Northwest Fishing Reports

Anyone have any tips on location and what to throw off of shore? I'm new to fishing in the area and totally clueless about saltwater. I don't have a boat so I'm limited to shore. I know the cohos are gathering at this time and I want a piece of the action. I'm thinking of hitting point-no-point from the beach and throwing a large vibrax spinner or a buzz bomb and/or other heavy weighted jigging spoons.

Any tips for a newbie saltwater fisherman would be great.

hey sorry I dont have any info for you on this<but i too am new to the area and am in the same exact situation...im from the east coast and have mostly just fished freshwater my whole life but I really wanna get in on the same action your talkin about..hit me up if you get any good tips and i for sure will do the same...also where are you trying to fish?

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Heard it`s been good at fort casey on whidby island. Haven`t been up there yet though. I`m new to the salt too.

I'm gonna hit point no point this week. I'll let you all know how I do.

you can hit the "shore" in the salt or rivers right now..

Mukilteo beach over by the ferry can be productive on an incoming tide, throw buzz bombs green and white and spoons.. picninc point is another place i have heard of..

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Carkeek park, Lincoln park, Browns Pt, Dash Pt. The Dock at Salty's. The list goes on. Pt No Pt may be a long cast.

probably one of my favorite ways to catch coho from the beach is either deception pass, or fort casey. and throw a spin-n-glow with a hoochie behind it, nice chunk of pencil lead in front and wing it out there

do you know any good spots around the tumwater olympia area?...I am new to salmon fishing and salt...i am from Pa and grew up fishing farm ponds for largemouth and rivers for trout

Check out the State for Salmon Hatcheries. Pick the ones near to you and find the spots folks fish for them. I'm not sure about the Oly, Tumwater area but you could head up to the Nisqually or out to Allen. You just hit the end of my rope with out heading to the Columbia and it's tribs, like the Cowlitz.

Thanks alot I am gonna try the nisqually this weekend. Pulled a few real nice cutthroat out of the deschuttes this evening...and the coho suposedly are about to start running that river so im looking forward to that the spot I fish it is les than 2 miles from my house