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By: Toni
Posted: 12/17/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance Boat House had a Squid Derby Dec. 17 from 4-6pm. It was organized and not crowded. A few squid turned up for those on the right side of the dock. My grandson and I were on the left sid...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 12/5/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I put in a lot of hours to get my 8 pounds of squid last night/morning at Redondo, 3-7 am. Every time I started to pack up, everyone started reeling in Jumbo's. The biggest school with the biggest s...
By: Johnny Darter
Posted: 11/27/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Cup of Joe in hand I made my way down to the Seahurst Park area to try for some cutthroat. Worked my way along the beach with the 20 yard walk with the 5 spread contra casts being my way of casting t...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 11/27/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Caught my limit (10 #) again at redondo, fished from midnight till 6am though..... The seals were all over at times, but only when there were so many squid that it didnt matter. I had maybe 1 lb o...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 11/16/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Extreme high tides in the sound and large tide swings led me to look over my previous squid posts from years past... I developed a hunch that just after low tide when the tide is incoming full swing...
Posted: 11/16/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Did some catch and release cutthroat fishing today on the afternoon flood tide. Went 3/6 in about 2 hrs with many more drive by's and follows ....needed to catch something didn't feel heading to Aubur...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 11/11/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Redondo pier was more crowded than Ive ever seen before. Fortunately, it was for good reason this time. I arrived at about 11 pm, I had my limit by 2 am. (high tide was about 2 am)
By: Sideburns
Posted: 11/6/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Only caught 6 squid in 2 hours at Redondo last night. Anyone heard if Les Davis pier is doing any better?
By: Sideburns
Posted: 11/1/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed back out to Redondo this morning, from 4 to 6am.
Did somewhat better this time. It was packed with jiggers again. Luckily(?) it started to downpour at about 5, and eventually had the dock t...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 10/30/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/30/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Redondo pier was fairly crowded again last night/ this morning from 3:30-7:30am. I brought lights again, as did many others. My freind and I only caught about a dozen between the two of us. The sch...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 10/24/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took a drive out to Redondo pier for a squid trip at high tide. High tide was midnight, I arrived about 1130 and stayed till 130am. The dock was packed. I brought my light setup, and so did about 6...
By: Blandfisherman
Posted: 9/10/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to a party today. They had kayaks. So I grabbed me pole with my budie. Got a gold single point barbies last master on. Got into the kayak started fishing. 6th cast fish on. Fought it for awile. J...
By: mysticbreeze
Posted: 8/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day, on the water with my wife Kim who took the day off to be with me on the water. Launched by the Vashon Ferry Dock just before first light and ran out to water around 100 to 120 feet. I dropp...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/30/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
3 of us on the boat, so we had 6 pots in the water around 6 am. checked about every hour. We were getting a lot more rock crab than I normally see but could not find too many dung. fish parts and chic...
By: tvh1882
Posted: 7/29/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We dropped our crab pots into QuarterMaster Harbor Thursday morning and let them soak for about 2 hours. When we checked them we got a total of 3 Red Rock Crab. We moved 3 pots to a different location...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 7/22/2016
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Squidding was pretty good till the seal showed up last night, got 23 in 20 minutes then 9 after the seal showed up in 3 hours. Most averaged around 6 to 8 inches. Less Davis Pier of course.
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/17/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report is a little over a week old. We went out on friday the 8th. The tide looked good to me. It was low at 02:52/5'2" going to a high at 7:50/ 9'8". So only a5'6" change. I think I have done be...
By: Onmygame
Posted: 7/15/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My youngest son and I put in at Redondo and soaked 4 pots for 3 hours on the flat south of the launch a couple of miles and trolled a bit while waiting on the crab.
While trolling we used smallish Le...
By: fishbite
Posted: 7/5/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbing was good. We were able to catch our limit of Dungees and Red Rocks in a few hours of soaking. We were also able to catch some flounder and Rock Fish and Flounders, but we threw them back. ...
By: obryan214
Posted: 4/10/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Late report. Fished friday and saturday around the clay banks for blackmouth. Action has been decent for some. Saturday was the better with 2 being released due to extra fins, another lost. Friday had...
By: MrShades
Posted: 2/10/2016
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I took my boat outside the mouth of Quartermaster Harbor on Vashon Island to fish for Rock Sole. I fished in water anywhere from 65-130 feet using small curly-tail grubs normally used for bass and sma...
By: obryan214
Posted: 2/1/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
fished the blackmouth opener this morning trolling hootchies. nothing. t was a nice calm morning on the water and only a few other boats out. one boat lost a blackmouth on his meatline at the slag pil...
By: cutthroat101
Posted: 1/5/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My son and his girlfriend were home from college and she had asked to go fishing while they were here. What could be more fun than a day chasing sea-run cutthroat! Bought bait at Pt Defiance and off w...
By: losaturn
Posted: 12/22/2015
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out and tried my hand at squidding for the first time. The water was dirty, and it was kinda slow overall. I was fishing two jigs to start off like everyone else, but later switched to four tiny ...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 12/15/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Soaked 2 pots for 3 hours. WE used a combo of fresh chicken, salmon carcasses and bait for a scent trail. We got a total of 6 small red rock. Most of them only had one claw and only 2 were legal sized...