New to NWKA/SouthSound intro

Hey all,

My name is Matt. From Gig Harbor (Western Mass originally). Love fishing from my yak. Fly fishing for Coho, cutties, diver or downrigger for kings. Love mutually shared info. I’m running a PA12 with Garmin EchoMap FF. Love it! Greetings and cheers!

Welcome to a nice group Mg.  You'll learn a lot hunting around the site  Several new folks in GH as well as a hobbie dealer right in town, might be a good place to have a small GTG. 
GH makes many good areas for casting flies for cutties as well as silvers.  You've got flat bottoms as well as big tide areas worth paying attention to.

http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/washu/washuc77001/washuc77001_part4.pdf

This like will give you an idea of currents at various times.  Great back-eddie information for casting flies.  You can change areas to the north by swithing the 4 in the link to other numbers.  Always interesting to me that the water on the west side of Vashon Island always flow north or is slack, regardless of in/outcoming tides.  Something to remember if you get up that area.
Also a good idea to remember the southern points of peninsulas such as Fox Island can be "pop-cornishly" interesting as the northern flow of out going tides hits the southern flow of water coming our of the fingers.  Just something to remember and you can paddle out of it usually be going just a few hundred feet. 

Good luck.