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Area 12 Hood Canal Fishing Reports

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By: Forelle
Posted: 2/15/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled all day but no love. dragged a couple of shakers for who knows how long. Tides looked good, bait was there, maybe in a few weeks. Caught a BIG red rockfish, biggest rockfish of my life right i...
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Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Headed from Spoakne to Hood Canal for two days (Wednesday 5-15 and Saturday 5-18) of Shrimping. 4 limits each day good eatin.
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Posted: 5/27/2013
Species: Clams
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took my Mom to Brinnon Shrimpfest for a late Mother's Day and hit Dosewallips State Park for geoducks. I marked three-- only got one up. The tide didn't stay out as long as I tought it would. The wind...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day in successful pursuit of dungies, caught our limit for 4 persons, we went out with a nice couple we know. hard day till 5:00 p.m. when we really hit them. picking crab tonight! bob r
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Posted: 9/7/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Ah, I'll try posting this as saltwater since it's more appropraite (Mike can delete river report). Late report, been dealing/busy with several things lately outisde fishing. Anyway, made it out...
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By: Derrick-k
Posted: 7/7/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the boat launch launched the small dinghy and rowed to a good crab spot but all we got was females. But all was not lost, a nice man on the beach lent me his shucking knife and in less th...
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By: Derrick-k
Posted: 11/11/2008
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for sunday. I did some fly fishing, had tons of hookups laded around ten or so kept this one bright one. There were a lot of people most throwing corky and yarn, some bobbers and yarn...
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By: Derrick-k
Posted: 11/11/2008
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fly fishing for chumlys again on monday, and the fishing was better, a few chromers being caught again. I got my limit plus a whole bunch of dark fish and even more foul hooked ones that had to b...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/5/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Thought the dogs would be showing at Hoodsport. Grabbed our gear and me and my bf headed over there. No parking means the hatchery is going to be packed. Found about 30 fisherman lined up. At first th...
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Posted: 3/7/2011
Species: Clams
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife out to dig some clams, I was alittle concerned as the low tide was only a 4.5. But we managed to miss the major rain and both limited in about an hour. Sorting out all the small ones to ...
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Posted: 11/9/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/9/2004
Hot Spots: 0
The fish are IN. Carl (AKA Easy Limits) and I hit the water at 8am, fishing an incoming tide (high tide 1pm). Fished south of the zone, caught a couple. Moved to the zone and we were in fish heaven. H...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished along the Skokomish river a couple days ago, before the rains came in and raised the water level so it's uncrossable. A few light colored Chinook are left, silvers are starting to be caught ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/15/2004
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Poor crabbing today and every day since I started on June 2nd. 1-keeper in 2-4 hrs every time we go our with 4-traps. Last year we could limit out without much effort!?! What has changed?!?
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/12/2004
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/12/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Went sea-run cutt fly fishin', not a bite, used a fly I tied, it's a secret. ---------------* >>>>>><
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/13/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Hey folks lots of fish, none want to bite though, I did get three nice shakers 17-20 inches, several others with shakers, I did see one keeper as I was putting in. Word of advice, when someone tell...
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Posted: 11/14/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2004
Hot Spots: 0
A new place to fish! Tom and I did some exploring to find a new chum source. Little did we know we would discovery a late run coho river. Arrived at 7:30am and there were fish jumping everywhere. I ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/14/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Mike and I left early and decided to check out a new place to fish. Beautiful area, but the salmon had lockjaw. Of course we went to catch chum and ran into a late run of silvers. A place I intend t...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/11/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My 14 year old son & I had always heard about the crazy combat fishing at the Hoodsport hatchery but had never been able to try it. We stopped by Monday evening at sundown to watch and learn a litt...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Today we fished from 6am-10am and caught 6 fish between two people, we were out in a boat right in front of the hatchery. We found that pink #2 buzz bombs worked the best. We also had a seal take a ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/23/2003
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
went out to hoods port to fish this evening and I had a couple of hook ups but that was it. I saw one set of Indians netting by the public fishing and crabbing dock and they were pulling up pinks bu...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I have caught rock cod, pacific cod, flounder, dog fish, bullhead , perch, and salmon. I have recently caught one king from a boat in about twenty feet of water using a white dart. And when the sil...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
There are great minus tides starting Thursday, April l7th through the 22nd. It's a great time to get out and enjoy the beaches and get your limit of clams and oysters at the same time. Potlatch St...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/23/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Spotted a few fish mostly in deep water, didn't hook into any. Drift mooching with cut herring rigs and jigs. Got a bunch of Crab, Dungies and Rock. Can't wait to get back out there. Hood Canal is...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/16/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 12/16/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 3 cod, got a 34" sand shark and 8 sand dabs. The report is to notify that smelt are in schools and there are no netters around. Flashing balls of them right at the shoreline, like the grun...
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Posted: 11/30/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/30/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Dead, dead, dead. The fish are there but they aren't biting. At least not this day. We saw fair numbers of fish jumping but they were very dark and not bitign. The snaggers were getting theirs but...
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