Tim, As Preston wrote, we were at Kopachuck this morning, probably around 9am. There were four of us and we spread out covering most of the water. The tide was already slack. We spent maybe a half hour tossing poppers with only one follow, then hit the road to Joemma. Nothing there except a couple small silvers. All in all, a pretty disappointing, but beautiful day.
Congrats on you nice fish, Leland. >Third time out was a charm but I think it also helped that I drove to >the south sound instead of trying places near Seattle. > >I went out and hit the very slow incoming tide at Kopachuck St. Park today >and Leyland's popper did the trick for me. I walked down the beach looking >for any sign of fish and seeing none just finally started fishing. I waded >in about thigh deep and started working my way back to where I got on the >beach at. I was spaced off, looking at the sun and water when suddenly >KA-BAM and my line was running. I managed to get control of my line and >after a few runs landed a 20" fish (seemed bigger at the time but I measured >it on my rod and checked when I got home). Was this a cutt or a resident >coho? It had a pretty green back, how does one tell the difference. I >worked up the beach and finally saw a few fish churning in a scum line. I >got one to take the popper, a 14" cutt, this time I was pretty sure what it >was. This fish leaped out of the water about 4x while I was playing it, >very fun. Not bad for 1 3/4 hours fishing and I only saw one other >fisherman the whole time. > >Since I'm still a total newbie at this, I have a few questions for those in >the know... > >First Question - I originally went to Titlow Beach Park and was going to try >it but the signs of "No taking animals or plants" made me wonder if fishing >was illegal there. Does anyone know? I have no idea if it would be good or >not anyway, I was just looking for long beaches in the Washington Public >Shore Guide and that one seemed like a potential spot. > >Second question - do the resident cohos roam the whole sound during the >winter, i.e., is there a chance of getting them in the north sound or are >they also a predominantly south sound phenomena? > >Thanks, >Tim
