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By: Toni
Posted: 10/25/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Fishing for chums in the salt is so different than anything else I do. We used bobbers and anchovies. They have to hang just right, at just the right depth, have to watch were they jump and kinda line...
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: 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: 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: rseas
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I think that someone hid a banana in my boat some where. While fishing Johnson Point and Fishtrap in the south sound we went 0 for 8 on some nice kings. Not sure what was up. We had it dialed in and h...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 3
So after winning the mystery fish last weekend decided to enter this Saturday's south sound derby. Now my wife witnessed my winning check so she wanted to go with me today for her 1st salmon trip; I...
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: kingchaser
Posted: 8/7/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was very slow. A lot of fish marked at all depths. Had a few good take downs but nothing hooked. Tried spoons, ace hi-flys and coho killers different colors. Very slow down there.
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 530 from Luhr beach, went north to deep water dropped pots at 70', 120' 130' and 140'. This was my first time at Nisqually and everything I read said go deep. I didn't think the tide was e...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy Jordan and I went out to catch a few starry flounder around 10:30 am. But the tide was just starting to come it-- about two feet too low to launch. We fished from the shore by the condemed do...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/13/2012
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2012
Hot Spots: 1
After receiving some sage advice from the "walakes.com saltwater forum all-stars" I decided to go after some summer starry flounder after work on the Nisqually Delta. I was probably on the water from ...
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: 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: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It was a -3.3 around noon on the fourth. I went to Tolmie to see if geoducks were to be found. My buddy and I searched high and low, but alas no geoducks or even horse clams. We dug a couple of large ...
By: Hank
Posted: 12/28/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
No Fish, but had a great time.
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: Toni
Posted: 11/11/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It took over 1 1/2 hours to get to Johns Creek area this morning. Kokanee slayer has never been there and you could barely see the boats at the marina from the launch it was so foggy. He stared throug...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/5/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/4/2011
Hot Spots: 1
How many days can be like this? There seemed to be non-stop action from 9:30am to 1pm with chum salmon jumping all around like those rivers with the carp jumping in and over the boat. We got to the s...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After a bit of a too much to do hiatus we got back on the throttle and went fishing. We decided to hit the South Sound, in part because you can still retain chinook and because almost 30 years ago I u...
By: Hank
Posted: 8/13/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fly fished for pinks at Olalla and then at Sunrise Beach. Caught two Cutthroat, which were promptly and safely returned to the water. I hesitate to rate the day a 2 becaue it was an awsome day to be f...
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: 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: 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: 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: bionic_one
Posted: 11/20/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy and I put in at Solo point this morning. It was cold and windy, not ideal weather for kayak fishing. We trolled from Ketron down past the gravel dock and didn't see anything under us. The win...
