EC Transplant in Seattle

Hello All!

Thanks for letting me join your group! I just moved here from NJ at the end of March. I'm a life long angler who mainly fly fishes streams and Kayak fishes the salt. Striped bass, bluefish and fluke (flounder) where my usual targets.

I'm cooped up in a fremont apartment with only an inflatable float tube for the time being. I plan on purchasing a Hobie, even though I love paddling, but I need to find a place to store it first. I'm hoping someone here can share some ideas on this. Have any of you been in this predicament? I was thinking i'd make friends who can offer some yard/garage space but alas, the Seattle freeze has proven itself quite real and it seems befriending a native PNW'er is still a ways off! I'm happy to make it a financial arrangement as well!

Hopefully I can iron out these details soon and get on the water! Would love to link up and fish with some people here, I was told this is a great community! I'll leave with pic of the love I left behind, caught on a early spring day in Sandy Hook bay, NJ. Tight lines all!

-Eli

Hello All!

Thanks for letting me join your group! I just moved here from NJ at the end of March. I'm a life long angler who mainly fly fishes streams and Kayak fishes the salt. Striped bass, bluefish and fluke (flounder) where my usual targets.

I'm cooped up in a fremont apartment with only an inflatable float tube for the time being. I plan on purchasing a Hobie, even though I love paddling, but I need to find a place to store it first. I'm hoping someone here can share some ideas on this. Have any of you been in this predicament? I was thinking i'd make friends who can offer some yard/garage space but alas, the Seattle freeze has proven itself quite real and it seems befriending a native PNW'er is still a ways off! I'm happy to make it a financial arrangement as well!

Hopefully I can iron out these details soon and get on the water! Would love to link up and fish with some people here, I was told this is a great community! I'll leave with pic of the love I left behind, caught on a early spring day in Sandy Hook bay, NJ. Tight lines all!

-Eli

Can always ID an East Coast striper by its perfect stripes. IMHO they're the best sport fish, you'll miss them while you're grinding in the saltwater for a salmon that has a high probability of coming off when you hook it.

Ah the grass is always greener on the other side! Stripers are great, but they are not the hardest fighting fish. You can catch them in all sorts of different ways though which is fun.

I'd be pretty happy with hooking and losing a salmon at this point!

I grew up in a similar fishery with my dad chasing similar fish in the Chesapeake Bay before the fishery there fell apart.  I hear it's recovered somewhat.

Be patient.  The fishing and the waters are quite a bit different on this coast.  I started fishing here about 5 summers ago.  Last year was too busy to fish much but for four years on a kayak I still haven't figured it out.

Oh yea tell me about it. I've been studying the reg book for 2 months! It seems nothing is simple in this state, but I do agree that its worth it. So many beautiful places.

I'm cooped up in a fremont apartment with only an inflatable float tube for the time being. I plan on purchasing a Hobie, even though I love paddling, but I need to find a place to store it first. I'm hoping someone here can share some ideas on this. Have any of you been in this predicament? I was thinking i'd make friends who can offer some yard/garage space but alas, the Seattle freeze has proven itself quite real and it seems befriending a native PNW'er is still a ways off! I'm happy to make it a financial arrangement as well!

There are a number of places with on the water kayak storage on Lake Union, not far from Fremont.  I have stored kayaks at Northwest Outdoor Center, but there are other places.  The bass fishing on Lake Union can be decent at times, which is nice for a quick evening urban getaway.

-Allen

Welcome!  I spent many years in the NY/NJ area.  Been out here for 3 years now and love it.  If you'd like to talk Hobies then come on down to Outdoor Emporium in Seattle!  We are a little tapped out right now but I have a shipment coming in around the 15th or so and we've got a demo day at Ballinger Lake coming up on the 27th.  If you do come down I work Thu/Fri/Sun/Mon.

Kevin

Hey man, I'm down in Seward Park (pretty far for kayak storage) but down to fish just about any time.

Oh yea tell me about it. I've been studying the reg book for 2 months! It seems nothing is simple in this state, but I do agree that its worth it. So many beautiful places.

To really blow your mind, the regulations aren't even out yet. If you're trying to figure out this years salmon fisheries coming for the 2020-2021 Puget Sound season I'd start here:
https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020-21-puget-sound-recreational-chinook-coho.pdf

Fishing in Puget Sound for salmon, especially Chinook, is highly technical and requires a lot of physical effort. The kayak is a good platform though, it really shines at jigging for Chinook as a lot of my posts are testament to. I fill catch cards up with Chinook every summer but miss stripers and halibut enough to make the 1200 mile round trip to the SF Bay to fish for them every year...