I had the opportunity to venture forth on my old stomping grounds last Thursday. Angling Unlimited began in Neah Bay during the summer and on Puget Sound the rest of the year. Back in the days of a more vigorous blackmouth hatchery program, Puget Sound produced very good fishing in November and December. I ran…
August 22 featured blue skies, calm water, and great silver action. On my boat, Albatross, we landed on a large school of silvers immediately. Fishing with Doug and Nancy Boyden, Ed and Barbie Benshoof, it took two hours to get 24 silvers to the boat including 6 fish over 12 pounds. The biggest silver of…
We are in the final stretch of the 2013 season – only two weeks left of fishing. Some of the signs are here, too. The silvers have started to move into the inside locations in larger numbers to spots like Icy Queen, The Shark Hole and Sinitsin. Silvers are still around in good numbers, with…
I could have written “it doesn’t get any better” for nearly 7 weeks now, but it does. The past two days have featured flat calm seas, sunshine and a salmon bite beyond description. We’ve seen limits of silvers by 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning, lots of kings, and good halibut fishing inshore. The silvers…
At the risk of sounding repetitive, the 2013 season continues to amaze one and all who fish with Angling Unlimited. On Thursday the silver bite slowed and got a little more scratchy, which meant that some boats had to fish all day for limits and those that went offshore for halibut may have sacrificed the…
Captain Ben finished his third day with Gene and Mary Grommesch and Mike and Linda Solberg. Each day of their trip was sunny, but 15 knot winds made the ocean a bit bumpy. That didn’t stop them from catching their limit of silvers the first two days of their trip. The first day, they fished…
The fishing and the weather remains about as good as it gets with daily limits of silvers and lots of husky kings including the 48-pounder landed by Tom Fulton on July 22. Add chum and pink salmon to the mix and there can be hours when nearly every bait that goes down seems to get…
Captain Ryan finished his second day with the Ligon party and it’s been a successful trip. Both days they caught their limit of silvers with some kings mixed in. The first day they fished deep for halibut. It was slow – only one halibut the first day, but they were able to find five black…
Doug Weathers has been fishing with Angling Unlimited for 15 years with his family including father Don and brothers Chris and Tony. He’s seen a lot of good times on the water with us, so when he tells me at our tent event that the first drift on Monday with Captain Phil Carlson was his…
A stretch of rough weather just after the fourth of July didn’t dampen the fishing for silvers and kings. Even better, the ocean laid down the past two days and the fishing has been absolutely on fire. Limits of kings, silvers, and halibut – often by late morning – have been the rule. The action…