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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

By: BentRod
Posted: 7/26/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the season. Fish on! Fished from the beach from 5am-7am this morning on the incoming tide mainly casting a 2.5" Buzz Bomb. Absolutely a beautiful morning. Started rough with a mass...
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By: shannon
Posted: 7/25/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Point Richmond this morning. Didn't hit anything till the tide change around 7 then hit two back to back. Lost one and caught one however it was 1/2" too small. Wasn't having any more luck so I...
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Posted: 7/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the bro this morning casting a pink and orange p-line kokanee killer jig. Hooked up a good 6 pound pink. Put up a fight it did but was able to net him and bonked him. First salmon of th...
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Posted: 7/23/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Rob and I set out yesterday morning in search of a new crabbing spot, havent been out since opening day. Dropped 2 pots up north,then headed south to find a spot to drop 2 more. Now with the pots soak...
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By: mikal1786
Posted: 7/22/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2013
Hot Spots: 3
today i fished 12-2pm hooked 1 and lost it cuz fellow fishermen crossed my line.... =( for the 2 hours i was there i seen 12 landed. alot lost.... the place is really starting to get crowded. it...
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By: Roman201
Posted: 7/22/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to dash point after 3 pm. Couple schools came by in the first hour. After that only saw 1 school. Most people caught a fish after the high tide. Over all there was at least 6 salmons pulled out ...
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Posted: 7/22/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
MY good buddy and I hit the Browns Point lighthouse at 5:15AM for some pink action. There were about 15 other people there...Did not see a single fish caught. Threw pink buzz bombs, Dick Nite's etc. t...
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By: Stuffy
Posted: 7/21/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 4:30am from Defiance launch. To Vashon west side girl scout camp. Zero. Not a bite. Trolling flies, bait I caught, about another $300 worth of useless gear and Zero all day till 4pm. Went B...
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By: JM73
Posted: 7/20/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went back out to chase Kings again today but didn't manage any fish in the box. My friend managed to land a native king around 20"/5lbs that unfortunately had to go back. He hooked that one on a cut...
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By: JM73
Posted: 7/20/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 3pm on Wednesday to try for a King. Used all kinds of trolling gear including fresh herring. Managed to land one shaker myself but my brother made the day with a nice 15lb king....
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By: Roman201
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to dash point today around 3 pm. First came with in 5 min a school of around 5 came in. Nobody caught anything. Then in 2 min another school comes in a guy caught 1. Then in 2 hours 1 fish floats...
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By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Worked Dalco to the Campground during the outgoing tide, then came back across to work the beach during the incoming tide. Caught three sharks, zero salmon. Fish checker said so far had counted 5 chin...
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Posted: 7/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So this will be a short one~ now I know how this can go with one day being hot the next dead but couldn't let that deter me away from my quest of back to back King days!! Stano came along again and ...
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Posted: 7/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2013
Hot Spots: 2
So with Sunday being a bust at Pt. Defiance as I had to work Saturday and went to the Mariner game that night to see Felix win his 10th game but woke up feeling woozy so didn't make the O' dark 30 tim...
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By: spokey9
Posted: 7/17/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Dash Pt. today from about 8am til about 3pm. Started off tossing off the front side hoping for a king to hit, after about an hour without even a shaker chasing, we switched up to the pink stuff...
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By: Toni
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Ever have a day were you can’t buy a bite? I had one today. I went with Cami and Glen of F24 starting at 5:30am by the Girl Scout Camp (Stealth). One person that was there at first light and a reg...
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Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well the reports on here were right, just before sunup we picked up our only fish of the day. Too bad it got off just outside of the reach of the net. Using a plug in about 90 feet of water.
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Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I put in early down at Thea's Park and to check my crab pot and re-bait it. I ended up with two keeper Dungeness with my first pull. The pot was totally full with males that were oh so close and a cou...
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By: shannon
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't seen a lot of reports for salmon in area 11 and I know there has been a lot of people out there so I thought I better start chiming in. Been out several times this year and have had consiste...
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By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Crabbed along ruston for a couple hours with only two pots and fished for flounder while we let them soak. I threw all my bait in the crab pots, so I went after the flounder with a texas rigged drop s...
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By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 7/6/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fish Princess was itching to go crabbing so I developed a plan around the slack current around 0945. Launched at Pt Defiance ramp about 0515 and headed out to give the salmon a shot while we waited...
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By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 4am on the water. Dropped crab pots and started trolling. Used cut plug herring the whole day, green label, behind flashers. The only real adjustments we made through the day was depth. We ...
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Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Rob,I and his friend Ross went to Pt. Defiance to hit the opener of crab season.Got our six pots in the water at 7:01 then decided to do a little salmon fishing,thought it was a little funny,there mus...
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Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Launched the yak for opening day of crabbing season and it did not disappoint!!! I used chicken parts bought from Safeway because I couldn't make it to my usual place for salmon heads, backs, etc. I h...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I met up with Cami and Glen at 5am at the Point Defiance launch. We ran straight over to the girl scout camp and trolled. We saw a few people hook up. We released 2 dogfish and towards the end I relea...
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