Area 9 & 10 - King Opener - Friday 16th

We have been nothing but swamped this week with everyone gearing up to fish tomorrow's opener for retention of hatchery kings in areas 9 & 10. As far as where to be tomorrow AM to score on these fish will be a real crap shoot! Many are heading up to Mid - Channel Bank, though the tides are less than ideal for this popular spot, I am sure that there will still be fish to be had for those working hard. We have had some fairly good reports coming out of the Port Angeles area since it opened on July 1st and many of those fish have pushed though that area and hopefully have stopped to do their final fating up on those Mid-Channel candlefish. We have not been hearing of many fish coming off the Edmonds Pier in the past week or many C & R'd kings being caught on this side of area 10, so I don't think I would be fishing this side from Edmond's south, at least at the time being. The best reports that we have heard have been off the Kingston area and south toward Jefferson Head. There is lots of bait in the Kingston area (a mix of herring and anchovies) that is holding some fish. I have not heard of much in the way of good sized fish but one of the customers had four yesterday in a couple of hours of fishing, a blackmouth around 5 pounds and three adult fish in the 10 - 15 pound range.

We will have lots of reports in tomorrow and I will give a good rundown of what we hear.

"Good Fishing" to all of you!