Tacoma Salmon Charters

Good news ! More Big Chinook  Salmon have been showing up at the traditional Point Defiance and Dalco holes than at any time since the opening day on June 1st. Most of the larger Salmon have been Wild Chinook and were released back into the water.  Hatchery Fin Clipped Chinook have been averaging 10 t0 12 pounds, so with both types showing up in better numbers it probably means the game has finally begun for the summer run  Salmon Season. Game On !

Additionally, a few Coho and a few Pinks/ Humpies are showing up at the Boat launches where WDFW checkers are keeping count, so if the daily catch includes Humpies/Pinks, we can keep a total of four Salmon per person.

Crab catches have improved also with pots dropped at non traditional hot spots where tribes have not yet trapped the bulk of the adult male Dungeness Crabs.  Remember to purchase a Shellfish license WITH a Puget Sound Endorsement in order to stay legal and avoid stiff fines.

I am starting afternoon 4 hour trips early this year in order to get as many fishers on the water as possible. I usually wait until August 1st when Commencement Bay opens.

Jerry

So, it has been more than a month with my Qwest blog coach and we are still improving things as we go! Every time we talk we make sure to check on Facebook to see if any more people have liked the page and maybe look into what people can suggest our page to their friends to hit that 25 mark! Then we go check up on Twitter and our mentions as we talked about before. Hopefully we will be able to do more networking on the site than previously. As we get more followers, it can get us more clout online. Then we can try and double the work of Twitter through reaching out to local media. It’s definitely worth a shot!

A step that my coach and I took forward this week was looking into email. Now this sounds like something extremely basic, but it is definitely an avenue that doesn’t get though about much. We decided that it would great to use an email signature to promote our social media. If you think about it, everyone is using email constantly and don’t think about how to truly use that to their benefit. After some help from my blog coach and a little googling, all of my emails will now list all of the links to my blog, Facebook page, and Twitter. This will not only increase awareness for my business, but hopefully get me more blog readers, likes, and followers! The weekly calls with my
coach are always a learning experience and we try to make it fun.
Thanks again Qwest for all of the help!

Captain Jerry

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been involved with Qwest and their social media program and I keep learning more things by the minute. Of course in the beginning, they set me up with a blog, Facebook page, and Twitter page – and they connected all of them to make it easier for me to use! Now that we are past the basics of all of these, we are looking at other ways to promote the business. For instance, we are trying to get 25 likes on our Facebook page so that we can have a shorter, cleaner website so all of you can get to our page easier! No one likes to type all of those letters and numbers at the end! If you’re reading this, help us get to that 25 by clicking here.
As far as Twitter goes, our followers keep increasing which is always good. Whenever we log in the first thing we do is check our Twitter mentions (basically like tags in pictures and posts on Facebook for all of those unfamiliar). These are the people who are talking to us and about us on the social networking site. Since this is still in its start up phase, we are getting a lot of people thanking us for following them. Who knew something so simple could be worthy of thanks? Otherwise, it’s great to be able to network with these people online. I’m so glad I am able to get all of these services for free from Qwest just in return for blogging about my opinion of the
program. Thanks!

Captain Jerry

I have been procrastinating this weeks blog waiting for a better report but it is what it is!

Opening day Crab limits were the norm  but dwindled to an average of 2 per licensed crabber the next few days.  I will try some areas where the Tribal pots have not appeared lately and maybe the population is better.

July Salmon Catching has been dismal for most of the boats and fishers checked in at the Tacoma Point Defiance Boat Launch,  except for a very few big Chinook in the 23 to 34 pound range.   A 25 pound Chinook was caught this PM by a friend of mine, so I know the big ones are arriving slowly but surely.

Area 10 at the North end of Vashon Island has been producing limits, so the fish are heading this way and should be here in better numbers by this week end or early next week. It can happen overnight too as the Island is only 15 miles long. Hatchery fin clipped Chinook are 50% of the reported catch, leaving the other 50% of “wild” salmon a catch and release fishery.

Spiny Dogfish Shark are abundant and a nuisance when we are using Herring for bait as they are drawn by the scent of blood and interfere with Salmon Fishing, so metal jigs or trolled lures seem to be most efficient. A few jiggers have caught Chinook at the “Clay Banks” too.  Not very many boats are on the water any day this week.  All that will change when more positive catch reports are published in the Tribune News Paper.

Captain Jerry