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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
put the pots in a 730 checked them around every hour till 1100. 4 pots 40ft to 90ft, chicken backs and fish scraps for bait. crab came from all pots but more in the deeper pots. 10 dungeness, 4 rock. ...
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Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bought another crab trap and went out today about 1:00 pm. Tried a new area, dropped the traps and went fishing for 2 hours ( no fish, surprize ) upon return to pots had 4 keepers and a few to throw b...
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Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Okay, we actually went fishing all day and night until wednesday about 7 pm. Only caught 1 chinook and it was 1/2 hr into the fishing. Actually sooner than that, had my step daughter in the boat, the ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the pier close to 1pm and had the crab nets in the water at 1. First pull had a keeper red rock. I stayed until 5:30pm and that was the only keeper. I saw 2 others get keeper red rock. The do...
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By: nickbell
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Flounder
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took the dogs for a walk on the beach today, and thought I might as well bring my my pole along too. I used worms for bait. I only fished for about 10-15 minutes because i was hungry and i couldn't ...
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By: terry329
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Didn't hit the water until almost 3pm today. Ran about a quarter mile south of the boat launch at Redondo and dropped the pots in 100 feet of water and headed out salmon fishing. We were using a mix...
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Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on the water for salmon and didn't catch any. Decided to try our hand at crabbing and found success! We launched from Pt Defiance and headed over to the Vashon Island area. Used our b...
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Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Okay, now for the salmon report. We checked in at the boathouse around noon and they had 6 checked in at that time. Fished the point first and worked our way out to deeper water, trolling with a white...
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Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Okay, this is my first time on here and first time crabbing. Dropped off crab pot around noon, used 2 turkey wings, 2 chicken legs and 1/2 dozen fresh dead herring, cut strips into all of them. After ...
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Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Les Davis pier at about 1:00 p.m. Had one hit when got there on a pice of herring but never saw it. MY uncle caught a baby calico bass and 2 baby bullheads in a pice of squid. I gave up un bo...
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By: terry329
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day with the crab pots, about 6 hours of total soak time and had to throw a few keepers back since we reached out limit. We've been dropping out pots in about 70 to 100 feet wi...
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By: nickbell
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Only one keeper today at the les davis. I used chicken legs for bait. Sorry, no pictures, my phone is being weird right now.
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Posted: 7/8/2010
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my uncle had fished July 6th and July 7th. We had hit Les davis Pier at about 11 a.m on both days.We were crabbing and fishing for whatever we could get to bite. :) July 6th:Got to the pier ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got the day off from work, so I decided to head out and do some crabbing. I met up with people who I seen crabbing the previous week and we had a nice a little chat. Kept catching undersize dungness a...
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By: nickbell
Posted: 7/7/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my new ring net to the les davis today. I used herring heads for bait. Caught mostley small crab, a couple of decent ones. Nothing was kept, i was just testing the new net. I will bring a buc...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
launched out of redondo about 10:30 or so. Motored down the coast just about 3/4 mile or so and dropped 2 pots about 75 feet apart in about 100' depth. Was using some embarrasingly caught flounder f...
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By: nickbell
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fish today at owens beach. About 6 flounder, sculpin, a sea run cutt which was pretty fun, and some odd fish that kind of looked like an eel. It had points all over its dorsal fin like a per...
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Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the salt for the first time this year. Not much to talk about but dogs. We couldn't get away from them. We managed 3 flonder and one copper rockfish that we released from about 70 feet of water. ...
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By: gpc
Posted: 7/2/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
When crabbing after work on the opener. Started crabbing at about 7pm and was on the way home at about 9pm. High tide was at 9:30ish so hit it at the perfect time. There were quite a few people all do...
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By: f_her
Posted: 7/2/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My co-worker took me on my first crabbing excursion. It was fairly interesting, as we both limited out on red crabs in the first 30 minutes and manage 4 keeper dungness crab between the 2 of us. Not b...
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Posted: 7/2/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the Les Davis Pier to do some bottom fishing and some crabbing. I limited out on red rocks in the first 2 pulls. Caught a 2 8 inch lings that were safely and quickly released. Also caught ...
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Posted: 7/2/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My father's friend and wife were in town on vacation and wanted to go fishing so we took them to Owen's Beach and boy was it a good day! We headed out there and were fishing by about 12:30. My paren...
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By: snake7676
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My 11yr. son and I went down to redondo at 4:45am this morn. fished the boat launch with no luck till 7pm . Then set the crab traps ! First time ever crabing and we made out good with 4 red rock cr...
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Posted: 6/13/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started out at 4:30 am with an Army truck Coyote spoon and fished the clay banks for couple hours. Did not mark many fish. Went over to south Vashon and fished both east and west of the Ferry dock aro...
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Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Ole and I started at 5am along the banks. He ran a army truck spoon and I used a green splatter back hootchie , both behind flahers. Tried different depths as the sun came up, continuing to go deeper....
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