Foggy Morning Gillnetter Pulls Into Fishermen’s Terminal, PNW Fall Fishing
Fog and fishing in the Pacific Northwest is no joke. This is the time to be on your toes while at the helm. No Captain likes to run or jog in the fog. Fall fishermen and work boats in NW to AK get used to driving the boat by gut, not all of these boats are tricked out with the latest and greatest technology and advanced high-tech radars to help these fishermen and tug boats get into the narrow ship canal. This morning especially was thick as soup with visibility about 10′ max.
Gillnetters Pulling Into Fishermen’s Terminal Fall Fishing PNW, Extra Foggy!
Fall fishing is always extra exciting when jogging home in our thick Seattle fog, pulling into Fishermen’s Terminal. Seattle and the greater PNW is famous for its epic fall and winter fog. There are two main types of fog in the Pacific Northwest, and we are the lucky ones that get both varieties, both are directly related to the dew point.
For instance Seattle’s dew point is the temperature at which the air becomes 100% saturated. At this point, the air condenses into water droplets, which we see as fog. The lower the dew point, the drier the air, and vice versa. For example – If you have a temperature of 80 degrees and a dew point of 60, that feels quite humid. But if it”s 80 degrees and a dew point of 45 degrees, that”s much drier and more comfortable. In the southeast and Midwest summers, dew points can range from 60-70 degrees, which is very humid and feels uncomfortable.
In the Pacific Northwest and western Washington, we tend to be between 45 and 55 degrees in summer, which keeps our summers very comfortable, even on warm days. It is a standard in the NW in our fall & winter seasons on the water, boaters learn to expect fog when at the wheel especially early and top of the morning.
Kathleen K. Trident Tender, Fall Fishing Tender, Docked at Fishermen’s Terminal PNW, Fog Thick As Soup Rising…
Fishermen’s Terminal Seattle Ship Canal, morning fog temperature and dew point are equal making for a saturated morning with little visibility. As the fog lifts slowly at the top of the morning, F/V Kathleen K. Trident Seafoods tender lays up, put to bed over at Fishermen’s Terminal for now, until they go back out and take fish for our PNW Seattle Seiners who are doing all fishing. SE Alaska Fishing was not so great this past summer, now that seiners are back in the lower 48 a lot of them are hitting it hard fall fishing in the Puget Sound.
Ballard Locks has had a ton of gillnetter and seine fishermen traffic during openings. God bless our fishermen and our PNW to AK growing number of recent ‘fisherwoman!’ Being that I was one of the only girl/chick at sea out on the water in Bristol Bay, AK growing up, it’s still shocking to see this many new young women in these past few recent years get out there and go fishing. “You Go Girls, Be Tough, Don’t Ever Complain & Suck It up! You can do it! Hard work brings great reward! Show those boyz how it’s done!”
C Jewel, 35m Nordlund, Getting More Shipyard Work Done… Morning Fog Lifting, Ballard Bridge Fog Thick As Soup During Fall Fishing PNW Sunrise
Morning fog lifting in the ship canal as Ballard Bridge emerges. C Jewel, 114 ft. Nordlund gets fall shipyard work done again. This Seattle yacht is no stranger to refit life and seasonal upgrades after she gets back from summer sport fishing and cruising in Alaska waters. C Jewel was built by Nordlund in 2003 in the Pacific Northwest. Lake Union Boat Repair, per choice of the new owner who purchased the boat and changed the name to C Jewel a few years ago, she has since been a regular with Lake Union Boat Repair and their fine team of seasoned marine craftsmen.
