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By: Firegod62
Posted: 8/21/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Caught one 6 pound chinook at 75 feet using a herring in front of Owen beach.
Hit several coho, but none into the boat.
Fisheries agent at dock said it was the only chinook taken today as of 2 ...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/16/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Here we go again, I need to spend more time reading the regs when fishing an area out of my usual haunts… Sunday we decided to hit Point Defiance again. After another 1:00 curtain call we were in the ...
By: Firegod62
Posted: 8/12/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Landed a 19 pound king after a slow morning moving place to place around Pt Defiance.
10 am on an incoming tide.
Ironically, caught the fish right in front of the ferry terminal in 160FOW at a dep...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/11/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers two days and about 20 hours hunting MA 11 chinook. The rating is challenging, maybe a one or a two on the 8th and a four or five for fishing on the 10th. Overall experience for both...
By: partimefisher
Posted: 7/28/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/25/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Took the kids out for the afternoon. Decided to see if any salmon had returned yet. Trolled the outgoing starting at salmon beach and around the point toward Owen Beach. Lost my downrigger ball; not q...
By: partimefisher
Posted: 7/28/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Had only a little bit of time. Did an exploratory run. Started out at Dash Point and Brown Point. No marks at all and no fish. Ran back to Point Defiance. Tons of marks all throughout the column in 60...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 7/24/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went crabbing in Marine area 11 for the opener. We dropped our pots around Quarter master area. We only had 2 keeper Dungeness, but we got two limits of some of the biggest red rock crabs I've seen in...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/12/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I started at Dash Point. I got a parking spot but there wasn’t one for my son so we went to Des Moines. Dock was packed and later someone told me the end was filled up by 5:30am.
We took a space not...
By: TrackerPro16
Posted: 5/11/2020
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
My first Saltwater fishing out of a boat!
Picked up an older 12' Rigid Inflatable yacht tender for the engine, 40 4 stroke Honda, but after running around on the water with it decided I may keep it a...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/10/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 3-9-2020
I wanted to try out the new underwater camera I got. Gofish. I thought I knew how to run it but I didn’t so I used my Water Wolf. I only stayed about an hour and half. It was an i...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/25/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/25/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-25-20
John Knutsen and I got to the pier about 10am. Only 2 others on the dock and one pulled in a squid as we got there.
I got 3 doubles with a total of 12 squid. John got 2. But he to...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/20/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-19-20
I met my son at the dock and we started fishing at 10am. The weather report said 20% rain for Tacoma. I think it was all on the sound. Which means we got wet.
First cast I got a ...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/20/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-20-20 Monday
I wasn’t going to go fishing today. I was planning on going Tuesday. But when I got up and saw the weather report I changed my mind since the chores could be done tomorrow...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/11/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/11/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-11-20
John Knudsen and I got to the dock at 10am and left a little after 1pm. They were taking the Christmas tree down and we had to move until it was down. It was very windy. At times m...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/7/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/7/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-7-2020
I had a last minute decision to go to Dash Point and asked John Knudsen if he wanted to go. We got there between 12:30 and 1pm and left at 2:30. John caught 6 I got 4. It was wind...
By: Toni
Posted: 12/30/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 12-30-19
John Knudsen and I got to Dash point about 10am and Kim got there about 11am. John and I both did the best we have so far squdding. John got 10, Kim got 13, and I got 19. I weighe...
By: Toni
Posted: 12/23/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 12-23-19
I worked a few hours then headed to Dash Point to meet Kim. She was there more than an hour before I got there and had squid in her bucket. We left at 4pm. She with 11 squid and I...
By: Toni
Posted: 12/16/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance Dock 12-16-19
John Knudsen and I fished for squid at the Point today. We each got 1 squid with in the first half hour and that was all. Got there about 11am and left at 3pm. The tide w...
By: Toni
Posted: 12/8/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance Dock 12-8-19.
The forecast was for only 10% chance of rain and temp close to 50. The tides were low at 8:00 AM 5.9 feet with high at 1:47 PM at 11.6 feet. My plan was to fish the incom...
By: Toni
Posted: 12/2/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My son got to the dock almost an hour before I did. I got there about 10:30am. I arrived the same time as John Knudsen did. I had let him know that we were going to be there. Walked out on the dock an...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/25/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance Boathouse Dock 11-25-19
My son and I got there about 12:30pm and left about 3. He got 3 and I got 4. It was very nice out until the wind changed then it was cold. Tide was Low 9:...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/23/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance Dock 11-23-19
I jigged for 3.5 hours, 12-3:30pm hooking 2. The people who were there when I started left with just 2. One other person caught 1 while I was there. Even the boats were m...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/16/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Area 11 Point Defiance 11-16-19
My son and I spent 2.5 hours fishing the incoming tide at Point Defiance dock. He caught 6 and I got my record amount of 9. This is my best trip squidding.
By: Sideburns
Posted: 11/10/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Squid fishing has been lousy this year. I have been squidding from the Des Moines pier several times this year, and only caught enough for one small family calamari fry. I usually squid from the Red...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/10/2019
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/9/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Area 11 Point Defiance Boathouse 11-9-19
Point Defiance Boathouse had their Squid Derby that my son Bo, two grandchildren, sister-in-law Kim, and I participated in. The grandchildren put a small am...
