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Area 12 Hood Canal Fishing Reports
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/5/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/5/2001
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Lots of fishermen and lots and lots of chums. Almost anyone with any angling skill at all can easily catch their limit of 4 chums. They are so thick, the big problem is inadvertently snagging with you...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/17/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 11/17/2001
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Hit Hoodsport this Saturday and did OK. We fished the hatchery zone from my buddies boat for about 2 hrs (between 8 and 10am) and fished Twanoh (SP) state park for about 1/2 hour. Between the 3 of u...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/17/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/17/2001
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Made the trip to the hatchery for some Saturday morning combat fishing. My friend Brad and I were in my boat. After dropping a couple crab pots we motored over and dropped anchor. Not too crowded at 8...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/18/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/18/2001
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After fishing the HHZ on Saturday and seeing Mike C. I had to go back on Sunday. I just had not gotten my fill of fishing for the weekend yet. Turns out Sunday was even better than Saturday. I ve...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/28/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/28/2001
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Ah, fishing adventures - one of life's joys. After picking up Tom and Carl at 6am, we headed south on I-5 into the heart of Wednesday's snow storm. Hey, the weather man was talking wind and rain w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2002
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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: 7/17/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2002
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Good crabbing about 200 yds off shore. Limits of Dungeness plus a few rock crab. Best bait was a couple of turkey legs in pots. Both were cleaned to the bone within about 5 hours.
Also caught se...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/26/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2002
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Lots of fish (Kings) and lots of anglers. Many fish hooked, mostly snagged but some actually hooked in the mouth. Dozens of fish hooked and broke off. Very strong fish. I was using 15 pound test ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/26/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2002
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I WENT TO THE HOOD CANAL WITH MY DAD AND A FRIEND. I WENT ABOUT AT 7:OOAM. SO AFTER WE LAUNCHED THE BOAT WE DROVE OUR BOAT OUT TO AREA 9 WHEN WE FIRST DROPPED DOWN IT WAS ABOUT 10 SECONDS LATER WH...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/25/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2002
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Visited friends on the canal and decided to try chum fishing in the area at the hatchery. The area gets crowded with both boats and shore fishers. I hooked more fish than I landed but that didn't ma...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/3/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2002
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Went to Hoodsport to have some fun with the Chums. I was not disappointed. The temperature was a bone chilling 18 degrees that morning and I was wondering if I was just insane or dedicated. Kind...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/10/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2002
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My girlfriend Jen, and I went to Hoodsport on Saturday to get in on the Chums I heard were in and boy we were not disappointed! I cannot remember a day that so many fish were caught by so many peop...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/13/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/13/2002
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Hoodsport is indeed in full swing. I started fishing at 8am, surprised by the sparse mid-week crowds. Plenty of fish to go around. Fishing from a boat, I started off slow compared to those around me...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/14/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/14/2002
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Fish at Hoodsport are in by the trillions. Easy to catch on anything that has color and floats. We caught our limit in an hour or so.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/17/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/17/2002
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I took my sons for morning chum action. The fishing continues to be great. We started fishing at 7:30am, low tide was I think around 10:30 or so. The fish are in thick. Best setup was a small pink c...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/20/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2002
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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?"...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/21/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 11/21/2002
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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: 11/30/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/30/2002
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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: 12/16/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 12/16/2002
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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: Anonymous
Posted: 2/23/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2003
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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: 4/10/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2003
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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: 7/23/2003
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2003
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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: 7/26/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2003
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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: 11/11/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2003
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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: 3/13/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2004
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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...
