**Puget Sound Spring Awakening: Mid-April Salmon and Rockfish Heat Up**

# Puget Sound Fishing Report Hey folks, Artificial Lure here with your Sunday morning Puget Sound update. Water's waking up nicely as we roll into mid-April, and the fishing's been solid despite some gnarly weather rolling through. **Tides and Conditions** We're looking at a low around 12:12 AM hitting 2.4 feet, a high at 6:18 AM pushing 11.9 feet, then another low at 12:45 PM at just 0.5 feet, with an evening high at 7:05 PM around 11 feet. That's serious tidal swing—fish'll be moving big time on those floods and ebbs, especially that afternoon low. Sunrise is 7:08 AM, sunset at 7:26 PM. Major bite windows are hitting from 6:30 to 8:30 AM and 6:41 to 8:41 PM with a first quarter moon stirring things up. Weather's holding mild in the 50s with light winds, though there's a Gale Warning through 11 PM tonight with southwest winds 20-25 knots gusting to 35—be careful out there. **Fish Activity** Spring vibes are definitely picking up. Recent reports show solid catches of Chinook and coho salmon in the Sound, plus rockfish and lingcod limits off Admiralty Head. Half-day boats are pulling 10-15 salmon per trip, with black rockfish averaging 2-3 pounds and 20-fish bags happening. Cutthroat trout are hammering in the shallows, and perch schools are thick near piers. Dungeness crab pots are full too—limits are easy. **What's Working** Fish your flies or live herring in 15-25 feet of water where striped bass are staging in the deeper channels at first light. For the salmon, trolling's producing 10-15 pounders off Jefferson Head and West Point. Drop shot those tides for rockfish and lingcod, and don't sleep on the cutthroat in shallow bays. **Hot Spots** Elliott Bay near the Seattle docks is your ticket for urban salmon action. Head north to Possession Bar for mixed bags of salmon, rockfish, and lingcod. Off Admiralty Head and Jefferson Head, the bottom fishing's been fire. Remember to check your 2025-2026 license before that April 1 switchover, and release what you don't keep. Thanks for tuning in, and make sure you subscribe for more reports. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.