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By: procaster
Posted: 1/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I read that the river is gonna close on the 16th so I figured I would go down one last time. There a few people down there trying to find a steelhead before it closes also. We all had the same resu...
By: the piranha
Posted: 12/16/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2012
Hot Spots: 1
No surprise I didn't catch any fish. I was just bored and it is only about a 2 mile drive to treatment plant. I threw a pink jig the entire time. I only fished for mabye 1.5 hours. I did have a ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 1/6/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I figured there wouldn't be any steelhead, but mabye some dollies around. With the river being low and clear now, I crossed and walked up a nice boulder and first cast caught a dollie. It was only a...
By: the piranha
Posted: 1/14/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to hit the Carbon with the kid, we walked up the river, to where the river meets the trail right below the hatchery. After the last high water, the hole right at the Voight creek changed....
By: fajitamondays
Posted: 12/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
With mostly dry weather, the sun making an appearance, and the Hawks game keeping people inside, I decided to head out to one of my favorite places to enjoy some quiet and scenic fishing. With the sal...
By: the piranha
Posted: 12/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Same old thing, one more silver and my personal best dollie that was just under 4#. River is looking good now. I would like to catch a steelhead in there some day though. Jigs as usual.
I haven't...
By: PatrickC
Posted: 12/11/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great weather, no fish. Floated beads and jigs. Left the eggs at the house. River is in beautiful shape. They should be here soon. Tight lines
By: PatrickC
Posted: 12/12/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Okay so I started my morning on the puyallup but the 162 bridge in alderton, floated eggs and twitched jigs. Fished my way up pretty hard. Hit drifts that didn’t have a trail to it, so I put in the w...
By: kadofish
Posted: 12/15/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful low water. Swung some flies. I'm a newbie to this so not sure if my lack of ability was reason for no hookups but ran into another couple of fly guys and they had no luck either. Feel the...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/1/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After coming home and cleaning the fish I got from the Puyallup I went to the Carbon. I was there from 5:30 to 7:30. Lots of people where I went. I didn't hook or catch anything but others had a few ...
By: joshswrench
Posted: 9/4/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got the river this morning around 630 and found what I expected to find, A LOT OF PEOPLE! None the less found a spot up river of the skate park in orting and starting flinging my corky out. I had 5 pr...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/5/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I almost ran out of gear today. I snagged trees, rocks and everything but a fish at the Carbon and the Puyallup.
The Carbon visibility was up to 8-9”. The hole I was at had 8 other people. I saw 3 s...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 9/9/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I've been on the river everyday since the opener and so far it has been an ok season. I have walked out everyday with my 2 kings and either 1 or 2 silvers each day except for 2. The only gripe I have ...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/9/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished 10:15-11:45 am. I had no fish but the guy up river hooked 2 kings improperly. The last one was about 20lb. and very nice looking. He let it go. He was fishing the head waters with 2 little...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/11/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I always seem to get a late start for fishing this year. I started after 6pm and quit about 8pm. I fished a couple of tail outs upriver from where I usually fish. Nice water and I couldn’t figure out...
By: procaster
Posted: 9/12/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well everybody i don't know what happened last year i was the hottest guy on the river every time i went down there. i only live about 2 min. from carbon so i go about three times a week. This year i ...
By: Nelly1
Posted: 9/13/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to "my hole" on the Carbon the 10th, 11th, and 12th.
Way too many people there by the way.
Landed a bright 8lb hen silver on the 10th, a 6lb hen silver on the 11th, and the big daddy, a 28l...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/13/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Rob and David told me to get to the river at dark 30 and fish as it is getting light. I would certainly get a fish. Well, what time is dark 30? I looked up when sunrise was “6:45am” for today. I was d...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 9/17/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Been down most evenings and fished the afternoon away on my birthday and am still walking out with limits of kings and silvers. In the last week I have only kept one king but have kept a bunch of silv...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/18/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished two different times today. AM 10:15-12:00 Pm 5:00-7:45. I didn't see any salmon, in the water or hooked by someone else. The water visibility's was maybe 4inches. More turbid than Saturday w...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 9/23/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Didn't get out as much this last week on the carbon but the times I did get out, it was significantly slower. This week I decided to hit some other holes on the river closer to the mouth. Landed 13 fi...
By: hottshott206
Posted: 9/27/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
got to the carbon around 620am..started fishing about 1/2 a mile below the hatchery and made our way down river every 30 mins..got about 2 miles down stream where we stayed at for about 2 hours.. i fi...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 9/28/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The river was a little more giving this week and I have caught a ton of fish. Even caught a couple decent kings on plugs as well. they are a kick in the pants on a 13.5 noodle and 6lb line. I've seen ...
By: FishOn7
Posted: 9/30/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a hot day got there around noon hooked 5 fish landed 2. Cought good sized (silver) male about 9 pounds but he was a boot. 30 minutes later landed this chromer about 6-7 pounds.
By: Derrick-k
Posted: 10/4/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Ran into daily fisherman on the river today. Saw a lot of fish being caught I hooked at least 10 most of witch came right off, except for on silver I landed, one silver I had IN MY HANDS!!! (it slipp...
