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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I chose "no fish caught" but after we were done trolling for salmon and headed into the docks I rigged a drop shot and caught a flounder and a rockfish right outside of the pt defiance launch! :) w...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Toni
Posted: 6/6/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I met up with my brother at the dock around 2:30pm. He had already caught a mice sized black rock fish. That was the last thing he caugjt. I didn't catch anything. He said that there were people ther...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Toni
Posted: 5/1/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I met fishinrob on the dock close to 5:30am. He showed me what to do and gave me jigs to loose. ;) I left about 9am because I was cold from the wind blowing right through my clothes. It was sunny and...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: LJTPerry
Posted: 4/7/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Me and some friends took off from the boathouse elevator at about 1. We stayed about 100 yards from Owens Beach, but the current kept dragging us towards the shore. No herring balls in sight, so we ju...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: tommytitan08
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Jens today. No matter what anybody says he's a cool guy. First off Jens is the master of starfish angling. He not only managed to wrangle one big starfish aboard but two. On a se...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: jens
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished with TommyTitan today. We launched at Pt Defiance and mooched from the claybanks to slag pile. We were using cut plug herring and I was using 2.5 oz lead and Tommy was using 3 oz. There wer...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/2/2009
Species: Copper Rockfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the first annual Ratfish Invitational Tournament (The RIT) with my buddy Will. We battled all evening long dragging "keeper size" Ratfish to the beach. We caught some on Herring but tow...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: christopherbeebe
Posted: 3/26/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the Redondo pier this morning and caught nothing as usual.. I did see an otter and talked to a guy on a boat that said he lost one about 8lbs trollin a hoochie at 80 ft. He also said he ma...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: kinghunter
Posted: 3/24/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out around 11am to the Boat House Marina near Anthony's by Point Defiance Ferry Dock. The boat house was out of live herring, so just used the frozen ones. Fished with bobber with herring at fi...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Nelly1
Posted: 2/21/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day for a boat ride, so went to pt. defiance with the wife. Couple guys @ the launch had a 10lb blackmouth caught on the incoming @ dalco. That was encouraging. I Trolled a green glow flasher/wh...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/11/2009
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went out to a spot somewhere over the bridge , to get in to some salty steelies..... well the four to six pound brats sure are here but no big dogs yet. caught some resident coho as well as a black m...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 11/25/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
There was a lot of boats out for a Tuesday morning. Don't people have jobs? Oh Well. We didn't have any luck today. Just shakers. Every time you put the line in the water seems like you get a 5in blac...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 11/19/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a day looking for some winter black mouth in front of pt. Defiance. we had more shakers than we could count though. only got one keeper, a 7.5lbs 25in hatchery black mouth. we are trolling at 3-...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: fishndude
Posted: 9/15/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went on a friend's boat around Gig Harbor. I caught a hatchery king and silver. Both were about 15 lbs. This was my first time salmon fishing. I was using a 1 ounce Kastmasters with single barbless ho...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/10/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My brother inlaw and I met up with his mom's good friend. We were out for about an hour or so and I hooked into this nice KING. This was my first salmon and what a fight it was. Ryan
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/15/2008
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We were on the water about 0530. Launched out of the Tacoma Boat House. We had to come in early (0700) because my fishing buddy got sick. That was OK with me because it was strictly "Combat Fishing" o...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Toni
Posted: 8/8/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my youngest son to the train station to catch his bus. So I thought that I would try Redondo or Dash Point to see what they were like now, haven’t been there in over 20 years. I got to Dash Poin...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: christopherbeebe
Posted: 8/6/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out this evening for a couple hours got a few shakers, and some flounder. one guy got a 24" 5.1 lb hatchery blackmouth using an anchovy pt. wilsons dart dark blue and silver I'm guessing ancho...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: gmblemaniac
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took my brother and his friend out to Des Moines this morning at 6am and fished for salmon till 12 and no hookups only small shakers. were fishing in 60ft-200ft with our down riggers hugging the bot...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: christopherbeebe
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
got out to the pier about 9:30a.m. on an out going tide, it was windy and bit nippy but soon heated up and was beautiful and warm, anyways one guy already got one on the pier 15lb king using a silver ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: fisherhall
Posted: 7/31/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out at about 7:00 p.m. The tide was very high and numerous fish were jumping. Had two bites but didn't get a chance to land one. I'll probably try again tomorrow.
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: fisherhall
Posted: 7/30/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Didn't catch any salmon but saw a very nice one caught off of a pink buzz bomb. It had to be around 10 pounds.
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: fisherhall
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing from the shore using a buzz-bomb. I didn't get any fish but there were about three boats trolling. They should be coming in any time now.
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Toni
Posted: 7/20/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I spent 3 hours (1:30-4:30) at the dock casting. The only thing I saw in the water were small ones chasing my bait. 2 kings were carried up from the boats. The people fishing there on the dock were di...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: matador
Posted: 7/12/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Redondo boat launch at 2:00 pm spent an hour at the launch watching a circus. Finally got on the water about 3:00.. Trolled on Redondo side for an hour and did not get a bite. Headed over...
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