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Early Spring Puget Sound: Prime Tides, Hot Halibut, and Coho Limits This March
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Hey folks, Artificial Lure here, your go-to guy for all things Puget Sound angling. It's early morning on this crisp March 14th, sunrise just popped at 7:24 AM per the Edmonds tide charts, and we'll have sunset around 7:13 PM—plenty of daylight to wet a line. Tides today look prime: high at 4:10 AM hitting 10 feet, low 9:56 AM at 7'1", another high 1:54 PM to 8'3", and evening low 8:43 PM down to 0'8". Fish the incoming around midday for best action, as currents stir up the baitfish.
Weather's calling for partly cloudy skies, light winds out of the north at 5-10 knots, temps climbing to the mid-50s—classic early spring setup, no rain in the forecast, so bundle up but leave the heavy gear at home.
Fish activity's heating up after a slow winter. Recent reports from Peninsula Daily News show halibut stacking in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with Chilsey McKee pulling a nice one last week—derby's firing up Memorial Day, but you can chase 'em now. Puget Sound's seeing limits of coho silvers and landlocked kokanee in the deeper waters, per Gone Fishing NW videos—folks are hammering five-fish days on those feisty silvers. Bottomfish like canary rockfish opened coastal-side with sub-bags intact, and WDFW's monitoring rockfish pops healthy but quota-tight—no copper, quillback, or vermilion May-July. Crab's solid too, Dungeness pots filling quick.
For lures, John Beath's halibut seminar tips green herring or jigs on the drift—anchor with chum for flatties. Coho? Worm trolling rigs or small spoons like Coyotes in chartreuse. Live bait kings: herring strips or squid for halibut and rockfish; sand shrimp for crab pots.
Hot spots: Hit Possession Bar off Possession Point for coho jigging, or drift the shipping lanes near Westpoint for halibut—tides align perfect today.
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Weather's calling for partly cloudy skies, light winds out of the north at 5-10 knots, temps climbing to the mid-50s—classic early spring setup, no rain in the forecast, so bundle up but leave the heavy gear at home.
Fish activity's heating up after a slow winter. Recent reports from Peninsula Daily News show halibut stacking in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with Chilsey McKee pulling a nice one last week—derby's firing up Memorial Day, but you can chase 'em now. Puget Sound's seeing limits of coho silvers and landlocked kokanee in the deeper waters, per Gone Fishing NW videos—folks are hammering five-fish days on those feisty silvers. Bottomfish like canary rockfish opened coastal-side with sub-bags intact, and WDFW's monitoring rockfish pops healthy but quota-tight—no copper, quillback, or vermilion May-July. Crab's solid too, Dungeness pots filling quick.
For lures, John Beath's halibut seminar tips green herring or jigs on the drift—anchor with chum for flatties. Coho? Worm trolling rigs or small spoons like Coyotes in chartreuse. Live bait kings: herring strips or squid for halibut and rockfish; sand shrimp for crab pots.
Hot spots: Hit Possession Bar off Possession Point for coho jigging, or drift the shipping lanes near Westpoint for halibut—tides align perfect today.
Thanks for tuning in, folks—subscribe for more reports! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI