Puget Sound Fishing Report 10/27/2025 - Salmon Surge, Bottom Fishing Bites, Tides Favor Morning Action

Good morning, anglers—this is Artificial Lure coming to you with your Puget Sound fishing report for Monday, October 27th, 2025. If you’re headed out today in Seattle and greater Puget Sound, expect classic Northwest autumn conditions: cool, damp air in the low 50s at sunrise with cloud cover holding throughout most of the day, and a breeze out of the south. Sunrise at 7:47 AM and sunset at 6:02 PM set great bookends for your fishing, and the first-quarter moon phase should help keep fish active through the tidal swings. The tides are in your favor for a productive day on the water. NOAA lists a very early low tide at -0.45 feet around 3:42 AM, the morning high rolling up at 11:15 AM near 14 feet, followed by a dropping tide to 8.7 feet around dinner, and an evening high at 8:22 PM. These strong tidal changes, especially around the late-morning high, should push baitfish close to structure and pull in aggressive salmon and sea-run cutthroat. Tides.net and Tide-Forecast.com both confirm these timings, so it’s a good day for planning those prime hours in the mid-morning for saltwater action. Salmon are still the talk of the sound, with reports over the weekend of solid coho and late chum being caught from shore and by boaters, especially near the shipping lanes and creek mouths. According to Puget Sound Seattle Daily Fishing Report, there’s a solid “Salmon surge” right now, and shorecasters have also been bagging resident blackmouth on both spoons and herring. The chum are staging strongest near river mouths—the Duwamish and Snohomish inlets are seeing real action. Troll cut-plug herring or pink hootchies in 20-50 feet, and be sure to work the color wheel: purple haze and chartreuse have been hot. Don’t overlook mixed-bag bottom fishing. Reports from FishingReminder just north in Bellevue and Meydenbauer Bay call out a steady bite on flounder, sole, and even the odd Pacific cod around docks and reefs—especially during the evening tide push. If you’re looking for a livewell filler, sand shrimp under a sliding sinker or a white curly-tail grub are your best bets near these structures. Crabbing remains worth a few pots if you’re licensed, with Dungeness and red rock still moving in the sandy channels during these fat tides. Best bets are deeper off Edmonds and at the mouth of Shilshole Bay. Chicken backs or salmon heads are working best. Popular lures right now: - **For salmon:** 3-inch Coho Killers, purple/chartreuse Rotators, and dyed herring strips on 2/0-4/0 hooks. - **For cutthroat:** olive-and-white Clouser minnows or small silver Kastmasters. - **For bottomfish:** 2-4” curly tails in white or chartreuse, or natural bait like sand shrimp and squid strips. Today’s local hot spots to consider: - **Edmonds Pier:** solid chinook and coho by mid-morning, plus great squid at night under lights. - **Lincoln Park in West Seattle:** consistent for cutthroat and resident coho, best around the 11am high tide. - **Point No Point:** always a classi This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.