Port Angeles Salmon Reports

Spoke with Norm Metzler this AM o find out whats going on in the PA area salmon wise. Norm said that the fishing has been quite good since the opener on July 1. He mentioned that the PA Spit as well as Freshwater Bay have been both putting out good numbers of nice Chinook. He said the largest hatchery king he has seen weighed in pushed the scale at 34 pounds. Most of the fish are in the low to mid teens to low twenties. He said with the numbers of dogfish in the area that most anglers are downrigger fishing trolling hardware with Hot Spot Flashers and Silver Horde Kingfisher of Coho Killer spoons being the most commonly used. As far as spoon colors go the Cop Car and Cookies and Cream finishes have both been producing quite well. This is a two hatchery Chinook limit area. I asked him if they have been getting any humpies as of yet and he said that they haven't, though he said that they should be seeing them any day as there are good numbers being caught in the Sekiu area.