Artificial Lure here with your Puget Sound Fishing Report for Sunday, September 14, 2025. Grab your gear, let’s get right into the bite and conditions for your day on the water.

Sunrise hit around 6:43 a.m., with sunset expected at 7:21 p.m. We’re looking at a mixed sky—patches of morning mist with high clouds, temps starting in the upper 50s and warming up to the low 70s under a light southwest breeze. That means steady casting weather, with little wind chop to muck things up.

Turning to the tides, today you’re working around a big morning low: minus 0.43 feet just after 4:20 a.m., followed by a solid flood tide peaking close to 9 feet at 12:20 p.m. Evening offers a moderate outgoing, bottoming out around 5 p.m. If you’re after salmon or bottom dwellers, plan to work those exchanges—especially the strong late-morning push for fast-moving coho.

Fishing activity is red hot across the region right now. The historic pink salmon run is still flooding local beaches and rivers, and reports from the Outdoor Line describe “millions of pinks returning” from Tacoma north all the way to the Straits, with anglers limiting in short order off beaches and boats alike. Silver (coho) action is turning on just in time for derby season, particularly from Everett down to Shilshole, with fat hooknose showing early each morning.

Issaquah Salmon Hatchery data confirms the run’s in full swing: August and September already brought over 8,200 Chinook, and with over 3.5 million eggs collected, you know the fish are moving. Add to that nearly 6,000 adult coho set to arrive in October and you’ve got fish in nearly every main river and tidal cut.

As far as what’s biting: beach and boat anglers are seeing rapid limits of pinks, especially using small pink metal jigs, buzz bombs, and hoochie rigs at first light. For silvers, swap in a blue or green needlefish spoon, or troll a white or chartreuse hoochie behind a dodger out in the rips. Bait boys are still scoring with herring—salted baits or fresh cut in plug-cut style are both effective when the water’s a little off-color. For the Chinook diehards, persistent trolling in 90–130 feet with large flasher/anchovy combos is producing a few big kings, something the local derby crowds are chasing today.

Don’t overlook the bottom fish; rockfish bites are fair on jigs and scented plastics along deeper reefs, but remember the new regulations on retention for some species, and handle with care. Dungeness crab season is winding down, but late pots in the sand/mud just before slack tide are still picking up enough for a feed—chicken backs or salmon carcasses seem to be the ticket.

For hotspots, put these on your radar:
- **Possession Bar**—Salmon schools gathering on the edge as the tide swings, especially just before and after the midday high.
- **Lincoln Park/West Seattle beaches**—Beaches are loaded with pinks right now, and the evening flood brings pods of coho within casting distance.
- **Point No Point**—Classic September mix of coho and blackmouth around the rips and drop-offs; watch for birds and tide lines.

Wildlife note: Keep your eyes peeled for orcas—the pods have been active, and watching them work a bait ball is a show in itself, but don’t approach and always give them space.

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