Has anyone tried the Chico Way boat ramp?  How is it on different tides?
Fished from shore this morning to scout the area....seems ideal from a kayak as the chum were really moving a lot about a hundred yards farther than I wanted to wade.  The bottom is really muddy.  Got pretty stuck a few times.  Got one aggressive follow but no take.  Still not sure the speed to strip...but beautiful morning to be out.

That's the one.  I might try it next weekend, although parking looks pretty tight.

I was wade fly fishing at Chico Creek yesterday and was thinking the same thing about how to get my kayak in there.  There were a lot of jumpers but I got no biters other than a small flounder.  Guy next to me hooked the only Chum that I saw anyone get.

Where exactly is the boat ramp?  I was trying to figure out how I could get my Outback down the path to the shore but some tight spots on the path along the creek looked like they would prevent that.

Kevin

I was wade fly fishing at Chico Creek yesterday and was thinking the same thing about how to get my kayak in there.  There were a lot of jumpers but I got no biters other than a small flounder.  Guy next to me hooked the only Chum that I saw anyone get.

Where exactly is the boat ramp?  I was trying to figure out how I could get my Outback down the path to the shore but some tight spots on the path along the creek looked like they would prevent that.

Kevin

NW Meredith, just off Chico Way. Looks like a concrete ramp, not much parking

https://www.google.com/maps/place/47.611289,+-122.709304/@47.6113008,-122.7092531,19z/data=!3m1!1e3

Thanks.  I'm always puzzled why they build ramps with no parking, I've seen a few of them like that on that side of the sound.

Often times the "ramps" are intended for drift boats, they're dropped in, then the truck and trailer are shuttled down to another ramp.

Quote from: kredden on November 06, 2018, 09:40:35 PM

Thanks.  I'm always puzzled why they build ramps with no parking, I've seen a few of them like that on that side of the sound.

Cannot speak to this one specifically but some of the ramps are historical access points and road ends there were "converted" into official ramps.  The land around them is private or became built on so no parking lot land is available to buy, which means parking on the shoulder or somewhere nearby.  There is one on the Longbranch peninsula, at 72nd St SW, which is good example.

Yep. It’s a legal history artifact, from Washington laws governing the shoreline and tidelands ownership. If a road had a bridge, dock, or another facility that gave public access to the water, then that public ownership and access remains in force even after the facility is gone.   Some of these have become boat ramps, like this one. Some are just a dead end road and a strip of beach blocked by a retaining wall or rocks or such.  There are a fair number of them around here.