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Puget Sound June 11 Fishing Report: Salmon, Cutthroat & Bait Bonanza
Artificial Lure here with your Puget Sound fishing report for June 11th, 2025.
Today’s shaping up classic for early summer in the Sound: sunrise at 5:12 AM and sunset at 9:07 PM, so you’ve got long daylight hours and prime fishing windows early and late. Weather is cool and dry with scattered clouds and that trademark salty breeze rolling off the water. Large tidal swings are on deck, with strong currents—especially in the morning—so baitfish are on the move, and that’s got predators fired up to feed.
Salmon action is strong across the Sound. The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife reports the Chinook bite has been solid, with anglers landing bright, healthy kings off Edmonds just yesterday. This sets up well for the rest of the week, and with a pink salmon forecast of 7.76 million—up 70% from the average—you can expect things to only get better as summer pushes on.
Resident coho are making appearances, especially around Marine Area 10 and down toward Gig Harbor. With bait balls of herring, sand lance, and shiner perch thick along the beaches, the salmon and sea-run cutthroat are lurking close to shore. Sea-run cutthroat fishing remains hot, particularly in South Puget Sound, with plenty of anglers reporting good numbers chasing chum fry along the beaches. South Sound is still seeing cutthroat and even a few early silvers; chum fry, small herring, and sand lance patterns are producing well.
If you’re working the water today, match the hatch—use chum fry imitations, small sand lance jigs, or flashy spoons like the Coho Killer. For bait, you can’t go wrong with herring under a float or trolled behind a flasher. Plugs and hoochies are solid bets for Chinook, but don’t ignore pink mini squids and smaller spoons, with those tidal swings pushing bait into concentrated areas.
Two hot spots to target:
- Possession Point, just off Whidbey Island, has been a salmon magnet, with strong tidal currents pulling in both resident and early migratory fish.
- Tacoma Narrows is another one to mark on your chart—its fierce currents are bunching up the bait and drawing in quality chinook and lingcod.
For those on the fly, the South Sound beaches are money for sea-run cutthroat and the occasional coho if you work chum fry or small streamer patterns.
That’s the word from the water today. Thanks for tuning in to your Puget Sound report—don’t forget to subscribe and stay sharp for the next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.
Today’s shaping up classic for early summer in the Sound: sunrise at 5:12 AM and sunset at 9:07 PM, so you’ve got long daylight hours and prime fishing windows early and late. Weather is cool and dry with scattered clouds and that trademark salty breeze rolling off the water. Large tidal swings are on deck, with strong currents—especially in the morning—so baitfish are on the move, and that’s got predators fired up to feed.
Salmon action is strong across the Sound. The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife reports the Chinook bite has been solid, with anglers landing bright, healthy kings off Edmonds just yesterday. This sets up well for the rest of the week, and with a pink salmon forecast of 7.76 million—up 70% from the average—you can expect things to only get better as summer pushes on.
Resident coho are making appearances, especially around Marine Area 10 and down toward Gig Harbor. With bait balls of herring, sand lance, and shiner perch thick along the beaches, the salmon and sea-run cutthroat are lurking close to shore. Sea-run cutthroat fishing remains hot, particularly in South Puget Sound, with plenty of anglers reporting good numbers chasing chum fry along the beaches. South Sound is still seeing cutthroat and even a few early silvers; chum fry, small herring, and sand lance patterns are producing well.
If you’re working the water today, match the hatch—use chum fry imitations, small sand lance jigs, or flashy spoons like the Coho Killer. For bait, you can’t go wrong with herring under a float or trolled behind a flasher. Plugs and hoochies are solid bets for Chinook, but don’t ignore pink mini squids and smaller spoons, with those tidal swings pushing bait into concentrated areas.
Two hot spots to target:
- Possession Point, just off Whidbey Island, has been a salmon magnet, with strong tidal currents pulling in both resident and early migratory fish.
- Tacoma Narrows is another one to mark on your chart—its fierce currents are bunching up the bait and drawing in quality chinook and lingcod.
For those on the fly, the South Sound beaches are money for sea-run cutthroat and the occasional coho if you work chum fry or small streamer patterns.
That’s the word from the water today. Thanks for tuning in to your Puget Sound report—don’t forget to subscribe and stay sharp for the next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.
