kimp Loc: Clallam Bay WA

My name is Kim Perete. I am from Clallam Bay WA. Clallam Bay is about 20 miles from the Northwest most point of the US. Pretty much the end of the road. It is a beautiful place on the shore of the Straits of Juan de Fuca. I can see Vancouver Island from my front porch. Back in the good old days, this area was considered one of the best sports fishing areas in the world. There were many species of Salmon, bottom fish and Halibut. The town of Sekiu was filled with motels and restaurants for the crowds of tourists and fishermen to enjoy. When the fishing regulations
changed and the sports fisherman's limits severely reduced it didn't take long for businesses to close and crowds turned into small bunches. Now Sekiu is mostly privately owned. The fishing season and the daily limit have been greatly reduced as well as gas prices have soared so it is not so busy anymore.

This year has been a great year for fishing. It is the first year in many that you can actually sit on the beach and watch the salmon jumping out of the water and the water will bubble as the bait fish swim by. I can't remember the last time this happened. People, mostly locals with no boats are lining the shore, catching their limit of 2 salmon and an occasional flounder. I guess two years of almost no fishing was a good thing, it might be something to consider, skipping a year here and there for everyone including Native fisheries. We might get our salmon and halibut and bottom fish populations back to reasonable sizes. Just a thought!

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Welcome to the stage Kim. That's an awesome introduction, thank you for sharing your outlook. Good Luck with your fishing and Tight Lines.

Jarheadfishnfool Loc: Woodlake/Tulare ,Ca.

Welcome to the Stage KimP, Thanks for sharing what sounds like a beautiful location ! Mom and step dad would go to Vancouver Island , Heriot Bay and camp for a month, for about 20 years in a row , not too far from you I'm guessing, good luck to you fishing ,,,🤙🤙

rgutierrez Loc: San Jose CA

Kim
Greetings from Northern California and welcome to the Stage. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. The coastal Salmon fishing here has also been very productive this year with unusually larger Salmon caught. Let’s hope this keeps up!

Huntm22 Loc: Northern Utah. - West Haven

Tight lines! Welcome aboard

SALMON ADDICT Loc: Snohomish county Washington

Good luck getting the natives to agree to that,and try not to read anything bad into that statement, they got screwed bad many years ago and now take advantage of everything they can

Dakoda Loc: Cle Elum, WA

Nice introduction Kimp.

Tower15Man Loc: WA Olympic Peninsula

The state of Montana did that with an area for elk. They didn't close the area down, but it was a draw for permit to harvest bull elk. They limited spike hunting too. You should have heard the complaining from the hunters. This was done around 1986 and the area was just south of Helena. That area now boasts some of the largest bulls harvested. Some make the Pope and Young or the Boone and Crockett. It didn't take too many years before the monsters were seen in the back of pickup trucks.

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

Kimp...... Welcome to the Stage. Nice to have you. Great introduction piece that gives us some insight into the type of participant you are gonna be here. If you have been following this site, you can see how we not only exchange fishing tips, information & encouragement, but have even more to offer to our community here.
If not, you'll soon see. It's nice to see the recovery in your area's fishing, in spite of the pain that intervened before that took place. Fishing is cyclical, and sometimes there's a long road back before substantial improvement occurs. Great that it's happening for you. Sometimes the regulations seem onerous, but without them, total collapse of a fishery could happen, and what good would that be looking into the future?
Anyway, Good Luck in your fishing & catching endeavors, and please keep in touch. ....... nutz