How nostalgic, spent many hours as a kid fishing off the original dock back in the 60s, our house being the big grey on about 6 lots south of the dock. Thanks for posting
@@douglasmclaren4940 I’ll bet the fishing was great back then. That’s a fine neighborhood and was one of our favorite places for a dog walk/ bike ride when we lived on the Island.
@@timothybird7008 the dock had a float at the end. Lots of kelp bed, eel grass flats too. The old wooden car deck was full of holes, which were convenient for dropping a hand line through, but you had to be careful. Every kid in the neighborhood had an injury and a story from that dock. But no one drowned.. The Virginia V or its cousins were used to take boatloads of kids over and back from port orchard to work the berry farms for a few weeks each summer. We caught lots of flatfish, bullhead (sculpin), occasional greenlings, rock cod, hake, pile perch. Once saw a diver come up with a huge cabezon. We sometimes saw huge skate glide by on the bottom. And once I hooked something big that just slowly pulled away until the 20 lb nylon line snapped off the reel. In retrospect, maybe a sixgill shark or something like that . We caught searun cutthroat from the rowboat and once saw a orca pod. It was a great place to be a kid with two older brothers and a dog.
@@douglasmclaren4940 That’s cool. I didn’t know if anyone still knew about searun Cutts… we called em Bluebacks on the Siuslaw river near Florence Oregon back in the 70s and 80s.
Loved that area when I was stationed on a carrier in drydock. Seattle was an awesome town in the 70s too. Hung out at Peter's Inn at 3rd and Cherry since they had all you could eat Spaghetti lunch and dinner for $3.00 LOL. Used to fish off the pier on base for cod, sometimes bringing some to the mess deck to trade for munchies to the Pinoy cooks. Different world back then
What beautiful day out there! After a slow spell it’s always nice to see the rod bend again, no matter what’s on the other end. Thank you for sharing those wonderful photos of you and your boys! Seems a flash in the pan when they’re that age. Great video once again, tight lines my friend.
New subscriber. I lived in the Fraser Valley until I was 17. Used to fish docks at white rock and frequently used bottom rigs to fish the fraser river for salmon and sturgeon. We called those river rigs with the two hooks on tri-swivels and the weight on the bottom. Your video brings back fond memories of the left coast.
When crab season is open you can catch ‘em any way you want, dip net, by hand, snares, pots and traps. Like someone else said, the season is closed right now, need to head to the straight or the coast if you want them.
Nice relaxing video. Very nostalgic. In the early 90s, My dad took me crabbing off a dock here in Tillamook Oregon just like the photos of you and your kids. Liked and subscribed.
good for you pal, and what a great way to spend on a winter day. issn't it nice to be able to put your hands in your pockets and still be fishing. smelt jigging at places like la conner is great for winter also. Lee Wulff used to say it is un American not to fish with worms once a year, so I try to. LOL👏👏
Nice video. I like that you included photos of fishing with your sons at this same spot. It probably didn’t seem all that long ago, and yet how time flies with life… And you never know what you might get with salt water angling.
@@JerryAllen-lc8zq That’s all I was after - a bit of nostalgia! Plaice was the target when I was a lad, too. Plaice and chips was always my favorite! The closest-tasting North American fish I’ve found is Petrale Sole.
I’ve been fishing off Blackpool Pleasure Beach. My parents are from Chorley. Good to see you in the PNW. I’m from PDX. Let me know if you want to wet a line sometime.
I use the Carolina rig for many types of fishing! Bottom fish, surfperch, Bass, lake trout! You can feel the fish better then using the high low rig. Drop shot rig works good as well!
Shrimp work well mostly in the warmer months, Herring works year around and if you make sure your herring is on the bottom and cast it out far you have a good chance of hooking up with a Skate, we fish for them a lot in the winter some really big ones I cut the wings off and cut out the meat . Flounder I found when you fish from shore or off a pier, they seem to like moving bait especially jigs along the bottom that area you are fishing in seems to be mostly a sandy bottom. There is a You Tube video put out by John Skinner catching Fluke (flounder) he uses bucktail jigs .