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By Quiet. PleaseArtificial Lure here with your Puget Sound fishing report for June 11th, 2025.
Today’s shaping up classic for early summer in the Sound: sunrise at 5:12 AM and sunset at 9:07 PM, so you’ve got long daylight hours and prime fishing windows early and late. Weather is cool and dry with scattered clouds and that trademark salty breeze rolling off the water. Large tidal swings are on deck, with strong currents—especially in the morning—so baitfish are on the move, and that’s got predators fired up to feed.
Salmon action is strong across the Sound. The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife reports the Chinook bite has been solid, with anglers landing bright, healthy kings off Edmonds just yesterday. This sets up well for the rest of the week, and with a pink salmon forecast of 7.76 million—up 70% from the average—you can expect things to only get better as summer pushes on.
Resident coho are making appearances, especially around Marine Area 10 and down toward Gig Harbor. With bait balls of herring, sand lance, and shiner perch thick along the beaches, the salmon and sea-run cutthroat are lurking close to shore. Sea-run cutthroat fishing remains hot, particularly in South Puget Sound, with plenty of anglers reporting good numbers chasing chum fry along the beaches. South Sound is still seeing cutthroat and even a few early silvers; chum fry, small herring, and sand lance patterns are producing well.
If you’re working the water today, match the hatch—use chum fry imitations, small sand lance jigs, or flashy spoons like the Coho Killer. For bait, you can’t go wrong with herring under a float or trolled behind a flasher. Plugs and hoochies are solid bets for Chinook, but don’t ignore pink mini squids and smaller spoons, with those tidal swings pushing bait into concentrated areas.
Two hot spots to target:
- Possession Point, just off Whidbey Island, has been a salmon magnet, with strong tidal currents pulling in both resident and early migratory fish.
- Tacoma Narrows is another one to mark on your chart—its fierce currents are bunching up the bait and drawing in quality chinook and lingcod.
For those on the fly, the South Sound beaches are money for sea-run cutthroat and the occasional coho if you work chum fry or small streamer patterns.
That’s the word from the water today. Thanks for tuning in to your Puget Sound report—don’t forget to subscribe and stay sharp for the next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.
Today’s shaping up classic for early summer in the Sound: sunrise at 5:12 AM and sunset at 9:07 PM, so you’ve got long daylight hours and prime fishing windows early and late. Weather is cool and dry with scattered clouds and that trademark salty breeze rolling off the water. Large tidal swings are on deck, with strong currents—especially in the morning—so baitfish are on the move, and that’s got predators fired up to feed.
Salmon action is strong across the Sound. The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife reports the Chinook bite has been solid, with anglers landing bright, healthy kings off Edmonds just yesterday. This sets up well for the rest of the week, and with a pink salmon forecast of 7.76 million—up 70% from the average—you can expect things to only get better as summer pushes on.
Resident coho are making appearances, especially around Marine Area 10 and down toward Gig Harbor. With bait balls of herring, sand lance, and shiner perch thick along the beaches, the salmon and sea-run cutthroat are lurking close to shore. Sea-run cutthroat fishing remains hot, particularly in South Puget Sound, with plenty of anglers reporting good numbers chasing chum fry along the beaches. South Sound is still seeing cutthroat and even a few early silvers; chum fry, small herring, and sand lance patterns are producing well.
If you’re working the water today, match the hatch—use chum fry imitations, small sand lance jigs, or flashy spoons like the Coho Killer. For bait, you can’t go wrong with herring under a float or trolled behind a flasher. Plugs and hoochies are solid bets for Chinook, but don’t ignore pink mini squids and smaller spoons, with those tidal swings pushing bait into concentrated areas.
Two hot spots to target:
- Possession Point, just off Whidbey Island, has been a salmon magnet, with strong tidal currents pulling in both resident and early migratory fish.
- Tacoma Narrows is another one to mark on your chart—its fierce currents are bunching up the bait and drawing in quality chinook and lingcod.
For those on the fly, the South Sound beaches are money for sea-run cutthroat and the occasional coho if you work chum fry or small streamer patterns.
That’s the word from the water today. Thanks for tuning in to your Puget Sound report—don’t forget to subscribe and stay sharp for the next update. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.