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Area 8-1 Deception Pass Fishing Reports
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By: Dave
Posted: 7/9/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I and my buddy Dan crabbed north Camano Island this morning and had to work hard for our 15 keepers. I’ve never seen so many under sized males and females in my life! Thanks to our Tribal ...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
On Friday July 16th I had the opportunity to go crabbing with 6 friends from work. We had gear in the water for a total of 3 hours and harvested 35 very nice Dungeness crab including several in the ov...
By: saltyseadog
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
hey guys... just alittle shrimp report for sat. had the pots down at 7 am 280 to 300 feet got most of em at slack tide all spots and a few pinks. lost one pot I think it was stolen witch was not min...
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: 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...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Crabs, a day at the beach and one heck of a fireworks display! Truck loaded with two kayaks, enough fireworks to keep us busy for hours, the equivalent of weeks worth of gear (for one day at the beach...
By: racfish
Posted: 7/20/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us went crabbing. The weather was fair. The water was a lil rough . Got to the launch at 9:30 and lots of parking. Our first pots when in at 10:15. At 11:00 we started pulling up pots. Lots o...
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: nerka nailer
Posted: 7/10/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I spent a few days up in the Deception pass area and went crabbing on the 5th and the 9th. I took my parents out on the boat on the 5th and we dropped pots in the southwest area of Similk bay. I must ...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/20/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got crabs?
We did; launching out of Coronet Bay late Saturday morning we worked over the north end of Marine Area 8-1 and kicked Dungeness booty. Not a lot of science; started with a sting of trap...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 7/23/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to grab some fresh crab for Crabcakes for dinner tonight. Dropped two pots and one came up with enough keepers to get out after an hour soak. BUT the other one came up empty except for this l...
By: scotrobe
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I put out the pots starting at 10:30am and pulled them up at about 1pm. At first, only one pot had crab it in. (We think the other pot was put in too shallow.) However, that pot had 3 good ...
By: Fishermom14
Posted: 8/14/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We headed out earlier than we originally planned to for hitting the slack tide in the afternoon because we'd read about there being a small craft advisory in the area we were headed to. We launched f...
By: stevenb_photo
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished around the east side of deception pass looking for lingcod for about 3 hours. Found nothing at all, not even a bite. At least I didn't lose any gear.
By: rseas
Posted: 7/4/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Still enjoying the euphoria of my Lake Samish adventure, Sunday morning we got up and the wind was blowing. Didn’t think that we were going to take the boat out but my daughter didn’t work and had ask...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 7/2/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
So we have made an annual trip 4th of July weekend to visit my parents and take them crabbing in Area
8-1. This year was nothing short of amazing. We limited out 2 days in a row with nice crab. We f...
By: trixy408
Posted: 8/25/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
killed them today. my dad mom brother and I hit the water around 5:30 it was a short ride out to deception pass where some other small boats where out out trying to do the same thing we are. power mo...
By: fishindude
Posted: 8/9/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 0900-1230 trolling cut plug herring and boated 2 pinks and a nice 7lbs hook nose silver. My neighbor took me out on his boat and he ended up with two pinks. We lost a few more but we both ...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 2
Put in at the state park on Camano Island and headed out at 10:am. Wanted to fish the High Tide at 11:30. First time on the Reef at a Onamac Point. Its a very small area I found out. I have a bott...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 6/22/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
For Fathers day I took out my Son and my Grand Daughter. Wanted them to have fun and get addicted to fishing as in Her Case. Shes 14 and never been before!!
We started off to Head down to Camano ...
By: fishindude
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Put 4 pots out baited with turkey legs Thursday after work with Dad. Friday morning my daughter, mom, dad, and I all loaded up to check the pots. I got a little ways from the launch and the motor died...
By: rseas
Posted: 3/18/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
And again, a long dry spell. It's funny, on the water almost every day but I am working and not fishing. So much for retirement... I had to work Saturday so a fishing buddy and I decided to catch day...
By: rseas
Posted: 3/25/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Hoo-ha, 2 weekends in a row! I’ve been on the water 9 days in a row but only able to drop the DR balls and fish twice. Sunday was an interesting trip. Normally everything on my boat runs like clockwor...
By: wafisherman20
Posted: 12/28/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN WE HAVE VENTURED INTO THE SALT! yes folks I have taken a break from trolling lakes to catch some elusive winter blackmouth with Rmrauscher, the best guide on the water.
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