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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: 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: curtisdebell
Posted: 8/4/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the Sound by Steilacoom. Set four traps at about 60 feet deep and ended up with 5 redrock crabs. We got as many starfish as crabs which were difficult to get out of the trap to toss back, ...
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: 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: 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: Larry3215
Posted: 6/11/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After trying depths from 100 - 160 feet earlier in the week, we moved to one pot at 65 feet, one at 100' and 2 at 175'-180'
2 small red rock is all we got today.
There were a lot fewer pots out ...
By: jefe43
Posted: 6/23/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 2
A friend and I set out for some crab from Joemma Beach on Saturday 21 Jun 2014. We were in my 14 ft Starcraft with 20hp outboard. High Tide was at 2:44 PM and we launched close to 12:30. We were us...
By: bruceka49
Posted: 10/28/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't seen any recent posts for crab in area 13 but wanted to take advantage of a break in the weather to get on the water somewhere.
Put one pot in by the green can and other in Oro bay off ...
By: sinkerswim
Posted: 11/9/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Got a later start than I wanted. Didn't get on the water until about 1pm. Launched out of Boston Harbor and dropped 2 pots off with a salmon head in each and a few chicken legs.
Decided to do a litt...
By: sinkerswim
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We prefer to go crabbing near Boston Harbor but with extreme low tides we headed to Zittlel's Marina and launched out of there. Went and dropped the crab pots off anywhere from a 1/2 mile to a mile so...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 6/5/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kayak out this afternoon with one pot. Soaked first time for 1hr in 50ft of water caught one red rock, and 1 female dungie. Moved to about 80ft and soaked for an hour and a half, caught 1 8+"...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 6/11/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not bad for a 40 minute soak off of kayak. Ended up with my limit of 6. No dungies which is fine I prefer red rock, however I would of liked 1 dungie.
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 6/14/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out Saturday afternoon. Dropped pot an hour befor high tide, not very far out. About 20-30 feet of water would be my guess. Picked up pot just after high tide had 3 large red rocks. Funny I left...
By: Sea Squirrel
Posted: 6/14/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If there was a "0" star this would get it. Every pot had large female dungies. No rock crab and no male dungies. The tribes must have gotten all the crab from this area.
By: Sea Squirrel
Posted: 6/16/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After the horrible crabbing at the Nisqually Reach yesterday we decided to stay farther north today. We had a blast going after red rock crab and limited with 24 large rock in 4 hours. There were a lo...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Needed to get out in this great weather and decided to try crabbing down south. Dropped pots on the south end of Anderson Is (Oro Bay), off Nisqualy and in Wollochet Bay. Stayed in the 50-80 ft range ...
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: 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: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 2/6/2016
Species: Flounder
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Nisqually Delta with a group of kayak fishermen. The fishing started off slow with it heating up as the wind died around 11 AM. Drifting over 12-30 FOW I caught 5 Starry Flounder. Had qu...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 3/26/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Put my saltwater hands to use for the first time this year.
I decided to make to the trip to the South Sound today in search of the area's famed "SRC's" or Sea-Run Cutthroat. The weather was going ...
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: 7/23/2016
Species: Clams
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Knowing that the tide was perfect for clamming around 2 p.m., I figured I'd take a day to take the family clamming. I live in Lacey so I focused my efforts in Area 13. I moved here from Alaska last y...
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: 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...
