Tacoma Salmon Charters

Commencement Bay opener in area 11 was off to a slow start on 8-1-11 but is improving each day with more Pinks/Humpies  and Hatchery Chinook showing up in most of the local reports. The big fun starts when the Humpies congregate along the shore and can be caught with ultra light tackle casting  pink lures or trolling white or chrome flashers and dodgers with pink lures. Limit is four per person per day.

Crabbing opener  count was great with limits of 5 per person but has declined  due to the over crabbing by the tribes and the large number of  recreational crabbers.  I will continue scouting and

As you know (and even if you don’t) I have been working withQwest Business to get social media upand running for my small business. For the last 2 months I have had a coach to help me to not only learn the basics of blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, but to guide me along the path of understanding what social media is all about. The best part is that is was all free. All I had to do was blog about my experience in the program. Before I got to her, I worked with Qwest to build this blogsite. They had me customize all of my colors and fonts to set it up how I liked it – which is always a good thing. When I got to my coach, I was not really too familiar with any of these platforms.

After the first couple of calls to get an overview of all ofthe social media tools that Qwest had set me up with, my coach and Iwent out to find a following. Of course we went to my own network first and got the word out to my Facebook friends and all of my email contacts. We saw a handful of people come through, but we needed to expand our horizons. Thus, we went to some of my other Facebook friends to if they could recruit some people to my Facebook page. We didn’t getto 25, but we are well on our way. Another thing we practiced was networking with other businesses online by liking their page and writing on their wall.It’s always good to let others know that you appreciate them, not to mentiongetting some exposure to their followers. There is definitely a lot of maintenance involved in social media. Since time with my coach has come to anend, hopefully I can keep this up even with all of the insanity of my fishing trips!