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By: Toni
Posted: 10/30/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Chum fishing in Area 13 by Shelton with Trent and Steve is always a hoot and it was again for 2013. The chum weren’t as cooperative as in the previous years but they were there to be had. It is always...
By: gascan
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went out Sat. afternoon and fished till dark, no salmon caught just 2 dog fish and lots of seals. Sunday went out in morning in the fog, ended at Nisqualie flats in 5' of water and had to work my way...
By: bruceka49
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The low tide made it interesting to begin with. After slowly making it out to the channel it was decision time. Anderson Island, the green can at the mouth of the Nisqually, look for pinks along Dupon...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is fairly late-- but figured I'd submit for historical reference. A friend and I launched out of Luhr's Landing around 5:30 pm; returning at 8:30. High tide was 7:33. We dropped two crab p...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 3
just east of boston harbor in about 70ft of water, pulled two nice limits of HUGE red rocks. some of these things were pushing WAY over dungy size. just a couple salmon heads and a few hours soak. def...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Heard rumors of fish hooking up, and saw lots of people working the area but did not see a single fish caught. With the exception of the two sharks I hooked into. both on a plug cut herring behind gre...
By: jjm98401
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Out for a few hours with my kids enjoying the good weather. Lots of seals out and about. Son caught his first pink of the season casting a pink buzz bomb off the swimboard.
By: curtisdebell
Posted: 8/4/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the Sound by Steilacoom. Set four traps at about 60 feet deep and ended up with 5 redrock crabs. We got as many starfish as crabs which were difficult to get out of the trap to toss back, ...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/28/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Boston harbor and dropped of 2 pots at 12:45pm. Putted around fishing caught 1 red rock on the fishing pole and 1 flounder. Checked the pots after about an hour 1 keeper red rock in 1, and for...
By: doubleo6point9
Posted: 7/24/2013
Species: Flounder
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Not much to report since I don't actually know where in Area 13 we were fishing since we were on my cousins boat but we absolutely slayed the rock sole that day. I don't know how many we actually caug...
By: Bretts Dad
Posted: 7/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was out at Browns Pt. theSaturday looking for pinks with no luck, but did talk to a fly fisherman who said he had done well with coho and cutthroat at Narrows Park. We headed down there on Sunday wit...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't check the tide, my son and I got to the dock at low tide. Used chicken parts for bait in traps. Two traps soaked for two hours with nothing, saw others catching a couple red reck. Since it was ...
By: fishingbuds
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day of crabbing! Caught a five man limit of 25 crab. We have 8 pots and pulled them all up twice. Even threw back 4 keepers since we limited out, and swapped out the smaller ones. They su...
By: madrussian
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day for crab. Many 8 inch tops...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got a new boat last month (14 foot WC Lund). My fiancée and I took it out for the first time today. We launched out of Luhr's Landing around 4:30 pm; high tide was 6:33. Plenty of things went wrong ...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fished incoming tide in the new boat with a buddy and the wife. It was more about getting to know the boat than anything but we did a lot of fishing as well. boated (and released) 3 cabezon, 1 rockfis...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Very late report, but on Easter I went manila clamming just north of the Bay Shore Golf Course near Shelton. Limit of 40 manila clams is easy digging there, even during a low plus tide. Very mucky mud...
By: Nangusdog
Posted: 3/9/2013
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Nisqually Delta today from my Kayak... caught plenty of Sole and Starry Flounder all day. The bite was really strong just before and after low tide.
By: r.sok
Posted: 3/4/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a nice day so we decided to try fishing at Ruston way in Tacoma. My fault for not checking the tidal charts, the water was getting lower & lower by the minute. Managed 3 pile perch, lost 5 hit,...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 1/26/2013
Species: Squid
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A coworker and I went squid jigging Tuesday night before the rains came back. We got one (really small) squid in two-plus hours. The squidding was very slow over all, but it was one of those nights wh...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 1/7/2013
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went squid jigging with my buddy Jordan Saturday night. We were there from about 5-7:30 pm. The dock was packed! We had to kind of jig off to the side, but I got to test a new light. I recently purc...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/12/2012
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/10/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I've gone squidding three times in the last two weeks off of the Clyde Davidson public fishing pier in Steilacoom. As a rookie squidder I am amazed at how nice most of the folks are at the pier! I've ...
By: lost360
Posted: 12/4/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Perry creek cought some boots lost a good one . Was a good day
By: lost360
Posted: 12/3/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to mud bay not to much going on today was not there long
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of buddies invited me to chase chum in the south sound. We launched out of Boston Harbor at noon and headed up Hammersley Inlet. We checked out every hole from from Boston Harbor to Shelton C...