Early June Coho and Chinook: Work the Tides Around Seattle

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Puget Sound fishing report for the Seattle area. We’re working with classic early‑June conditions: cool mornings, mild afternoons, and light variable wind on the central Sound. Marine forecasts call for morning cloud cover burning off to partly sunny skies, with highs in the low 60s and a light onshore breeze building into the afternoon. That means decent chop mid‑day, but soft, glassy water at first light and again in the last hour of light. Around Seattle, tides today swing on a typical summer mixed pattern: a strong morning ebb dropping from a decent high into a mid‑morning low, then a solid flood building through the afternoon into an evening high. Sunrise is right around that 5 a.m. mark, with sunset about 9 p.m., so you’ve got long windows to work the moving water at both ends of the day. Fish activity has picked up this week. Local reports from tackle shops and marina chatter say resident coho and immature Chinook have been showing with more consistency off West Point, Jeff Head, and Possession Bar. Most of what’s being caught are shaker Chinook with a few legal blackmouth‑sized fish mixed in, plus some scrappy coho in the 2–4 pound range. Out deeper on the bars, anglers are also picking up the odd lingcod and plenty of undersized flounder. Inshore, kayakers and bank anglers are getting into sea‑run cutthroat along the beaches when the tide is flooding over structure. On the saltwater, the most productive setups have been small spoons and hoochies behind flashers. Think 3‑inch spoons in greens and glow, or white/UV hoochies, trolled 60–120 feet down depending on light and bait marks. Herring strips and whole herring, either brined or fresh, are still hard to beat if you’re running bait; anchovies work too when the coho are up and chasing. Folks mooching are doing best on cut‑plug herring worked slowly along the edges of bait balls. For bank and beach anglers, a few patterns are standing out. Small olive‑over‑white baitfish patterns for fly folks, and for hardware, 1/4‑ to 1/2‑ounce metal spoons in candlefish colors, or soft plastics on light jig heads, have been drawing strikes from sea‑run cutthroat. Early morning on the flood, casting over drop‑offs and current seams, has been the ticket. A couple of hot spots to consider: – West Point, outside Discovery Park: classic early‑season spot for resident coho and shakers. Work the contour lines on the outgoing tide, then slide a bit shallower on the flood. – Jeff Head: still one of the most consistent producers this week, with good reports of bait and mixed‑size Chinook. Troll the edges of the main hump and watch your sounder; most action has been where the bait stacks mid‑column on the incoming tide. Closer in, the Narrows and the edges around Point Defiance have been giving up lingcod to those jigging large soft plastics or metal jigs tight to rocky structure during slower portions of the tide. Just remember to check current bottomfish and salmon regulations and keep a barbless mindset. Overall, if you time your trip around that morning ebb or the afternoon flood, run smaller, natural‑colored presentations, and stay mobile until you mark bait, you’re in the game. The fish are here, they’re just making you work a bit for them. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn