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By: TomA
Posted: 8/8/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Off the lighthouse in 85-100 feet water.
10 to the boat to get 4 hatchery coho. All fish in the top 25 foot of water
Inline shortbus flasher and 12 oz lead dropper.
Very consistent action
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 7/23/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2021
Hot Spots: 0
This trip had been in the making for a couple years but I finally got to go fishing with my friend Capt. Keizer on his boat the salt patrol. His friend Jerry was also on the trip. Heading out of Ilwac...
By: Ganno
Posted: 7/29/2022
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fog was very thick bar was restricted to 30 ft in the AM. Fog never let up all day but we made it out eventually to constant action, we put ten fish to the boat to keep four. Done by one o clock.
By: 64omcangeler
Posted: 3/10/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was horrible and all we could hook was crab. I'm sure it was because of the weather front we had. It most likley pushed all the sea perch back in deeper water but I will be back soon with ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/25/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went Razor claming on Long beacg near Ocean Park and got easy limits. Cleaned the clams and went surf fishing for the first time. Used 4oz pyramid sinker with double hook set up and clam necks for bai...
By: JM73
Posted: 8/6/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Myself and three freinds fished off Ilwaco on Friday 8/5/11 After crossing the bar and heading NW for around 20 miles (roughly), we dropped the gear. Varying colors of divers followed with an anchov...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Combined report for Monday, 7/8 through Wednesday, 7/10
We were eager to test the salmon fishing out of Ilwaco, so got up at the crack of dawn on Monday, jumped into my buddy’s boat and headed out ...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I went down to Long Beach to join my father in-law for some buoy 10 action. He had been there with a group from Sunday the 3rd, the initial reports were not good, they got skunked Sun-Mon. They coul...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Day 2 of the supposed buoy 10 fishing that turned into ocean fishing. We got out of the marina about the same time as yesterday (7:30) and motored across the bar, pretty easy crossing, but we did cat...
By: stryker17
Posted: 9/4/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Left the dock at 8;00 AM and had the first fish in the boat 15 minutes later, caught on anchovies, next 2 fish on cut plug, than another one on anchovies, found out as we were going in that it was a ...
By: stryker17
Posted: 9/5/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Much slower today........at least for us,,,,,,,,,wind chop 2 ft to 4 ft......really hard to keep the boat going where you want it to..........released 4 finned, no kings all coho,,,,,,,,lost 3 on the ...
By: terry329
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Left out of the Hammond marina at 6 a.m. on board a charter boat, which is a 25'er which will hold up to 4 customers and the captain. Headed out the mouth of the Columbia to about 25 yards west of th...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to a kayaking crab derby Saturday and tried for bottomfish while my trap was soaking. Got one hit the entire day.
Crabbing was decent though. I had 7 keepers, but being new to crabbing I t...
By: robert4681
Posted: 7/17/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out of ILWAKO with a Charter Service 7-17 and 7-18. Boat limited both days by 10:00am. 80% coho 5 to 8 pounds, 20% Kings 8 to 12 pounds. Great fishing. It was a little rainy but the ocean was ca...
By: SALMONHAWK
Posted: 7/19/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my yearly trip out of Ilwaco for Salmon the weather was very windy and wet and the ocean was pretty sloppy but the fishing was good for those who could get out (no small boats) we had no probl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time over the barge. We initially targeted Chinook Salmon, though realy had no luck. Had luck with a mixture of native and hatchery Silvers. Started fishing around 7AM. Had my limit of ...
Posted: 6/22/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day of fishing. Steady action in the morning made for a nice catch of Coho and Chinook salmon. We had a mix of six Chinook and twelve coho along with several native coho and undersized C...
Posted: 6/24/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
A perfect "10". It just doesn't get any better than this. The morning sky is clear. A young family going out salmon fishing for the first time find a calm ocean and great fishing landing 6 chinook an...
Posted: 6/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day on the water. A little more swell on the ocean. We didn't have time for pictures. The action was fast and furious. We only had 5 customers on board plus to crew. We had to land 44 ...
Posted: 6/30/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The only reason this report is not a 5+ is due to the weather. We had strong northwest winds creating uncomfortable fishing. However the fishing was amazing. We landed over 130 salmon in a day when t...
Posted: 7/6/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Salmon fishing continues to be red hot. All of our boats were in early with limits of coho and some chinook mixed in. The weather was overcast and the bar again was tough with a large swell and over ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/13/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2015
Hot Spots: 1
The old saying one door closing can mean another one opening certainly rang true for a group of Northwest Fishing Reports anglers this weekend.
Our group had a trip/video planned to fish tuna with...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/15/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I had the extraordinary chance to go fishing on a charter with a group of people from
NorthwestFishing Reports.Com. I got up at 1am left at 2am to drive down to Ilwaco and after some foggy places a ...
By: FishingTenor
Posted: 8/16/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
It had been a couple of years since my previous charter out of Ilwaco for salmon. On that occasion we had gale+ winds, but the fishing was awesome! This time around, I checked the reports more closely...
By: $e@hawk
Posted: 7/17/2021
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2021
Hot Spots: 0
had to work hard for limit but caught our fish.
