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By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't check the tide, my son and I got to the dock at low tide. Used chicken parts for bait in traps. Two traps soaked for two hours with nothing, saw others catching a couple red reck. Since it was ...
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 3
just east of boston harbor in about 70ft of water, pulled two nice limits of HUGE red rocks. some of these things were pushing WAY over dungy size. just a couple salmon heads and a few hours soak. def...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is fairly late-- but figured I'd submit for historical reference. A friend and I launched out of Luhr's Landing around 5:30 pm; returning at 8:30. High tide was 7:33. We dropped two crab p...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 11/24/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went crabbing with a buddy out of Boston Harbor from about 1:00-3:30. The trip was basically to keep my boat motor active. Only took out two pots, and did four pulls total. I wasn't really expecting...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/29/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbing continues to be great for red rocks out of Boston Harbor. Went out twice in the last couple of weeks. Easy limits of red rocks (only on the water for about 1:30pm -4:00 pm both times). I've b...
By: Salmonslammin14
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at pt defiance and headed south! Got 4 limits of big red rock crabs but only 1 keeper dungy lots of under sized and wrong sex. All in all good day as my 4 year old son hunter is a pro crabbe...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 6/4/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the kayak, was planning on spending several hours but that didn't work. I dropped one cage baited with stocker trout, then rowed about another 100 yards and dropped the crab ring. After ...
By: Walleye Willie
Posted: 7/4/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went after Dungees.... got five between four pots... soaked for 1.5 hours.... Used chicken legs marinated in a commercial crab oil....60-75 feet of water... two pilings to the right of the broken barg...
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: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/10/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished and crabbed all weekend down south by Penrose. Not one fish and only a few take downs. However the red rock crabbing was on. 28 total for the weekend. Made for a different meal while camping at...
By: Ganno
Posted: 12/31/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Take advantage of the nice weather and go get some crabs .Mouth of the Nisqually in 125 feet of water.Two pots one hour produced two limits All were nice size way larger than 61/4inches.New Year dinne...
By: spokey9
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to the public pier by the ferry terminal (not sure what it's called) around 10 am or so til about 2:30 pm. Between my girlfriend and i we got both our limits of red rock crabs and bottom fish...
By: natetreat
Posted: 7/18/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So after fishing the Wynoochee on Saturday, I spent a lazy afternoon at the dock at my dads house at Steamboat Island.
I caught lots of crab, which was my primary goal, and also had a dog shark de...
By: Robert4444
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well the wife and I got the boat out for a bit on Friday, dropped one of my pots at 30' and one at 100', the wife went with one at 50' and one at 100'. Soaked for an hour +. Pulled my shallow pot at 3...
By: Rip Lipper
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2016
Hot Spots: 2
For the last 3 years crabbing in the Reach has sucked. Small young crabs, females, no legal males. I guess the sea lions target them too. :)
Anyway, decided to work around the Can (gone but not forgo...
By: brandon_murray1
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Went and dropped two pots in about 70 feet of water each just to the west of Jarrell Cove. Limited out on Red Rock Crab, the largest of which weighing in at 2.048 pounds and 7 1/2". Caught dozens of D...
By: Catch&Cook
Posted: 1/27/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/18/2021
Hot Spots: 0
We took the kayaks out to fish for resident coho salmon around the islands and inlets in Area 13. We left in the morning about 1.5 hours before high tide and fished for a few hours. Caught two residen...
By: j_maxwell
Posted: 9/24/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to throw some buzz bombs from a nice beach in area 13 this morning. Gonna eat well tonight. This is my first of the year so far and was my 3rd trip out. Tight lines, yall.
By: j_maxwell
Posted: 10/8/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/8/2021
Hot Spots: 0
My 3rd Coho from the beach this year on Case Inlet. Its a monster. I didn't weigh it because I had no scale, but its the biggest one I've caught so far. It was caught in about 4ft of water on a #4 gre...
By: Easy Limits
Posted: 9/12/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took my mother-in-law, Rose, out for some coho action in the south Sound. I had been hearing that there were fish around the south end of Squaxin Island. I had never fished in that particular area...
By: Easy Limits
Posted: 9/19/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Set out early this morning looking for coho. Started around the south end of Squaxin Is. Saw no fish jumping. Then I motored north up to Jarrell Cove. I didn't see any fish in the cove either. Th...
By: Riverrunner
Posted: 9/27/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Just found this site and thought I'd try a report. Recently moved to Washington and am trying to figure out salmon fishing. I have a 19' hewescraft jet with downriggers, kicker motor and most everyt...
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: shawn
Posted: 9/24/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Heard there was a surge of Coho pushing thru that area.So we loaded up the boat and took off to Allyn to launch.Did some trolling around a couple of the islands out there.Fish were on the screen and j...