At this pier I used to see people put out big chunks of fish on huge hooks attached to thick cord. They would catch big skate that way. I agree that flounder like to chase a moving bait, I've had plenty of them take a clouser minnow, when I fly fish.
Yes they are made really well for sure. Not a light reel but super reliable and smooth. Mine are still in mint condition. Find an area with some structure and you'll find the fish. Good videos, thanks.
@@carriverwow that’s interesting, I know it well - do you fish the end nearer the old creosote plant or the more sheltered northern part near the marina/exclusion memorial?
@ in the summer I’ve had the most luck down in the middle of the curve of the beach. It seems like they come in and feed in the shallows all along the shore then.
Sharpen the hooks, better yet.... I have a suggestion because I have fished off the piers all around the Puget Sound for decades. Switch to a lead headed jig with various curly tailed plastic worms for cod. FSTs or silver spoons for searun cutthroat close to shore. Casting and reeling is more active and covers ground and fun.
I would guess the ones coming off are sole / flounder with their small mouths. They usually outnumber the skulpin /bullheads by a good number, but skupin have the monster mouth advantage.
@@charlesspringer4709 yes, the first one I hooked was a ‘flounder’ of some type - I saw it before it came off. I used to catch lots of them in the summer months - nice big striped perch and pile perch, too.
Try casting a crab snare with chicken. 6-1/4” across the shell is the keeper size dungeoness. Big bobber and cut plug for salmon or a blue fox spinner.
@@timothybird7008 Agreed. I grew up on Lake of the woods in Kenora. Which is probably why I mainly like fresh water fishing. My thing in this area is hot tent camping. The Olympics are my playground.
Looks like a good spot to crab. Of you eant to catch winter blackmouth, try Edmonds pier in Decenber, January. You can actually retain 1 of them if its big enough. Use 2 oz. Glow lures , white crippled herring ( 1.5 oz)... Also, try fishing for the bigger Chinook in July, August. Lingcod is great in June( live perch with rubber band harness to keep on barbless hooks...and cabezon.
Everything was going good and I was feeling amazing about this and then you showed the picture of you guys wearing. The 49ers jackets. Instantly became enemy number one just kidding, but it did hit me like that.
Ha! At the time, James was a great fan of Jerry Rice. He's a Seahawks fan now. My jacket in that picture was just a plain red windbreaker, although ironically, I AM now a 49ers guy!!
I like your old school black/gold Daiwa spinning reels. I have a few still myself with the teak wooden handles. Too bad the crabs were messing up the bite. That's why it's called fishing, not catching.
@@Graceclaw imo Dungeness crabs are the best tasting seafood other than halibut man. Depends why your fishing. If you want a fish of 1000 casts than sure
@@renownriverspnw5314 they're closed right now anyways and you can catch steel a lot more easily if you know what you're doing/have spent the time to figure a river out. I usually spend my winter time chasing stocked cutthroat, sea-runs, and sturgeon. But a lot of people switch to full-on steelhead mode.
@@kennethphilips3226 The pier is located in the neighborhood called Crystal Springs. I believe the body of water is “Port Orchard”. The ferry you saw is the Seattle-Bremerton ferry heading towards Rich Passage
I live up near Point Agate, and the fishing is not much different. We usually take the boat north to the straight, out towards the coast, or we river fish. Pier fishing in the Sound is really hit or miss
Timothy, Up here on Vancouver Island, in the winter months, we do well flyfishing for cutthroat trout at inflows and outflows to large lakes. (Especially after heavy rains). Does that work in Washington State?
I really liked your video, but I’m curious as to why you don’t set the hook when you’re getting a bite?? That would eliminate most of the fish spitting the hook while you’re reeling in.
@@JesseThomas-v8c I do set the hook whenever I get a positive bite, most of those ‘bites’ were clearly just crabs which are going to drop off anyway. I missed one good bite that was shown on the video while I was messing with camera batteries.
If you want to catch salmon use a small piece of hearing and a split shot so it sinks slowly. I have had them grab a piece I tossed right at the surface. If you use a whole hearing no weight needed.
