Searun cutts. resident Silvers from beach

[The Quadfather]

One more post... Do any of you out there fish for the searun cutts. or the resident silvers from any of the beaches within the Sound? I do this more than anything else, just because of the proximity. I will get up before work at 6:00 am and be down there in the dark. It is pretty slow fishing, I can only speak for Carkeek Park. area 10. But other areas such as Picnic Point, area 9 are considered pretty good.
Depending on the time of year I have seen as many as 3 fish in the air at one time. That doesn't count even the many multiple of jumps.
chime in if anyone is doing this.
Disclaimer: Yeah Yeah,, I know the cutts. are a closed fishery, of course I C&R. but the fishing techiniques are the same for the silvers so you can't say what is going to hit your line.

[fishingboy]

an good chum run in the creek yet? catch any chums? edmonds is picking up for any fish. GO CHECK IT OUT!

[The Quadfather]

fishingboy,, as far as the chums at Carkeek,, I think this whole year the salmon fishing in the Sound for the most part is way off. I know some people have had success, ( A9-- just keep grinnin') but the King run this summer was horrible.
I was down there at high tide today... wish you could have seen the creek--- 40' across, like a lake. Not a single chum.
I've never seen anything like it.
Stay at the Edmonds pier if that is working for you.

[Shad_Eating_Grin]

...Disclaimer: Yeah Yeah,, I know the cutts. are a closed fishery, of course I C&R. but the fishing techiniques are the same for the silvers so you can't say what is going to hit your line.

Cutt fishing is not a "closed fishery." Per the rules, fishing for them is open year-round in Area 9. Just not open to retention.

[The Quadfather]

...Disclaimer: Yeah Yeah,, I know the cutts. are a closed fishery, of course I C&R. but the fishing techiniques are the same for the silvers so you can't say what is going to hit your line.

Cutt fishing is not a "closed fishery." Per the rules, fishing for them is open year-round in Area 9. Just not open to retention.

I kind of consider a fish that is mandatory catch/release to be a closed fish. but maybe that's just me.

[fishingboy]

it is a open and closed fishery. let me explain... on the regs. it says trout catch and released but up to 2 steelhead maybe retained.

[The Quadfather]

it is a open and closed fishery. let me explain... on the regs. it says trout catch and released but up to 2 steelhead maybe retained.

I completly understand that there is a difference.... closed is closed....don't even be targeting the species,, catch/release just means target them all day, but don't keep them. No confusion on my part, I only said closed because many people on here dont want any part of fishing for something that they can't keep.

[fishingboy]

too bad they arent steelhead! i think that they should me a season for cutts next year or in the future. it would be so awsome!:-({|=

[A9]

My Grandma has a beach cabin up somewhere in Area 10 (:-& ) that has awesome Sea Run Cutt fishing in the summer months. I've spent many hours sitting on the beach throwing small spoons/spinners out there at the jumping fish....

Lots of fun nights in the summer, fishing with the cousins on the beach on those high tides in the late afternoon/evening, fishing till its too dark to see anymore....

They sure are beautiful fish....Lots of fun to target, especially when you get them in the 20 inch (or more) range.....

[fishingboy]

is there any sea run cutts caught of the edmonds pier
?

[swedefish4life1]

Many great areas from the beaches on the sound but the seasons and times more important.
We have a real honey hole off the east side of Whidbey sitting on a Ghost shrimp bed's
Using the beach or a drift boat and kicker on a incoming tide you can hook and release still 10 to 15 fish on a tide change and there so covered in sea lice there hard to see at times there never bigger then 18 inches but on ultralight gear a ton of fun and we hook many Resident silvers doing this as well up to 8lbs:bounce: Dollies as well in less then 8 feet of water, all the little resident silvers not more then 6 to 10 feet taken right off the beach on a incoming tide pushing ghost shrimp beds:cheers:

[fishingboy]

so mainly the only fish that do get caught the edmonds pier are: shiner perch, striped perch, starry flounder, and soles, pile perch, pink salmon, coho salmon, chinook salmon, lingcod, kelp greening, cabezon, copper rockkfish, herring, black rockfish, ratfish?

[Gonefishing]

Carkeek, Picnic Point, Meadowdale Park, and Whidbey Island are the only areas I know of that have the Cuts at certain times.

Edmonds pier well you named almost everything I have ever seen caught outside of a couple beer bottles with an octopus in them.

[fishingboy]

how can you catch a beer bottle? and what redtail surf per and steelhead?

[Gonefishing]

If the bottle has barnicles on it and the your jigging near the bottom... you hook into the barnicle and bring up the bottle... I didn't do it somebody else did.

Again never seen a steelhead caught off the pier they just run along the back side near the rocks near whats left of those kelp beds.

[swedefish4life1]

THE PIER LOL JUST KIDDING:bounce:
Got the nice little hatchery Resident coho with one of my youth kids his first right off the Beach with a number 3 Vibrax spinner in rainbow and Pink gama PINCHED BARB, he earned it!!!!! Age 6:cheers:

[racfish]

One picture is worth a thousand words.................

[Blackmouth]

so mainly the only fish that do get caught the edmonds pier are: shiner perch, striped perch, starry flounder, and soles, pile perch, pink salmon, coho salmon, chinook salmon, lingcod, kelp greening, cabezon, copper rockkfish, herring, black rockfish, ratfish?

Dude, you have a ton of threads already relating to Edmonds pier and this exact same question....

Please keep this one pertaining to Searun cutts/Resi Silvers....

Quadfather: If you have access to a boat, then you'll greatly benefit by doing some scouting on the other side of the pond across from Seattle. There are some great spots around Bainbridge where you can see a great amount of active fish on the surface, and any sort of fly fishing gear mimicing a baitfish or spoon/spinner will take fish these cutts, especially in the summer months.

[DaKanati]

Yo Quadfather, I dont actually target cuts but while trolling along the beach for silvers in area 12 I constantly am hooking them. In fact caught one about 3 years ago that went every bit of 4 pounds probably 5, biggest fattest sea run Ive ever seen. Caught him off a cut plug herring right at daylight.