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By: DjButler
Posted: 9/27/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This weekend was a huge treat for me. My clients from work have a cabin right on the water and let my girlfriend and I stay out there for the weekend. The trip was cut short due to some medical issues...
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Headed down to sunset beach right out of belfair for the fourth and for some sea run cuttroat. I tried ealier in the day with no luck but when the evening came I ended up catching 5 cuttroat. Most of ...
By: schu7498
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/12/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well we took a trip out to Tahuya to get some crab. Dropped our pots around 2:30 with high hopes. One pot at 65ft the other at about 120ft. Pulled them up at 8:00pm to find a few female dungies and 3 ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to a long time friends on Hood Canal with part of my family. That would be wife, step daughter and step son. My friend has a beautiful place there with lot's of lodging and, well, pretty much ev...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Day two of two:
After about a 16 hour soak we went to pull the pots in for the week. Got 7 more keepers. Highlight of the day was a nearly 9 inch crab. It was a monster. I wanted to mount it but ...
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went crabbing with a couple that wanted to take us out, an old friend of Melanie's and her partner, they were great hosts and we hope to do a lot of fishing with them, esp. Jim, he's a real nice guy. ...
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day in successful pursuit of dungies, caught our limit for 4 persons, we went out with a nice couple we know. hard day till 5:00 p.m. when we really hit them. picking crab tonight! bob r
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 7/6/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Threw out the pots and over the 2 days of crabbing, we caught a total of 19 crabs that we kept. Used walleye heads and some old stinky squid I had left over from last year's sturgeon fishing.
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/17/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Set the crab pots out and caught 5 keeper Dungeness crabs. Caught about 9 more that were females and released. We kept a few of the rock crabs that were about 6 1/2", not bad for a rock crab. All in a...
By: fishingfoxs
Posted: 7/10/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbed on the other side of the bridge, The current was really zooming and the water was rougher then other times. 6 of us on the boat. Dropped pots off the Kitsap Memorial Park. Got 2 Dungeness but ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 7/11/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and I took the dogs to Hood Canal Sunday to try for some evening crabbing on Hood Canal. Soaked twice for an hour each time. Pots had dungeness and no red rocks. Caught 15 with 14 being fem...
By: fourrays
Posted: 11/24/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Laid 3 pots on Friday 11/21. After a 24 hours soak had 10 Dungeness keepers. No females in the pots. Best results were close in toward the mussel floats.
Weather was great, sun was out and water...
By: dhunter_02
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Twanoh early morning of the opening day. Let the pots soak all day while I was at work and pulled them about 6 pm. We came away with only 3 keepers. Re-set the pots for a night soak an...
By: Ezlivn89
Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to get our pots, loaded with crab, the fullest i have ever seen. For ever male there were 5 females. We did get our limit though among the 5 of us. Got checked by the warden, real friendly, j...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After work Thursday crabbed and fished Hood Canal. For crab we were using salmon carcasses for bait. The commercial crabbers were just pulling out. Four pulls resulted in about 20 females crabs. For s...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Put in a Potlach around 530 and dropped 2 pots near the park, then headed toward Union and put 2 in near the mud flats. Tried 30 to 80 FOW. Pulled the pots near the park in an hour and nothing. Moved ...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 10/2/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Was excited to find out a winter crab season was opened. Like the good old days when it was part of the typical crab season. Hood Canal is where I crab. I moved back to WA 5 years ago and could not b...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 8/2/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
You know you are getting old when you want to start a post by saying, ...I remember back when...... Crabbing is not the same as decades past as evident of the closures in lower 12 and 13, not to menti...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 10/2/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I love winter Dungeness crab season. Was planning on Friday afternoon but plans change. Headed out Saturday and had the boat in the water just after noon (Pleasant Harbor). Was planning on dropping th...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 11/20/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/20/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Was looking forward for this day for about a week. The forecast looked good and good crabbing tides. End ov November and no rain so hewaded out to Hood Canal, North of Ayok Point :) Got a late start s...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 8/7/2022
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2022
Hot Spots: 0
First day crabbing this summer season. Can't believe I wasn't out on opening day. I was out before the best tides. Got tons of rock crab but onyl a few Dungies and only 1 keeper :( Many many many soft...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 10/6/2022
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/3/2022
Hot Spots: 0
That is 2 lbs of Dungeness crab meat. Went crabbing Monday ?? north of Ayok Point. Winter season opened on the 1st. First pull almost gave me a heart attack. Largest Dungeness crab I’ve ever caught an...
Posted: 10/20/2022
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2022
Hot Spots: 3
MONSTER HOOKNOSE COHO COMING UP THE SKOKOMISH TIDE FLATS! WOW!
Fished one of the river mouth channels with a pink spinner and landed this coho-zilla. Probably what 16+ lbs?
Directions to how to ...
Posted: 9/26/2022
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skokomish Tide Flats with my friend and dog. The Creel Reports have been showing super-hot fishing there the last 3 seasons. Parked along the side of the river just south of power lines whe...
Posted: 9/27/2022
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2022
Hot Spots: 1
Insane fishing out on the Skokomish Tide Flats again! Lots of Coho Salmon running hard. Pretty much looked liked everyone limited very quickly.
Not sure why more people are not out there seeing as ...
