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By: glowball
Posted: 6/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went out saturda morn...fished the girlscout camp...pulled a 742 hoochie on the bottom in 130 ft of water...first pass got a 6.5 lb feeder...2 nd pass a shaker....bout 5 th pass picked up another feed...
By: Byte Me
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Off the dock @ 0630. Headed south today. Dropped lines at Dash Point and fished down to Browns Point. Didn’t mark any fish or see any bait, only a couple seals. Fished Browns Point as the tide changed...
By: Byte Me
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water @ 0630. Started at Beal and fished it through the high tide. No luck and no bait. Moved north as the tide turned & fished both sides of Dolphin. Finally found a little bait & started mar...
By: obryan214
Posted: 6/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
fished pt. defiance for the high tide change. 2 fish, the unclipped one was released. both in the 9 to 10 pound range. the keeper had a bunch of shrimp in its stomach. trolled a white tomic plug off t...
By: obryan214
Posted: 5/12/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
fished several areas between the clay banks and the narrows bridge searching for lingcod. released 1 undersized fish, 3 rockfish and 1 irish lord. herring was the bait. got checked by the police boat ...
By: obryan214
Posted: 4/25/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
figured I try for one last time before the closure in a few days. released an undersized blackmouth which would've made a nice trout if I were lake fishing. started at the claybanks trolling the 742 h...
By: obryan214
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with someone who prefers to jig so thats what we did. Shimano butterfly jigs for me, pt. wilson darts for him. Just about every color known to man was used. A couple shakers caught in my boat...
By: obryan214
Posted: 4/17/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
nice day on the water, sunny and no wind to start. dragged a 742 hootchie behind an 8" flasher around several areas by point defiance, dalco, evans and random spots. 2 small ones released, may have be...
By: jschmoof
Posted: 3/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Dalco Saturday morning. It was the only place to fish out of the wind.fishing about 160 feet got a 25 inch black mouth other than that fishing kind of slow....better than a skunk
By: obryan214
Posted: 2/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Put the boat in the salt this morning to do a bit of trolling around Pt. Defiance. A few others had the same idea. 2 small shakers released, one good hit missed. Didn't mark much bait and only 1 seal ...
By: obryan214
Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After watching guys load up on squid the last couple weeks during the morning I got a spot in the crowd at the dock at the Pt. Defiance boathouse this morning. Only was able to find one of my jigs unt...
By: linh.uw
Posted: 11/25/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Squidding Report for Friday, Nov. 21, 2014.
Went squidding from about 8pm - 1 am on Friday night with a friend of mine (Minh). We started an hour before high tide and were in the water by 8:00PM. ...
By: obryan214
Posted: 11/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to jig blackmouth off the clay banks. Only managed to get half a dozen squid on my butterfly jigs. The other boats got squid also. No salmon but tons of bait. A large pod of Orcas with a news cho...
By: Dreamerstu
Posted: 11/13/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So I get off at work at 11:30 Pm and head straight to rodonda after work so about midnight very cold this of what I like to call banana.....(big squid) also about a week before on a wed day tons of b...
By: aquaking
Posted: 11/7/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Squid are in and reaching full size around 8inches. Smaller gear which you cannot find at the store are best. I use glow paint on bullet weights with squid hooks. The lighter the better so you can fee...
By: obryan214
Posted: 11/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
2 shakers this morning, the first while trolling a green Ace Hi Fly with a herring fillet. the second took a Shimano Butterfly jig in a blue and chrome. the trolled fish was near the slag pile, the ji...
By: gfakkema
Posted: 11/2/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
October was a life changing month for me. I took and passed the equivalent of my journeyman test, bought a house, got married and went on a honeymoon. Needless to say, fishing was out of the question ...
By: rythefisherman
Posted: 9/28/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out of point defiance to catch some coho. Cruised over to vashon and didnt get anything. Went over to the slag pile and didnt see anything. Not even a shaker. Marked some fish on the Fishfinder...
By: gfakkema
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a later start than I would have liked, but we were on the water and fishing by 8. High tide was at 1010 so we ran up to Des Moines from Redondo and trolled back with the incoming tide. We were mar...
By: bruceka49
Posted: 9/6/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Pt Defiance at 6am. My original target was the slag pile for kings. The fish and game agent said that he had counted 21 coho at Redondo the day before for 14 boats so off I went. A dozen b...
By: riverhunter
Posted: 9/2/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Caught one small coho Jack on bannana weight and plug cut herring. Still slow hopefully it picks up real soon.
By: gfakkema
Posted: 8/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 0900. Launched at Redondo and was surprised at how many boats were out fishing. Must have been 50+ boats fishing just south of the launch. Haven't seen it that busy since pink sea...
By: RiverDog
Posted: 8/21/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My friend and I trolled the Slag Pile to the Clay Bank several times with no success in the salmon department. Interestingly, a solo dolphin followed us several times. Then it would move off to anothe...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 8/19/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the slag pile area from 5:30 to 9:00 got one shaker smaller than the lure. Saw 2 go into other boats and the fish checker said 1 had come in.
By: hlindsay
Posted: 8/19/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped the pots around 6:00 with a low tide just after that. Fished from 50 to 100 ft checked the pots around 9 and I almost couldn't lift some into the boat, only problem was all female or soft. We...