Next time try to extend the hi/low rig higher from the bottom so the crabs are not able to steal your cut bait. You can see that the bottom hook is where the crabs are eating your bait. Put a foot or two of line at the end of your rig and attach the weight on the end of the line. Also, are you allowed to legally keep a crab caught on hook and line where you are at even if the season is open? I always thought that only crab traps, snares and hoop nets are the only equipment that are legally used to catch crabs. Just curious because laws are different by states and countries.
Good tips on the rigs. The WDFW rules & regulations are not always clear; but my reading of them is that you can only keep crabs caught with the types of gear you mention. That's why I didn't hesitate to return the one in the video (also, I didn't have calipers to measure it). No doubt, someone will tell me I'm wrong!
All through Hood Canal, and various Puget sound locations in Kitsap, Jefferson and Pierce Counties. Check out my other videos for the actual locations.
We locals just call those fish you caught Bullheads. Fishing in the Puget Sound isn't what it use to be. Most of the flounders around here have worms and aren't good to eat When I was a kid, you could catch piling perch, rock fish and Ling Cod, not so much anymore. Fortunately the Salmon fishing is still very good.
@@juancervantes313 I record audio AND video from both my chest-mounted camera and the camera on the tripod, and use the audio tracks to sync the footage from the two cameras in post-production. Once I’ve done that, I can discard the tripod-cam audio and I’m then able to cut between both camera’s video and always have my voice close-mic’d. Does that make sense?!
Back in the mosquito fleet days, this was a dock for the ships that moved people and materials all over Puget Sound. It is still commonly referred to as the Point White Dock. It would have had a floating dock and a ramp back then.
@Heretic10001 You realize that was 80 years ago, right? My family homesteaded on the Island and since at least the 60's its been PW Fishing Pier to the hundreds of people I have heard discuss or mention it. But yes, before, during, and immediately after the war it was a dock, however I would venture to guess the is nobody alive that ever saw a vessel docked on it.
@@atatterson6992Yup. I realize it’s been a long time since it was used as a dock. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s still commonly referred to as the Point White Dock. And the teenagers who jump off of it and other piers and docks refer to it as “dock jumping”.
@Heretic10001 I suppose it depends on who your who is. My who calls it PW Pier amd always has. To each their own. My original point remains, it is NOT a dock and nobody has ever witnessed it as a dock. Thats all. Have a nice day.
@@atatterson6992Can’t say nobody. There are still plenty of folks around here in their 90’s and more who were probably around for the mosquito fleet days when they were kids.
No. There are lots of nearby squid fishing opportunities near me, but it always looks to be very crowded - not really my idea of a good time, but maybe I'll give it a try some time.
If you're over 16yrs old you've got to have a license for any type of fishing in WA. For the piers either a Saltwater or Combination License. The big crab went back because of several reasons. First, I don't have a crab catch record card; second, I didn't have anything with me to measure if it was legal-sized; third, I don't believe its legal to keep them if they've been hooked on rod and line (not 100% sure on this, but I didn't want to risk it); finally, I wasn't sure if the season is even open. This is Marine Area 10, and they sometimes don't have a winter Dungeness crab season at all, or it can be restricted to just one or two days per week - I had no idea if it was open or not.
@@johnkrebs3198 It’s complicated and depends on the area (many different river systems, marine areas, and open ocean all have different rules for salmon). The five different salmon species also have their own rules when it comes to retention. As if that wasn’t enough, some of those species-specific rules are different depending on if the fish is wild or hatchery-raised. But basically, all salmon fishing is closed in WA until, generally, some time in July. The exact opening dates and length of season are decided in the spring and are determined by the forecast number of returning salmon of the various species. The Dept. of Fish and Wildlife notifies sport fisherman of season openings and closures via online bulletins and “emergency rules” updates which change all the time.
@ FYI California allows anyone to fish from a manmade structure (e.g., a pier or a jetty) withouit a license. California has not has a salmon season for the last two years and likely again this year except for hatchery salmon stocked in some the larger reservoirs. When we have had a salmon season only chinooks were legal and the regulations varied by lattitude and the various rivers. Thank-you for answering.
