King Fishing - Area 9

With Marine Area 9 and 10 opening locally today for retention of hatchery Chinook there were a multitude of anglers hitting the salt this morning. We have had a number of reports in this AM and to be quite frank the reports have varied tremendously. The ever popular Mid Channel Bank out of Port Townsend was quite a dud this morning. We have spoke with a number of our customers that were fishing there and everyone did not have a single fish on board and mentioned that they had only see a couple of fish caught for the 100+ boats. With the very poor results the number of boats fishing dropped quite rapidly either calling it quits or searching for a better producing area. We heard better, though not great reports coming from the Possession Bar area of south Whidbey Island with a number of our customers boating fish in the low teens to low twenties. This seemed to be the most popular area with some 300+ boats plying the waters. The Pilot Point/Apple Tree/Kingston side of the Sound produced fairly well early this morning. The vast majority of the folks we spoke with that were successful today were all towing plugs, either Silver Hordes of Tomics in a variety of Glow finishes.