Puget Sound Fishing Report: Silvers Schooling, Chums Building, and Blackmouth on the Southern End

Artificial Lure here with your Puget Sound fishing report for Wednesday, October 15th, 2025. Let’s get right to what local anglers need to know for a productive day near Seattle. First, **weather and marine conditions**: National Weather Service expects mostly calm winds this morning—northerly at 5 to 10 knots and waves around 2 feet or less in Puget Sound and Hood Canal. Afternoon clouds may build, but the day looks mostly dry, with only a chance of light rain late tonight. Dress for those shifting fall temps; expect upper 40s early, climbing into the mid-50s by midday. **Sunrise hit at 7:30 a.m. with sunset at 6:21 p.m.** That means your best dawn bite window will hit just after lines can be legally wet, and you’ll have solid evening light for those last casts along shadow lines. **Today’s tide chart for Seattle shows a low at 6:23 a.m. (0.6 ft), high at 2:27 p.m. (11.1 ft), and another low at 8:39 p.m. (5.7 ft)**, so plan to fish the incoming for active predators chasing bait[11]. Current seams, rip lines, and the mouths of local creeks should be moving water and drawing hungry fish. **What’s biting?** This cooling October water has kicked up the fall coho (silver salmon) bite. Silvers are schooling at first light along main channel points and rip currents. Work your presentations early along structure and tide rips. The coho run has been steady, with local reports of most boats landing 2–4 fish per outing. Fish are averaging 5–7 pounds but don’t be surprised by a 10-pounder in the mix. Some bigger hooknose silvers have come from deeper water just north of Shilshole and off Edmonds. Chum salmon are showing in the lower reaches; numbers are building but expect the main push near local rivers in the coming weeks. Early chums will take flashy high-contrast patterns, especially after a freshet; think black/purple jigs under floats or big chartreuse spinnerbaits when the water is a little off-color. In the salt, resident blackmouth (immature Chinook) are in modest numbers, mostly on the southern end near Point Defiance, but also available from Jefferson Head to Possession Bar, especially on the turn of the incoming. Lingcod season is closed now, but some hungry flounder and pile perch are still available for those bottom-bouncing a chunk of herring or sandworm off piers and docks. **Go-to tackle:** For coho, twitching 3/8-ounce marabou jigs in pink/white, purple, or chartreuse are hot—twitch with aggressive sweeps and pause, especially near kelp edges or rocky points. Small 2- to 3-inch spoons (Coho Killers, Puget Pounders) in silver or neon finishes are scoring well trolled at 40–60 feet behind a dodger or flasher. For chum, switch to bright chartreuse and black or pink patterns, weighted for drift, and hit creek mouths after rain. Early-morning topwater poppers or flashy spinners can draw out aggressive takes from coho around rip lines. **Best baits:** Plug-cut herring or anchovy—brined to toughen them up—remains a classic, especially fo This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.