Salmon Chasers

Happy Halloween everyone

Well unfortunately the 2026 season is done for us. But what an amazing year. The boat might be put away, the marina and campgrounds might be closed, but the memories of an amazing year are all still there. We had some wonderful opportunities to meet some great new people to go along with all of our great regulars. And while we might not have been able to get everyone out with us that wanted to go fishing, I’m glad we were able to get most of you out with some of the captains we work with. We were spoiled with better than average fishing for sure this year. Aug came as a great surprise with keeping cool enough water around to produce some amazing catches. We had a stint from Aug 10th thru the 16th where we were averaging over 30 bites per 5hr trip. I’ll put up just a few of the great pics from this year. And yea we are taking bookings for 2027. Thanks to those of you that book for the following year before we are even done with this years trip. Brandon and I appreciate every single one of you. Thank you for an incredible year.

A quick 10 fish for this great couple kept the streak going. Left the dock at 4:30 and were running back to the dock before 6:30. Lost 5 others. Deep riggers, wire dipseys and 200 & 300 coppers were on fire. Fish didn’t let us even get half the rods in before they started biting. There was a decent little chop but still able to troll any direction. There were fish getting caught from 50-110’. Taking tomorrow off so Brandon can run home, see the Mrs and do some laundry. Hope we can keep it going Thursday morning.

This morning we had to work harder to get our fish, but we kept the streak alive. 13 made the cooler and as many got away. There was definitely some healthy rollers out there, but not much for a wave, so about any size boat was able to get out and get fish. Water was again a bit warmer and the prime bite window was early again.

Had a nice calm morning and sent 17 home with customers today. Should have hung 30 but had way too many quick hits. Not a trout on the hook this morning. They went nuts again early with scattered bites after sun up.

Hung 19 this morning while fishing the Westshore derby this morning. The northeast wind we had overnight really changed the water temps. We made a quick adjustment and started banging fish. At one point shortly after 5am 11 of our 14 rods were out of the water. We tossed back some smalls, and had quite a few quick hits that never hooked up. Definitely a fun day with a great group of regulars. Thankfully the weather man was wrong and today was actually nicer than yesterday.

This morning was definitely the roughest we’ve had in the last couple weeks. We started trolling into the waves before they built up and then surfed our way back. Managed to put 10 in the cooler plus 3 littles that weren’t releasable. We did let some go and lost 8 others. Kept the double digit streak going. Had a 12.5lb brown that I really wish we would get tomorrow. Good luck to those that plan to brave the SE blow tomorrow for the Westshore Derby. We’ll be out there bouncing around

Well this morning we decided to stay out til we filled the rack. Took til 8:30. Kept 20, tossed some smalls again, and lost quite a few. Seemed like they were slashing at baits more vs eating em after sunrise. Really hoping we get a couple more days of this but winds I’m sure will be changing the water. With almost no wind since year it’s already changed just with the currents.

Pretty much a repeat of the previous night for first mate Brandon. He jumped in with his buddy Alex’s boat and grabbed a third buddy Jet and hung 10 more. Guys were on fire in their little tinner. Unfortunately a bigger boat did cut off a 5 color lead core on em with their big board so will need to respool that before this morning’s trip. An unfortunate outcome when someone isn’t paying attention where they are going.