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By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got a new boat last month (14 foot WC Lund). My fiancée and I took it out for the first time today. We launched out of Luhr's Landing around 4:30 pm; high tide was 6:33. Plenty of things went wrong ...
By: fishingbuds
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day of crabbing! Caught a five man limit of 25 crab. We have 8 pots and pulled them all up twice. Even threw back 4 keepers since we limited out, and swapped out the smaller ones. They su...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/28/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Boston harbor and dropped of 2 pots at 12:45pm. Putted around fishing caught 1 red rock on the fishing pole and 1 flounder. Checked the pots after about an hour 1 keeper red rock in 1, and for...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I went crabbing out of Luhr's Landing around 4pm. I dropped my pots at 80 and 125 feet out from the Nisqually River mouth on flat terrain. We then went flounder jigging for an hour and a h...
By: Five92
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Went out crabbing for the day with the wife, neighbors and two kids. First time out for my wife so we were hopefull to get in some good action.
We launched from Pt Defiance and had a good smoo...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I hit Luhr's Landing around 2:00 pm to do some crabbing in the sun. This was my first time ever crabbing Area 13 although I live in Tumwater (borders Olympia to the south). I used chum sa...
By: Caldwell
Posted: 8/8/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2012
Hot Spots: 1
The fiance and I dug for clams at Tolmie in the afternoon starting about half an hour to an hour before low tide. We got between us about 50 Manila and butter clams and the pictured horse clams. I'l...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/3/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My girlfriend and I soaked two pots from 12:30-3:00 pm (low tide was 2 pm). We pulled both pots twice. We caught six red rocks and two dungeness. We kept two male red rocks (5.25", 6") and both dungie...
By: obryan214
Posted: 9/7/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
went out and saw a few schools moving around but nobody getting anything. tried jigging and trolling. released a sea run cutthroat with a silver spinner. the day gets a 5 because of the mother and cal...
By: obryan214
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
only 1 keeper coho and several shakers released.was using the 742 hootchie with a herring strip behind a deep 6 about 60 poles. started at the slag pile and went out towards vashon where we saw atleas...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with another kayaker and put in at Steamers a bit below the Narrows Bridges. We jigged in 120ft of water up to as shallow as 25ft of water.
Had a few hits, and hooked into a 9" flounder, ...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished outside of Chambers Creek starting around 1:30pm on Saturday. Jigged Pt Wilsons for a while and then switched to some gulp curly tails to play with the flounder at slack tide.
There were ...
By: caddiscaster
Posted: 9/28/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My father-in-law and I flyfished for searun cutts Saturday evening where Hammersley Inlet meets Oakland Bay outside Shelton. The tide was ebbing, creating a nice current near shore. We threw poppers -...
By: RJ
Posted: 7/29/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled for Silvers on Sat/Sun end of July. Using divers with 8" gold/silver flashers and trail hooks w/herring. Fishing the early tide change on both days. Had 3 or 4 decent hits and landed one sm...
By: RJ
Posted: 8/3/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Solo Pt again. Hit the early tide change. Was curious how deep I was getting on my deep six divers so played around close to shore for a while. Determined I was bumping bottom between ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 6/26/2007
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Vaughn Bay yesterday the water was nice.
Lots of boats with motors kept stopping in front of me while trolling in my Pontoon. I had to real the gear in, they just wanted to know how fishin...
By: TheOne
Posted: 8/6/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
fished at chamber from 7 pm till about 10 pm.and got only one fish.....stop running out the nets please. the nets are the main reason why the salmon population is low.also anyone who dose catch pleas...
By: TheOne
Posted: 8/7/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well 2 day me and my brother decided to go fish at secret beach after being skunked at chambers the past 2 days.and i caught a rock fish and my brother caught a small sucker.but sorry no pic for the s...
By: SpencerJ
Posted: 10/29/2016
Species: Flounder
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/29/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Couldn't wake up when I'd planned to and started the day with chores since I missed the tide. Launched in the Yak about 3 from Luhr's and made my way out near the shelf drop-off. Trolled out pulling a...
By: centralia165
Posted: 8/5/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/4/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Set three traps, at fifty feet with 100 foot of weighted line and weighted traps, came back three hours later to find all three gone. All traps had two floats with name and address on them. Someone m...
By: GasGuzzlin
Posted: 7/9/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Although it was raining, wind was low so I decided to try my first attempt at crabbing. Got my inflatable Mariner 4 with 3hp and dropped a pot in 60' near the launch. Prior to this, I spent countless ...
By: noreaster
Posted: 7/17/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the water. Overcast and cool to start with, then the cloud cover weakened and it warmed up nicely. Light winds and fairly calm. We left Swantown at low tide, around 11:30. and ran out to Z...
By: sterlingdriver
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Caught a 24" football king jigging at the green marker (aka green can) in 50 ft of wat using a 4 oz Wilson dart. I caught a few more but they were under sized. It was 15 minutes after low tide. I've ...
By: bjperry
Posted: 8/29/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took my brother and the kids out to try our luck at the hatchery chinook in the south sound. Full disclaimer, this was my first attempt at this type of fishing so wasn't expecting too much luck. We st...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 8/16/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with some kayaking buddies Early Saturday morning 0500. We were on the water by 0530 and fishing soon after. I started off trolling the downrigger between 20 and 30 feet. No hits. Not much ...
