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77: Your Crab Pot Is Losing Crab (Here's the Fix)

2026-09-2910:25

Your Crab Pot Is Losing Crab (Here's the Fix) Crabbing is one of the best fisheries in the San Juan Islands, and one of the few that keeps going long after salmon season closes. But a pot that is rigged wrong will lose crab on the way up, or let them walk straight back out while it is sitting on the bottom. This episode is the full setup, every piece, from the bridle to the buoy, plus the four things that make your pot legal in Washington. Episode Overview - Why an angled ramp entry holds cra...

76: Tide vs Current: Why You're Fishing at the Wrong Time

2026-09-2315:52

Tide vs Current: Why You're Fishing at the Wrong Time If you have been planning your fishing day around the tide table, you are reading the wrong instrument. Tide tells you how high the water is. Current tells you how hard it is moving, and that is what decides where the bait sits and when salmon feed. This episode separates the two, shows you where the strongest current actually falls, and gives you a repeatable way to plan any trip in any season. Episode Overview Why tide is vertical and cu...

75: Where Are All the Coho? How to Predict Salmon Timing in Washington Waters

2026-09-0418:54

Where Are All the Coho? How to Predict Salmon Timing in Washington Waters "Where's all the coho?" is the question filling up the Gold community right now, and it's a fair one. If you've been grinding August hours in Marine Area 7 without a legal fish to show for it, nothing is wrong with you or the run. This episode walks through the biology, the public data, and the regulations that explain coho timing, so by the end you can work out any species in any year for yourself instead of waiting fo...

74: Washington Crabbing 101: How to Stay Legal and Fill Your Pots

2026-08-2728:53

Washington Crabbing 101: How to Stay Legal and Fill Your Pots Two Dungeness crab come out of the same pot, same day, same size. One gives you a quarter of its body weight in meat. The other gives you less than 20%, and what you do get is sparse, stringy, and a pain to pick. Most people who have crabbed for years still cannot tell those two crab apart. This episode fixes that, and takes on the bigger surprise: crabbing has more rules than salmon does. Jamie covers every rule that can turn a fu...

73: No Downriggers? You Can Still Catch Salmon (Here's the Setup)

2026-08-2011:59

No Downriggers? You Can Still Catch Salmon (Here's the Setup) For anglers who have a boat but no downriggers or aren't ready to invest before they know they'll stick with fishing, salmon can still feel out of reach. In this episode, Jamie breaks down the simplest, most budget-friendly way to target coho and king salmon using a deep six diver instead of downriggers. This one's especially useful if you're fishing a sailboat, a smaller boat, or you're just getting started and want to try before ...

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