this extracted from the above Everett Herald link --
BLACKMOUTH: Marine Area 9 opens Jan. 16 for a selective winter fishery allowing two clipped chinook, and it should be well-attended. All Star Charters owner/skipper Gary Krein said both Area 10, to the south, and Area 8-2, to the north, have been putting out blackmouth, and he expects good fishing when 9 opens. Feeder chinook should be running from just legal to 8 or 10 pounds.
Any of the three top spots in the "golden triangle" -- Possession Bar, Point No Point, or Double Bluff -- should produce, but Krein favors the east edge of Possession on a morning outgoing tide. On an incoming tide, he said, Point No Point might be a better choice.
He'll fish Possession close to the bottom in 90 to 120 feet of water, and he likes to start with a choice of three lures in the water: a Tomic 5-inch number 603 plug (glow white with red eye); a flasher/Coyote spoon combo; or a flasher/squid. The "yellowtail" spoon has been a good choice this winter, he said, along with the glow white/green patterns. His squid choice would be a green spatterback, and he would use a leader length of 34 to 40 inches behind the flasher with both the spoon and the squid.
The east side of Possession is easier to fish than the western, "outer" bar, Krein said. Just follow the break southward from the green buoy.
Midchannel Bank in the Port Townsend area will draw anglers as well, trolling Coyote or Coho Killer spoons, and going with the tidal run. Fishing was excellent when the season closed on Nov. 30.