter south blow on tap. The National Weather Service marine forecast for Puget Sound and Hood Canal is calling for strong southerlies 20 to 25 knots with gusts pushing 35 and a Gale Warning up, plus plenty of rain. That’s sloppy for the small stuff, so pick your windows and stay tucked in behind points and ferry lanes if you’re heading out.
Tides around Seattle today are running moderate but moving enough to fish: tide-forecast.com shows a high at Seattle just before 3 a.m. around 9 feet and a morning ebb dropping to roughly 7 feet after 7 a.m., with another solid flood into the early afternoon. Sunrise is about 7:50 a.m. and sunset about 4:22 p.m., so you’ve got a short gray window to work with.
Cold, dark, and moving water have the usual winter suspects chewing. Blackmouth (resident chinook) reports from the last few days have been decent along the eastern shoreline of central Sound—guys working from West Point down toward Alki have been picking a few legal fish per boat when they stick to the contours and keep gear near bottom. Mixed in have been the typical just-short shakers.
Resident coho are still around in pockets. Inside Elliott Bay and along the Bainbridge side, trollers dragging smaller gear have found scattered coho and the odd cutthroat, especially on the softer tides. Nothing crazy, but enough to stay interested.
On the bottom, winter flounder and the occasional sand dab are keeping kids happy off the waterfront piers and marinas. A few folks are still poking around for late crab where seasons are open; most pots are scratching but a handful of keepers are showing on deeper ledges.
Best producers right now: for blackmouth and coho, run small to medium spoons like Coho Killers and tailwagger-style spoons in Irish Cream, Herring Aid, or green/glow behind an 11-inch flasher with UV or glow tape. Hoochie behind a flasher in army truck or white/glow is also money. Bait guys are doing well with cut-plug herring or anchovies trolled slow and deep, especially on that first couple hours of the flood. Off the piers, simple works: bits of herring or squid on a high-low rig for flounder; small metal jigs and soft plastics for searun cutts.
A couple hot spots to circle on your chart:
– West Point to Fourmile Rock on the Seattle side, grinding tight to the 120–160 foot line for blackmouth on the flood.
– Southworth to Allen Bank, working the edges where bait stacks up in the afternoon, especially if the wind lets you troll a consistent line.
From the beach crowd, folks tossing small spoons and flies around Lincoln Park and the northern Vashon shorelines have found a few feisty cutthroat on the softer parts of the tide; olive-over-white baitfish patterns and 1/4‑ounce silver spoons have been steady.
That’s the story for Puget Sound today: windy, wet, but fishable if you respect the weather and let the tide do the work. This is Artificial Lure—thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe.
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This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
We’ve got a classic winter south blow on tap. The National Weather Service marine forecast for Puget Sound and Hood Canal is calling for strong southerlies 20 to 25 knots with gusts pushing 35 and a Gale Warning up, plus plenty of rain. That’s sloppy for the small stuff, so pick your windows and stay tucked in behind points and ferry lanes if you’re heading out.
Tides around Seattle today are running moderate but moving enough to fish: tide-forecast.com shows a high at Seattle just before 3 a.m. around 9 feet and a morning ebb dropping to roughly 7 feet after 7 a.m., with another solid flood into the early afternoon. Sunrise is about 7:50 a.m. and sunset about 4:22 p.m., so you’ve got a short gray window to work with.
Cold, dark, and moving water have the usual winter suspects chewing. Blackmouth (resident chinook) reports from the last few days have been decent along the eastern shoreline of central Sound—guys working from West Point down toward Alki have been picking a few legal fish per boat when they stick to the contours and keep gear near bottom. Mixed in have been the typical just-short shakers.
Resident coho are still around in pockets. Inside Elliott Bay and along the Bainbridge side, trollers dragging smaller gear have found scattered coho and the odd cutthroat, especially on the softer tides. Nothing crazy, but enough to stay interested.
On the bottom, winter flounder and the occasional sand dab are keeping kids happy off the waterfront piers and marinas. A few folks are still poking around for late crab where seasons are open; most pots are scratching but a handful of keepers are showing on deeper ledges.
Best producers right now: for blackmouth and coho, run small to medium spoons like Coho Killers and tailwagger-style spoons in Irish Cream, Herring Aid, or green/glow behind an 11-inch flasher with UV or glow tape. Hoochie behind a flasher in army truck or white/glow is also money. Bait guys are doing well with cut-plug herring or anchovies trolled slow and deep, especially on that first couple hours of the flood. Off the piers, simple works: bits of herring or squid on a high-low rig for flounder; small metal jigs and soft plastics for searun cutts.
A couple hot spots to circle on your chart:
– West Point to Fourmile Rock on the Seattle side, grinding tight to the 120–160 foot line for blackmouth on the flood.
– Southworth to Allen Bank, working the edges where bait stacks up in the afternoon, especially if the wind lets you troll a consistent line.
From the beach crowd, folks tossing small spoons and flies around Lincoln Park and the northern Vashon shorelines have found a few feisty cutthroat on the softer parts of the tide; olive-over-white baitfish patterns and 1/4‑ounce silver spoons have been steady.
That’s the story for Puget Sound today: windy, wet, but fishable if you respect the weather and let the tide do the work. This is Artificial Lure—thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe.
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