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By: Toni
Posted: 9/1/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Went toward the end of Levee rd. from 1-5:30pm and hooked several. Let 2 fouled hooked ones go. Brought 3 home, 2 hens and 1 male. The male did not have a hump. The females had very different sized eg...
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Posted: 9/2/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A great day on the Puyallup started just before 5am. A seal surfaced in from of me and totally freaked me out! I landed what I thought was a huge pink while it was still dark. It fought great, taki...
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By: tacfisher
Posted: 9/2/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We have smoked enough pinks and now we have only 2 spots left till we have to buy a new card,so we are going down just for a king or coho.we have been hooking a lot of pinks and releasing them.i was s...
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By: BigDee
Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 1
My cousin and I decided to go down to the river before the netting started, I heard silvers were running. We started the day at noon, fished upstream from the 66th ave bridge, wow king central is w...
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By: BigDee
Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After not catching any fish down stream we decided to drive up to the nut house! as i call it... right where the mouth of the white meets with the puyallup fished about ½ mile downstream from the whit...
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Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Puyallup for the second time. Started at about 7am, had several strikes but they got off just before landing (about 20ft out)! This happened five times before I finally caught my fi...
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By: Jerry H
Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On the river about 6:30 AM below 66th street bridge. Spent about 2 hours fishing caught 5 pinks brought one home for the neighbors. On the way home stopped along the Green not much going on..
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Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the river at 5, waited for about an hour for some light. Caught fish all morning long. Just as I was about to leave two dudes came down and bagged two cohos.
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By: jpapiez
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our first attempt out to on the Puyallup to try for some Pinks. We opted to fish up stream away from the shoulder to shoulder folks and found a nice bank north of Orting just south of the McMillin roa...
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Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first effort at drift fishing and my first attempt at catching pinks. I had just began fishing in the beginning of the summer when my kid asked me to teach them. I didn't know how to fis...
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Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
headed out to the river this morning. started fishing around 5:45am, caught two by 6:30am so I tried for something better than pinks, but that didnt happen. come around 7:30am it was started to be...
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Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I have been skunked at the Puke the past three trips. It was embarassing when people are posting 5's on thier reports and I made a thread asking for help on drift fishing. I met up with C_Saeteurn so...
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Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
started the day out on the carbon about 630. slow start for about an hour then when arron showed up wahm right away i hooked a pink but he was good at evading the net and rubbing agianst things snapp...
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Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went 5-15 on pinks today fishing from one hour before sunrise to 1230. I released a pink with a giant hole on its back before limiting out. Five fish were lost right at shore when I was trying to ge...
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By: BigDee
Posted: 9/7/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit The good ol fishing hole again. Today was like a bonus fishing day, as my fiance had to goto work in tacoma so she could drop me off at the river! Head to my usual spot, noone was there, was p...
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By: tracker44
Posted: 9/10/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got stuck having to go to work on my fishing day but guess I can use the O.T. still would rather fish than have money. Got home from work and the wife was ready to go so we headed down to the lower Pu...
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By: Sthao92
Posted: 9/10/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a freind with me today to the soccer field because he was itchin to catch a fish that actually fought better than a big trout and boy did he have fun catchin those pinks. set him up to catch main...
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Posted: 9/11/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
headed down to the river this morning, got there around 5:30am. sat on the river and waited til there was some daylight. I have no idea why people blantlantly cast in total darkness. It wasn't even a...
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Posted: 9/12/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
headed out to the river agian this morning, got there around 5:30. the sun started to peak out. a few casts then fish on. foul hooked. back it went. had about 5 more foul hooks then hooked into a s...
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By: Postman
Posted: 9/13/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On the river below the FM at 6AM. A lot of fish showing on the surface. Left at 9 AM with a silver and a pink, both caught at around 8:30. Orange corky with pink yarn.
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Posted: 9/13/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was planning to get there at dawn, but I didnt get there till noon. I went 1-3 in three hours of fishing. The only one I brought to shore was foul hooked. The corky/yarn color combination that worked ...
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By: NWrookie
Posted: 9/13/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went to the Puke by Mama Tortinis again this morning. As a transplant, this is the first time I have ever caught any salmon. I have caught about a dozen pinks so far, but this morninig I caught my f...
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By: dicinu
Posted: 9/14/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well I had a Great Day! 6 coho caught Kept 2 one Hatchery and one nate! fishing Corky and Yarn fished in an Area with only me and One other person until around 3 then folks were getting off work...
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Posted: 9/14/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Puyallup yesterday morning and last evening. The morning was a kick but I think some people just don't want you to catch fish. (They know you have one on, and they cast over you and break o...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/15/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
we fished 5th street bridge and silvers are everywhere. me and by cousins have filled out 2 cards in the past 2 weeks.you have to weed thru the pinks never seen so many silvers they are big and brites...
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