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08/06/2015
Pink Salmon
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08/06/2015
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Put in at Mukilteo around 6:30 and motored/trolled down to the first set of homes just before the shipwreck south of the lighthouse. We caught a few small steelhead (geez..I think that's what they were - see photo) while trolling with a pink dick nite. We also hooked a big pink with the dick nite setup at about 20 feet depth
Hooked a couple with buzz bombs and hooked/caught the rest on a pink hoochie darter squid.

Wound up with 2 nice bright bucks - great looking flesh!

I had a great time - it was a bit intimidating taking my little 10' boat out on to the salt, but we did fine and came home with the goods!


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Seattle Pat
8/6/2015 8:19:00 PM
Not sure why it said deception pass - I actually put in Port Gardener, but we were south of that between Mukilteo and Edmonds not quite as far as the shipwreck. We were in a SMALL boat so didn't venture out where the bigger boats were - we hugged the shoreline. No fish finder either, but we still caught fish!
FishingTenor
8/7/2015 12:00:00 AM
Pretty cool Pat. I hope to get my 12' boat out there in a similar fashion one of these days.
So that is where the steelhead are hanging out.
MotoBoat
8/7/2015 10:21:00 AM
Not much to go on in the picture. Faint black spots along the back, and very small scales, that are easily removed (as evidenced by the missing scale patch). Based on that, and this being a pink year, that would be my vote. Pinks have the smallest scales of any salmon. The jawline rules out a Sea-run Cuthroat. Were there black spots on both the upper and lower part of the tail? Color of the the gum line? White = Coho......Black = Blackmouth or King.
leo
8/7/2015 4:14:00 PM
It's definitely not a steelhead, hard to tell from your picture, it's most likely a silver, or a pink, looks more on a coho side, but hard to tell when I can't see the tail or the inside of the mouth, last week I caught a small silver, same size as your fish, on a chartreuse dart fish jig,
RichieRich
8/7/2015 7:56:00 PM
it is probably a Rezzie,.....Residential Coho,....Never leaves Puget sound
Seattle Pat
8/7/2015 10:55:00 PM
Could have been a coho - it was only about 10" and looked exactly like the hundreds of steelies they planted in the lakes last fall. Caught 3 yesterday total. All about the same size. I forgot to add in my post there were dolphins swimming fairly close to us as well. The largest was probably 7-8 feet and about 30" thick. It surfaced fairly high, blew its air and squeeked at us as it went back under. Scared the crap out of me! It wasn't much smaller than my 10' row-boat and we were a good 1/3 mile out.
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