Canada Fishing Info

The salmon have arrived in Lake Sammamish and are making their way up its tributaries to be captured for their eggs and milt at the state hatchery on Issaquah Creek. Let out about 45 feet of line, fish it at a 45 degree angle to the water’s surface, and your lure will be close to 30 feet deep. For faster trolling speeds, let out 60 feet of line to fish at an angle of 30 degrees to get a lure 30 feet deep. Taking a page from the sockeye fishery in Lake Washington, more and more salmon fishers are using bare 3/0 or 4/0, red hooks behind Dodger flashers. Some of my fishing friends are having great success with Lake Sammamish kings by adorning their 4/0 bare hooks with small bits of fur and feathers in a manner that echoes the physical characteristics of krill. read more

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Fishing for steelhead has been slow on the Washington side of the lower Columbia, but pikeminnow fishing has been good and catches of chinook has been improving in the Buoy 10 area. Salmon fishing has been fair in Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet) and Marine Area 10 (Seattle-Bremerton) with boats averaging about a fish per boat, said Mike Chamberlain of Ted Sports Center in Lynnwood. In the Tacoma area, salmon fishing has been slow to fair and about the same in Hood Canal. Marine Area 2 (Westport-Ocean Shores) has been producing good catches of chinook and coho. Marine Area 1 (Ilwaco) also has been producing good catches of salmon, but the area closes to salmon retention Sunday. Sunday, Graham angler Ken Terry said he had been fishing most of the day in the handicap area and had not observed any fish being caught. read more

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Alaska Department of Fish and Game area seine division biologist Jeremy Botz is hoping things will proceed as normal in the pink salmon seine season. Waters of the Eastern District within Port Fidalgo and within Port Gravina north were open for a 14-hour commercial fishing period from 6 a. Wild stock pink and chum salmon escapement indices are above anticipated levels in portions of Port Fidalgo and Port Gravina. In the northern district, the waters of the Cannery Creek subdistrict were open for a 14-hour commercial fishing period beginning at 6 a. Waters of the Coghill district within the Esther subdistrict were open to commercial purse seine and drift gillnet fishing for a 14-hour commercial fishing period, beginning at 6 a. The Port San Juan subdistrict south was open to commercial purse seine fishing for a 14-hour commercial fishing period, beginning at 6 a. read more

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Northern Puget Sound [Marine Catch Area 9] will close for hatchery-marked chinook fishing after this Sunday, as the area is nearing the 4,000 fish catch guideline. Catches in the hatchery chinook fishery in northern Puget Sound [Marine Catch Area 9] picked up this past week, to the point where state Fish and Wildlife officials will close it after this SundayAug. For those looking to get their last licks in Area 9, try Midchannel Bank [mainly a troll show using Coho Killers or Coyote spoons as baitfish anglers were getting into hordes of pesky dogfish], Lip Lip Point, Point No Point, Possession Bar, Double Bluff and Pilot Point. The Des Moines Salmon Derby, hosted by the South King County Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers, was last Saturday, and drew about 500 anglers who weighed-in 66 fish. read more

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A faltering return of Kenai River red salmon that shut down commercial fishing in much of Upper Cook Inlet earlier this month escalated into the first significant in-river restriction on sport fishing Wednesday. Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists said they are closing the river downstream from the sonar that counts salmon at river Mile 19 as of midnight today. To date, only 400,000 fish have made it past the sonar, and even with commercial fishing shut down, far fewer fish than desired are entering the river. Coming as they did in large numbers early in a year when most salmon runs around the state have been late — perhaps because of colder than normal water temperatures in this cool summer — biologists thought the Kenai could be in for a strong run of reds. Of particular concern is the return to the Russian River, a hugely popular Kenai tributary 54 miles upstream — about a week’s travel time for a salmon — of Kenai sonar. Fish and Game was Wednesday within 10,000 fish of meeting the minimum red salmon escapement goal for the Yentna River, a major Susitna tributary where the spawning goal has been only rarely met. read more

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As Californiaâs native salmon populations collapsed earlier this year, Governor Schwarzenegger and State regulators took unprecedented emergency action to ban all commercial and recreational salmon fishing for 2008. The petition â” which was filed by California Trout, the Environmental Protection Information Center, and the Sierra Club â” requires the California Board of Forestry to hold a hearing within 30 days to examine tightening timber harvesting rules to protect coho salmon. If approved by the Board of Forestry, the coalitionâs petition would require the timber industry to begin immediately complying with new environmental standards to lessen the impact of their logging operations within all watersheds containing coho salmon, a species protected under the state and federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). Earlier this year, coalition members sued the California Department of Fish and Game for approving incidental take permit guidelines for timber regulations that violate the California Endangered Species Act (CESA), the Fish and Game Code, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). read more

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Salmon fishing fair in North Sound, may be picking up in Tacoma | TheNewsTribune. The North Puget Sound seems to be the place to go this week if you are looking to catch salmon, said Mike Chamberlain of Ted’s Sports Center near Lynnwood. While South Sound marinas are reporting slow action, the fishing has been solid in marine areas 9 (Admiralty Inlet) and 10 (Seattle and Bremerton). Chamberlain says the best fishing has been near Port Townsend, where anglers are landing salmon with herring, candlefish and Point Wilson Darts. Narrows Marina reported several anglers have caught kings near Point Defiance using live herring. Instead, most anglers are trying the Point Defiance and Gig Harbor areas. read more

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Angling industry feels the bite as tourists drift away - National News, Frontpage - Independent. Blackwater Lodge offers a unique tourism product — superb private and exclusive salmon fishing over 40 miles of the famed river between Lismore, Co Waterford and Mallow, Co Cork . Run by Ian and Glenda Powell , it has its own tackle shop and smokery, and offers anglers a range of services including ghillies, tackle hire and fly-casting instruction by Glenda Powell — the most highly qualified female salmon fly casting instructor in Europe . Ian says that the ban on drift net fishing came out of the blue — despite years of campaigning. However, the Central Statistics Office points out that the Easter break was — unusually — in the first quarter of the year in 2008 and they suggest this could account for some of the increase. read more

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NWjobs | NWautos | NWhomes | NWapartments | NWsource | Classifieds | seattletimes. Summer salmon fishing abounds in marine areas, and the coastal ocean fishery finally came to life with anglers bringing home mainly limits of chinook along with a few nice coho at Ilwaco and Westport. Sekiu, Port Angeles and the San Juan Islands opened Tuesday, and fishing for kings has been fairly decent. The Strait of Juan de Fuca from Sekiu to Port Angeles opened Tuesday, and fishing is fairly decent for hatchery chinook. Jay Field with the Anacortes Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers got a pair of 17-pound kings Wednesday and a 10- and 13-pounder on Tuesday’s opener, plus reported some decent crabbing in the island chain. read more

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