I have caught enough cod with just split-shot and hook off a pier in Puget Sound, to sink a ship. Your rig is far too complicated for simply fishing off a pier. Just sayin. Thanks for the Vlog
What an absolutely wonderful video. PNW is my home. Thank you for sharing a beautiful piece of your life with the public. 😊
Thank you for your kind comment.
How nostalgic, spent many hours as a kid fishing off the original dock back in the 60s, our house being the big grey on about 6 lots south of the dock. Thanks for posting
@@douglasmclaren4940 I’ll bet the fishing was great back then. That’s a fine neighborhood and was one of our favorite places for a dog walk/ bike ride when we lived on the Island.
@@timothybird7008 the dock had a float at the end. Lots of kelp bed, eel grass flats too. The old wooden car deck was full of holes, which were convenient for dropping a hand line through, but you had to be careful. Every kid in the neighborhood had an injury and a story from that dock. But no one drowned.. The Virginia V or its cousins were used to take boatloads of kids over and back from port orchard to work the berry farms for a few weeks each summer. We caught lots of flatfish, bullhead (sculpin), occasional greenlings, rock cod, hake, pile perch. Once saw a diver come up with a huge cabezon. We sometimes saw huge skate glide by on the bottom. And once I hooked something big that just slowly pulled away until the 20 lb nylon line snapped off the reel. In retrospect, maybe a sixgill shark or something like that . We caught searun cutthroat from the rowboat and once saw a orca pod. It was a great place to be a kid with two older brothers and a dog.
@@douglasmclaren4940 That’s cool. I didn’t know if anyone still knew about searun Cutts… we called em Bluebacks on the Siuslaw river near Florence Oregon back in the 70s and 80s.
@@guaporeturns9472 I just left Tim a suggestion about catching searun cutthroats. I caught them just casting off the beach.
There's nothing like fishing! Especially at a place with so many good memories.
Good Video!
Remember, your worst day fishing is better by far than your best day at work .
I'm always happy to be fishing, even if I don't catch.
Loved that area when I was stationed on a carrier in drydock. Seattle was an awesome town in the 70s too. Hung out at Peter's Inn at 3rd and Cherry since they had all you could eat Spaghetti lunch and dinner for $3.00 LOL. Used to fish off the pier on base for cod, sometimes bringing some to the mess deck to trade for munchies to the Pinoy cooks. Different world back then
What beautiful day out there! After a slow spell it’s always nice to see the rod bend again, no matter what’s on the other end. Thank you for sharing those wonderful photos of you and your boys! Seems a flash in the pan when they’re that age. Great video once again, tight lines my friend.
@@chriscooper6584 Thank you sir!
Thanks for the memory's. It helps me remember why I quit fishing the Puget sound. No Fish.
nothing from the piers. But if you have a kayak or boat, different story
There are still fish to be found!
No there's still fish. You can still catch bottomfish and some salmon in the summer and a lot of squid in the winter from the piers
But it costed an extra $10 for the puget sound restoration fee for 2 decades, on the back of your fishing license!!
My buddy and I took out our kayaks about 100ft out from shore right on a drop off. Caught tons of fish. My buddy even reeled up a baby octopus
I recently starting fishing again after 20 years. Went back to my favorite spot and caught my limit.
I had good luck as a kid dropping straight down and the weight just off the bottom..thanks for the video.. enjoyed
Thanks!
Well Tim, at least you know what kind of bait to use when crab season rolls around! Great video. Watching from across the water in Seattle:)
Used to catch Kings off the Edmonds Pier back in the 70s and 80s
I think people still sometimes get them there.
New subscriber. I lived in the Fraser Valley until I was 17. Used to fish docks at white rock and frequently used bottom rigs to fish the fraser river for salmon and sturgeon. We called those river rigs with the two hooks on tri-swivels and the weight on the bottom. Your video brings back fond memories of the left coast.
Glad you enjoyed it. Would love to fish the Fraser one day.
Awesome! Reminds me of those times fishing with pops!
Nice keeper crab. Woulda been invited home for spa day in pot o boiling sea water. Followed by dip in melted butter 🤤
Right! I wasn't sure if it was legal to keep it, though, since I didn't catch it with crab gear.
