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By: JM73
Posted: 7/20/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went back out to chase Kings again today but didn't manage any fish in the box. My friend managed to land a native king around 20"/5lbs that unfortunately had to go back. He hooked that one on a cut...
By: JM73
Posted: 7/20/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 3pm on Wednesday to try for a King. Used all kinds of trolling gear including fresh herring. Managed to land one shaker myself but my brother made the day with a nice 15lb king....
By: Roman201
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to dash point today around 3 pm. First came with in 5 min a school of around 5 came in. Nobody caught anything. Then in 2 min another school comes in a guy caught 1. Then in 2 hours 1 fish floats...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Worked Dalco to the Campground during the outgoing tide, then came back across to work the beach during the incoming tide. Caught three sharks, zero salmon. Fish checker said so far had counted 5 chin...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 7/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So this will be a short one~ now I know how this can go with one day being hot the next dead but couldn't let that deter me away from my quest of back to back King days!! Stano came along again and ...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 7/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2013
Hot Spots: 2
So with Sunday being a bust at Pt. Defiance as I had to work Saturday and went to the Mariner game that night to see Felix win his 10th game but woke up feeling woozy so didn't make the O' dark 30 tim...
By: spokey9
Posted: 7/17/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Dash Pt. today from about 8am til about 3pm. Started off tossing off the front side hoping for a king to hit, after about an hour without even a shaker chasing, we switched up to the pink stuff...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Ever have a day were you can’t buy a bite? I had one today. I went with Cami and Glen of F24 starting at 5:30am by the Girl Scout Camp (Stealth). One person that was there at first light and a reg...
By: Elkhunter001
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well the reports on here were right, just before sunup we picked up our only fish of the day. Too bad it got off just outside of the reach of the net. Using a plug in about 90 feet of water.
By: Kaptain King
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I put in early down at Thea's Park and to check my crab pot and re-bait it. I ended up with two keeper Dungeness with my first pull. The pot was totally full with males that were oh so close and a cou...
By: shannon
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't seen a lot of reports for salmon in area 11 and I know there has been a lot of people out there so I thought I better start chiming in. Been out several times this year and have had consiste...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Crabbed along ruston for a couple hours with only two pots and fished for flounder while we let them soak. I threw all my bait in the crab pots, so I went after the flounder with a texas rigged drop s...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 7/6/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fish Princess was itching to go crabbing so I developed a plan around the slack current around 0945.
Launched at Pt Defiance ramp about 0515 and headed out to give the salmon a shot while we waited...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 4am on the water. Dropped crab pots and started trolling. Used cut plug herring the whole day, green label, behind flashers. The only real adjustments we made through the day was depth. We ...
By: jimmydkokanee
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Rob,I and his friend Ross went to Pt. Defiance to hit the opener of crab season.Got our six pots in the water at 7:01 then decided to do a little salmon fishing,thought it was a little funny,there mus...
By: Kaptain King
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Launched the yak for opening day of crabbing season and it did not disappoint!!! I used chicken parts bought from Safeway because I couldn't make it to my usual place for salmon heads, backs, etc. I h...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I met up with Cami and Glen at 5am at the Point Defiance launch. We ran straight over to the girl scout camp and trolled. We saw a few people hook up. We released 2 dogfish and towards the end I relea...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fished two days.
Saturday mostly trolled Brown's Pt. zero bites.
Sunday morning woke up to a motor that wouldn't trim down... so delay of game for about 2hrs until I manned up and just decided to ...
By: snags
Posted: 6/8/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out a little late this morning to catch the 11:45 tide change at Redondo. There was a slight breeze this morning, and the water was dirty. There was seaweed completely covering the launch, which ...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Stuffy got the worst fish skunk in years.
Started at 4:45 Defiance launch with my Nephew.
Pulled away and rubbed downrigger arm against dock and cracked the base. I needs to get the fiber...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I had set the alarm for 4am to meet Glenn and Cami of F24 at the launch at 5:30am. I fell asleep around 10pm, woke at 12am, then fell asleep around 2am to be woke up by the alarm at 4am. I laid there ...
By: Kaptain King
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I got up at 5:00 AM to hit the slag pile in our kayaks in search of lingcod. Caught one lingcod that was too small and a whole bunch of flounder. The flounder were pretty good sized so we...
By: triehl27
Posted: 5/4/2013
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Well the sky and temps were fantastic, the water was ROUGH. When we left out of Des Moines it was choppy, by mid way to Pt Beals, it was 1ft rollers, when we got there it was into 2 ft waves. We got...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 1/5/2013
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got out for squid. First time in over 15 years. Went to the Silver Cloud dock from 7 to 9 last night. I got 3; one guy got maybe 12. Most were getting none. Only 10 or so people there. Les D...
By: fishinjerry2000
Posted: 12/15/2012
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went Squid fishing first time this year at Les Davis Pier. Many people there and saw a few limits. Started squidding around 530pm and caught 6 or 7 right away and then slowed way down. I believe if we...