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By: drednought
Posted: 9/3/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was nearly the same as my post last week. Poor. Word must have gotten out that they just aren't biting for there were not that many people fishing. Didn't see anyone hook into anything but ...
By: catfish85
Posted: 9/25/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to Mounts Rd. with a buddy from work. I caught a really nice pink hen. I saw a few more landed. A friend of ours had a real nice one on which he had to follow down river for a little whil...
By: lbcatcher
Posted: 9/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Spent a couple of hours on the Nisqually River. I did catch a Pink of decent size. However the real good information is that some of those fishing around me were catching Chinooks.
By: Travesty 85
Posted: 11/1/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
finally getting around to adding some photos and catching up on some posts I've been procrastinating on. Nice day on the river. Lots of pinks rolling through. Here's one of the many fish caught for th...
By: chrisalex1
Posted: 9/17/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
the river is still so very cloudy chalky. only had two brief hookups in a four hour period. people are starting to get the word or idea of at least picking up their trash after they leave it looks som...
By: johnsonmj81
Posted: 9/13/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Caught limits of pinks on tues night and 3 pinks and a silver on thursday. fish are in thick and biting good. pink yarn and small pink corkie. Got to see one of the rare sockeye that make it to the ri...
By: salmonkid234
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I stayed the night with my cousin.At river bend campground.We went down to the river.45 minutes later just before 10 I got a realy nice pink!!3rd salmon of my life!!!
By: bandseeker
Posted: 6/21/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, after throwing in my crab pots in Oro Bay, I decided to take the boat up the Nisqually to see how far I could get up it in my outboard. I noticed on the way up lots of drift nets or bouys for dr...
By: Jacob
Posted: 8/23/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the nisqually this morning. Tons of people but no action i seen two king jacks snagged and that was it. Was there for about 4 hours mostly just watching.
By: bandseeker
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I caught and released one 6 inch rainbow trout and caught my second dolly varden trout in the river. This one was 7 inches long. The previous one I caught 7 years ago was a 12 inch fat one. Not sure w...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fly fished in the afternoon for a couple hours and caught a mess of cutthroat and rainbows. All fished came on a grasshopper pattern with most fish averaging 6 to 8 inches. Saw one big trout about 18 ...
By: natetreat
Posted: 9/29/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jack Bauer and I got to the river late at like 9. My first time fishing the Nisqually, my dad always avoided it. It's great, the hole looks like a warzone. Fishing line off the power lines, the bridge...
By: fisherman31579
Posted: 9/29/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
so i love to fish and apperantly im not very good at it. i went to the nisqually and saw people walking out with fish as i pulled up, nice fish to. the bridge was super crowded so i went up river to t...
By: spokey9
Posted: 9/30/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
fished this morning down at the nasty. used the old standbye (2 size 14 green/gold corkies an a lil black yarn to hold sum stink). hooked into 3 silvers landed one that was foul hooked so back she wen...
By: flinginpooh
Posted: 9/30/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Ok now putting in reports hasnt been my thing since there has been a few attacks on my reports in the past. Lets try and remember these reports are to help others and for a lil braggin as well.
I...
By: natetreat
Posted: 9/30/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
*DISCLAIMER - Just because I hooked up, the fish were CRAZY awesome and there other folks with me killed 'em dead does not mean the fish will be there in the morning*
That out of the way, I had t...
By: Norton360
Posted: 10/24/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at the Nisqually river at around noon, only about 3 peoople at the Mounts Bridge. 2 people on the military side and me on the civilian. No fish anywhere, even the gillnetters were coming up ...
By: fisherman31579
Posted: 9/22/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
THIRD AND LAST RIVER I HIT ON TUES. LOTS OF PEOPLE FOR A WEEK DAY. THE MOUNTS ROAD BRIDGE WAS THE BEST. LOTS OF BOOTED OUT KINGS AND LOTS OF NICE SILVERS. SAW A FAIR AMOUNT CAUGHT. I CAUGHT ONE, AND L...
By: spokey9
Posted: 9/24/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went down to the nasty this morning and fished under mounts road bridge. got started around 6:15 or so. hooked the first one five minutes later, booter king, threw it back. didn't hook up again til...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 9/14/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Nisqually after no fish at the Puyallup. We were there for another 4-5 hours under a bridge. Got to see the military side that everybody talks about in thier reports. The MP was down at th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the river a little later than I wanted to but timming was good. Fished on the Military side just down from the bridge. hooked one in about 30 minutes lost it in the rips near shore. Hooked and ...
By: rjohnson8706
Posted: 9/23/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up the nisqually cause the puke lately has made me want to puke its been so slow, I've never caught anything out of the nisqually until today, caught about a 15-18lb king, dark as hell but owell m...
By: gonnahookit
Posted: 9/25/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First report for me, just had to share this as it is something that will last with me forever.
Fished the Nisqually Monday afternoon. About a dozen trips their this year so far, with only a coup...
By: NECVL
Posted: 9/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Off of Old Pacific Hwy there is a location that DoD card holders are allowed to fish from. It is on the stretch of river south of five just north of the Old Pac Hwy. I went there for my first time sal...
By: jojo
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy of mine took me out for the first time to catch Cohos with the possibility of some Kings. He delivered on both and introduced me to a new spot which is perfect for my style of fishing. Let me ...
