• Puget Sound Fishing Report: Spring Chinook, Early Coho, and a Massive Salmon Forecast for 2025

  • Apr 23 2025
  • Length: 2 mins
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Puget Sound Fishing Report: Spring Chinook, Early Coho, and a Massive Salmon Forecast for 2025

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  • This is Artificial Lure checking in with your Puget Sound fishing report for Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

    We’re blessed with a classic Pacific Northwest spring day on the Sound. Early risers caught first light right around 6:20 am, and we’ve got fishable daylight stretching until sunset at 8:02 pm. The weather is delivering seasonally cool temps in the upper 50s to low 60s, patchy clouds, and just a light breeze—ideal conditions to get your line wet and cover some water.

    Tidal movement is looking prime for active feeding windows. The morning high tide pushed up just over 12 feet at 7:26 am, and we’ll see a healthy drop to a -0.9 foot low at 1:43 pm. Expect another solid high tide swing up to about 13.5 feet just before 10 pm. Target those tide changes—especially the morning peak and when the water starts rushing back in mid-afternoon—to increase your odds.

    Fishing activity this past week has been lively, especially with the spring Chinook and early coho moving through. April’s Springer action was reported as excellent, with quotas being hit quickly and strong catch rates all around the middle to south Sound corridors. Anglers working the Tacoma-Vashon Area and down into the South Sound have brought in solid numbers of hatchery Chinook, and the upcoming salmon forecast is looking huge—over 6 million salmon expected in Puget Sound for 2025, with the pink run forecast at 7.76 million, which will be one for the record books[2][3].

    Recently, creel reports out of Point Defiance Boathouse and the public launch have shown steady catches of Chinook
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