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By: Toni
Posted: 11/27/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance 11-27-2020
Black Friday for my son and I was a trip to Point Defiance. But not the fishing pier. We brought the boat with us. This new launch was a first for us both..
I headed over ...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/23/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/23/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance 11-23-2020
Kim asked me if I was going squidding. I said I would. Then I drug John Knudsen away from his perch fishing to go. We got there about 11am. Later Kim came followed by her so...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/16/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Point Defiance 11-16-20
It was a rainy, really wet Monday. I haven’t been fishing in a couple of weeks and the governor put restrictions on the state to start Tuesday 12am and Wednesday 12am. I thoug...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/26/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
2 day report
Sunday the 25th we (family) went to the Point for a few hours of fishing between 12 and 2. It was cold and windy but sunny. Caught a few squid.
On the 26th I met John Knudsen at th...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/12/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Area 11 Les Davis 10-12-20
John and I arrived at noon and quit at 3. I got 6 he got 7. I think Kim arrived around 1-1:30pm. She had 1 by 3pm. Looking at the video it seems like there wasn’t a big sch...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/7/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I met Kim on the dock about 3 and I stayed until 6. She caught 5 squid and I ended with 2. My nephew came about 5 with his friends. They stayed later, 8-8:30pm. Kim said she got around a dozen. Tides...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 10/3/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take Thursday off so I could see if there were any squid out and about Wednesday evening. Headed to the south sound. I arrived an hour or so before dark and met my buddies. The action reall...
By: fishgrabr
Posted: 9/29/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Marine Area 11, Des Moines Pier, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.,m. Tried salmon fishing, Coho hopefully. For hours threw 3/4 oz. to 1 1/2 oz. spoons and Wilson darts various colors. Other than an occasional ti...
By: obryan214
Posted: 9/26/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Turned out to be a decent day weather wise after the rain storms the last few days. Trolling near the stage pile, owen beach and out in the middle produced no silvers. I used hootchies, spoons and a s...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/21/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Les Davis Pier
I went to Les Davis today to meet up with my brother, sister-in-law, nephew, and then my son came. On the incoming tide I got a squid which made me happy. A month earlier than last y...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/8/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Area 11 Des Moines 9-7-2020
Went out to Des Moines for the last day of crab. I met my son, brother, and sister-in-law there. From 7am-11am. We were under wind advisory. It came up around 8 died down ...
By: Firegod62
Posted: 8/21/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Caught one 6 pound chinook at 75 feet using a herring in front of Owen beach.
Hit several coho, but none into the boat.
Fisheries agent at dock said it was the only chinook taken today as of 2 ...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/16/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Here we go again, I need to spend more time reading the regs when fishing an area out of my usual haunts… Sunday we decided to hit Point Defiance again. After another 1:00 curtain call we were in the ...
By: Firegod62
Posted: 8/12/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Landed a 19 pound king after a slow morning moving place to place around Pt Defiance.
10 am on an incoming tide.
Ironically, caught the fish right in front of the ferry terminal in 160FOW at a dep...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/11/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers two days and about 20 hours hunting MA 11 chinook. The rating is challenging, maybe a one or a two on the 8th and a four or five for fishing on the 10th. Overall experience for both...
By: partimefisher
Posted: 7/28/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/25/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Took the kids out for the afternoon. Decided to see if any salmon had returned yet. Trolled the outgoing starting at salmon beach and around the point toward Owen Beach. Lost my downrigger ball; not q...
By: partimefisher
Posted: 7/28/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Had only a little bit of time. Did an exploratory run. Started out at Dash Point and Brown Point. No marks at all and no fish. Ran back to Point Defiance. Tons of marks all throughout the column in 60...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 7/24/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went crabbing in Marine area 11 for the opener. We dropped our pots around Quarter master area. We only had 2 keeper Dungeness, but we got two limits of some of the biggest red rock crabs I've seen in...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/12/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I started at Dash Point. I got a parking spot but there wasn’t one for my son so we went to Des Moines. Dock was packed and later someone told me the end was filled up by 5:30am.
We took a space not...
By: TrackerPro16
Posted: 5/11/2020
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
My first Saltwater fishing out of a boat!
Picked up an older 12' Rigid Inflatable yacht tender for the engine, 40 4 stroke Honda, but after running around on the water with it decided I may keep it a...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/10/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 3-9-2020
I wanted to try out the new underwater camera I got. Gofish. I thought I knew how to run it but I didn’t so I used my Water Wolf. I only stayed about an hour and half. It was an i...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/25/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/25/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-25-20
John Knutsen and I got to the pier about 10am. Only 2 others on the dock and one pulled in a squid as we got there.
I got 3 doubles with a total of 12 squid. John got 2. But he to...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/20/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-19-20
I met my son at the dock and we started fishing at 10am. The weather report said 20% rain for Tacoma. I think it was all on the sound. Which means we got wet.
First cast I got a ...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/20/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-20-20 Monday
I wasn’t going to go fishing today. I was planning on going Tuesday. But when I got up and saw the weather report I changed my mind since the chores could be done tomorrow...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/11/2020
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/11/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Dash Point 1-11-20
John Knudsen and I got to the dock at 10am and left a little after 1pm. They were taking the Christmas tree down and we had to move until it was down. It was very windy. At times m...