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Posted: 5/19/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
went to minter creek with my dad and brother during high tide. so many cohos you could walk across the river over them! we brought out bass rods spooled with 8lb test (I know, a bit light for coho) I ...
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By: Maurice
Posted: 11/14/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Minter today, only landed 2 but hooked 6 or 7. Saw a guy who was casting up into the no fishing zone then he belly hooked one landed it and proceeded to take it up on the hill and bash its brai...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/24/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
well for the first time in my life, i took a drive with some buddies to minter creek. I am so use to drift fishing on larger river systems such as the nisqually, or puke. I was expecting a large crowd...
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By: schu7498
Posted: 11/20/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/20/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well I couldnt help myself I had a free day, so my neighbor and I took a little trip to minter. Chums are starting to pack the creek. Its not FULL but there are still plenty of fish! Only about 30 or ...
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Posted: 11/17/2018
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for chum this morning. I usually chase chum for the tug and to replenish eggs that I used up during coho season. This morning I decided to just do exactly that. I was accompanied by a friend w...
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By: David926
Posted: 11/10/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Verrrrry slow morning, the fish are not moving at all yet. Saw literally 2 Chum in about 3 hours. Beautiful morning though.
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By: Acefishon
Posted: 11/23/2017
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
It was the worst I've ever seen.There was vary few fish ,lots of people. Minter was running high and large tide should of brought fish in. My guess is that the tribe was netting heavy. The week befor...
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Posted: 11/25/2017
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Good day of fishing!
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By: Duckbryan
Posted: 11/13/2015
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not very many Chum around, few small groups. So if you want to battle 30- 80 people in a small creek who dont care about fishing etiquette and love to snag fish....then this is your creek. most peop...
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Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Did the Minter creek thing today. Took home 4 semi bright fish 2 hens and 2 bucks. They will be good smoked. Saw many fish caught legal and foul hooked. I had a total of 2 hours or so to get my limit....
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Posted: 11/28/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to Minter for the second time ever. The first time was too early and they werent in yet. There was a decent amount of people fishing, but it wasnt too difficult to find a spot. The first two...
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By: BassDood
Posted: 12/6/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Minter for the first time with a good buddy. It was just fish after fish for both of us. Kinda hard not to hook up in such close quarters with a lot of foul hooked fish. Not really my cup of te...
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By: spokey9
Posted: 11/12/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got to the creek around 2:30pm, so i could hit the tide just right. at first it looked pretty dead, saw 3 fish on the bank and they were all booters. got to my spot and tied up, as i was tying the fi...
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By: spokey9
Posted: 11/21/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got on the creek around 7:30 so i could fish the tide out an back. fishing was good, but as the tide fell the hole just packed full of fish. started the morning off fishing a 2/0 hook with corky an ya...
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By: spokey9
Posted: 12/4/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got there late and wanted to get my first salmon on a fly rod. well i look like a drunk chicken when i cast an couldnt keep a hook in a dang fish. so i switched over to the spinning rod, i was using a...
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Posted: 12/5/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
today was a pretty fun day. went down with a good buddy and my kid. we were pretty steady in fish. we caught enough fish to keep my kid interested. we caught alot of fish kept only three 2 nice chrom...
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Posted: 11/5/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started about 9:45 to catch the incoming tide. No fish anywhere. Walked all the way to the old pier pilings on the south side of the estuary and didn't see any fish moving up. Tried fishing by the ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/23/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Minter Creek: 10 AM - 4 PM. Started slow @ high tide & then picked up fast as the tide went out. Water was really moving & the tide went out pretty fast. Foul hooked & released a few, lost about 6-...
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By: jtrapier
Posted: 11/23/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Minter again on both Saturday and Sunday, and caught a ton of fish both days. I showed up around noon on sunday while the tide was just barely starting to go down. Fishing was slow until the ...
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Posted: 11/24/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Let me start by saying most of the people here are not skilled at fishing. This is a good kiddy pond. That being said I waited for people to start to leave. Got there at around 3:30 and started fis...
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By: derick
Posted: 11/8/2008
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Minter at 7 am. There were a lot of people but I hooked over a 100 fish today. Lots of fish there. Also yesterday I caught and released a summer-run steelhead and my friend hooked another one ...
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By: The Quan
Posted: 11/10/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a few hours this morning. Thought it wouldn't be so busy being a Monday, I was wrong... there were a lot of people out on the creek today and everyone was catching chums. It was so fun an...
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By: castanova
Posted: 11/14/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This place is insane, About 1/4 of the people there know how to fish the other 3/4, Well not so much. It can be a fun place to fish however I now have a nice cut under my eye from a nice chunk of flyi...
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By: shawn
Posted: 11/14/2008
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Minter to check out all the hub-bub.I will have to agree with castanova about the folks out there.I ended up keeping two bright ones and let about twelve go do to being foul hooked or just rea...
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By: castanova
Posted: 11/18/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
O.K. so I lied went back to Minter nice and early, Fished for about an hour and a half hooking up the entire time. People started to show up so we packed up and left. Had one the best Minter outings I...
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