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Area 8-1 Deception Pass Fishing Reports

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By: rseas
Posted: 7/4/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Still enjoying the euphoria of my Lake Samish adventure, Sunday morning we got up and the wind was blowing. Didn’t think that we were going to take the boat out but my daughter didn’t work and had ask...
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Posted: 7/17/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We tried a new area for crab and had great success. Normally, we launch at Mukilteo and head south (along with many others!) Yesterday we went north. Three of us caught 15 nice dungeness crab in ...
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Posted: 8/14/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We headed out earlier than we originally planned to for hitting the slack tide in the afternoon because we'd read about there being a small craft advisory in the area we were headed to. We launched f...
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Posted: 7/3/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This trip was an adventure for sure. We headed north to Anacortes Thursday evening only to have the truck breakdown in Everett. Two hours later we had the truck towed north and my parents rescued the ...
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Posted: 7/2/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
So we have made an annual trip 4th of July weekend to visit my parents and take them crabbing in Area 8-1. This year was nothing short of amazing. We limited out 2 days in a row with nice crab. We f...
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By: rseas
Posted: 9/21/2018
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So the last time we had splashed the boat was July 7 th, that was almost two months ago. Due to family grieving, healing time and just life we missed the Marine Area 9 opener, the entire Baker Lake sa...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 9/24/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Have the week off from work to get the last of my coho fishing in before most everything shuts down. It's a shame there has been no asjustment of the season as it really looks like the coho forecast ...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 9/15/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Been itching to do some beach fishing for coho. It's one of my favorite methods for coho fishing, and North Beach at Deception Pass is just such a pretty area. I got to the beach about 7am. Maybe 1...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 9/16/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This was a 1970's ABC's Wide World of Sports type day (for those of you old enough to remember). I had the Thrill of Victory along with the Agony of Defeat. Was going to take the Hobie out to Ft Ca...
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Posted: 9/21/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Managed to catch a couple of coho right under the bridge. All on a green rotator with a white hoochie and some scent. Next Monday is only a 1 fish limit in area 8-1 just to tell you guys that are goin...
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Posted: 10/7/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My brother-in-law caught this beautiful 9# Coho after about 3 hrs. with nothing happening. Great fishing conditions except for the over abundance of seals...(need to do something about this please).....
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By: Nori
Posted: 9/19/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived around 6:50am just before high tide at 7:30 and lost one after about 20 minutes of casting. It was a long morning with no more strikes for until 1pm when I landed one, then about 10 minutes la...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to north Beach right about 7am. Caught the end of the ebb. Made a few casts and in that brief time saw a few landed, so I felt optimistic. Sure enough, fish on. Fish followed the lure all the way ...
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By: LarryRS
Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Promised Jonb I would register and post when I got my first Coho (I'm the guy in the inflatable kayak. BTW thanks for the jigs). It wasn't on the Snohomish, but based on the reports I need to get...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at North Beach right about 7am. Caught the end of the outgoing tide, most of the time fishing was during the incoming. Started slow, but as soon as the water started moving, I watched as quite...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try something different today from the beach. I've done very well this year with a yellow/green buzz bomb with a pink hoochie. Today I tried a herring under a bobber. I did bring my other p...
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Posted: 10/4/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went with my wife and two kids, ( 9/ 11 y/o) up to Camano Is. We stayed at the Cama Beach Resort. Man, what a place. check out http://www.parks.wa.gov/CamaBeach/accommodations/ Since this i...
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By: trixy408
Posted: 8/25/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
killed them today. my dad mom brother and I hit the water around 5:30 it was a short ride out to deception pass where some other small boats where out out trying to do the same thing we are. power mo...
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By: Muffintop
Posted: 9/9/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the beach at around 8am, heard of one guy pulling one in, but only saw one other coho being landed on the beach. the boats were not doing any better either. most people were using the green rot...
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By: wolff
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got this 6.2lb silver early this morning. Stayed until 10:30am and saw 2 others caught. Slow morning. Quite a few people lining the beach. No humpies to the beach today. Saw a few caught yesterday....
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We put the boat in at everett, what a frigging zoo. lol trolled around for about 5 hrs, had 3 strikes got three in the boat, one was a nice 12lb plus. reeled in one troller and had a shaker on that w...
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By: rseas
Posted: 9/24/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I didn’t think that I was going to get to go fishing. Although I had a ticket to the derby I knew that Saturday was a no fishing day and based on some other obligations I thought that Sunday was also....
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By: wolff
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went 2-2 at Deception this evening. 1 4.5lb coho and 1 5.2 pink. Felt lucky as things were slow. Used a custom fingernail polished 2.5'' buzz bomb.....
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By: rseas
Posted: 5/19/2014
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Clams? Clams anyone? Ok after our screw up on the lake Stevens Kokanee derby it was supposed to be a no nonsense chores day. Well, I needed a beach excuse so I declared that the dogs needed their week...
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By: rseas
Posted: 3/18/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
And again, a long dry spell. It's funny, on the water almost every day but I am working and not fishing. So much for retirement... I had to work Saturday so a fishing buddy and I decided to catch day...
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