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Area 8-1 Deception Pass Fishing Reports
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/2/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2001
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If you want beach fishing for salmon, Ala Spit is hard to beat. I was up at the crack of dawn fishing on this beach with 100 of my closest friends. Salmon were thick, mostly pinks, but still bright ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/9/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 11/9/2001
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Took my old Arima out for a quick trip up Saratoga Passage in search of blackmouth. The water was as flat as glass all day and the sun came out mid-morning. What a beautiful day!
As I left Ever...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/2/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 2/2/2003
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Launched from Camano Island State Park for the short run to East Point. Hit the water around noon at change of the tide. My son got a hit from a 10 pound Black mouth within the first 20 minutes on...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/8/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 2/8/2003
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My dad and I fished for three hr. at Baby Island and got these nice fish, the first one was 15 lbs. and the second one I got was 18 lbs. It was a good day for me. My dad got a six shakers. I was using...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/14/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2003
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George and I and our families made our annual president's day trip to a former colleague's place at Whidbey Shores. Weather turned out to be much better than predicted, but the fishing was very slo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/1/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2003
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Oak Harbor Chapter of the Puget Sound Anglers held their annual Balckmouth derby today. There were about seventy persons fishing in the derby. The largest fish was about 13 lb 10 oz which won $700...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/1/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2004
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Launched at Camano Island State Park ran over to East Point on Whidbey Island, lines in the water at 8:30am. My brother gets a good fish on at 8:40, then his leader breaks, lost the fish. We troll...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/27/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/27/2005
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Fished for about an hour and caught hundreds of little fish(I don't know what species). We used mussel guts and a size 12 hook. Lots of fun!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/17/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/17/2006
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while it was very cold, the sun and light winds made it OK. We fished Friday through Monday morning. Overall slow, but we did catch three 8-10 pounders (two were wild and released) and lost one that...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/15/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2006
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I have been crabbing in Puget Sound waters, specifically Area 8-1 and 8-2 for the last 9 years. The area I crab each sport crabbing season has produced fantastic results every time out and is located...
By: kkleparek
Posted: 6/30/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2007
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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
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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
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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: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/4/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2008
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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...
By: wintersteelhead
Posted: 1/22/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/22/2009
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Dad and I put the Smokercraft in at Camano St. Park at daylight. The fog was thin enough to see our destination, Greenbank and North bluff. We caught many shakers to 21 1/2" on spoon and flasher setup...
By: saltyseadog
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
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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: 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: 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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
By: calico68
Posted: 8/11/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2009
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Started fishing about 5:30pm. Saw fish jumping in close and out. On the tenth cast hook up fish on. After that had a few hits but nothing called it at day.
By: kutztribe
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Husband and I headed out to Deception Pass and got there around 8am. We were there for about 4 hours and saw about 11 fish pulled in and a lot caught and lost. There were a lot of people fishing No...
By: calico68
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fish West Beach at Deception Pass state park. Started fishing about 5:30 got a strike after about ten cast with Buzz bomb, lost it. Then got another strike this one did not get off. He went about 6 lb...
