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By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I hadn't been geoducking for years, and have never been geoducking at Dosewallips State Park, so I thought I'd give it a go! A buddy and I camped at the park (very nice campground) and had a great tim...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 4/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I fished Carlisle Lake from about 10-1. Caught and released 15-20 trout a piece on spinners (barbless single hook). A lot of small fish. Really small, like 4-5 inches. But there were some...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 4/22/2012
Species: Black Rockfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Woowee. The fish sure are active off the jetty. I was fished from about 9-12 Sunday morning. Using mainly small dark-colored jigs (3-inch I think) I limited-out (10) on black rockfish and released abo...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It was such a nice day out I took my boat down to Black Lake (about a mile from my house) to get the motor warmed up for spring fishing! After cruising around the lake I trolled for trout for awhile; ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 3/25/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Munn about an hour leading up to dusk on Friday and Sunday. No action to report. I was casting size 0 blue fox vibraxes and small rooster tails from the boatlaunch area. Single point, barbles...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 3/20/2012
Species: Black Rockfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for two days-- Sunday (March 18) and Monday (March 19). I fished for about two and a half hours both days (due to really early or really late incoming tides) on the South Jetty. Black r...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 3/17/2012
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This will be a short report because I am on my buddy's fancy phone that is a pain to type on! Day one of a three day lingcod opening weekend fishing trip. No lings today, but we took a nice black rock...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 1/29/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on hard water! My girlfriend caught her FIRST FISH EVER(and then her second!) and I had my best day on the ice. Seven friends and I rented a cabin in Plain. Four of us, using two poles, spli...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/22/2011
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Razor clamming was incredible at Roosevelt Beach today. Low tide was around 4:30. I showed up around 2:30 and had an easy limit by 2:50.
Fun fish story:
Then I did some surf perch fishing. First ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/22/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished a little upstream from the handicap hole from approx. 7-9 am. I tried every color of corkie in the rainbow, and several colors that aren't. There was about 10 people around-- no sign of a fi...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I hit Luhr's Landing around 2:00 pm to do some crabbing in the sun. This was my first time ever crabbing Area 13 although I live in Tumwater (borders Olympia to the south). I used chum sa...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 11/13/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The chums were rolling in thick to the hatchery this evening! But they are still very bite shy. A buddy and I fished for about an hour and a half (3:30-5:00). We used up some left-over freezer herring...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the weekend in Copalis Beach with my girlfriend to celebrate our anniversary. I got to fish about an hour both Saturday and Sunday evening. I caught a couple of redtail surf perch both days us...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Halibut
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I camped Friday/Saturday at Salt Creek Park (amazing campground!). We were hoping to get a crack at some halibut fishing sometime during the weekend. We put my 15-foot skiff in Freshwater...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 2/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is kind of a late report, but better late than never. I fished Offut Lake from the dock for one hour Tuesday morning before the ice-rain started to fall. I had the whole dock to myself, probably ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/7/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Skok for the first time ever from about 6:20 am to noon. I only saw one fish caught and it was looking really worn down. I walked up, and hiked along side, about two miles of the fishable...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Halibut
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took a charter on May 9 for halibut. The boat limited out, but had to work at it, and the halibut were pretty small: 15-25 pound range; mine went about 20. There was a good amount of dogfish in the ar...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 3/28/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I fished the Westport jetty on March 20 and 21 for about 4 hours each day during the incoming tide. The jetty was very productive compared to last year. On day one my friend caught a med...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/25/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished upstream from the handicap hole from 6-9 am. Have you ever had a day where trees and logs are like a magnet for your gear? Thursday was one of mine! I went through a dozen pre-tied leaders in...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/22/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Carbon for the first time ever today from 6-9:30 am. I know people who fish it regularly are probably used to it, but I thought it was a total kick in the pants! I only caught pinks, and ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/20/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Nisqually from 6-8:30 am. I used almost every color of corky I had. I hooked two fish, but they both managed to evade capture. The first one was the heart breaker. It looked to be a 8-9 p...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/18/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went down to the Nisqually for my lunch break to scout it out and decided to get some line wet for 10 minutes. On my second cast a pink took my offering of an orange corky. After landing him I left ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/14/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Nisqually from 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm at the train bridge area. It was more of a scouting mission. Lots of smaller fish rolling, pinks I think? Unless they're jacks. Either way they're salmon...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 6/18/2009
Species: Black Rockfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went out on the Miss Nickel for a bottomfishing trip. Ultimate Charters (who charters the Miss Nickel) is having a $75 Tuesdays bottomfishing special during the month of June. It was the best $75, p...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 3/20/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the big jetty at Westport with some friends on 14th and 15th. We arrived a little late on the 14th and the wind was so bad we only stayed out for about two hours. We did see one guy leave wit...