If crabs in season and they are legal size that totally could have been kept
Season closed
When crab season is open you can catch ‘em any way you want, dip net, by hand, snares, pots and traps. Like someone else said, the season is closed right now, need to head to the straight or the coast if you want them.
Have you tried the pier in Kingston or Fox Island ?
Nice relaxing video. Very nostalgic. In the early 90s, My dad took me crabbing off a dock here in Tillamook Oregon just like the photos of you and your kids. Liked and subscribed.
@@veasnay.7925 Thank you!
how fun thanks for sharing a piece of washington that i need to visit
Glad you enjoyed it.
Monster crab 🦀
good for you pal, and what a great way to spend on a winter day. issn't it nice to be able to put your hands in your pockets and
still be fishing. smelt jigging at places like la conner is great for winter also. Lee Wulff used to say it is un American not to fish
with worms once a year, so I try to. LOL👏👏
@@davidtaylor7014 there’s nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia every now and again!
Good for you Timothy, Puget Sound is full of stuff to do in nature.
It certainly is.
Looks like some good crabbing. 👍
I would think so.
The shore across the water from there is a prime crabbing spot for boat access.
Nice video. I like that you included photos of fishing with your sons at this same spot. It probably didn’t seem all that long ago, and yet how time flies with life…
And you never know what you might get with salt water angling.
Thanks for you kind comment. Those days on the pier with my sons were golden, and - yes- sometimes it does seem just like yesterday.
Time to switch to a crab snare. One of those looked big enough to keep and was male.
Took me WAY back to Westgate, Kent fishing for plaice from the promenade in the '50s. Thanks.
@@JerryAllen-lc8zq That’s all I was after - a bit of nostalgia! Plaice was the target when I was a lad, too. Plaice and chips was always my favorite! The closest-tasting North American fish I’ve found is Petrale Sole.
I’ve been fishing off Blackpool Pleasure Beach. My parents are from Chorley. Good to see you in the PNW. I’m from PDX. Let me know if you want to wet a line sometime.
Eh up!
@@timothybird7008 Ah'reet cha?
I use the Carolina rig for many types of fishing! Bottom fish, surfperch, Bass, lake trout! You can feel the fish better then using the high low rig. Drop shot rig works good as well!
@@rowland84outdoors11 Yes, agreed - I used to use it for catching the striped perch near there.
Come to Snohomish, and fish the Snohomish River... Lots of good fishing here
Shrimp work well mostly in the warmer months, Herring works year around and if you make sure your herring is on the bottom and cast it out far you have a good chance of hooking up with a Skate, we fish for them a lot in the winter some really big ones I cut the wings off and cut out the meat . Flounder I found when you fish from shore or off a pier, they seem to like moving bait especially jigs along the bottom that area you are fishing in seems to be mostly a sandy bottom. There is a You Tube video put out by John Skinner catching Fluke (flounder) he uses bucktail jigs .
At this pier I used to see people put out big chunks of fish on huge hooks attached to thick cord. They would catch big skate that way. I agree that flounder like to chase a moving bait, I've had plenty of them take a clouser minnow, when I fly fish.
Me and my dad use to catch true cod off the dock in illahee in Bremerton in the 70s and went to Kingston Washington for dunginess crab.
Good. I’m not the only one from the other side of the pond that messes around that’s parts.
Yes they are made really well for sure. Not a light reel but super reliable and smooth. Mine are still in mint condition. Find an area with some structure and you'll find the fish. Good videos, thanks.
Set the hook brother
My buddy Steve says, "try to rip its lips off" so it don't come off there.
Used to fish with those reels a long time ago! Wish I still had them! Caught a lot of fish with them off the docks around the area there!
They sure are heavy, but built very well.
Caught my first flounder ever off this same pier
That's cool!
lol, those Dungees and Red Rocks know it's January and we have to throw them back! They think its a free buffet...
I love fishing here! you should try Pritchard park on the south end for sea run cutthroat, ive caught 3 pounders there!
@@carriverwow that’s interesting, I know it well - do you fish the end nearer the old creosote plant or the more sheltered northern part near the marina/exclusion memorial?
@ in the summer I’ve had the most luck down in the middle of the curve of the beach. It seems like they come in and feed in the shallows all along the shore then.
