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By: Bigjohnfishon
Posted: 7/19/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took a drive out to hoodsport today to check if the kings have made it this far yet. In the half hour I was there I counted 2 kings about 16-18 inches heading to the ladder at finch creek. Hopefully a...
By: tmib
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I spent this past weekend out at my parents' place just north of Hoodsport, fishing for Kings on Hood Canal.
TL;DR version: saw a few fish, but the kings aren't here in any numbers yet.
I brou...
By: dhunter_02
Posted: 8/17/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Saturday morning from about 10:00 - 4:00 fishing around the mouth of the Tahuya River. Marked a lot of fish on the fish finder and seen quite a few of them jumping all around, but could never g...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 7/22/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife down to the Skokomish tide flats due to seeing people getting chinook down there from the creel reports.
Used the directions from the previous area 12 report on skokomich tide flats. ...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 7/29/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skokomish River tide fats before sunrise with drifting down in my kayak out to saltwater. Could see schools of salmon coming up river past me. Went jigging around in deeper water.
Nailed a ...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 8/13/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2023
Hot Spots: 3
Insane fishing on the skokomish river tide flats.
Full 4 fish limits!!!!!!! of Chinook for everyone in my crew in less than 2 hours out on the saltwater area of the Skokomish river tide flats.
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By: Nook2387h
Posted: 8/19/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2023
Hot Spots: 1
Filled the cooler with 4 Chinook from down at the Skokomish Tide Flats again. 4 fish limit of chinook is going to fill my garage freezer really fast!
Nice going down on weekdays with way less peopl...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 8/21/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2023
Hot Spots: 2
Took my buddy down and he got into some nice king action at the Skokomish tide flats. Took home a couple bright chinook happy as a clam.
More fish are coming in a little darker. Might not be much l...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/9/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/9/2004
Hot Spots: 0
The fish are IN. Carl (AKA Easy Limits) and I hit the water at 8am, fishing an incoming tide (high tide 1pm). Fished south of the zone, caught a couple. Moved to the zone and we were in fish heaven. H...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished along the Skokomish river a couple days ago, before the rains came in and raised the water level so it's uncrossable. A few light colored Chinook are left, silvers are starting to be caught ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/15/2004
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Poor crabbing today and every day since I started on June 2nd.
1-keeper in 2-4 hrs every time we go our with 4-traps. Last year we could limit out without much effort!?! What has changed?!?
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/12/2004
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/12/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Went sea-run cutt fly fishin', not a bite, used a fly I tied, it's a secret.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/13/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Hey folks lots of fish, none want to bite though, I did get three nice shakers 17-20 inches, several others with shakers, I did see one keeper as I was putting in. Word of advice, when someone tell...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/14/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2004
Hot Spots: 0
A new place to fish! Tom and I did some exploring to find a new chum source. Little did we know we would discovery a late run coho river. Arrived at 7:30am and there were fish jumping everywhere. I ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/14/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Mike and I left early and decided to check out a new place to fish. Beautiful area, but the salmon had lockjaw. Of course we went to catch chum and ran into a late run of silvers. A place I intend t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/11/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My 14 year old son & I had always heard about the crazy combat fishing at the Hoodsport hatchery but had never been able to try it. We stopped by Monday evening at sundown to watch and learn a litt...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Today we fished from 6am-10am and caught 6 fish between two people, we were out in a boat right in front of the hatchery. We found that pink #2 buzz bombs worked the best. We also had a seal take a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/23/2003
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
went out to hoods port to fish this evening and I had a couple of hook ups but that was it. I saw one set of Indians netting by the public fishing and crabbing dock and they were pulling up pinks bu...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I have caught rock cod, pacific cod, flounder, dog fish, bullhead , perch, and salmon. I have recently caught one king from a boat in about twenty feet of water using a white dart. And when the sil...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
There are great minus tides starting Thursday, April l7th through the 22nd. It's a great time to get out and enjoy the beaches and get your limit of clams and oysters at the same time. Potlatch St...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/23/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Spotted a few fish mostly in deep water, didn't hook into any. Drift mooching with cut herring rigs and jigs. Got a bunch of Crab, Dungies and Rock. Can't wait to get back out there. Hood Canal is...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/16/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 12/16/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 3 cod, got a 34" sand shark and 8 sand dabs. The report
is to notify that smelt are in schools and there are no netters
around. Flashing balls of them right at the shoreline, like the
grun...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/30/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/30/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Dead, dead, dead. The fish are there but they aren't biting. At least not this day. We saw fair numbers of fish jumping but they were very dark and not bitign. The snaggers were getting theirs but...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/21/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 11/21/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Well I finally made it to Hoodsport today. My partner and I arrived kind of late, around 9:30 a.m. but we stopped at the first hatchery and chatted with the DFW worker there. He said that the chu...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/20/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2002
Hot Spots: 0
So it's Wednesday and the Indians haven't been netting Hoodsport on Wednesdays. Until this week. Having never seen a netting operation, I figure "hey, we can find a spot to fish, how bad can it be?"...
