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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/18/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 12/18/2004
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Fishing has picked up around the clay banks the last few days. Last Thursday I had a couple on but failed to net them. This time of year they just look at you, shake their heads and the hooks too. T...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/22/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2004
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OH BOY. Keep the gear high. We got 2 Silvers at first light on the surface and 2 later running the cannons at 60 feet in 140 feet of water. 3 were small 5 or 6 pounds and 1 was big for us at 10 poun...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2004
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Barry, Ed, and I fished Redondo for some silvers. We had a pretty good day. Barry caught a nice 9# silver (pictured). Ed caught a nice silver. I got two nice silvers. Seemed everyone was catchi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2004
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Fished 3 poles in front of the boat launch in 180ft of water just at day-break using green or white hoochies. We concentrated on depths of 10-60ft and had three silvers, in the boat by 7am, but we ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/22/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2004
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Came back from Dog lake empty handed after a bad camping trip. So a buddy and I headed to Ruston way on the Dash Point Pier. We got there about 6pm and tied on 11/2 ounce slip sinkers to a 2 way s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2004
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Sorry guys it was a 20# alby. The big boys in Mexico are around 50 or so at best. As soon as I perfect the pattern I will fill all those who are interested in on the technique. So far I have not...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/16/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2004
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Heard of lots of fish being hooked in the mouth of the Puyallup. Headed that way and marked fish but no takers. Went to Pt. Defiance from Slag Pile up to Point Defiance and hit a small Silver as I w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/28/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2004
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Fishing Brown's Pt. High-tide change around 7:00pm. we had 2 poles in the water one with a deep-six at about 50' (NO RESULTS) and the other on a down-rigger at about 80'. the depth of the water was ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/15/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2004
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Rick's report is way off base. Albies average 50lbs tops East coast record off Montauk,NY is 90+ lbs. Maybe it was a yellow fin tuna, id'd by extra long yellow side fin. Temperature in high 60's ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2004
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Rachel and I set out to Redondo for the afternoon tide change at 6:30. I set one rod at 50' and one rod at 75'. Both rods had white/glow flashers and white/glow hoochies. Turns out the rod set at...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/12/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/12/2004
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Caught a 20 lb albacore in 50 of water near Pt. Robinson this morning. I was blown away I had know idea there were big Tuna in these waters. After showing the fish and wildlife guy at the beach th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2004
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My buddy Jason and I set out to catch the 5:22 PM high tide change. At 5:10 Jason got a nice king on the line. After netting the big fish we weighed her in at 20#'s. He caught her with a white/...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2004
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Launched at 4pm. 5lb. Coho at 5pm. no male Dungies and no jellyfish this time. Very windy and choppy but nice out on the water on a hot day. Back on land at 9.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/16/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2004
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Girlfriend Rachel and I set out at 3 PM for a relaxing day on the water off of Redondo. The high tide change was at 7 PM so I knew we would have a couple of hours of "fishing" before we did any "ca...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2004
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Hit the ramp early 4am, not bad but hard to back up when a truck dropping off has his head lights on and when your on a narrow poorly engineered 2 lane ramp. I have 2 favorite holes and after passin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2004
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Arrived at 5:00am and the fresh bait from the boathouse was superb.
Mooched the clay banks on the outgoing until the tide changed around 6:00am. I took a nice fish on the first drift--14lb hen, st...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2004
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Went back for another round at the kings! Got an earlier start by myself and headed straight for Dolphin. Ran a Fish Flash and the same Coyote from last week. Put an 8 pound clipped fish in the b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2004
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2004
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A friend and I tried our luck out of the Pt. Defiance Park launch. There were about 50 boats or so flogging the water; plus a few seals bobbin here and there. Fishing was very slow, except for dog...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2004
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Went fishing out of Shilshole in my trusty Arima with daughter Megan. Left after breakfast to accommodate her sleep pattern (grin). Tried in vain an experimental technique for catching sockeye in ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2004
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Great opening of salmon season. Lots of limits with the fish being mostly all 10lbs plus. Many in the upper teens & lower 20's. Lots of dog fish. Trolling & mooching both works.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2004
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Ahhh Some fish are finally coming into the Tacoma area. Sunday I have a nice one (about 6 lbs) on at the Clay Banks area & fed it to a seal. The damn thing pulled me half way to Vashon till I broke ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/14/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2004
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Opening day and only 10 boats fishing in sight. We trolled the 100 foot mark at sun up at Pt. Dalco waiting for the 10:00 tide. We hit two shakers on the wall and headed for the Clay Banks. Dropped ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/1/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2003
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Clay Banks area. Not much pressure, but the fish are still there. Lots of small sub-legal but some keepers are there. Lots of Squid hitting mooched herring. Its cool out there but if you can get ou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/16/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2003
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I don't see a decline in the Silvers AT ALL. Massive schools of Silvers and Pinks still all over my two fishing areas. We released 3 pinks and caught 2 silvers at Browns point first light and head...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2003
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The silvers are still around the slag pile area. Not hot and heavy but are around. Fished first light had two on, broke one off and the second threw the hooks. The third held. Nice 9 lb buck silver....
