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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2004
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My buddy Jason and I set out to catch the 5:22 PM high tide change. At 5:10 Jason got a nice king on the line. After netting the big fish we weighed her in at 20#'s. He caught her with a white/...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/28/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2004
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Fishing Brown's Pt. High-tide change around 7:00pm. we had 2 poles in the water one with a deep-six at about 50' (NO RESULTS) and the other on a down-rigger at about 80'. the depth of the water was ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2004
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Launched at 4pm. 5lb. Coho at 5pm. no male Dungies and no jellyfish this time. Very windy and choppy but nice out on the water on a hot day. Back on land at 9.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/16/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2004
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Girlfriend Rachel and I set out at 3 PM for a relaxing day on the water off of Redondo. The high tide change was at 7 PM so I knew we would have a couple of hours of "fishing" before we did any "ca...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2004
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Hit the ramp early 4am, not bad but hard to back up when a truck dropping off has his head lights on and when your on a narrow poorly engineered 2 lane ramp. I have 2 favorite holes and after passin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2004
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Arrived at 5:00am and the fresh bait from the boathouse was superb.
Mooched the clay banks on the outgoing until the tide changed around 6:00am. I took a nice fish on the first drift--14lb hen, st...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2004
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Went back for another round at the kings! Got an earlier start by myself and headed straight for Dolphin. Ran a Fish Flash and the same Coyote from last week. Put an 8 pound clipped fish in the b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2004
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2004
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A friend and I tried our luck out of the Pt. Defiance Park launch. There were about 50 boats or so flogging the water; plus a few seals bobbin here and there. Fishing was very slow, except for dog...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2004
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Went fishing out of Shilshole in my trusty Arima with daughter Megan. Left after breakfast to accommodate her sleep pattern (grin). Tried in vain an experimental technique for catching sockeye in ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2004
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Great opening of salmon season. Lots of limits with the fish being mostly all 10lbs plus. Many in the upper teens & lower 20's. Lots of dog fish. Trolling & mooching both works.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2004
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Ahhh Some fish are finally coming into the Tacoma area. Sunday I have a nice one (about 6 lbs) on at the Clay Banks area & fed it to a seal. The damn thing pulled me half way to Vashon till I broke ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/14/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2004
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Opening day and only 10 boats fishing in sight. We trolled the 100 foot mark at sun up at Pt. Dalco waiting for the 10:00 tide. We hit two shakers on the wall and headed for the Clay Banks. Dropped ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/1/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2003
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Clay Banks area. Not much pressure, but the fish are still there. Lots of small sub-legal but some keepers are there. Lots of Squid hitting mooched herring. Its cool out there but if you can get ou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2003
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The silvers are still around the slag pile area. Not hot and heavy but are around. Fished first light had two on, broke one off and the second threw the hooks. The third held. Nice 9 lb buck silver....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/16/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2003
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I don't see a decline in the Silvers AT ALL. Massive schools of Silvers and Pinks still all over my two fishing areas. We released 3 pinks and caught 2 silvers at Browns point first light and head...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/3/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2003
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Started out at slag pile with only one bump. Decided to head over to Browns point. Got one small silver right off the bat. Trolled over to dash point and went past the lucky spot and got a decent h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/30/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2003
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Hit Browns Point for 2 hours at first light and just sleighed the Silvers. We boated four fish between the three of us and all were right on the surface. We used plug cut and a mooching weight, or j...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/30/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2003
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Went shore fishing on the 30th and caught one silver and lost one pink on a buzz bomb. The run that day was pretty strong with a couple schools of salmon coming in. On the 1st I got one silver usin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/22/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2003
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Tried for some South Sound Kings on a beautiful sunny day with Tom. Launched at Redondo. Kind of a zoo with the tide out and no dock left. Tom backed the boat off the trailer and then putted arou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/17/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2003
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Hit the ramp at 0600 with buddy Jason. We started trolling north of the ramp since the tide was still going out (troll with the tide). We picked up a few small shakers and marked a ton of fish/bai...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/16/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2003
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Sorry no 28 pounders this time but still a great day. We fished the Slag Pile for 2 hours and saw only one fish boated in that massive crowd. Headed for Pt. Dalco and fished for 2 hours to finally p...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/9/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/9/2003
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Best day yet. We fished for 4 hours by the Slag Pile weaving through the boats for nothing! Headed for Pt. Dalco and hooked up big. We found a HUGE bait ball with Birds hitting it and we circled tha...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/3/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2003
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Fished the mouth of the Puyallup for 2 hours and the Dog fish were eating everything, even scented plugs. Headed for Pt. Dalco and lost a 20+ pound King right at the boat. Lucky Fish an garbage Line...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/24/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2003
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Hit the water about 3:30. Tide change was at 4:30. I knew I probably would not hit the prime feeding time at the "hour before tide change". That was OK with me. I knew there were fish to be had ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2003
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After fishing Redondo on the 20th and 21st with no luck I decided to keep at it. I saw the picture of a guy who caught a 25# king on the evening of the 21st. I knew the fish were in there now.
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