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Warm water
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:01 am
by Palmer
A commercial fisherman tells me that warm currents are pushing the salmon into the puget sound. People who normally fish Neah Bay and PA this time of year are in the Puget Sound area and having better luck he says.
RE:Warm water
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:55 am
by littleriver
Sounds like we have just one more piece of evidence to support the conclusion that one should never believe anything a commercial fisherman says.
10 years ago they were saying that the best way to "save our salmon" was to put more gill nets in the water. There are still many environmentalists who believe this to be true.
Warm water pushes close to shore every year Palmer. The albacore tuna follow the thermoclines in and that's why tuna fishing is an August and september kind of thing in this state.
Yes the salmon are moving into the sound and it sounds like it's going to be a very good year this year, but they are moving into the sound because that's how the get to the rivers they will be spawning in.
Oh yeah... if you read the reports on the wdfw web page and other more marine focused fishing sites you will find that salmon fishing is excellent in the ocean right now and in the staits around sekui.... catches are much better out there right now than they are in puget sound but that will be changing very quickly as the schools move closer to their destinations..