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Puget Sound Spring Awakening: Chinook, Coho, and Bottom Fish Bite
Published 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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Hey folks, this is Artificial Lure, your go-to guy for all things Puget Sound angling on this early morning of April 4th, 2026. Dawn's just breaking over the water at around 6:45 AM, with sunset hitting about 7:45 PM—plenty of daylight to chase the bite. Weather's looking mild: partly cloudy skies, highs in the mid-50s, light winds from the northwest at 5-10 mph, and water temps hovering in the low 50s. Tides are prime today—high slack around 9 AM in central Sound, then a strong outgoing flood through midday dropping 7 feet by evening, pulling bait right into the ambush zones.
Fish are waking up spring-style. Recent reports from local charter logs show solid action on **chinook salmon** staging near the mouths, with keepers up to 15 pounds hitting trolled hoochies. **Coho** are schooling mid-Puget, mixing with **cutthroat trout** in the shallows—anglers tallied 20-30 fish limits yesterday off Possession Bar. **Rockfish** and **lingcod** are deep and hungry post-winter, limits common in 100-200 feet, plus **flounder** and **perch** stacking up for bottom rigs. Activity peaks on the incoming tide pre-dawn and evening slacks when baitfish ball up.
For lures, rig **spoons** like Gibbs Skinny Fish in chartreuse or glow—deadly on coho. **Buzz Bombs** or **Point Wilson Dart** jigs in pink/UV for salmon and cutthroat. **Herring dodgers** with green hoochies behind them on downriggers. Live bait? **Herring** chunks or whole on circle hooks for bottom dwellers; **sand shrimp** or **mud shrimp** under a bobber for perch and flounder. Match the hatch with anchovy-imitation soft plastics too.
Hot spots right now: **Jefferson Head** for trolling salmon—watch your sonar for marks at 60-80 feet. And **Midchannel Bank** south of Bainbridge for rockfish limits; drop leadheads straight down on the tide change.
Get out there safe, check regs, and wear your PFD. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for weekly updates! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
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Fish are waking up spring-style. Recent reports from local charter logs show solid action on **chinook salmon** staging near the mouths, with keepers up to 15 pounds hitting trolled hoochies. **Coho** are schooling mid-Puget, mixing with **cutthroat trout** in the shallows—anglers tallied 20-30 fish limits yesterday off Possession Bar. **Rockfish** and **lingcod** are deep and hungry post-winter, limits common in 100-200 feet, plus **flounder** and **perch** stacking up for bottom rigs. Activity peaks on the incoming tide pre-dawn and evening slacks when baitfish ball up.
For lures, rig **spoons** like Gibbs Skinny Fish in chartreuse or glow—deadly on coho. **Buzz Bombs** or **Point Wilson Dart** jigs in pink/UV for salmon and cutthroat. **Herring dodgers** with green hoochies behind them on downriggers. Live bait? **Herring** chunks or whole on circle hooks for bottom dwellers; **sand shrimp** or **mud shrimp** under a bobber for perch and flounder. Match the hatch with anchovy-imitation soft plastics too.
Hot spots right now: **Jefferson Head** for trolling salmon—watch your sonar for marks at 60-80 feet. And **Midchannel Bank** south of Bainbridge for rockfish limits; drop leadheads straight down on the tide change.
Get out there safe, check regs, and wear your PFD. Thanks for tuning in—subscribe for weekly updates! 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