Northwest Fishing Reports

I remember the first time I went shad fishing in the Columbia. Everyone around me was pulling in fish after fish and I had nothing - no bite nada. I had the same shad dart on as everyone else but (waay) heavier line. After much frustration I tried increasing the leader length and immediately got 3 f...

Same story here. I've been fishing Lincoln Park quite a bit lately. Couple of days I saw a bunch (<10) caught. Out of about 5 trips I caught just one. Last weekend I finally gave up and went down to the combat zone (aka Dash Point). Knowing well the pathetic parking situation I left my car "far" awa...

The 5" curly tails in brown work great for rockfish. Not sure if the color matters though because I've caught them on bright pink buzz bombs as well.

For rockfish I've had good success fishing at slack tide when the water is mostly calm. The fish hang out close to the rocks so don't bother casting far. I've also noticed that the fish like to hang out in specific locations. You can cast for hours in a bad spot and not get anything whereas just 50 ...

Was this from the pier or on a boat? Was at Lincoln Park yesterday. Fished from the bank 5am to 8am and saw only 1 fish landed.

I got curious so searched around a bit. Not surprisingly the WDFW site has a very interesting article about this exact question -

http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/salmon/howto ... ckeye.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Let us know if that works on the pier.