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By: madrussian
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day for crab. Many 8 inch tops...
By: fishingbuds
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day of crabbing! Caught a five man limit of 25 crab. We have 8 pots and pulled them all up twice. Even threw back 4 keepers since we limited out, and swapped out the smaller ones. They su...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't check the tide, my son and I got to the dock at low tide. Used chicken parts for bait in traps. Two traps soaked for two hours with nothing, saw others catching a couple red reck. Since it was ...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I went crabbing out of Luhr's Landing around 4pm. I dropped my pots at 80 and 125 feet out from the Nisqually River mouth on flat terrain. We then went flounder jigging for an hour and a h...
By: Five92
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Went out crabbing for the day with the wife, neighbors and two kids. First time out for my wife so we were hopefull to get in some good action.
We launched from Pt Defiance and had a good smoo...
By: Walleye Willie
Posted: 7/4/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went after Dungees.... got five between four pots... soaked for 1.5 hours.... Used chicken legs marinated in a commercial crab oil....60-75 feet of water... two pilings to the right of the broken barg...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 530 from Luhr beach, went north to deep water dropped pots at 70', 120' 130' and 140'. This was my first time at Nisqually and everything I read said go deep. I didn't think the tide was e...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I hit Luhr's Landing around 2:00 pm to do some crabbing in the sun. This was my first time ever crabbing Area 13 although I live in Tumwater (borders Olympia to the south). I used chum sa...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/10/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished and crabbed all weekend down south by Penrose. Not one fish and only a few take downs. However the red rock crabbing was on. 28 total for the weekend. Made for a different meal while camping at...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 8/21/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went out on my kayak, expecting a limit of crab! Guess what got it, was out for less than an hour my secret is to have the pot sitting during slack tide! 1 pull and over a limit of red rocks, only r...
By: centralia165
Posted: 8/5/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/4/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Set three traps, at fifty feet with 100 foot of weighted line and weighted traps, came back three hours later to find all three gone. All traps had two floats with name and address on them. Someone m...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 8/11/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took the yak out right before the tide change. Soaked one pot for 1 hour. Had double my limit of red rock.
By: brandon_murray1
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Went and dropped two pots in about 70 feet of water each just to the west of Jarrell Cove. Limited out on Red Rock Crab, the largest of which weighing in at 2.048 pounds and 7 1/2". Caught dozens of D...
By: Rip Lipper
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2016
Hot Spots: 2
For the last 3 years crabbing in the Reach has sucked. Small young crabs, females, no legal males. I guess the sea lions target them too. :)
Anyway, decided to work around the Can (gone but not forgo...
By: GasGuzzlin
Posted: 7/9/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Although it was raining, wind was low so I decided to try my first attempt at crabbing. Got my inflatable Mariner 4 with 3hp and dropped a pot in 60' near the launch. Prior to this, I spent countless ...
By: noreaster
Posted: 7/17/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the water. Overcast and cool to start with, then the cloud cover weakened and it warmed up nicely. Light winds and fairly calm. We left Swantown at low tide, around 11:30. and ran out to Z...
By: scrminbanshee
Posted: 9/27/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Made it out to fish for silvers. Launched out of zittils and made a run down to between harstine and squaxin island. Trolled for an hour with no luck and then ran over the mcmicken island for clams a...
By: Catch&Cook
Posted: 1/27/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/18/2021
Hot Spots: 0
We took the kayaks out to fish for resident coho salmon around the islands and inlets in Area 13. We left in the morning about 1.5 hours before high tide and fished for a few hours. Caught two residen...
By: j_maxwell
Posted: 9/24/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to throw some buzz bombs from a nice beach in area 13 this morning. Gonna eat well tonight. This is my first of the year so far and was my 3rd trip out. Tight lines, yall.
By: j_maxwell
Posted: 10/8/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/8/2021
Hot Spots: 0
My 3rd Coho from the beach this year on Case Inlet. Its a monster. I didn't weigh it because I had no scale, but its the biggest one I've caught so far. It was caught in about 4ft of water on a #4 gre...
By: obryan214
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
only 1 keeper coho and several shakers released.was using the 742 hootchie with a herring strip behind a deep 6 about 60 poles. started at the slag pile and went out towards vashon where we saw atleas...
By: bruceka49
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The low tide made it interesting to begin with. After slowly making it out to the channel it was decision time. Anderson Island, the green can at the mouth of the Nisqually, look for pinks along Dupon...
By: gascan
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went out Sat. afternoon and fished till dark, no salmon caught just 2 dog fish and lots of seals. Sunday went out in morning in the fog, ended at Nisqualie flats in 5' of water and had to work my way...
By: Bretts Dad
Posted: 7/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was out at Browns Pt. theSaturday looking for pinks with no luck, but did talk to a fly fisherman who said he had done well with coho and cutthroat at Narrows Park. We headed down there on Sunday wit...
By: Easy Limits
Posted: 9/12/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took my mother-in-law, Rose, out for some coho action in the south Sound. I had been hearing that there were fish around the south end of Squaxin Island. I had never fished in that particular area...