Got to fish today in the wind with Gringo Pescador and Nate Treat, out of my boat. We launched from the Edmonds sling and as we came out of the marina I immediately scratched my original plan to run down to the oil docks and troll north with the outgoing tide. (LT 8am) The waves were white-capping and it looked pretty ugly. I believe the winds were SSE at around 20mph. So Plan B went into effect. Turned north and started trolling. I decided to head us with the wind to Shipwreck, and then duck in close to shore for the pounding ride back to Edmonds.

We ran three rods initially but ditched the Deep 6 rod mid-morning after it tangled up with a line that had a fish on (did not cause us to lose the fish, but we did lose it after said coho made a mad jump to escape ten feet from the boat). So anyway, two rods, running one at 50-60ft on the DR and the other at 75-100ft.

Gringo got our first shiny coho to the boat around 8:30am at 50 ft. deep. Nate got number two around 10am at 75 ft, and I got number three around 10:45am at 85 ft. In-between we lost three and had one shaker. Both rods had magnum green flashers. One had magnum green splatter-glow and the other had pearl-glo. Each rod had it’s own variation of secret sauce herring strip brine. It seemed like “tried and true” was a bit more effective than “new-improved”. Anyway, both rods and herring brines were producing.

We marked a lot of fish today. I think in calmed conditions we would have done better. When the tide changed I ran into the wind and waves to troll with the incoming tide. (from the old boathouse south). This definitely produced better action than trolling with the wind (due north). It was, however, pretty grinding and even with my kicker full out we had a hard time maintaining 3mph. I would have preferred 3.5. I didn’t want to run the big motor for trolling.

So, windy, wavy, and aa few light sprinkles, some sun breaks – but most important a nice morning fishing with a couple friends. No complaints here! Fish are still out there so go get em if saltwater is your thing.