Thanks lol
You should also try the Forks, Wa. Rivers in the winter for steelhead....Hatcheries in December...Natives in January, February
@@rburnett6266 Winter steelhead fishing is on my list of things to do
You’ve gotta set the hook when they hit!
Sharpen the hooks, better yet....
I have a suggestion because I have fished off the piers all around the Puget Sound for decades. Switch to a lead headed jig with various curly tailed plastic worms for cod. FSTs or silver spoons for searun cutthroat close to shore. Casting and reeling is more active and covers ground and fun.
I would guess the ones coming off are sole / flounder with their small mouths. They usually outnumber the skulpin /bullheads by a good number, but skupin have the monster mouth advantage.
@@charlesspringer4709 yes, the first one I hooked was a ‘flounder’ of some type - I saw it before it came off. I used to catch lots of them in the summer months - nice big striped perch and pile perch, too.
Enjoyed, thanks
Try casting a crab snare with chicken. 6-1/4” across the shell is the keeper size dungeoness. Big bobber and cut plug for salmon or a blue fox spinner.
About 20 years ago I went fishing with my uncle, I cut the dog fish up in about 1" slices and threw them to the seagulls.
You can just see my house on Annapolis Point from that pier. Cheers!
Ha! it's crazy how long it would take to drive to your house from there, when it looks so close. I love how our bays and inlets are all folded up.
@@timothybird7008 Agreed. I grew up on Lake of the woods in Kenora. Which is probably why I mainly like fresh water fishing. My thing in this area is hot tent camping. The Olympics are my playground.
Timothy, some peoples are catching w/flies, I'll get you a pic.
Let's try the Edmonds pier, rsvp.
Looks like a good spot to crab. Of you eant to catch winter blackmouth, try Edmonds pier in Decenber, January.
You can actually retain 1 of them if its big enough. Use 2 oz. Glow lures , white crippled herring ( 1.5 oz)...
Also, try fishing for the bigger Chinook in July, August.
Lingcod is great in June( live perch with rubber band harness to keep on barbless hooks...and cabezon.
@@rburnett6266 I’ve actually done my share of lure fishing for salmon over the years, I have to say I now much prefer fishing for them on the fly.
cool
Everything was going good and I was feeling amazing about this and then you showed the picture of you guys wearing. The 49ers jackets. Instantly became enemy number one just kidding, but it did hit me like that.
Ha! At the time, James was a great fan of Jerry Rice. He's a Seahawks fan now. My jacket in that picture was just a plain red windbreaker, although ironically, I AM now a 49ers guy!!
I like your old school black/gold Daiwa spinning reels. I have a few still myself with the teak wooden handles. Too bad the crabs were messing up the bite. That's why it's called fishing, not catching.
@@gonfishn I’ve had those reels for years & years- they still work smoothly and are quite resistant to the saltwater corrosion.
Welcome back to Bainbridge Island!
Thanks - I lived there very happily for 24 years; now just a 20 minute drive away.
Yeah, the Puget Sound in the winter is pretty much always like that. Hence why we all go cutthroat or steelhead fishing!
Lol steelhead fishing is way slower bro there’s like less than 1000 that return to most major hatcheries
@renownriverspnw5314 still a better fishery than freezing for a few dink Pacific Staghorn sculpin snd crabs every outing
@@Graceclaw imo Dungeness crabs are the best tasting seafood other than halibut man. Depends why your fishing. If you want a fish of 1000 casts than sure
@@renownriverspnw5314 they're closed right now anyways and you can catch steel a lot more easily if you know what you're doing/have spent the time to figure a river out.
I usually spend my winter time chasing stocked cutthroat, sea-runs, and sturgeon. But a lot of people switch to full-on steelhead mode.
Good old bullhead fishing. Spent many a days with a hunk of hotdog on a hook catching and releasing dozens of bull heads ti learn how to fish
They're certainly in plentiful supply
Wasn't quite sure where this pier was located on Bainbridge Island, until the shot with the ferry.
@@kennethphilips3226 The pier is located in the neighborhood called Crystal Springs. I believe the body of water is “Port Orchard”. The ferry you saw is the Seattle-Bremerton ferry heading towards Rich Passage
First one looked like a Pickerel rig to me!
