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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught this King 1st thing in the morning , within 10 minutes I hooked up using a Blue Fox spinner, didn't bring the net or boots but with a solid hookup right in tip of upper jaw I was able to pull h...
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By: lawdog
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
stopped by the I-5 bridge area early this morning didnt see a single fish cought, was there for a couple of hrs. tried drift fishing and used a couple different colors of corky and yarn,... nada. anyo...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Nisq today (military side)0530-0830..NADA..did not touch a fish.did not see a fish.Got checked by Military Police..Starting Aug 1, only vehicles with DOD stickers will be allowed to park ...
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Posted: 9/2/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the nisqually river handicap saw some humpys caught.But i did the best in the hole river! It was my second salmon!.
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By: steelly
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started at sunrise had about 9 bobber downs in about 2 hrs of fishing landed one buck about 15lbs
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Posted: 9/26/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishin on the Nisqual Sunday (9-25-2011) was amazing after that rain we had. Fished afternoon/evening on the incoming high tide. Hooked 8 fish, landed 4, kept 2 between my dad and I(19 lb. hen and 1...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/12/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
didnt see any fish moving around or jumping. no shadows and didnt feel any bumps other than my 1/2 oz weight hitting the bottom. got bored after a couple of hours and threw on a spinner. caught a nice...
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By: fintime
Posted: 8/13/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried plunking at River Bend Park. Had the place to ourselves- wonder why???? They are charging $10 a head now for park access plus the fact nothing's in yet. A seal or two seen at the boat launch so ...
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By: Norton93
Posted: 8/14/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Very slow, lots of fish rolling off the old 99 bridge there was quite a few people there as well today. Lots of jacks and even a few bigger dark kings already? I hope in a week or so the fish will be ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/17/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Nasty 0530-0900..NADA..did not see a fish.did not see anyone catch a fish.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Nisqually at first light and had my first king by 6:30. Caught this monster but had to let him go (too many fins)..... All in all, three of us got our limits today on kings and our arms a...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/28/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the river today and seen about 5 fish landed and 3 lost. Lots of people on the river for a tuesday, couldn't imagine what it would be like on the following weekends.. Kinda new to the area...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Showed up E fork Satsop first thing. No fish in the river yet. Water level too low. Left for the Nisqually Between the three of us in my party we landed two on eggs under a float. one boot king...
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By: Toni
Posted: 9/9/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I met up with Str8line and his son this morning for an excursion on the Nisqually for kings in his sled. We used eggs and divers without any catching. A drift boat we saw was doing a little catching a...
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By: wdavis10
Posted: 9/13/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
slow day out there today saw one taken and lots of foul hooken goin on, some chinook hookups but must have been native or foul hooked as well. elbow to elbow with your usuall ding dong standing in t...
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By: parker264
Posted: 9/27/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 3
i was fishing at the handy cap some guy constentely caught fish.i didnt catch anything. Also Does anyone know if capital lake in Olympia is open for salmon yet?
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Posted: 8/29/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first time reporting to this website. I have followed it from the start of this year and like the layout. Therefore, I figure I should catch some fish and make a report! Only Problem; T...
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Posted: 9/1/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Nisqually around 9AM sat and watched a few people to see where they were snagging up at. Tied up and got my line wet about noon or so. 5-6 casts and it was fish on. fought it about 2-3 minutes...
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By: schu7498
Posted: 9/4/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got the chance to go out on a friends luxury jet sled on the Nisqually to feed the kings. I had a couple different egg cures I wanted to try out. We started above the hatchery confluence and fished pi...
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Posted: 7/30/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this morning from 7 to 12 at mounts rd. Bridge No hook ups just a lot of snags, saw a few roll a couple large kings jumping, The indians were back and forth from the mouth along wth the warde...
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By: gunsafmc
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Slim pickings, Landed one nice chromer, about 20 + pounds, 35 inches long.
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Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
10 Aug Went out to the mouth near the green can. Nisqually Tribe had 3/4 mouth netted up. Seen one native checking nets with a silver alumnacraft and then took off up river after checking his catch. I...
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Posted: 8/14/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well I keep hearing rumors that a chain link fence got thrown in the water down stream of Mounts bridge last weekend to try to make fishing difficult. Not sure if the rumor is true, but a lot of peopl...
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Posted: 8/16/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing except mosquitos and good conversation. Lots of people at the river at 6am and most were leaving by 8 with a new crowd showing up. I fished the mounts river bridge. A lot of people there, so m...
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By: Gandhi57
Posted: 8/29/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Long day but came home with 15 pound hen.
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