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We are Eric & Katie. We love to fish!
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Ocean Salmon Fishing - Westport, WA | NON-STOP ACTION!
Katie, Anthony, and I ventured out of Westport into the big blue of the Pacific looking for some Kings and Coho Salmon. WDFW had announced two days earlier that Marine Area 2 would close at the end of the day on Saturday the 24th. The ocean forecast was a good one for Thursday August 22nd, with a swell of 4’ at 11 seconds so we knew this would be our last chance for the season. The bar was a bit bumpy, but when we got offshore the wind waves were almost non-existent, making for a pretty smooth day on the water. WE HAD NON-STOP ACTION from the first drop. I have no idea how many takedowns we had, how many fish we hooked, or how many we released. I lost count pretty early on, and since I lost an hours worth of video off of one camera and another 2 hours off of another, my best guess is we touched 35-40 fish. Needless to say, I have edited the heck out of this video... even with the lost footage, there was just too much action to show. This was a bittersweet day out there for me, as I just couldn’t find the large Chinook. With all of the rain we had, it was obvious they moved and when making adjustments of depth contours I guessed incorrectly and went the wrong way (I received intel from a friend who found them… I went into the 240-250 range when I should have went back out to 300-320). I know I shouldn’t be disappointed, but this Westport fishery has spoiled me! 😃 We ended up the day with 4 nice hatchery coho, a barely legal 23” chinook, and Anthony caught a mackerel when I told him to try fishing at 15’ on the wire! 🤣 And by the way, Anthony cooked that fish for dinner on Thursday night and told me it was absolutely delicious! If you have read this far, thank you so much for your support in watching our videos. I know I come off as pretty intense and anal out there, but it comes from a place of true passion and love of getting us on the fish. Anyways, the Kings and ocean Coho are finally trickling into South Puget Sound, so expect to see some content from our home waters in Marine Area 11 over the next 6 weeks or so! Until next time… stay safe and thanks again for watching! 😃🤜💥🐟
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Westport MONSTER Chinook! | Pacific Ocean Salmon Fishing
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Friends Tim and Anthony joined us today for a salmon fishing adventure out of Westport, WA. We ran WSW from the bar about 15 miles offshore searching for some of those pesky ocean Coho and Chinook. We hope you like the action! Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if you can! Take care! -Eric & Katie
Puget Sound Kings! | August 11, 2024
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We took advantage of an additional opener and put the beat down on a couple of Kings! What a day though... both downrigger counters failed and we were constantly battling seaweed and dogfish... but we came through with the W in the end! Shout-out to those of you who said hi out on the water today... we appreciate the support! Enjoy the video! -Eric & Katie
Puget Sound Salmon Fishing | We Got Seal’d! | Bonus: Trolling Gear Breakdown
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Oh man... you work for 7 hours to get an opportunity... that opportunity finally comes and a seal swoops in and snatches it away! Oh well... the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat at its finest! Also included in this video is a breakdown of the gear we are using for trolling. Let us know if you have more questions in the comments... We will share whatever we can to help you be successful! -...
Chinook Salmon in Downtown Seattle!?! Yes! | Puget Sound | Elliott Bay 8-4-2024
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We decided to take an early morning trip to Elliott Bay, as the bite on Thursday seemed to be a sunrise bite and then shut off like a water faucet. Well, it didn't really work out as I thought it might, but we stuck it out and got lucky! Please enjoy the video, and thanks for watching! -Eric & Katie
Fishing in the Shadow of the Space Needle! | Elliott Bay Chinook Salmon | Puget Sound
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We ventured to the Seattle Waterfront and Alki Point to fish on the opener of a short 3 1/2 day Elliott Bay Chinook Salmon season. With spectacular backdrops such as the Seattle skyline, Space Needle, Lumen Field, and T-Mobile Park in the background, we hooked 3 nice Kings at sunrise on our first pass! We hope you enjoy the video! -Eric & Katie
Puget Sound Summer Chinook!
