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By: Nelly1
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started down-rigging early with green hotspot flasher and a green spatterback hoochie....nothing doin'.
Started mooching a cut plug herring at the secret hole an hour before high tide(7:45am).
Hook...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I think I need to start earlier. Launched at Point Def @ 6am and fished till noon. We fished the slag pile until about 10 am and seen a few nice fish taken. None for us though. I had two takedowns but...
By: snake7676
Posted: 7/25/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well my fishing buddy and I went to area 11 this morning launched at radondo in the water by 5:00am .With in 15nin. seen a guy land 2 kings keepers . I had no take downs , my buddy landed 2 6gil...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/25/2009
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the dock at 3pm. I had the crab net in by 3:15. By 4 I had my first keeper red rock crab. I was there until 8. I pulled the crab net up every 15-30 minutes. I only had 2 pulls that didn't hav...
By: justinrogers
Posted: 7/24/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
well i went out to see if the pinks were running yet at the beach. saw two guys sitting on the beach with rods and thought uh-oh bad idea. talked to these guys for a bit and decided i would fight the ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
FINALLY! Hooked into my first salmon of the year. Had my son get all the gear out of the way then I handed it over to him. Felt like a 15-20lber. I turn my back and my son has my pole over the side of...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day on the water with my friend and his daughter. Got into a mess of decent size flonder. The crab pots produced a dungeness and 3 moster red rock. No salmon today though :(.
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By: Bodofish
Posted: 7/19/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Poor tides this weekend...... Made it out for the morning tide and about 10 minutes before the slack we popped a 14 # king in area 11. Fished for a couple more hours and then went to Jeff Head. When...
By: wagnbrnr
Posted: 7/14/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
on the water by 5:00 a.m. , trolled for awhile with downriggers , no luck . started mooching about 7:30 or so , hooked up with these two eventually . off the water by 1:00 p.m.
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 7/13/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off the Des Moines Pier. I caught a few small rockfish, a small greenling and a couple bullheads. I was using Minnow imitating jigs.
There was about 20 illegal crabbers out. Actually less...
By: TBone
Posted: 7/11/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the point around 4 am and threw out the crab pot, headed over to the slag and started trolling flasher/hoochie on 1 rod flasher hoochie and a cut plug on the other..trolled from the slag ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Browns point and mooched a while. Caught a good size flonder and a few dogs.
Went across the bay and we hooked into a Quillback rock fish about 3 pounds. Other than that it was a dog day. Not...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/27/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Gave it hell today. Up at 3, on the water by 4:30. I saw a few fish taken but not many. We started out by trolling the slag pile and then headed to the Point. after about 5 hours of trolling, we decid...
By: jkorst
Posted: 6/16/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Skipped work and headed out to N Area 11 on Fri, ended up landing a ~8lb blackmouth and then a ~18lb chinook on cutplug herring. Decided to head back out and try it again on Sun, ended up with another...
By: stevoblue
Posted: 6/12/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
No luck what so ever. Let me take that back. I caught a rock. Not a Rock Fish but a rock with kelp on it. Did not fish the Slag pile but pretty much everywhere else. Talked to Fish and Wildlife on...
By: christopherbeebe
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the pier with my wife and daughter this afternoon. lots of people fishing, not doin so good i seen one nice size copper rockfish took on a sardine, many small ones too, seen a ling hooked up but g...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I chose "no fish caught" but after we were done trolling for salmon and headed into the docks I rigged a drop shot and caught a flounder and a rockfish right outside of the pt defiance launch! :)
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/6/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I met up with my brother at the dock around 2:30pm. He had already caught a mice sized black rock fish. That was the last thing he caugjt. I didn't catch anything. He said that there were people ther...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/1/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I met fishinrob on the dock close to 5:30am. He showed me what to do and gave me jigs to loose. ;) I left about 9am because I was cold from the wind blowing right through my clothes. It was sunny and...
By: LJTPerry
Posted: 4/7/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Me and some friends took off from the boathouse elevator at about 1. We stayed about 100 yards from Owens Beach, but the current kept dragging us towards the shore. No herring balls in sight, so we ju...
By: tommytitan08
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Jens today. No matter what anybody says he's a cool guy. First off Jens is the master of starfish angling. He not only managed to wrangle one big starfish aboard but two. On a se...
By: jens
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished with TommyTitan today. We launched at Pt Defiance and mooched from the claybanks to slag pile. We were using cut plug herring and I was using 2.5 oz lead and Tommy was using 3 oz. There wer...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/2/2009
Species: Copper Rockfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the first annual Ratfish Invitational Tournament (The RIT) with my buddy Will.
We battled all evening long dragging "keeper size" Ratfish to the beach. We caught some on Herring but tow...
By: christopherbeebe
Posted: 3/26/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the Redondo pier this morning and caught nothing as usual.. I did see an otter and talked to a guy on a boat that said he lost one about 8lbs trollin a hoochie at 80 ft. He also said he ma...
By: kinghunter
Posted: 3/24/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out around 11am to the Boat House Marina near Anthony's by Point Defiance Ferry Dock. The boat house was out of live herring, so just used the frozen ones. Fished with bobber with herring at fi...
