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Offshore Northwest will be running charters for Salmon in the Gig Harbor area from June through August.
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Good Fishin' To Ya'
Kerry W Allen
Our original plan was to be Tuna fishing the entire month of August out of Westport. This was killing me because I know this is the best time of year to fish Salmon in Gig Harbor (my home base). I have often said that August is the reward God gives us for making it through the rest of the year here. I have so many friends and supporters in this area that I just had to make it happen.
So, We have decided to take two weeks in August and run as many trips as we can. From August 5th through the 15th Offshore Northwest Charters and Gig Harbor fishing will be one and the same with daily Salmon Charters twice daily from 6:00am to noon and from 4:00pm till dark. I expect these to fill up fast so check out Offshore Northwest and get hold of me as soon as possible.
Good Fishin' To Ya'
Kerry W Allen
February 9, 2013
10th Annual 2013 Roche Harbor
Salmon Classic
Was a sold out Event this year ~ with a HOT season of fishing going on here in the San Juan Islands. We weighed in a RECORD amount of fish –196 in 2 days!!
Weather was in our favor with dry conditions and calm waters ~
The results from the derby are:
100 Derby Boats; total 339 Anglers, inc. 4 youth
104 fish weighed in on Friday February 8th, 2013
92 fish weighed in on Saturday February 9th, 2013
$25,000 cash prizes awarded:
$10,000 1st Place Pete Nelsen Shaw Island, WA 16.7
$5,000 2nd Place Carter Whalen Friday Harbor, WA 16.4
$3,000 3rd Place Brock Warin Friday Harbor, WA 15.12
$2,000 4th Place Sean Scott Friday Harbor, WA 15.6
$1,000 5th Place Michael Gladstein Mercer Island, WA 14.5
$2,000 Mystery Fish Tom Cahill Everett, WA 9.5
$2,000 Best Boat Total Weight 80.12 lbs
Dusty Rowland, Clyde Hill
Chris Wagemann
Neal Kamrin
Pat Federspiel
Christian Thomas Youngest Angler 5 ½ yrs old Tacoma, WA
His Second RH Derby ~ Friday Christian weighed in a 4.08 oz!
Jim Yount Bow, WA 2014 Boat Entry drawing winner,
sponsored by Roche Harbor Resort
Good Fishin' To Ya'
Kerry W Allen
Here’s wishing you all a Blessed, Safe and Prosperous new year.
For the new year we have a new Charter Service and web site at www.offshorenorthwest.com but Gig Harbor Fishing is not going away anytime soon. I still enjoy writing and telling stories so until this gets old I will continue to publish the blog.
God Bless and Be Safe.
Good Fishin' To Ya'
Kerry W Allen
I have been fishing salmon all my life. I have been fishing Puget Sound Blackmouth for about 20 years. I know a little about how to fish but one of the most important lessons I have learned during this time is how to take information from several sources to create a style of fishing that I can use. This is one of the themes I have tried to apply to this site and everything I write whether it be on-line or in print. My goal is not to teach people how to fish but to share information so that my readers can create their own technique.
To that end when I find something on-line or in print that can add to the conversation I like to share it here. This is an incredible collection of videos by my friend Mike Jamboretz of Jambo’s Sport Fishing explaining in great detail how he fishes Blackmouth in Puget Sound. These videos were created by Mike and Doug Saint-Denis of Ridge to River Outdoors. There are four videos in all. Try to watch them in order. I did but I have been back through them several times as they are packed with information.
Enjoy!!
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Kerry W Allen
This is a video I stole from the outdoor line by John Martinis and Gary Krein, two of the foremost experts in Puget Sound Blackmouth Fishing. These are the kind of guys I try to learn from every chance I get.
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Kerry W Allen
We finally had some rain just in time for the chum to fill up the rivers.
Here is an article about Chico Creek but it is happening all over the sound.
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Kerry W Allen
If you have fished around the Gig Harbor area for very long you know about Chambers Creek Hatchery. August is by far the best month to fish salmon around here and most of those fish come from Chambers Creek hatchery.
There is a dam at Chambers that was built a long time ago to provide water for the old paper mill that was closed in 2000. In the last couple years Pierce County and the Puyallup Tribe have spent over $13 million on upstream habitat restoration but as I have said a million times habitat means nothing if the fish can’t get to it. There has been one fish ladder in operation and the other was abandoned thirty years ago.
Enter the Chambers Creek Restoration Team. This is a group of volunteers that, with grant funding and technical assistance from the Puyallup tribe, have restored the second fish ladder and christened it on September 27th. While the hatchery kings will still be intercepted and the eggs used to replenish the hatchery, the new ladder will assist runs of coho and chum to get upstream to the habitat that has been restored. Which should mean increased runs of these species and that is great news for those of us that like to fish them in September and October.
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Kerry W Allen
This guy went fishing up near Port Ludlow in a blue ford focus. He has been missing for three nights. Click the picture for details and how you can help
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Kerry W Allen
While many of you have been enjoying some great Salmon fishing in the South Sound I have been trying to concentrate on my Tuna education and getting offshore Tuna fishing as dialed in as I can.
I have also had some other issues that have made writing difficult in the last few weeks but these things are just about all worked out so we will have more articles coming soon.
Right now everyone should be out with coho killer and coyote spoons fishing the rips for coho. this is a great year and people are really killing them. There are also still some kings around. I hope to get out in the next week or so to try to catch some of these feisty fish.
Tuna fishing offshore has been great and we really seem to be getting good at it. I went out at the beginning of the season with my friend Hawaiian Tom and he taught me a lot about organization and preparation. The big difference in my opinion is that Tuna fishing is a team sport while salmon fishing is more about individual accomplishment. Salmon fishing is often about catching the biggest fish. When your catching 30 fish for 4 or 5 guys all that stuff has to go out the window. The most important thing in tuna fishing is to keep the feed going, whatever that takes.
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Kerry W Allen
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