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Our friend Liam joined us for a morning of Chinook fishing on Puget Sound at Jeff Head! We had lots of opportunities, including a bunch of missed hook-ups.... we managed to get a few, even one without a rudder! Enjoy the video and please subscribe to our channel. Thank you for watching! -Eric & Katie
INSANE Day of Ocean Salmon Fishing! | Westport, WA | Chinook & Coho Madness!
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We ventured about 20 miles offshore out of Westport today with our friends Tim and Alex. Fishing has been RED HOT out of Westport as of late, and today was no different! We hooked 18 fish in about 2 hours of fishing and ended up limiting with 4 hatchery Coho and 4 hatchery Chinook for the four of us. Enjoy the video!
Puget Sound Chinook & Coho Fishing | Take Down EXTRAVAGANZA!
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This time our friend Tim joined us for a day out at Jeff Head. We had A LOT of opportunities... we won some, we lost some... throw in a visit from the WDFW Police, a crazy coho at the surface, and a nice Coho double, and you've got yourself one heck of a day! Enjoy the video! -Eric & Katie
Puget Sound Chinook & Coho Fishing - July 18. 2024
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We ventured out for the Puget Sound Summer Salmon opener and had some fun! Unfortunately one of our cameras didn't record the last half of our fishing, so we didn't get all of the starboard side take downs on camera. Nevertheless, we hope you enjoy the footage and we will continue to get better at this video stuff. -Eric & Katie
Surf Perch Fishing @ Copalis Beach, Washington - July 3,2024
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Surf Perch Fishing @ Copalis Beach, Washington - July 3,2024
Googly-Eye Fishing in Winter Harbour, BC 2024
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Googly-Eye Fishing in Winter Harbour, BC 2024
Good fun! We fished BC and AK a number of times never using downriggers. Living in HI then, just didn't know how to use them. Used the slido and a ball and a whole lotta line out and caught laods of coho like that. Much of th time, not even a flasher. It works here in the sound too. Although we do have some dr now and they really help when the fish are deeper than 30 ft. Nice fishing! First saw you on the water at JH and you all brought in a king. We ended up with a dog fish close to ya.
@@alanr6858 haha! Yeah, that’s the 3rd top water coho we’ve got this season… super fun when it happens! And yeah, we had to wade through the dogs up @ JH too!! Thanks for watching! 😃
Any idea what your water speed is, it always looks like your kicker is operating at a pretty high rpm
@@jdalley5192 2.5-3 mph (over ground) for Chinook & Coho usually… I don’t go by the speed though, I go by cable angle on the downrigger, so the rpm’s of the motor are going to change depending on current. I like 45° minimum, and usually a bit more. And also to be honest, the video might make it look like we are going faster than we really are. What speeds do you like to troll?
I don’t fish salmon with a down rigger but that all makes sense, it just looks and sounds like you’re going faster than that.
Nice work, keep on bonkin'
Thank you for not using a clicker. Nice fish, Katie.
Awesome Katie! YOU deserve this.
good job Katy
Congrats on the big one. Lots of big Columbians this year. We’ve been getting them up in Canada. Biggest average size I’ve seen in quite a few years. Really nice to see.
@@roblockhart8410 thanks Rob! Where are you up north?
We’ve been getting off Barkley Sound since June. Lots in the 20-30 pound class this year
Nice show man. Some nice fish you got to the boat. 🤙🏻
@@Cbotham thank you for watching! 😃
Your videos are sick brotha! Lived on fidalgo island my whole life, glad to see a good channel in the sound🤙🏽
@@freddiedepaola4583 thank you! We are really learning as we go here… making sure cams are recording and all of that may seem simple, but when you’re fishing it’s not the easiest thing. We’ll continue to get better! 😃
Gah! Seals are the worst! Once or twice in my life I’ve got them to let go by circling the boat above them so they can’t come up for air. Of course you waste 1000 gallons of fuel and look like a crazy, drunken WSF ferry captain trying do it. 😂
@@bennyflint haha!! 🤣
Wow I have caught many Kings in Puget Sound but never one with a clipped adipose fin. I fish near Tacoma Gig Harbor
@@olallaeddy keep trying! A good number of fall chinook should be moving into MA11 now!
