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By: bruceka49
Posted: 8/14/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Glad to hear that the threatening thunderstorms were gone. I launched at 6am and headed directly to the slag pile area where all the early rising fishermen were crawling through the fog.
Two passes ...
By: gnuesse
Posted: 8/16/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Pt Defiance and fishing by 5:30am. I fished the Slag pile area with probably 40+ boats. At about 7:30 I caught a 14lb hatchery king that was almost lost to a seal. Fishing 120' on the down...
By: Dillarb
Posted: 8/17/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 5:45am and had my line in the water 15 minutes when I got this nice 20 pound female chinook. Trolling a cut plug herring behind a flasher. 100 feet of water and 115 out on the d...
By: gfakkema
Posted: 8/18/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the last 3 weeks in California for work and not being able to fish was killing me. I got home late Saturday night and decided that I had to hit the water on Sunday to finally get my fix. High ...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 7/6/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I was so excited to finally get a chance to hit the salt that after getting home from my disappointing day on Lake WA, switched out all my gear for the 'big boys'! Had a cool looking ace hi-fly tied ...
By: rythefisherman
Posted: 7/13/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished around Browns point and didn't get a hit except for a flounder and a dogfish. Moved and did a pass at Point Defiance and no hits. Moved to Gig Harbor and caught a flounder. Saw lots of fish on ...
By: obryan214
Posted: 7/3/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Did a little salmon trolling at the clay banks while waiting for the crab pots to fill up. no salmon in our boat, saw one caught by a boathouse guy, about 6lbs off his meatline. should've stayed over ...
By: taylor623
Posted: 7/25/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished from 5:30pm to 8:45pm got one king 7lb 24inch and one average pink. Both trolling green flasher and spoon. Lost to more fish felt like pinks.
By: obryan214
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
trolled around by the mouth of the puyallup with a green ace hi fly with a herring strip behind a dodger looking for kings. released 2 small humpy's about 3lbs each. nice calm morning, overcast. a cou...
By: obryan214
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled a 742 hootchie behind an e-chip flasher this morning. released a clipped shaker, may have been legal but not worth measuring. hooked 2 other fish, both bigger. one felt pretty good sized. didn...
By: fishbite
Posted: 7/9/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/5/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Took off from Point Defiance boat launch around 7:30am. We dropped the pots over on the Browns Point side of the bay and then let our lines out. Not many fish on the sonar, so we pulled up and tried...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 7/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Walked out to the clay banks this morning to throw some lures around and see if anything was around. I didn't get any hits, saw bait jumping and saw a seal. There were a couple people there prior, the...
By: obryan214
Posted: 2/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Put the boat in the salt this morning to do a bit of trolling around Pt. Defiance. A few others had the same idea. 2 small shakers released, one good hit missed. Didn't mark much bait and only 1 seal ...
By: jschmoof
Posted: 3/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Dalco Saturday morning. It was the only place to fish out of the wind.fishing about 160 feet got a 25 inch black mouth other than that fishing kind of slow....better than a skunk
By: obryan214
Posted: 4/17/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
nice day on the water, sunny and no wind to start. dragged a 742 hootchie behind an 8" flasher around several areas by point defiance, dalco, evans and random spots. 2 small ones released, may have be...
By: obryan214
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with someone who prefers to jig so thats what we did. Shimano butterfly jigs for me, pt. wilson darts for him. Just about every color known to man was used. A couple shakers caught in my boat...
By: obryan214
Posted: 4/25/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
figured I try for one last time before the closure in a few days. released an undersized blackmouth which would've made a nice trout if I were lake fishing. started at the claybanks trolling the 742 h...
By: obryan214
Posted: 6/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
fished pt. defiance for the high tide change. 2 fish, the unclipped one was released. both in the 9 to 10 pound range. the keeper had a bunch of shrimp in its stomach. trolled a white tomic plug off t...
By: Byte Me
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water @ 0630. Started at Beal and fished it through the high tide. No luck and no bait. Moved north as the tide turned & fished both sides of Dolphin. Finally found a little bait & started mar...
By: Byte Me
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Off the dock @ 0630. Headed south today. Dropped lines at Dash Point and fished down to Browns Point. Didn’t mark any fish or see any bait, only a couple seals. Fished Browns Point as the tide changed...
By: glowball
Posted: 6/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went out saturda morn...fished the girlscout camp...pulled a 742 hoochie on the bottom in 130 ft of water...first pass got a 6.5 lb feeder...2 nd pass a shaker....bout 5 th pass picked up another feed...
By: obryan214
Posted: 6/12/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
trolled a black/white hootchie behind an 8" flasher at the clay banks. caught one king about 11.5lbs. lost another fish to a seal. saw 2 others of similar size and a fish that went 18 to 20lbs dependi...
By: tdickenson
Posted: 6/15/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Saturday 7:30-10:30 at Dolphin Pt. and 10:30-12:00 at Southworth. Trolling hoochies and spoons from 55’ down to 150’ on the wire. It was a beautiful morning, but no joy either place. Not muc...
By: nascarrich64
Posted: 6/27/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Got a late start but then only one other boat working the area around the Ferry Dock. Put the Silver Horde spatterback green hoochie/blue crush glow flasher on, dropped it to 125 FT trolling into the ...
By: obryan214
Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
took a coworker out in the boat today. we started jigging at the claybanks. i was using pt. wilson darts, he was using squid he caught over the winter. he caught a red irish lord, me nothing. we moved...
