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By: RRanger66/67
Posted: 10/7/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My brother-in-law caught this beautiful 9# Coho after about 3 hrs. with nothing happening. Great fishing conditions except for the over abundance of seals...(need to do something about this please).....
By: reynoldsj
Posted: 2/28/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went fishing for Kings for 2020.
Camano Island King Salmon Fishing 2020
At Area 8-1
Launching at Camano Island State Park
We used two setups, all 20' setbacks
Gibbs Green Onion fla...
By: JoshH
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at North Beach right about 7am. Caught the end of the outgoing tide, most of the time fishing was during the incoming. Started slow, but as soon as the water started moving, I watched as quite...
By: JoshH
Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try something different today from the beach. I've done very well this year with a yellow/green buzz bomb with a pink hoochie. Today I tried a herring under a bobber. I did bring my other p...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/19/2014
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Clams? Clams anyone? Ok after our screw up on the lake Stevens Kokanee derby it was supposed to be a no nonsense chores day. Well, I needed a beach excuse so I declared that the dogs needed their week...
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/12/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to North Beach this morning at Deception Pass. I went out to West Beach the day before and 2nd cast broke my rod tip, which promptly ended my day. Hoping for slightly better luck I arrived ar...
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/13/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to North Beach again today, this time with my brother and nephew. We set today as a day to fish as it would have been our dads 75th birthday. When we woke up we found out our grandmother, wh...
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/15/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
3rd straight day at North Beach. Probably the last day Pink fishing, at least for awhile. Looking forward to Coho showing up end September early October. Arrived just before 7am, beach was already ver...
By: DannyL
Posted: 8/20/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I am giving this a poor report because we caught no fish. Just my luck haha. Fish jumping everywhere and people around us were hooking into a bunch of fish.
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/29/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to North Beach this morning. Saw the ominous forecast but said what the heck. A little rain is easy to deal with. Got there at 6:30. Soon after got 1 average length, but skinny hen. A little bit ...
By: JoshH
Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to north Beach right about 7am. Caught the end of the ebb. Made a few casts and in that brief time saw a few landed, so I felt optimistic. Sure enough, fish on. Fish followed the lure all the way ...
By: calico68
Posted: 8/11/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 5:30pm. Saw fish jumping in close and out. On the tenth cast hook up fish on. After that had a few hits but nothing called it at day.
By: kutztribe
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Husband and I headed out to Deception Pass and got there around 8am. We were there for about 4 hours and saw about 11 fish pulled in and a lot caught and lost. There were a lot of people fishing No...
By: rdrwolf
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to North Beach about 8:00 am (2 hours before low tide). there were 3 of us, including a family friend who had never caught a salmon before. We were able to fish together at the East end of beach. ...
By: rdrwolf
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We were originally planning on going to Bush Point, but because of success on Saturday, returned on Sunday. What a difference! Stareted fishing around 8:00 am, fished until 11:00 am. Due to how crowde...
By: salmonator_1228
Posted: 9/2/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing around 6:45, and around 7 is when the bite started I hooked into one almost landed buuuuuuttttt my friend doesn't know how to net fish. He put the line in between his legs and i said...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 2/28/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Two friends and I participated in the 48th annual La Conner Surf Smelt Derby. It was $2 to enter with a $100 prize for biggest smelt. We fished from 10:30 until the derby ended at 2:00. One friend cau...
By: countryboy87
Posted: 3/3/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to try and get some smelt and herring. Got a late start did not get there till almost 10 saw maybe 10 caught out of like 25 people there. Really slow. Heard yesterday was on fire. Gonna go ag...
By: beachbum97
Posted: 8/17/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Incredibly slow, saw 6 or so fish caught. A few jumpers but nothing really in.
By: wolff
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finished dinner(pink salmon burgers) and said, 'what the heck, go fishing'. Had a line in at the Pass(West Beach) 15 minutes later. Tossing green/white BB with pink hoochie, with hope of gettin...
By: Ladyclipper
Posted: 12/14/2013
Species: Smelt
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Cornet Bay today and bounced #4 smelt jugs. Had some meal left over from Lk Shannon and just added some mackerel for chumming. Ended up with 5 smelt. Had better days, but who cares just ...
By: darkshadow
Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
anchored in 12 feet of water,hit several schools of pinks, first time for special friend, she picked up the buzz bomb thing fast an it was great too fill the boat an come in in the dark. great fishin...
By: rseas
Posted: 3/25/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day and had a couple hours to kill so fly rods in hand we headed to a little beach in the Deception Pass area. The tides were perfect for cutthroat fishing and we settled in working the insi...
By: Pradeep
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Did an overnight soak in 8-1 for 10 hrs. Resulting in 18 nice keepers. As Dave has reported previously, this area is producing very well. Chicken halves were the bait of choice for this particular tri...
By: bryanpeck
Posted: 7/3/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Camano Island State Park ramp at about 06:15 and headed a mile or two north to the point (see hotspot).
Baited 5 crab pots with various combinations of mini chicken legs/wings, sockeye...