Annual Fishing Calendar?

I know that I'm only taking advantage of a small slice of the fishing opportunities in the region, and those too seldom. I'd like to up my game in both frequency and variety of fishing, including in the winter months. Which fishing do you target as the calendar unfolds? I've entered a couple of to kick it off...

January:
-Columbia sturgeon
-Coastal bays (fishing, crabbing)
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Ocean rockfish

February:
-Columbia sturgeon
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Coastal bays
-Ocean rockfish

March:
-Spring salmon
-Columbia sturgeon
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Coastal bays
-Ocean rockfish

April:
-Spring salmon
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Coastal bays
-Ocean rockfish

May:
-Spring salmon
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Coastal bays
-Ocean rockfish

June: 
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Mountain lakes
-Ocean rockfish

July:
-Mountain lakes
-Ocean rockfish

August:
-Mountain lakes
-Ocean rockfish

Sept:
-Mountain lakes
-Ocean rockfish

Oct:
-Mountain lakes
-Ocean rockfish

Nov:
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Coastal bays
-Ocean rockfish

Dec:
-Low elevation lakes (trout)
-Coastal bays
-Ocean rockfish

July-Dec. SALMON!!!!!!!

July-Dec. SALMON!!!!!!!

Springers tho

You can get into some Kokanee in the early months at certain lakes as well.  Jan-? Kokanee.

Not all fishing has to be from a kayak. There's clamming (use the yak as transport across coastal bays to mud flats if you must), and crabbing from a yak or not.

Plus, surfperch, not to mention salmon and steelhead at the right times of year, from drift boats or banks. Hint: use your yak to get to those gravel bars you can't reach by land.

Great timing for this post.  Check out the January Northwest Sportsman.  It includes my top picks by month.   

-Mark-

I'm not that organized.   

I'm not that organized.   

Seasoned guy like you has it all in your head.  I need to have something like this to look at in order to figure out what I should be doing. 

Really excited to see this post.

May through August I like perch fishing in the bay.   Know others have caught them at other times of the year, but that is when I have done best.

May through August I like perch fishing in the bay.   Know others have caught them at other times of the year, but that is when I have done best.

I believe you have a plaque to prove it!

I like to keep things simple.

Jan-June: Fish!
July-Dec: Fish!

-Allen

This calendar is is very helpful to someone who is prospectively moving to the area this year.  It's good to hear I can target rockfish year round. Would you guys say that it would be possible to comfortably fish them out of a yak 12 months of the year? With a dry suit, of course


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Depends on what you mean by comfortable.  Depending on where you relocate, the ocean can be impressively unfriendly in the Winter months.

This calendar is is very helpful to someone who is prospectively moving to the area this year.  It's good to hear I can target rockfish year round. Would you guys say that it would be possible to comfortably fish them out of a yak 12 months of the year? With a dry suit, of course


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There are go days in every month of the year, yes.  Learn the ropes and you will soon enough be able to make the go/no-go call for yourself.

Check the NOAA bar report.  If its all green its quite likely a go day.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/marine/BarObs.php

Like today.

I'm in Connecticut now. Two weeks ago, I was breaking through surface ice to try and catch stripped bass. Water was 34 degrees, air was 33.  I call 10 knots upper limit of comfortable here. Not sure what would be uncomfortable out there for swell. It's been a couple years since I fished the pacific,


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