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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fished two days. Saturday mostly trolled Brown's Pt. zero bites. Sunday morning woke up to a motor that wouldn't trim down... so delay of game for about 2hrs until I manned up and just decided to ...
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By: snags
Posted: 6/8/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out a little late this morning to catch the 11:45 tide change at Redondo. There was a slight breeze this morning, and the water was dirty. There was seaweed completely covering the launch, which ...
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By: Stuffy
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Stuffy got the worst fish skunk in years. Started at 4:45 Defiance launch with my Nephew. Pulled away and rubbed downrigger arm against dock and cracked the base. I needs to get the fiber...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I had set the alarm for 4am to meet Glenn and Cami of F24 at the launch at 5:30am. I fell asleep around 10pm, woke at 12am, then fell asleep around 2am to be woke up by the alarm at 4am. I laid there ...
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Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I got up at 5:00 AM to hit the slag pile in our kayaks in search of lingcod. Caught one lingcod that was too small and a whole bunch of flounder. The flounder were pretty good sized so we...
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By: triehl27
Posted: 5/4/2013
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Well the sky and temps were fantastic, the water was ROUGH. When we left out of Des Moines it was choppy, by mid way to Pt Beals, it was 1ft rollers, when we got there it was into 2 ft waves. We got...
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By: hlindsay
Posted: 1/5/2013
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got out for squid. First time in over 15 years. Went to the Silver Cloud dock from 7 to 9 last night. I got 3; one guy got maybe 12. Most were getting none. Only 10 or so people there. Les D...
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Posted: 12/15/2012
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went Squid fishing first time this year at Les Davis Pier. Many people there and saw a few limits. Started squidding around 530pm and caught 6 or 7 right away and then slowed way down. I believe if we...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 11/22/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
went out for an unscheduled trip with a friend tuseday morning between rain showers. I had 1 chinook about 9-10 lbs up to the net. a netting mishap let him live another day. 5 more undersized from 18-...
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By: rnatovar
Posted: 10/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Trolling from our big orange canoe again! On the water before 7am & my son Austin landed the first and only Coho that morning within the first half hour. In about 120' of water and trolling at about ...
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By: rnatovar
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning for Silvers! Trolling from our big orange canoe is a blast! I was using a Deep Six at 40'-50' in about 120' of water. Attached was a chrome dodger with a Coho Mojo from Toni at...
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Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Landed a fish immediately upon dropping gear right out of the point defiance boat launch in about 250 ft of water fishing 120' down. Purple e chip flasher and white hoochie did it again with a fresh h...
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Posted: 9/12/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So after getting totally skunked in the Edmonds Coho derby I needed to get the mojo back so hit Redondo today with a newbie who has never caught a salmon in his life and has lived here 16 years and ne...
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Posted: 9/11/2012
Species: Squid
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Rode my bike down to the pier to see what was going on. Two other squidders, two illegal crabbers, and people doing drugs in the parking lot. No action for me. The short ride since we moved makes i...
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Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I launched at 6:00 A/M and planed to spend the morning fishing the Chambers Bay and the Nisqually Reach areas in Marine Area 13. I arrived at Chambers and marked a lot of fish at 40 to 60ft. Fished ...
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Posted: 9/3/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
with so many options of where to fish now I decided that I would give the salt another shot before I start getting into the river fishing so met my buddy at 5:15am at Redondo and just beat the crowd a...
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Posted: 9/2/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Caught 9 shakers not 1 big enough to keep. Caught a ton of crabs though. Had a great crab feast. Flasher combo was purple haze on coyote spoon, but usually use purple haze.
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By: que
Posted: 8/31/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Been along time since I've fished for Salmon in the salt. I had the pleasure of meeting up with Keith and Britta for some mooching action around PT Defiance. Wouldn't you know, after two years I wo...
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Posted: 8/30/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Caught tons of shakers only 2 keepers pretty good day
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Posted: 8/28/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/27/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Tides arent great right now for the morning bite. Caught a few shakers but nothing in the cooler.
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Posted: 8/27/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to fish the mouth of Chambers Creek on Saturday morning on the incoming tide. Low tide was at 6:30 - I started at 9:00. I was going to fish from my kayak but the wind was blowing pretty good...
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By: Ezlivn89
Posted: 8/27/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I would say this morning was an expierence to say the least. Got there at 6 10 finally got the boat in the water at 620. I would say at least 35 boats in the water, My gramps and i kind of figured tha...
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By: Toni
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I went out with my friends Glen and Cami for a F24 Xperience with another gentleman, whose name I don’t know how to spell. I rigged up the Hot Spot White Glow Flasher with the Wannafish A Lure Zebra M...
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Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing today trying to catch a Coho Salmon. I had bought a fishing pole for salmon for both the rivers and Puget Sound. I did not realize that the line that was on the pole was very heavy. I ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 8/24/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2012
Hot Spots: 1
The goal today was crab! With maybe salmon thrown in and to test out the new jigging rod and Penn Fierce reel I got. Goal accomplished except for throwing the salmon. I did see 2 caught and saw a few ...
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