Yeah enjoy 3 days of fishing what a blast...
What a slab! Love that you aren’t holding the fish a mile out in front of you for the photo. I, too, had downrigger problems that day. 😢
@@bennyflint hehe… I’m a big dude too… poor fish, I make them all look smaller than they really are! 🤣
Where is this bridge? Hood canal??
@@stevenjensen2649 Agate Pass, Bainbridge Island
so much seaweed! we were cleaning gear off all damn day. did end up with a few cohos on the 11th at least. one big takedown that didn't stick that had to have been a king. bummed I didn't see my boat in the background haha. you guys are a great team out there and you really know how to get into the fish. keep up the good work!
@@djmilhaus the seaweed just kills me… it’s exhausting!! Most of the weeds were concentrated over on the sw side, just south of the tip of Jeff Head… we got the first fish over there trolling parallel with that huge line of seaweed in the water, and then got the hell away from it… the second fish was east of Jeff head in about 130’ of water. Thanks for supporting our channel! 😃
Should be good in area 11 this week!
The wave forecast out at Westport looks the best it has in a long time for Wednesday... unfortunately both of my downriggers are eff'd!!
@@rowland84outdoors11 and yes, agreed… I would expect to see some numbers showing up in MA11 very soon. 😃👍
@@GooglyEyeFishing sportsco in fife should have any parts you need for scotty downriggers
I'm glad no seals were around!
@@AnhLe-xd8lp I’ve never seen seals messing around up at Jeff Head… have you?
@@GooglyEyeFishing no, just teasing from your Got Sealed video.
Got the bumpers.
Is this common? I think i might have had this happen last week. Had a really nice fish on and after fighting for a minute or two my rod doubled over and line started flying out. Eventually had to grab the spool and break the line because I was going to get spooled. Broke off at the flasher, sadly 😢 never saw anything but we did se seals and porpoises early in the morning.
@@matteoman39 it happens to us about once per season. 🤣
@@GooglyEyeFishing hah ok good to know. Does what happened to me sound like a seal? Before it happened it was definitely the biggest fish I had hooked into yet so I've been kicking myself for losing a potential keeper Chinook
@@matteoman39 yeah, sounds like a seal… chinook will take long runs, but they’re more of a smooth, sustained run… when it’s a seal it’s super fast and pretty jerky.
Just saw that DFW will open Marine 10 for Chinook on 11-12 Aug!
@@AnhLe-xd8lp see you out there!
What was the lucky number on the wire i only got 2 fished all 3 days
@@tylerolson5563 all 4 of the fish we hooked over the 2 days we fished were 80’ on the wire in 120, 130, 120, & 220’ of water.
@@GooglyEyeFishing Thanks try again next year. Go get them silvers 🎣🎣
Are you allowed to keep wild?
@@elee4368 yes, unclipped chinook were allowed in Elliott Bay. The limit was also 2 per person. I think the reason for this is that the Soos Creek hatchery does not clip all of their fish. Thanks for the question, and thanks for watching! 😃👍
Good to know!! That’s an awesome looking fish!!
did you really have to get up at 5am? fish dont bit at noon?? did you catch any later in the day
@@sdufg haha… we were there on Thursday for the opener and the bite at sunrise was off the hook. We hooked 3 on our first pass and people all around us were hooked up… then the bite just died… zilch, nothing, nada. I think the sun came up and those fish either headed to deep water or went up the river. So when we went on Sunday we were thinking it might be the same way… but it wasn’t… no first light bite to speak of and we fished for a few hours before we picked up the fish in this video. So to answer your question, did we have to get up at 3am to be fishing at 5am on this day? Nope! 🤣🤷♂️
Oh no! Incredible that the leader didn't break. Glad you got all your gear back. Thanks for sharing the experience with us. Tight lines!
@@aerorocketdog6249 you’re very welcome! Thank you for watching!
What a beautiful place!
