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Posted: 2/17/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out from Mukilteo launch to a popular location for soaker flood tides. Set down a coho killer & 3.5" spoon (both Irish Creme) in 115ft of water...good bait on the deck. Immediately hooked up ...
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Posted: 5/1/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Giving this a 5 only because the fish was huge & the run was epic....other than that, very slow day! Fished solo today with all my friends (literally nobody could go today). Had a solid day yesterday...
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Posted: 3/28/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the ebb tide this morning at PNP...trolled with the current in 100-140'. Spoons 5' off the deck. Only hooked 7-8 fish all morning (tripled that a couple weeks ago)...bait was not near as thic...
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Posted: 9/20/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Out at the crack of dawn with the fleet off Pt Edwards in 3-500' of water. Constant action until we got our 4 coho. Nothing big (6 the biggest)...had to work today so couldn't weed through the small...
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Posted: 7/16/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Skatchet Head from 8-10am this morning was on fire. Good bait & an amazing bite. Heard great reports from Midchannel & from Jeff Head. Nice to see a few fish around!
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Posted: 7/14/2017
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Up & at em this morning at daylight. Got one chromer right away at 35" down. Thought "game on". Nothing for the next 3 hours. Saw maybe 6 caught the entire day....100 boats in the north end & 50 d...
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Posted: 6/13/2017
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went with buddy Steve on his brand new 28' Duckworth Ocean Sport...wow, what an amazing ride. Ocean was flat calm & only 1.2 hours to the SW corner. First stop..nothing but 3 skate. Moved no more t...
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Posted: 9/1/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Leaving driveway (8/17), noticed oil coming from kicker drain plug (as I was leaving for week long trip)...called around; Cascade Marine in Mt Vernon had one in stock (whew)..picked it up as we headed...
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Posted: 7/20/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Buddy Mark found this guy on Possession this morning down 130' in approx 200' of water. There is a lot of bait out there & millions of dog fish too. Green splatter back squid 34" behind a green glow...
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Posted: 7/8/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Read about the lake opening Wednesday...called buddy (Captain Tobin) & off we went yesterday morning..showed up around 5:30A at the grounds & game on immediately. Constant action until we ended with a...
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Posted: 7/4/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 1
With dismal reports from the opener, headed down Saturday morning in hopes of finding some fish. Had been way to long since I took my son fishing & this was our chance. Heard of some fish straight o...
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Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished on the "Freedom" yesterday...Tough fishing with 5' W swell at 7 seconds & a pretty strong westerly breeze blowing...had to back down against the current all morning & fishing was definitely slo...
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Posted: 5/12/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down Monday morning to Drano--arrived at 10am; lake was full of boats. Wind was howling steady 20 out of the west..made trolling tough. Actually pretty good action as someone somewhere was fig...
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Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Excited to get my boat back from the shop (in 4 weeks!)--re-done floor (had delaminated from a previous fix)...headed toward Salmon Bank yesterday morning...1/2 way across buddy says "hey, water comin...
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Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/1/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Ventured out to some local Rosario Straits ebb tide fishery locations...had one good take down/run but missed it. Packed up & headed west to a lot of boats at Salmon Bank. Had fish #1 cut off by big...
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Posted: 12/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/1/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Couldn't resist the temptation...flew solo today as could not get another body to challenge the predicted Gale winds. Started (8:30am) at Tide Pt/Eagle Bluff--fished through high slack until 11am (hi...
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Posted: 8/16/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/16/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Not stop action from the minute we put the poles in the water at 7am today until we limited.....5 kings to 20lbs & 3 coho to 10 filled our limit. Several drive-bys & several misses/lossed. Green spa...
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Posted: 8/12/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Called WFDW yesterday requesting King limit be raised to 2 for me today (60% of quota left--only 2-3 solid weeks of king season left!). Answer was no-have to review last weeks data. That said, drove d...
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Posted: 7/31/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Caught the sockeye bug after being out opening day & getting 3. Really inspired by stories of boats hooking 25 that day...made the trek up yesterday morning--fishing by 6:30 (yes, I know, supposed to...
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