Artificial Lure here with your Monday, October 20th, live fishing report for Puget Sound and Seattle. Let’s get right to what local anglers are seeing, where it’s biting, and what tackle’s turning heads.

First up, the **conditions**: we're waking up to south winds at 5–10 knots across most of the central Sound, with morning showers lingering on and off (National Weather Service Marine Forecast). Waves are holding at 1–2 feet, settling out by midday, which should make afternoon fishing comfortable. Weather is classic October—chilly, damp, and variable, so bring that rain jacket and your patience. Sunrise is 7:36 am and sunset is 6:11 pm (Seattle Tides – Puget Sound), giving us a solid fishing window from first light to just about dinnertime.

**Tides are prime** for targeting salmon and bottomfish today. The morning high hits at 5:24 am (9.1 ft), the low at 10:54 am (4.1 ft), and the afternoon high cycles in at 4:43 pm (10.1 ft) before a near-zero slack at 11:24 pm (Seattle Tides). With a substantial swing, expect fish to push up onto structure and funnel into creek mouths—classic fall staging.

Let’s talk **fish activity**: Pink salmon are surging up the Sound, staging thick at creek mouths. Several locals reported solid catches near the mouths of Pipers Creek and Kennedy Creek over the weekend, with coho mixed in and the occasional bright chinook making a final run (Puget Sound Seattle Daily Fishing Report). In South Sound, cutthroat trout and resident blackmouth salmon are on the prowl—Cutts Island and the waters off Dash Point are producing for folks trolling and casting hardware (CoastView).

Catch reports from Saturday and Sunday put pinks top of the leaderboard, especially for shore anglers using pink Buzz Bombs or small spoons. Boaters drifting herring at mid-depth or trolling flashers with white hootchies also took good numbers of coho and the odd chinook—mostly 24–28 inches, fresh and tight to the shore.

As for **lures and baits**:
- For pinks and coho, throw **pink** or **chartreuse Buzz Bombs**, Rotators, or Coho Killers.
- Bait fishermen scored with **green-label herring** rigged below dodgers at 35–55 feet.
- For cutthroat, try **small needlefish spoons** or live sand worms on ultralight gear off gravel beaches.
- Bottomfishers jigging off Elliott Bay and Alki found flounder and a few keeper rockfish using curly-tail grubs tipped with squid.

If you’re after saltwater trout, don’t miss the Derby lakes stocked until the end of October (WDFW Trout Derby info).

**Hot spots for today**:
- The mouth of Pipers Creek in Carkeek Park—salmon staging now.
- Dash Point Pier—coho and sea-run cutties in the mix.
- Shilshole Marina breakwater—solid resident blackmouth bite on the morning tide.

Quick tip: With the showers, fish deeper and slow your presentation. Salmon will move shallow near creek mouths on a rising tide, so time your casts for those periods.

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