I've got no idea what that is! A pickerel is like a northern pike, yes?
I live up near Point Agate, and the fishing is not much different. We usually take the boat north to the straight, out towards the coast, or we river fish. Pier fishing in the Sound is really hit or miss
Not really my type of fishing these days, either.
Timothy, Up here on Vancouver Island, in the winter months, we do well flyfishing for cutthroat trout at inflows and outflows to large lakes. (Especially after heavy rains). Does that work in Washington State?
Just the same here, friend.
I really liked your video, but I’m curious as to why you don’t set the hook when you’re getting a bite??
That would eliminate most of the fish spitting the hook while you’re reeling in.
@@JesseThomas-v8c I do set the hook whenever I get a positive bite, most of those ‘bites’ were clearly just crabs which are going to drop off anyway. I missed one good bite that was shown on the video while I was messing with camera batteries.
Just an observation, you're not setting the hook, you pick up the reel and start reeling lol maybe set that hook and see if they stay on better
There are plenty of good spots around. This just isn’t one of them. Not
enough structure. Dogfish can be good there, lol. Still loved tje video!
You're right - but I still used to enjoy fishing there. I've caught many a dogfish from that pier!
If you want to catch salmon use a small piece of hearing and a split shot so it sinks slowly. I have had them grab a piece I tossed right at the surface. If you use a whole hearing no weight needed.
I've caught 'em that way. I fly fish for them now. The season's closed at the moment.
East Coast that first fish looked like a Robin fish.
Pacific Staghorn Sculpin. Those little guys are everywhere.
Next time try to extend the hi/low rig higher from the bottom so the crabs are not able to steal your cut bait. You can see that the bottom hook is where the crabs are eating your bait. Put a foot or two of line at the end of your rig and attach the weight on the end of the line. Also, are you allowed to legally keep a crab caught on hook and line where you are at even if the season is open? I always thought that only crab traps, snares and hoop nets are the only equipment that are legally used to catch crabs. Just curious because laws are different by states and countries.
Good tips on the rigs. The WDFW rules & regulations are not always clear; but my reading of them is that you can only keep crabs caught with the types of gear you mention. That's why I didn't hesitate to return the one in the video (also, I didn't have calipers to measure it). No doubt, someone will tell me I'm wrong!
Where do you fish for sea run cutthroat?
All through Hood Canal, and various Puget sound locations in Kitsap, Jefferson and Pierce Counties. Check out my other videos for the actual locations.
We locals just call those fish you caught Bullheads. Fishing in the Puget Sound isn't what it use to be. Most of the flounders around here have worms and aren't good to eat When I was a kid, you could catch piling perch, rock fish and Ling Cod, not so much anymore. Fortunately the Salmon fishing is still very good.
Agreed. The bottom fishing was still OK for a few years after I got here, but not the same now.
At least you caught some “ peace of mind”…
@@finaboykm that’s what it’s all about.
All the fish went up stream here In Kitsap County.
You're probably right. I still hold up hopes for finding the odd fish that doesn't follow the rules!
Kidnap county 😂
Black Pool??? Is that what Ggeorge Harrison was talking about when he said they use to go see Black Pool Lights?¿?¿0.0
Are you just using the audio from one camera and the video from another cam? Is that possible?
@@juancervantes313 I record audio AND video from both my chest-mounted camera and the camera on the tripod, and use the audio tracks to sync the footage from the two cameras in post-production. Once I’ve done that, I can discard the tripod-cam audio and I’m then able to cut between both camera’s video and always have my voice close-mic’d. Does that make sense?!
Also, I'm sure you realize that is a pier rather than a dock... as no vessel can "dock" there :-)
Back in the mosquito fleet days, this was a dock for the ships that moved people and materials all over Puget Sound. It is still commonly referred to as the Point White Dock. It would have had a floating dock and a ramp back then.
@Heretic10001 You realize that was 80 years ago, right? My family homesteaded on the Island and since at least the 60's its been PW Fishing Pier to the hundreds of people I have heard discuss or mention it. But yes, before, during, and immediately after the war it was a dock, however I would venture to guess the is nobody alive that ever saw a vessel docked on it.
