We got the kayak fishing for salmon season going to a somewhat mixed start. Local fishermen have watched the numbers of returning salmon and steelhead drastically reduced over the past few years to the point where we wonder how much longer there is going to be sport fishing for salmon at all. Even before our lines went in the water for the first time, steelhead season is closed. The limit on chinook salmon is one per day with an overall limit of two salmon, which, around here, would be one chinook and one coho.
Salmon limits are probably something we won’t have to worry about. In the two days we fished, I caught one chinook and one coho, which I released, on the first day. I saw no other fish caught with about twenty five boats out.
The following day, I had no bites or bumps or anything. Again, with about twenty five boats out, I saw one salmon caught.
This is the peak of the Chinook salmon season here and to see so few fish caught is not good news. We are guessing the Chinook fishing season will be over shortly. The coho salmon usually arrive a bit later here, not sure how that will go.
Even though the salmon fishing is terrible, we still have to give it a try whenever we can because someday soon there may not be any salmon fishing at all.