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By: Forelle
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Tried our luck with Chinook at Pt.D. Downriggers at 55 and 65, coho killer and cookie and cream. No love. Went over to Dash and Browns Point late morning and early afternoon. We threw buzz bombs, lost...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Arrived at Dash Point Pier about 1815 on incoming tide.
A few were leaving without fish when we arrived and not too crowded - not a good sign.
Cast pink buzz bombs in 1.5" and 2.5" followed by m...
By: Mong_fisherman
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After dropping the wife off at the salon, I headed out to Pt. Defiance Boathouse to try my luck. Within the first 10 minutes, I hooked a pink but it managed to slip off as the guy next to me was tryi...
By: NWRob
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the north side of the lighthouse at Browns Point from daylight to 9:30am. It was pretty slow. I saw 5 fish caught out of 40 or so anglers. I used a pink squid jig and a buzz bomb. It was a beau...
By: Bank drifter
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Ok, giving this a 5 since 3 of us limited easily-however, fish did not come in until well after tide was out , so getting on the water early did not work for us...also, fish were out a bit deeper than...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the road leading to the parking lot at 5:15 and already it was backed up to the top of the first hill. More people than last week. My brother and pinkpole were a few cars behind me. We get th...
By: robert4681
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Don and I launched my boat at Redondo yesterday at 6:30 am. It was high tide at 5:30 am so I didn’t expect it to be very good. We fished in front for Redondo for a few hours with no luck so we went so...
By: rnatovar
Posted: 8/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Last weekend was hot from our orange canoe again! Sat. we limited out by 8am and Sun. by 7! One of those days my son limited out in 20 mins.!! We were using lead headed pink squid jigs and UV pink m...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 1
On Tuesday I pulled up about the same time as Monday but there was only 3 people in line and there was parking on the side so that is where I went. We stood at the gate until it opened with others and...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well after Tuesdays hot pink catching I was amped up for another limit. Well that isn’t what happened it was pretty slow for the pier. We got to the parking lot the same time as we have been. Stood in...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
In all fairness I have to give this report. I went with Mike Carey, Jon (one shot), and Oliver Pulling in Mike’s boat to show them pinks in my Area of 11. Well it wasn’t a good catching day. We went f...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fish Princess Wins 11 & Under Division of Vashon Pink Salmon Derby!
We launched at Pt. Defiance at about 0515 (a little late for the party yet still respectable). Started on the troll along owns be...
By: Kaptain King
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Holy crap I saw some of the most insane fishing on Puget Sound I have ever seen on Saturday. Basically all day. I started out in my new kayak and was able to bloody her deck with a nice pink! I was ca...
By: obryan214
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
started out trolling at the slag pile, nothing much going on there. went down near that lawyers office on ruston way and trolled to les davis peir for more of the same. then ran down to the big dock w...
By: barnacle
Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of jumpers from dash to browns point but not many biters. fished from 10 to 1:00. Lost 2, caught 1.
By: Crusavage
Posted: 8/29/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Lots of pinks being caught on the right side of the lighthouse tonight. My husband caught 2, and friend caught 1. I came a bit later but didn't catch any. Pink buzz bombs/cast & reel and also fly f...
By: Gwendylyn
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
No pinks for us today but we brought a few flounder in for dinner.
I rated this trip a two for a couple reasons,
#1 - We still came home with dinner
#2 - I caught something as long as my leg th...
By: Kaptain King
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My good friend and I launched the kayaks at Thea's Park and headed over to the pulp mill and the mouth of the Puyallup. We began fishing at 6:45 (a little late) and worked it until the bite came on, r...
By: huma
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First time back in 2 weeks. Arrived at 6am at Dash Park to find that the line into the park wasn't crazy like it has been in the past several weeks. Usually the line of cars is stretched near the top ...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Finally success!!! so after 2 very frustrating weeks and over 30 hours in my boat without a single fish was getting pretty frustrated so after my futile attempt to break the losing streak on the Puya...
By: Kaptain King
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
NOTHING! NADA! NILL!!!
That about sums it up. My buddy and I got to the lighhouse at 6:15AM and fished through the tide change, hoping that would do the trick. High tide was at 7:37AM. We fished un...
By: BentRod
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally had a chance to take my wife out to try for salmon this year. Wanted to take her to one of the rivers, but with all the levels running high and having our kids with us, decided to play it saf...
By: Ifunny
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went to dash point pier and people were catching pinks from left to right. I limited it out within 30 minutes . Never happen before.
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the Quadfather since he will be happy to know that the pinks are finally winding down, at least in the Tacoma salt water areas, so probably not too many more reports...
;-)
Hi...
By: Moe
Posted: 7/4/2007
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Pier about 6:30 am, going after a few crabs, there were about 100 anglers already there since its opening day for Crabs. Everyone has traps except us we just want to use line and hook to ca...
