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Posted: 9/1/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I was at the river for an hour and 20 minutes, I seen 3 fish caught and one on the guys stringer next to me. I fished my spot and managed to hook boot it was brown and what im about to tell you next i...
Posted: 8/23/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing down at the nisqually yesterday, seen 5 fish roll 1 Jack the rest were big and brown. I didnt see any fish caught but i heard someone caught one on Thursday drifting eggs. I believed him,...
Posted: 8/22/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the nisqually today looking for a better chance at some salmon due to the recent rain, seen about 5 roll...1 Jack 4 adults , honestly I think a school was shooting up the river... After t...
Posted: 8/15/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the nisqually today hoping I could show my neighbour a salmon being caught. We seen one caught...from a far.
Today only seen a couple fish roll but things are getting fishy. Water is v...
Posted: 8/12/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the nisqually at noon on Tuesday, nets were pulled up an down the river in the morning is what I heard and they removed the nets that were soaking. I guess they only caught a few. Rumor h...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 8/16/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Well I was back at the Nisqually with Uncle Ricky for another shot at some fish. I tried several different combinations of corkies & Yarn of various colors but only had one bite all evening. There wer...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 8/3/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Ran out to the Nisqually for the first time this year and took my Uncle Ricky (AKA: Squatch). I fished mostly with corkie & yarn of various color schemes but to no avail. I did see a pretty nice fish...
By: punch
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Maybe it was the incoming tide but we had no luck running the river Monday Morning. A lot of nets in the water and we saw a few fish caught in them but no where near the numbers that it should have be...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 9/2/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well I have rated the fishing as a "3 - Average day". I shot down to the Nisqually with Uncle Ricky the other morning and although we didn't hook into any fish ourselves, we did see several fish bein...
By: Travatarp
Posted: 9/5/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
So I was rigged heavy on the off chance I hook a King. I never fish this river due to the snags and limited beach . But alas the Puyallup is closed half the week now. Caught one on my first cast. It ...
By: Mr Fitten
Posted: 9/2/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Nisqually on a week day and found some room to fish. Spent a lot of my childhood in Alaska and got spoiled having the ability to move up and down a river without asking permission. Ca...
By: seattle150
Posted: 8/29/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nice King 32inch. Have a great day. Fish jumped in the evening everywhere. Lost 4 got 1. River will be closed on
September 1. What a pity.
By: Brendenp007
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a couple buddies yesterday morning from about 5:30-9:45-10am. Got to the spot and it wasnt too bad looking, clearish water and fish were jumpin everywhere and we all had pretty high hope...
By: chrisalex1
Posted: 9/17/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
the river is still so very cloudy chalky. only had two brief hookups in a four hour period. people are starting to get the word or idea of at least picking up their trash after they leave it looks som...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fly fished in the afternoon for a couple hours and caught a mess of cutthroat and rainbows. All fished came on a grasshopper pattern with most fish averaging 6 to 8 inches. Saw one big trout about 18 ...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 6/21/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, after throwing in my crab pots in Oro Bay, I decided to take the boat up the Nisqually to see how far I could get up it in my outboard. I noticed on the way up lots of drift nets or bouys for dr...
By: Jbear
Posted: 12/17/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to JBLM for chum had a good day with my boy. He tied up a a Bobber with a jig pink/black. He fished for an hour with no take downs and all of a sudden I hear fish. His heart was pumpin,I look...
By: tombee77
Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Nisqually for a few hours this evening. Tried my hand using spinners and after almost an hour of no luck I has a fish hit so hard it nearly ripped the rod out of my hands. After a few run...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 9/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I guess DNR got the word of no salmon too. The river is closed to harvest of chinook due to low returns until further notice.
https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=1494
By: NECVL
Posted: 9/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Off of Old Pacific Hwy there is a location that DoD card holders are allowed to fish from. It is on the stretch of river south of five just north of the Old Pac Hwy. I went there for my first time sal...
By: ecofisherman
Posted: 9/1/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tried my luck for the first time at the bridge off Mason Rd. Pretty low bite rates as no one seemed to being catching anything from about 6:30am to 9:00am. Unfortunately, it yook me all of 10min to co...
By: Gandhi57
Posted: 8/29/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Long day but came home with 15 pound hen.
By: fisherman4ever
Posted: 8/16/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing except mosquitos and good conversation. Lots of people at the river at 6am and most were leaving by 8 with a new crowd showing up. I fished the mounts river bridge. A lot of people there, so m...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 8/14/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well I keep hearing rumors that a chain link fence got thrown in the water down stream of Mounts bridge last weekend to try to make fishing difficult. Not sure if the rumor is true, but a lot of peopl...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
10 Aug Went out to the mouth near the green can. Nisqually Tribe had 3/4 mouth netted up. Seen one native checking nets with a silver alumnacraft and then took off up river after checking his catch. I...
