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Area 8-1 Deception Pass Fishing Reports
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By: wolff
Posted: 9/5/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty hot morning for most fisherman. Not too crowded. Saw 3-4 leaving with limits, and most with one or more. No seiners today. The people closet to me went 2-7, 3-6, 4-4. I went 4-7. Buddy dow...
By: dshack1976
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the beach about an hour before high tide. Beautiful sunny day, except in the pass itself... it was completely fogged in. Very strange. It was pretty crowded but we found a spot down the beach ...
By: wolff
Posted: 9/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went 2-2(pinks) today off of 8-1 beach after taking a few days off. Real slow day for bankies where I was. Either the smoker or salmon patties for this guy. Many people seem to have had their fill of ...
By: ilike2fish4fish
Posted: 9/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Deception Pass for the first time in 4 years with a buddy. Launched my little 14ft boat out of bowman bay so i didnt have to deal with the pass. Hit the water at 10 (11:42 low slack). Started arou...
By: wolff
Posted: 9/13/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took the quick 10 minute drive down to the beach at 4pm today. Not expecting much as I got nothing yesterday and saw only a handful caught.
At the beach, my buddy(who fishes this beach only, (42 o...
By: catwithlazereyes
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My dad and I were going for some Pink Salmon but we had no luck. We fished at the North Beach, West Beach, and Cornet Bay and still nothing. We only saw a handful of people from the shore catching S...
By: vlamb
Posted: 8/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Strawberry Point from 4:30 pm till 7:30. Tried buzz bombs and pink jigs with no luck. Did not see anyone else catch anything either. Nice evening on the water and got a limit of crab.
By: vlamb
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took my dad out for his first time fishing. Had a great time and ended up with 4 in the boat.Fished from 6:30 till 9:30 using pink buzz bombs and pink squid jigs.
By: vlamb
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I hit strawberry point and anchored up near the rock pile. He had one in the boat within 10 minutes the bite was good for the first hour then slowed down. Lost three and ended up with thre...
By: darkshadow
Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
anchored in 12 feet of water,hit several schools of pinks, first time for special friend, she picked up the buzz bomb thing fast an it was great too fill the boat an come in in the dark. great fishin...
By: readynow
Posted: 8/31/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Been casting buzz bombs anchored north of Strawberry Point for 3 days straight from around 7AM to 10AM, several strikes but ZERO fish. Many foot long fish jumping whatever they are. Didn't see anyone...
By: blind342
Posted: 2/18/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today, (2/18/13) i went smelt fishing. It was windy and cold at around 40 degrees. Got to Oak Harbor at about 9:00 am. We were using regular smelt jigs. Walked down to the fourth to last dock on your ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 2/28/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Two friends and I participated in the 48th annual La Conner Surf Smelt Derby. It was $2 to enter with a $100 prize for biggest smelt. We fished from 10:30 until the derby ended at 2:00. One friend cau...
By: countryboy87
Posted: 3/3/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to try and get some smelt and herring. Got a late start did not get there till almost 10 saw maybe 10 caught out of like 25 people there. Really slow. Heard yesterday was on fire. Gonna go ag...
By: saltyseadog
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
hey guys... just alittle shrimp report for sat. had the pots down at 7 am 280 to 300 feet got most of em at slack tide all spots and a few pinks. lost one pot I think it was stolen witch was not min...
By: rseas
Posted: 3/25/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day and had a couple hours to kill so fly rods in hand we headed to a little beach in the Deception Pass area. The tides were perfect for cutthroat fishing and we settled in working the insi...
By: viiilx04
Posted: 6/6/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
For those with little ones wanting to have some fun, Cornet Bay smelt and herring jigging is in. Best time is probably 2-3 hours after low tide, check the tide chart. My 4ft+ tall 7 year old had a b...
By: kkleparek
Posted: 6/30/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We dug ghost shrimp for bait on my dads beach then, when the tide was high enough about 5, we rowed his boat out to his usual spot, anchored and dropped our handlines in. We were out there for about ...
By: Dave
Posted: 11/22/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my buddy and his two sons out crabbing north of Greenbank where over the years it has been absolutely spectacular. Like this last summer season, once again Tulalip Tribes crabbed for three week...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/3/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
RATING: 2. I had a great time, the crabbing was poor.
At 3pm after pouring rain and more thunder and lightning all morning long, we went to the spot I have been crabbing at for the last 10+ years. ...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 6/22/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
For Fathers day I took out my Son and my Grand Daughter. Wanted them to have fun and get addicted to fishing as in Her Case. Shes 14 and never been before!!
We started off to Head down to Camano ...
By: fishermom
Posted: 7/3/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Have been crabbing since the season opened. First day out, limits for 4 people. Yesterday, limits for 3 people, and today, 9 crabs for 3 people.
By: Dave
Posted: 7/9/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wednesday evening we set our gear in area 8-1, north end of Camano Island. This morning at 6 am we returned to see what a 10 hour overnight soak accomplished. In 4 pots we handled 29 big keeper males ...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/10/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great crabbing continues in area 8-1. After an all night soak (11 hours) we (6 of us on board) pulled 4 pots and harvested exactly 30 big male keepers. We only handled a few females and a couple males...
By: Pradeep
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Did an overnight soak in 8-1 for 10 hrs. Resulting in 18 nice keepers. As Dave has reported previously, this area is producing very well. Chicken halves were the bait of choice for this particular tri...
