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By: 3D
Posted: 9/5/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
first went to puyallup about 9am did not do so good , so decided to go to nisqualy. tide was just coming in and fish were going nuts. other than a nut case next to me whom thought he owned the river i...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/21/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Nisqually for my first time from about 6 to 7:30 pm. I was off the bank a little upstream from the big cement fishing bulkhead. It was very crowded, but not quite to the point of combat f...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/29/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Nisqually from 6:15 am to noon. The river was packed with anglers of course. I used green corkies the majority of the time, but about every color was thrown sometime or another. No fish, mi...
By: lhouch
Posted: 9/30/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fished Sat and Sun. limited on Sat lost a bunch on Sun. Used gloworange and peach before day light. oarnge/tellow and peach after daybreak.
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 10/13/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Nisqually for silvers from 4:30 to 7. River was pretty dead, not even many fish rolling. Twice during the day the fishing was okay in the combat fishing area, a couple really nice silvers...
By: kenjkun
Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Took a short trip down to Nisqually hoping to catch a king or silver, but it seemed a little late in the season for kings and nobody was hooking anything. I went further upstream and found people pul...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Woo! I snapped a big fishless-outings streak today. I fished the Nisqually River from 3 to 6:30 pm. Upon arrival I was pretty bummed because the nets were out. So you either had to fish way upstream f...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 10/20/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Nisqually from about 4:30 to 6 pm with no success. I saw one fish caught in an area with about a dozen anglers. So, between the nets constantly being out now and the run having peaked, fi...
By: Hexnut
Posted: 12/17/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Nisqually River park off 6th ave was packed early but producing beautiful BRIGHT chum salmon in the 9-12 lb range. Limited with two nice 10 lbrs in about 45 minutes. 6' Bass rod with a Shimano Saraha ...
By: Lance
Posted: 1/2/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After reading the report posted mid December with bright Chum, my brother and I drove down from Bremerton to give it a try. Arrived at the 6th ave bridge about 2 pm and the water was a little cloudy b...
By: SDMatrix1230
Posted: 8/10/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Left the Skokomish river because nothing was going on there. Went down to the Nisqually just to see what was going on. It was about the same as the Skokomish. Talked to some really nice people. Bu...
By: lhouch
Posted: 8/22/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got there before 5 and was fishing by daylight. Only had 3 hits from 5 - 9 but I caught all three fish. One 23" silver, 1 jack king, and foul hooked a 22lb native. The first two will taste good. T...
By: stephanp253
Posted: 9/18/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
still waiting on rain , here's some pics though have alot more but here's some nice ones. tight lines.
By: stephanp253
Posted: 9/27/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I lied. I'll post again.
Here's a silver from the 25th, and look at a beautiful fish.
Silvers are showing up in numbers now, and lots of big hatchery kings being caught. even some chum's? yeah th...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/27/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to a fishing clinic on the Nisqually River. No fish but we did see a seal. I learned a new egg loop knot. Unfortunately I forgot how to tie it even though I did up 2 before I left the river....
By: BrettW
Posted: 11/11/2008
Species: Shad
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This morning I went out to Perry Creek with a couple of friends. We were there after low tide and left as the tide was coming in. The chum here are running thick at times. Between my two friends, 3 ch...
By: Dailyfisherman00
Posted: 12/9/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Last Sunday I started fishing around 7am and it was hot fishing till noon. Here are two nice chrome chums for the smoker.
By: anakpinoy4
Posted: 12/15/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Nisqually at the handicap hole December 11 and 12 between 9:00 and 1:00 on the 11th and 1:00 and 5:00 on the 12th. Water was like watery chocolate milk and it was FREEZING out! My guess ...
By: mjphillips79
Posted: 12/16/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful afternoon, little windy but o.k. Fished the Ft. Lewis side across from "The Landing". No one else down there, but it was elbow to elbow at the bridge. Hooked one, but pulled free. Saw a ...
By: Toni
Posted: 12/17/2008
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was snow day at work, so I went down to the Riverbend campground on the Nisqually. The roads were good until Mounts road but my front wheel drive did ok. I didn’t drive all the way down the grave...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/1/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I took into account the high tide low tide aspect of how the fish might come up the river, therefore I thought I should get there by 10am. I got there 11 am. Only an hour late. I went through the cam...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/4/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing down by the bridge around 7pm. Just below the bridge, couple of gill nets were out. Anyway did see some splash in the water but can't tell what kind of fish, I'm thinking Kings right...
By: keefers6
Posted: 8/11/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I took the wrong pole on this day, I should have taken my fly rod. We seen lot's of trout jumping and that was it no salmon jumping and none caught.
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/14/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Nisqually from 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm at the train bridge area. It was more of a scouting mission. Lots of smaller fish rolling, pinks I think? Unless they're jacks. Either way they're salmon...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 8/17/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
There are tons... TONS of fish in the Nisqually. They're jumping constantly all over. The only problem is - they aren't biting.
Fished for about 3 hours at the old Nisqually Road bridge. Only th...