Pretty good seal fight. I don't mind feeding the seals but I'd cry if one took my lucky Tomic 903. It's caught a LOT of kings this season. Kings and coho are stuffed with big herring. Match the hatch and one will do fine. It's been an awesome plug season. Been a great jigging season too. I've jigged (green candlefish Dart) up more kings this season than I have in lord knows how long.
@@Elparquito haha… yeah, it’s not the first time I’ve fed the seals and most likely won’t be the last. I’ve heard that they’re crushing Tomics this year… awesome… nothing like not having to fight a flasher too. Thanks for watching! BTW- how’s Stam? Does he still have the old Willie boat? 😃
@@GooglyEyeFishing I don't even know. I haven't talked to the Old Man in a while. He's just out doing whatever one does in Enumclaw. Fish are super bitey this year in MA10. Good sized fish, too. Don't even get me started on quotas and limited kill days.....if there any left. Oh well, makes for fewer boats which is fine with me. Good luck out there!
Was this area 11? I had the same think happen with a seal at Jeff head a couple years back
I wonder where I can get some Pro Troll flashers in Canada. We have a Bass Pro in Vancouver and I remember they had a couple when they first opened and haven’t carried them again.
@@roblockhart8410 www.protroll.com/british-columbia
Thanks. Believe it or not I’ve been to most of those places and they don’t carry it. It’s possible they might have at some time but currently not in the locations in the lower mainland or Vancouver Island.
Saw the same thing happen with a harbor seal Saturday in eBay! Hope it reopens this weekend, I hope to see you guys out there. We got an 18 there, on Saturday.
@@thedude3100 nice! Is there talk of eBay re-opening this Saturday? That would be sweet.. it’s either that or Westport (ocean forecast looks pretty good). Our biggest @ ebay was the second fish on Thursday, just over 20lb!
@@GooglyEyeFishing the fish checker said that they were counting 1 fish for every 2 boats. And that after the way it went last year. It should open this weekend. Been checking the app daily, with no updates.
Hey nice fish. Mind if I ask where you launched at? And how bad the parking was. Thank you.
@@vitpav777 we launched @ Pt. Defiance and motored up north. No issue with parking there. 😃
@@GooglyEyeFishing oh that’s a ways. I was gonna ask if alki boat launch is any good. I’m from up north. So was wondering how it is there
@@vitpav777 it looks like a nice launch, and didn’t seem crazy busy to me as we passed by it a bunch of times.
@@GooglyEyeFishing thank you for your answers. Tight lines
Thats a good lookin sandwich, might be enough to make fishing worth it!
@@kenhouse3484 c’mon up! Let’s go!!
Nice catch! Had no idea you could fish the eastern half of Elliot Bay. Any idea why it's split like that?
@@matteoman39 it was only open for 3 1/2 days, Friday through today @ noon. I’m not exactly sure why only the interior is open, but assume they probably don’t want a bunch of fishing boats in the entrance to the Bay in the way all of the ferries and other large vessels coming and going. Who knows though? Maybe there’s a big trough the fish stack up in right at the entrance of Elliott Bay and they don’t want us to have easy pickings? Haha… I doubt that’s the reason, but you never know. 🤷♂️ 😃
@@GooglyEyeFishing got it!! I somehow missed that they opened it. Very cool spot to fish!
I only had a Coleman Skanoe without a motor so I trolled right along shore for sea run Cutthroat..!
@@peatmoss4415 that’s cool… I saw a bunch of guys with kayaks out there and watched a couple of them battle some nice Chinook! If there’s a will, there’s a way! 😃
Great job guys! Nice fish!
You guys have made a subscriber out of me!!
This is fantastic! Im just getting started out in the sound. Any gear tips?
@@bryanb8910 well that kind of depends… what type of fishing are you doing?
Great content! Beautiful day. Nice Nookie!
Looks like a fantastic day. I couldn’t make it out so I’m fishing vicariously through you. 😂
@@kensfishingtails we’re going to hit it again tomorrow morning and hope for a few more takedowns! 😃
Nice Fish ..I plan to go crabbing and fish for a coho on Monday afternoon..I can meet you out there..
