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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Phantom18
Posted: 8/3/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry this is a couple of days late. Fished the Des Moines salmon derby on Saturday. I gotta say it was interesting! We launched at Redondo as the sky was turning pink, what a site, it's been a while...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/3/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the mouth at first light and fished all morning. Saw very few hooked. One guy hooked into three himself with herring. Looks like this is turning out to be a repeat of last year. They are still ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/3/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Saw a few nice fish today. Not many though. Went over to Browns point for the low tide and watched the shore anglers real in a few pinks. Still not a lot yet.
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: snake7676
Posted: 8/2/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well this report is for 8-1-09. My 2 boys and I were in the water by 4:30 am trolled by the redondo pier for the first 2hrs. we landed 3 black mouths all under 22inchs 2 hatchery 1 native nice littl...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: cant sleep
Posted: 8/2/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished browns point early... then went to piner point around 8am. nailed 20lbr in 150ft of water. had 55 ft down on the cable... The fish had a tag in it. WDF cut the tip of the head off and ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: kingfisherman8
Posted: 8/2/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went out to brown point today fishing on the beach. we got there at around 4pm we fished tell 8pm the fishing wasnt red hot but it was fun we fished with pink buzz bombs. we fished for about an hour w...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Papa G
Posted: 7/30/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First time out in a long time. Wife had knee replaced. Had lots of fun and hooked and lost 1 fish. Are the Pinks getting closer yet.Kids have boat out watching Blue Angles today.
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: needabiggerboat
Posted: 7/27/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Redondo at 4:00am with very little boat launch traffic. (Only three or four other boats at that time) Ran over to Dash point dock area to start out the early morning bite. Trolled between ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: cant sleep
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hi everyone is it safe to enter? Im out at least three times a week min. Caught a pink just inside Colvos Passage. South end of vashon.. I was in search of Kings. Tiffinie at the dock said she...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Nelly1
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started down-rigging early with green hotspot flasher and a green spatterback hoochie....nothing doin'. Started mooching a cut plug herring at the secret hole an hour before high tide(7:45am). Hook...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I think I need to start earlier. Launched at Point Def @ 6am and fished till noon. We fished the slag pile until about 10 am and seen a few nice fish taken. None for us though. I had two takedowns but...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: snake7676
Posted: 7/25/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well my fishing buddy and I went to area 11 this morning launched at radondo in the water by 5:00am .With in 15nin. seen a guy land 2 kings keepers . I had no take downs , my buddy landed 2 6gil...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Toni
Posted: 7/25/2009
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the dock at 3pm. I had the crab net in by 3:15. By 4 I had my first keeper red rock crab. I was there until 8. I pulled the crab net up every 15-30 minutes. I only had 2 pulls that didn't hav...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: justinrogers
Posted: 7/24/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
well i went out to see if the pinks were running yet at the beach. saw two guys sitting on the beach with rods and thought uh-oh bad idea. talked to these guys for a bit and decided i would fight the ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
FINALLY! Hooked into my first salmon of the year. Had my son get all the gear out of the way then I handed it over to him. Felt like a 15-20lber. I turn my back and my son has my pole over the side of...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day on the water with my friend and his daughter. Got into a mess of decent size flonder. The crab pots produced a dungeness and 3 moster red rock. No salmon today though :(. Fish checker...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Bodofish
Posted: 7/19/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Poor tides this weekend...... Made it out for the morning tide and about 10 minutes before the slack we popped a 14 # king in area 11. Fished for a couple more hours and then went to Jeff Head. When...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: wagnbrnr
Posted: 7/14/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
on the water by 5:00 a.m. , trolled for awhile with downriggers , no luck . started mooching about 7:30 or so , hooked up with these two eventually . off the water by 1:00 p.m.
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 7/13/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off the Des Moines Pier. I caught a few small rockfish, a small greenling and a couple bullheads. I was using Minnow imitating jigs. There was about 20 illegal crabbers out. Actually less...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: TBone
Posted: 7/11/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the point around 4 am and threw out the crab pot, headed over to the slag and started trolling flasher/hoochie on 1 rod flasher hoochie and a cut plug on the other..trolled from the slag ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Browns point and mooched a while. Caught a good size flonder and a few dogs. Went across the bay and we hooked into a Quillback rock fish about 3 pounds. Other than that it was a dog day. Not...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/27/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Gave it hell today. Up at 3, on the water by 4:30. I saw a few fish taken but not many. We started out by trolling the slag pile and then headed to the Point. after about 5 hours of trolling, we decid...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: jkorst
Posted: 6/16/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Skipped work and headed out to N Area 11 on Fri, ended up landing a ~8lb blackmouth and then a ~18lb chinook on cutplug herring. Decided to head back out and try it again on Sun, ended up with another...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: stevoblue
Posted: 6/12/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
No luck what so ever. Let me take that back. I caught a rock. Not a Rock Fish but a rock with kelp on it. Did not fish the Slag pile but pretty much everywhere else. Talked to Fish and Wildlife on...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: christopherbeebe
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the pier with my wife and daughter this afternoon. lots of people fishing, not doin so good i seen one nice size copper rockfish took on a sardine, many small ones too, seen a ling hooked up but g...
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