Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Tips and Techniques - Extended Cut

Hot August action for summer Chinook on Puget Sound's Mid Channel Bank! Join Mike and NWF members RSEAS and Gringo as we show the techniques and locations of this excellent fishery.
The NWF team shows how to catch salmon off downriggers in Puget Sound during a classic summer saltwater fishery.
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[@thetastelesschef7463]

you did a video of my hometown and you now getting closer to my kid/s hometown, very nice video and hope to see more soon. (follow the road through the deceptively odd turns and traffic, turn n.w. on the new doughnut slow down till you find the gateway to the smaller nooks and islands of this great gateway few know of.)

[@casjr99]

Love it, thank you for making videos

[@johnroberts1673]

Just want to thank you Randy and Mike for another fabulous informative video. Great information, thanks for sharing your fishing passion with the rest of us!

[@finneganzahir6598]

instaBlaster

[@kellygunner1]

Can this guest be a regular on the show?

[@harryknickerbocker9889]

So where are all the tips for beginners like me? There isn't much useful info in this video. What kind of lures? What pound test line? What kind of poles and reels? What time of day and what is the tide doing?

[@nicholasyebra1988]

Harry Knickerbocker I agree with you and I’m in the same boat

[@strophish]

Just run some 10lb on the smallest trout pole you have with a spinning reel. Since you didn’t pay attention to the lures they used just try some power bait or worms on a 20 foot leader and a 1/2oz cannonball. Should do the trick! Tight lines. Forgot to mention the best time is right at the stroke of midnight during the highest tide of the month. A divining rod is nice to have with you too.

[@shawnhenderson1130]

@@strophish way to be a sourpuss lol. I've told guys EXACTLY how to fish an area, what to use, when to use it, where to go ect. Then gone out and just killed it and limit the boat. Yet they still manage not to catch anything. It's still fishing that's what makes it fun. There is zero harm in helping someone be a better fisherman, or are you just one of those, cant give away his "secret spot" cause then all the fish will be gone, kinda guys. The title says helpful hints when it does little to no help for amateur fisherman just getting started. But hey way to be a dick I'm sure you get a lot of good friends with that attitude 👏👏

[@strophish]

@@shawnhenderson1130 LMAO!! Maybe they should time stamp all of pertinent info for you/him. Literally every single detail of how,when and where to fish is in this video. What did they leave out? Oh I know, the brain power necessary to watch a video. You can’t fix stupid

[@gregkahler]

Why do you net them if they are to be released?

[@Nechrael]

Its almost impossible to tell if they need to be released while swimming in open water. The only way to get a good look at the adipose fin is to net them first.

[@gerrellbradshaw3918]

A lot of times you don't know if they're wild or hatchery until you get a good look. I net everything, that way I don't loose any.

[@riffraff1880]

Especially with barbless hooks. Which I never do, I will never crimp my barbs until they day I die. Never have, never will.

[@walden6272]

What was the scent called?

[@sandwich.520]

Lost one off the pier looked just like that :(

[@riffraff1880]

martin lopez don’t crimp your barbs! I never do, ever.

[@fishingwithwunsch6034]

RiFF RAFF that’s illegal bruh, just wait for tricky Ricky to catch ya lol

[@riffraff1880]

Turn that boat in neutral man... I always shut the motor off so I can enjoy fighting my fish. I can’t stand leaving the boat in gear and dragging my salmon as I fight them. I just don’t do it. If you know how to fight fish, you don’t need the boat in gear just to keep tension on the fish.

[@OnlyOneFever]

Used to do that, but I've learned to just leave it in gear until it's close to net time. So many times (especially with coho though) they get off mysteriously when the engine is backed off.

[@ivanchu1164]

Wrong Riff. As a professional guide, my advice is to leave the boat in gear until net time. Unless you fish from a center console, you can't follow the fish to front of the boat if the fish should choose to do so. Leaving it in gear also allows you to to control your boat keeping the fish on one side or directly behind, When fishing in crowds, it's fishing courtesy to move out of the "hot spot" while playing a fish and that way you have less chance of a tangle with another fisherman or someone's downrigger. I see you made a comment about the clicker...leave it off as it's the alarm bell for pesky seals and sea lions. Just my 2 cents.

[@riffraff1880]

That’s a shitty clip job the hatchery did there.. almost looks like a nate.

[@gotthyme]

RiFF RAFF was thinking the same 🤔

[@OnlyOneFever]

Would've taken me several looks and some figuring a story for WDFW that it was good.

[@riffraff1880]

Turn your clicker on man so you can hear that sucker run!

[@WitkowskisFishingSickness]

My uncle is a fishing guide. And he has taught us since kids to always turn the clicker off. Everytine my family and i see a fishing video where they dont turn it off. "We say turn the clicker off asshole!" Jeff Witkowski's my uncle is the fully camofladged guy in the intro to this video

[@cnow7583]

No info. Stop billing it as such. This video sucks.