@@archerbrown2270 hey! I think we are going to fish inside the Bay again on Monday. If we boat a Chinook we won’t be able to go out into the main part of MA10 to fish for Coho.
Nice fish, what area are you in? I'm trying to learn about the migration of the different salmon
@@Waldo1982 we are near Seattle.
Is it just me or is the average size pretty small this year? Looks like a 6-8lb average from most boats, you guys did well with the big guy looking around 10-12
It amazes me how much smaller our salmon are getting on average size! I haves lived here in Alaska the past 43 years and have been a guide! Something is really wrong!😳😳😳
@@TroyOttosen-jg7tt hi Troy… these are more than likely resident blackmouth vs ocean kings… I may be wrong though. They are still fun to catch and the bbq was excellent! Thanks for watching! 😃
Nice one! Where were you fishing and what lure?
@@Bae_Bae960 hi! We were fishing @ Jeff Head. Using Pro-Troll lighted flashers in Fatal Hornet and Purple Hornet colors, Goldstar/Silver Horde white hoochies with a glow stripe and a uv/glow twinkle skirt, with Gamakatsu Big River 5/O upper and 4/O trailing hooks. Thanks for watching! 😃
Hi, I have been enjoying your videos. If you could at some point in your video talk about the lure, how deep, depth of water and speed it would be much appreciated. Also wondering how you choose your depth and what foot of water? Thanks and tight lines.
@@wiltom9091 sure, I’ll do a full gear breakdown on our next video. 😃👍
@@wiltom9091 hi! A new video will be out tomorrow with a breakdown of the gear I’ve been using out in Puget Sound & Westport. 😃
Very nice video, clear, and no obnoxious music, I enjoyed watching it
@@ericturnquist3183 thank you… we just need to clean up our language, or I have to learn how to use the BEEP 🤣
Very nice, productive day on the water! So busy with the super short season they give us.
What bugs me is the huge expense invested into catching salmon, not to mention the limited seasons and fish limits, then once you get out there the fish cop harassment begins and STEALS the time you have to fish. I think if you get checked out there, THEY should compensate you for lost time and opportunity. Of course they totally ignore one of the MAIN culprits in salmon numbers declining.... a single seal can kill up to 100 fish EVERY DAY as they usually take one bite from the belly and move on. If they eliminated some of the seal population, I believe we would experience far more salmon numbers. Remember " Herschel " the sea lion who they LET murder salmon for years at the Ballard locks where all the salmon are confined in a kill zone?
Ha! Yes, I’m definitely old enough to remember Hershel! Yeah, I’m a rules follower so getting stopped like that by the WDFW isn’t that big of a deal, but you’re right, it’s a waste of time and somewhat awkward. I sped up that part of the video on purpose, as the whole interaction was a weird experience. They were obviously training a new officer, because dude had to quadruple check and then look at the other guy when he was having trouble identifying a coho vs a chinook. They accused us of not recording a fish immediately and starting to fish again… there was 3 of us on the boat, we had two rods out, and they approached us less than 2 minutes from when we caught that crazy surface biting coho. We didn’t get cited, but it was pretty obvious that they were watching us and approached us immediately after we caught a fish. They checked all of our gear, fish, kill bag, and all compartments… it was weird. Oh well, on to the next adventure! Thanks for watching and the conversation JC! 😃
How deep were you trolling?
@@antoniodiaz3678 not deep that day… 100-120’ on the wire. 😃
You have a "YELLOW Colored DR Ball Snubber". Where did you get that? Thanks
@@nascarrich57 hi! We got it at this link: westcoastfishingtackle.ca/collections/fishing-weights-anchors/products/copy-of-hi-vis-heavy-duty-snubber I notice they are out of stock on the 60” combo. They also just have the snubbers by themselves to purchase. If you are local to the Tacoma area, Sportco has them too! 😃
Nice to see you guys south of us get some openings. Bunch of BS our restrictions in BC and Washington. Haven’t seen as many salmon in years as there is this year.
@@roblockhart8410 they gave us a 3 day season in Puget Sound for Chinook. 😢 We are hoping they give us some more days.
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