Area 9 & 10 Salmon Reports

The salmon reports that we had out of Marine Areas 9 & 10 where in fact all accross the board this past weekend. We had reports of outstanding fishing from some of the customers and reports which brought the question, "Are there any salmon in the sound". Some of the best reports that we had came from the SE section of Jefferson Head. There were good numbers of kings caught here in the 90 - 180 foot depths. There were also a good number of resident coho caught incidental to the kings, these fish have been quite good size with a many of them around the 5 pound mark. The Richmond Beach area king fishing dropped off substaintially with even the good fishermen scratching perhaps a single fish for the mornings effort. Possession and Satchet Head likewise did not produre outstanding reports over the weekend. Most fishermen have been disappointed with the quality of fishing so far this season trying to compare it with the fantastic king salmon fishing which we had last year. There were a few pinks mixed in with the catches over the weekend but I would still have to say that we are perhaps a week to ten days off before we really have the herds of pinks in our area.