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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

Posted: 7/8/2014
Species: Flounder
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Les Davis Pier from about 1pm to about 3pm. Got one good bite on herring. Any suggestions on what to use and/or how to fish it?
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By: Grandma
Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped 4 pots by 9AM and started pulling at noon. Using herring and fish scraps for bait at depths of 120-160ft. A lot of large dungeness females and three male keepers one of which was a solid 8" ac...
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Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I launched my kayak at 6:30 AM to get my pot down in a good place before the madness started...Went and picked it up at about 3:30 PM. I had a total of 16 crabs in the pot, all Dungies except two keep...
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Posted: 7/6/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I was so excited to finally get a chance to hit the salt that after getting home from my disappointing day on Lake WA, switched out all my gear for the 'big boys'! Had a cool looking ace hi-fly tied ...
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By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 7/6/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 3
What a great way to spend Independence Day! Took the Fish Princess and a friend out for some fishing and crabbing in MA11. Stopped in at the Pt. Defiance Marina tackle stop for a bait jar and a doz...
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By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/4/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Best day crabbing ever! Launched at Pt Defiance at 5:30, pots were in the water for just over 1 hour, we started pulling to check them. The first from 45 ft had around 10 with 2 just short one big one...
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By: dawgwe1
Posted: 7/3/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Crab season is finally here!!!!! My son and I dropped our pots along the east side of Vashon. Pots dropped around 8 and soaked for an hour. Pulled up 6 keeper dungies and a couple large red rocks. Ano...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/29/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Area 11, Washington, June 29th 2014 We were in the water fishing by the Girl Scout Camp at 5am. It was partly cloudy with a chance of showers, a light breeze that made the air chilly. I had one salm...
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Posted: 6/23/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Had a great day taking my son Jack out for his first really big fishing trip with the big boys. Fished the morning tide with a whole herring and fish flash. Didn't have to much action until slack tide...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 6/12/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
went out to try some late day kings. did a combo of trolling and jigging. pretty rough out and the storm clouds were coming in fast. all that was boated was a small flounder. a couple fish missed. got...
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Posted: 6/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the banks on the tail end of out tide til 8 without a bump, picked up a friend and ran to the west side of vashon. On one drift we went 0/1, w the fish decimating my year old 12lb line. I ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! The boat got wet two weekends in a row. Although the report rating is a 1, remember the rating is based on the number of fish caught not on the overall experience in which case today would have b...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I met Glen and Cami at 4:30am or there abouts and ran to the Girl Scout Camp. I got my first salmon at 6am and it was just legal. I was trying to keep it close to the bottom whatever the depth was an...
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Posted: 5/13/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Here's the URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzU8QKkGG0I Went down with a few buddies in hopes of reliving the good times of last summer. Ling cod is open so we had our jigs , soft plastic's and...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 11/18/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
put the boat down the boathouse elevator and started out at about 2pm at the slag pile for nothing, moved to several places afterwards like in the ferry terminal, boathouse, owen beach, clay banks, pt...
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Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Redondo at 7:00 am. We were only the third boat trailer in the Launch parking lot so we new it might be slow fishing and it was. We trolled in front of Redondo for two hours with no hits, ...
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Posted: 9/17/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Just been a looky-loo at washingtonlakes.com reports all summer enjoying the great salt opportunities. Couldn't help sharing the notable catch on Saturday. Thought I'd give MA 11 one last chance bef...
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By: barnacle
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished slag pile from 4 to 6 and gig harbor shoreline from 6 to 7 without a bump. What's up with that? should be good this time of year.
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Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the Quadfather since he will be happy to know that the pinks are finally winding down, at least in the Tacoma salt water areas, so probably not too many more reports... ;-) Hi...
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Posted: 9/9/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was anxious to get the Tin cup out and try out my new motor and was hoping to enter the Edmonds coho derby but as work would have it, got so slammed on Friday did not get a chance to get tickets and w...
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By: Ifunny
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went to dash point pier and people were catching pinks from left to right. I limited it out within 30 minutes . Never happen before.
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By: BentRod
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally had a chance to take my wife out to try for salmon this year. Wanted to take her to one of the rivers, but with all the levels running high and having our kids with us, decided to play it saf...
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Posted: 9/4/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Redondo at 7:00 am. Trolled in front of Redondo till 9:30 with no hits then went over to Pt. Roberts and also had no hits. At 12:30 while trying for Pinks at Redondo caught one 11 pound Ki...
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By: huma
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First time back in 2 weeks. Arrived at 6am at Dash Park to find that the line into the park wasn't crazy like it has been in the past several weeks. Usually the line of cars is stretched near the top ...
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Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My good friend and I launched the kayaks at Thea's Park and headed over to the pulp mill and the mouth of the Puyallup. We began fishing at 6:45 (a little late) and worked it until the bite came on, r...
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