Prospects are heating up in just about every direction you point the rod and reel.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca off Sekiu and Port Angeles continues to provide the best fishing for hatchery kings and coho, with some saying it's the best they've encountered in more than three decades.

"The Strait is on fire for kings and coho, and this has been some of the best king fishing we've seen in quite a long time," said Mike Chamberlain, owner of Ted's Sports Center in Lynnwood.

Fisheries checks at Sekiu and Port Angeles boat ramps showed close to a salmon per rod.

Foggy and windy conditions have been a problem of late in the eastern Strait off Port Angeles, but those around Sekiu are portraying a much different scenario.

"It's not windy here and just a thin layer of marine fog (Tuesday and Wednesday)," said Gary Ryan, manager at Van Riper's Resort in Sekiu. "Fishing has been good for kings."

The coastal salmon catches remain good, although action off Westport has cooled from their hot start last month and tuna are starting to show up off the southern coast.

"Neah Bay has been the hottest place to be, and they're catching in excess of a fish per person," said Wendy Beeghly, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist. "Ilwaco also had a good week averaging a fish per person, and the catch was pretty even at half coho and chinook."

Westport averaged 0.60 fish per person, and the bulk of the catch was chinook. Up north, La Push had 0.80 fish per person, and the catch was more coho than chinook by about a 2-to-1 ratio.

An Ilwaco boat late last week found good tuna fishing about 30 to 35 miles offshore, with five anglers landing 30 fish.

"To catch tuna this early in the season is pretty unusual, and normally it gets started at the end of July and peaks in mid-August," Beeghly said. "We've seen a few private boat trips out of Westport for tuna with no success yet."

The resident coho fishery in central and northern Puget Sound is fair, and reports indicate good numbers of kings being released off Point No Point. Both areas open for hatchery chinook on Monday.

The Dungeness crab fishery in most areas of Puget Sound and Hood Canal is very good, and is allowed Thursdays to Mondays only. The San Juan Islands southern section opens July 15 with fishing allowed Thursdays to Mondays only.

Many are keeping tabs on the Lake Washington sockeye counts, with 109,974 counted at the Ballard Locks through Monday, surpassing the preseason forecast of 45,871. It's unlikely a fishery will occur, but never say never.

In other sockeye news, 500,355 have passed above Bonneville Dam, surpassing the 462,000 preseason figure. Gangbuster sockeye fishing is expected soon in the Upper Columbia above Rocky Reach, below Wells Dam and in the Brewster Pool.

Mark Yuasa: 206-464-8780 or myuasa@seattletimes.com