Steilacoom, WA report with the NWKA guys

Late report. July 2, I met up with what seemed to be the Portland chapter of NWKA. This was my first fish and chill with them.  Cody from the Portland area organized.  He fish this area as it is easy to get to, little boat traffic, has a restroom near by, and there are a lot of flatfish in the area, and no surf launching, good for newbs.  I am lucky in that is a about an hour from Bremerton. The launch is next to the Ferry Building in Steilacoom.  About 10-12 guys showed up.  3 of which were from Kitsap County (Where I live), and the rest Portland area.  The Portland guys are an active group. They like to text, from 5PM to 10 PM I was getting various text messages for a few days.  Launching was like "buttah,"  paddle a few hundred meters and you are in the zone.  Nightcrawlers were the ticket, and all of us started bring up little Sandab flatties.  Most limited out, or decided to target dogfish on light tackle.  I brought home 10 of the little guys, threw a bunch back, caught a few rockies and greenling (can't keep them in the sound).  All in all a good time by all!

COOL!
"buttah" and 'dabs go together nicely!

whak in da pahk 

Good to see the Stealth was able to handle those conditions.....conditions I have only seen in our lakes

Reminds me of video game fishing for some reason..

Looks fun. T-shirt weather 

Good stuff.  We were there a few days later on the 5th.  I ferried a bunch of kids out with trout rods and totally slayed them.  Lots of fun for the little ones because the action is non-stop.

"can't keep the rockies" wow does that go for salmon and pac hali too? If you can't keep anything in the sound, that would be a bummer.

Yeah, seems some time ago, some  commissioner allowed trawlers into the sound, guess what happened tot he rockfish?  Didn't take long for that to turn into a Goat Screw.  So we have a small Ling window (about a month), 1 cabezon, no rock fish, hali are are offshore only if I recall, and that is a small window as well. Salmon vary by whats out there, the tribes, the commercial guys, and sportsmen/women.  Tribes get 50%.

Yeah, seems some time ago, some  commissioner allowed trawlers into the sound, guess what happened tot he rockfish?  Didn't take long for that to turn into a Goat Screw.  So we have a small Ling window (about a month), 1 cabezon, no rock fish, hali are are offshore only if I recall, and that is a small window as well. Salmon vary by whats out there, the tribes, the commercial guys, and sportsmen/women.  Tribes get 50%.

Wow that's depressing. The more I learn about OR and WA, the more I appreciate what we have in CA.