@@atatterson6992Yup. I realize it’s been a long time since it was used as a dock. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s still commonly referred to as the Point White Dock. And the teenagers who jump off of it and other piers and docks refer to it as “dock jumping”.
@Heretic10001 I suppose it depends on who your who is. My who calls it PW Pier amd always has. To each their own. My original point remains, it is NOT a dock and nobody has ever witnessed it as a dock. Thats all. Have a nice day.
@@atatterson6992Can’t say nobody. There are still plenty of folks around here in their 90’s and more who were probably around for the mosquito fleet days when they were kids.
Where's the fish?
Have you ever fished for squid?
No. There are lots of nearby squid fishing opportunities near me, but it always looks to be very crowded - not really my idea of a good time, but maybe I'll give it a try some time.
Is this on hoods canal ?
No, its to the East of Hood Canal - Port Orchard
@timothybird7008 oh okay thanks a bunch
No, and it’s Hood Canal 😂
@@reecec8490 well we.here folks in rochester call it.hoods canal
@@reecec8490 in fact we just drove back from Anacortes and went by Hoods canal . 🙂😂🤣
Do you need a license to fish from a pier in Washington? Why did you throw the big crab back? We would have eaten it.
If you're over 16yrs old you've got to have a license for any type of fishing in WA. For the piers either a Saltwater or Combination License. The big crab went back because of several reasons. First, I don't have a crab catch record card; second, I didn't have anything with me to measure if it was legal-sized; third, I don't believe its legal to keep them if they've been hooked on rod and line (not 100% sure on this, but I didn't want to risk it); finally, I wasn't sure if the season is even open. This is Marine Area 10, and they sometimes don't have a winter Dungeness crab season at all, or it can be restricted to just one or two days per week - I had no idea if it was open or not.
@@timothybird7008 Thank-you for your answer. Is there an open salmon season in Washington?
@@johnkrebs3198 It’s complicated and depends on the area (many different river systems, marine areas, and open ocean all have different rules for salmon). The five different salmon species also have their own rules when it comes to retention. As if that wasn’t enough, some of those species-specific rules are different depending on if the fish is wild or hatchery-raised. But basically, all salmon fishing is closed in WA until, generally, some time in July. The exact opening dates and length of season are decided in the spring and are determined by the forecast number of returning salmon of the various species. The Dept. of Fish and Wildlife notifies sport fisherman of season openings and closures via online bulletins and “emergency rules” updates which change all the time.
@ FYI California allows anyone to fish from a manmade structure (e.g., a pier or a jetty) withouit a license. California has not has a salmon season for the last two years and likely again this year except for hatchery salmon stocked in some the larger reservoirs. When we have had a salmon season only chinooks were legal and the regulations varied by lattitude and the various rivers. Thank-you for answering.
Would have kept that Crab 🦀🦀🦀🦀 and he would have got a warm tub of water and a side of rice 🍚🍚🍚🍚 and mixed veggies......
I don't think it was legal, or I'd be cooking it up too.
Those are bull heads
They're Pacific Staghorn Sculpins. Bullhead is a nickname.
That’s a Diawa bg30
@@jamesbogdan3991 Sure is. It’s still pretty much like new. I was surprised to see how these things are changing hands for $100’s
@ I have 2 one for saltwater and one for freshwater, love the wooden handle!!
just me sir. i never put a big weight on in slow curent.
this is just me. just takes to much see movement.
Good advice.
@@timothybird7008 not advice kind sir.
its just what i use to do.
“Mud Shark”
Smaller crab on a big rod.
No Chair or Beer? WTF?
Don't waste your money on frozen herring. The only thing you will catch is dogfish sharks.
I have caught enough cod with just split-shot and hook off a pier in Puget Sound, to sink a ship. Your rig is far too complicated for simply fishing off a pier. Just sayin. Thanks for the Vlog
Quit with the music please like the video
Unimpressive
@@reedkaltenbach I’m not out to impress anybody.
His video is way more impressive than your lame troll comment. Get a life. Or maybe, don’t. Nobody will care either way.
His video is far more impressive than your comment.