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Area 8-1 Deception Pass Fishing Reports
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By: cobrar543
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 2
Put in at the state park on Camano Island and headed out at 10:am. Wanted to fish the High Tide at 11:30. First time on the Reef at a Onamac Point. Its a very small area I found out. I have a bott...
By: stevenb_photo
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished around the east side of deception pass looking for lingcod for about 3 hours. Found nothing at all, not even a bite. At least I didn't lose any gear.
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/29/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stepping out of my car into the cool, salt tinted air of a late spring morning along the shores of Puget Sound, my eyes are greeted by the hills of Whidbey Island back lit with the rose glow of a swif...
By: rseas
Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We had a couple hours to kill Monday mid-day so we headed off to Ala Spit to check out the spit on a minus tide. At the last minute I figured that I would haul my fly rod and the dogs along. On arriva...
Posted: 7/23/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed up to deception pass just below to the bridge to catch anything off the beach. I tried earlier with no luck but saw about 6 pinks jumping so there should be a solid run for the opener. Later wh...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbed North Camano Island today. Very few boats or gear out today however we did see three big boats stacked to the brim with pots pass slowly by us headed towards Camano Island State Park. How nice...
By: garys
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Myself and three of my buddies dropped pots at 7:00 am and pullled them about 1:30pm. We all limited out with 20 crabs altogether. Most of the crabs are above the 7" range. I drop my pots between 4...
By: racfish
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at 11:00 am Really low but for my boat and a 4x4 it was good. We had our bait ready to go and let the first pot go in 58 ft of water. Next at 65 ft then 40 and 30 ft. We had four pots for ...
By: racfish
Posted: 7/15/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbed on Sunday with moderate success. We managed 8 keepers for 3 guys and 4 pots.Not a great day but not a bad day either. West side of boat launch were females. East side were males. Lots of crabs...
By: bryanpeck
Posted: 7/3/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Camano Island State Park ramp at about 06:15 and headed a mile or two north to the point (see hotspot).
Baited 5 crab pots with various combinations of mini chicken legs/wings, sockeye...
By: racfish
Posted: 8/31/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a stellar day crabbing. Thre of us limited on big dungies in the 7"size. We had 2 sets of 35 and 33 crabs per pot. We limited in 3 hours, Gorgeous weather great crabbing . We used pink headsand bo...
By: fishindude
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Put 4 pots out baited with turkey legs Thursday after work with Dad. Friday morning my daughter, mom, dad, and I all loaded up to check the pots. I got a little ways from the launch and the motor died...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Crabs, a day at the beach and one heck of a fireworks display! Truck loaded with two kayaks, enough fireworks to keep us busy for hours, the equivalent of weeks worth of gear (for one day at the beach...
By: racfish
Posted: 7/20/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us went crabbing. The weather was fair. The water was a lil rough . Got to the launch at 9:30 and lots of parking. Our first pots when in at 10:15. At 11:00 we started pulling up pots. Lots o...
By: racfish
Posted: 8/25/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Very tough day crabbing. weather was great. scenery is always nice.We set pots out at noon- 7pm. We (3 of us) caught one nice keeper. That was it. Lots of small ones . Some of our sets had no crabs at...
By: Dave
Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today I took my wife, sister in-law, and her husband Dan out for some Dungeness crab fishing in area 8-1. My in-laws had never been in Puget Sound and had never crab fished. We set 3 crab pots and 1 h...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/9/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I and my buddy Dan crabbed north Camano Island this morning and had to work hard for our 15 keepers. I’ve never seen so many under sized males and females in my life! Thanks to our Tribal ...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
On Friday July 16th I had the opportunity to go crabbing with 6 friends from work. We had gear in the water for a total of 3 hours and harvested 35 very nice Dungeness crab including several in the ov...
By: chefjake99
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decent day got a little choppy around when the tide changed. A lot of crab thrown back that were either just barely under or ever so slightly soft still. Was a fun day and my son reeled in the dog fis...
By: Dave
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I met my fishin buddy Dan and his wife out on the water for some crabbing. We had our gear was in the water by about 11:30 am fishing the incoming tide. We tied our two boats together and ...
By: Dave
Posted: 9/5/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This morning I took my buddies Dan from work and Pradeep from WALakes.com and his son out for one final go at the 2010 summer Dungeness season. We soaked 8 pots twice for 1.5 hours each time and harve...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 7/10/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I spent a few days up in the Deception pass area and went crabbing on the 5th and the 9th. I took my parents out on the boat on the 5th and we dropped pots in the southwest area of Similk bay. I must ...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/20/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got crabs?
We did; launching out of Coronet Bay late Saturday morning we worked over the north end of Marine Area 8-1 and kicked Dungeness booty. Not a lot of science; started with a sting of trap...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 7/23/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to grab some fresh crab for Crabcakes for dinner tonight. Dropped two pots and one came up with enough keepers to get out after an hour soak. BUT the other one came up empty except for this l...
By: scotrobe
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I put out the pots starting at 10:30am and pulled them up at about 1pm. At first, only one pot had crab it in. (We think the other pot was put in too shallow.) However, that pot had 3 good ...
