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By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 1/2/2018
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Plucked a few clams to make clam chowder and fried clam strips. What a way to finish the year. Yummmm!
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 7/29/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skokomish River tide fats before sunrise with drifting down in my kayak out to saltwater. Could see schools of salmon coming up river past me. Went jigging around in deeper water.
Nailed a ...
By: TheBayMan
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Flounder
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 1
i used a swirly tailed green lure and just let it down and jigged. i ended up with a octopus not flounder.
By: DabobDipper
Posted: 9/5/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Went out for Labor Day weekend to fish the Big Quilcene River Coho run. Fished Sunday and Monday with little luck. Fished from the low through the high in Dabob and Quilcene bays. Gorgeous weather, c...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 8/2/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the hoodsport hatchery aka combat zone today, let my humpy rig out in 10 feet of water at 2.5mph and sat down in the seat then I was trying to figure out what that thumping noise was, the pole fin...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 7/22/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife down to the Skokomish tide flats due to seeing people getting chinook down there from the creel reports.
Used the directions from the previous area 12 report on skokomich tide flats. ...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 9/2/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of triton cove at 530 am. Went up to quilicene bay and dropped down riggers. Ran shallow with other boats early on running gear at 20-30 foot, no pick ups. Saw some fish jumping but not ...
By: carhauler12
Posted: 9/25/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to fish between the Hood Canal Bridge and Dabob Bay this weekend with 2 other friends. Launched out of Salisbury Point and headed south. We fished the first incoming tides of the day. The ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After work Thursday crabbed and fished Hood Canal. For crab we were using salmon carcasses for bait. The commercial crabbers were just pulling out. Four pulls resulted in about 20 females crabs. For s...
By: Seabeckzag
Posted: 8/2/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished first light and it was slow. Saw a few nets out but cut plug herring and lures weren't working for us. A number of locals were fishing it hard and seemed to be coaxing some bites. We finally...
By: baldeaglebaby
Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out 6am Saturday morning to fish the flood tide for pinks. Switched all the tackle to lightweight and went with the tradition 11" white flasher and a 17" leader to the 2" mini pink squid. We we...
By: tmib
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I spent this past weekend out at my parents' place just north of Hoodsport, fishing for Kings on Hood Canal.
TL;DR version: saw a few fish, but the kings aren't here in any numbers yet.
I brou...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 8/3/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I've been fishing hoodsport for the last week, using atomic plugs, and squid plugs, have had a few takedowns but no fish to the boat. Haven't seen anyone get anything out there yet. Also fished the s...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is a 2 day report, since no one has posted a report for the derby this weekend I will. It sucked. On saturday ony 4 fish weighed in first three in the tens and one in the teens, then low and be...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/13/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hit hoodsport today with a buddy in our boat.fished anchovies under a float,and also used drift gear.caught many many fish,kinda odd that the doggies were only runnin round 7 pounds or so.
By: Fish_Bait111397
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
'bout time i got out salmon fishin !
Heard from one guy that the fishin is red hot in the mornings.
Afternoon it slows down. Anyways, got to the hatchery at about 2 p.m started off with tossin a pi...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 8/11/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to hoods port at sunrise, lots of cast and tug no fish, ran north by ayok trolled a humpy rig and hearing various depths no fish... sonar showed lots but no takers.. I would like to hook up with ...
By: shawn
Posted: 8/13/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent about a hour and a half down in the Hoodsport area with my stepdad and grandpa. It was a last minute trip. First off I didn't catch any fish. Mostly due to me running the boat and shooting the b...
By: nyhus99
Posted: 10/22/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the hatchery on sat afternoon tons of chum in the area
Second cast first fish
It took about 30 fish to get a limit of bright chums
good fishing though
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 11/7/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
holy crap, so i went down to the hoods port hatchery for the first time, and talk about chum city!, got there around 930 and there were about 20 other guys wading out there fishing, everyone was just ...
By: fishnislife
Posted: 9/8/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We are doing a remodel right on the water near the hood canal bridge so I brought my setup. I was using a pink and white buzz bomb casting from shore. I threw out during my lunch break and tied on to ...
By: Easy Limits
Posted: 11/10/2007
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I met up with my friend Jason at the beach north of the Hatchery Zone. We arrived just before the low tide change. Fishing looked pretty promising since we could see chums jumping around in front of...
By: Team Roper
Posted: 2/15/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to my spot on the Canal can't tell exactly were but it's on the south side of the bridge. Started at high tide not a single bite until the tide changed. Started casting 1/4 oz. roostertails i...
By: Team Roper
Posted: 2/19/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to my spot to see if I could catch any more cutthrout since the plumbing trade has been pretty slow I have had lots of free time to fish. Used the usual Roostertails and Blue fox spinners ...
By: Meatloaf_Rocks
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out toward the Hoodsport Fish Hatchery and cruised the shorelines. Found small pods of fish close to the bank at low tide. Eager biters. Make sure you bring your licenses and pinch your barbs,...
