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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

By: MPM
Posted: 8/17/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out from Dockton marina before dawn, dropped crab pots, and then headed to Browns Point to start trolling for salmon. I started out targeting coho and chinook with a red racer flasher and Iris...
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By: rtk
Posted: 8/17/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Started at Dalco about 7:3 am. Hooked 3 native kings and the bite went off.Moved to the east side of Maury island to try for Pinks. Caught 2 pinks on flashers and pink 3 inch hoochies. Not a alot o...
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Posted: 8/16/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Redondo for the first time. Caught 2 really nice sized Pinks but no Kings or Coho. Back at the launch some guys were FullSizeRender.jpgsaying the King fishing was really good at Pt. Robinson ...
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By: sgreni
Posted: 8/15/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good evening after work fishing the Pt. Defiance area. Caught Two Silvers, One Pink and a small Chinook. Was nice to get out and into some fish.
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By: Joe671
Posted: 8/14/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got there around 5am. Left at 8am. Lots of fishermen, no one catching any fish.
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By: Hboirie
Posted: 8/13/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Three tree point. Trolling spoons. Hooked 5. Landed 3. All native.
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Posted: 8/8/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I fished at Dash Point the last few days and they are catching Pink Salmon from the Pier. The lure of choice seems to be pink hoochie jigs instead of buzzbombs. I got one yesterday and missed a couple...
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Posted: 8/8/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I fishing Dash Point the last few day and people catching pink salmon from pier. Use pink squid jig the buzzbomb not working. I only land one yesterday and miss a couple. Get there early parking lot f...
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Posted: 8/4/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off Ruston pier with a point Wilson no luck other than having baby salmon follow my lure did manage to catch one good size crab that I threw back in.
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Posted: 7/30/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Owens beach hard in the morning with only one fish sticking and landed.. too bad it was an inch under the limit. Watched a few other small ones landed and a big native. We were using spoons and ho...
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Posted: 7/24/2017
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Caught six summer-runs! :) There surface oriented right now, need a light weight jig.
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By: chrmax
Posted: 7/23/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Caught 1 pink salmon by Browns Point, saw a couple others caught off Point Dalco. Still early.
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Posted: 7/19/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Caught two hatchery Chinook Salmon - one released 16" and the second one a keeper 27". Caught @ 10AM trolling at 192' @ 2.5MPH. Also caught a lot of "dogs" and released.
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Posted: 7/19/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2017
Hot Spots: 1
We caught three coho trolling with herring. Sure spin helmets are the best thing going!
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By: Nick422
Posted: 7/11/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a Nice Chinook out in front of Owen beach. 26" keeper nice fight first fish of the season. Caught on a dodger rig with a green hoochie at 120 deep. Launched at Point Defiance at 4:30AM. Was one...
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Posted: 7/9/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This was a long day, but wasn't a total loss. At the end we tallied a dogfish, a 21" chinook thrown back and 12 reds a 1 dungy from the pots. Last weekends chinook seemed more fulfilling, but we will ...
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By: Hboirie
Posted: 7/9/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for salmon. We didn't get any...horrific herring bought so we were screwed. Boat next to us landed a beauty. Saw several hits Brought home 10 crab tho. Not bad!!
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By: Rowland84
Posted: 7/8/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I'm still fishing as I'm writing this report but Area 11 in front of Owen's Beach is hot right now marking Bait fish and fish everywhere got this nice 26 and a half inch Hatchery this morning
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By: Rowland84
Posted: 7/3/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Launch the boat at Redondo at 4:30 a.m. headed straight for Point Defiance set the downrigger at 75 feet started trolling from Point Defiance to claybanks got just passed Owen's Beach then all the sud...
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By: Sheltered
Posted: 6/29/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the Des Moines pier again for crab. We were working around a late start and got there a little after high tide. We were using traditional pots with chicken legs as bait. We immediately got t...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 6/26/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
No salmon caught either on the downrigger or jigging. Humpback whale hanging out by gig harbor entrance.
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By: Sheltered
Posted: 6/22/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Des Moines for the first time ever. In fact, the first time crabbing from a dock. We did pretty well. We caught 7 legal red rocks, 3 undersized red rocks and 2 undersized dungies. A 5" red roc...
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By: Bay wolf
Posted: 6/18/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 9:30 and was surprised to find that the launch was not all that busy. Everyone had gotten there at o'dark thirty to get a jump on the crab I guess. Motored over to Dalco and got the rigge...
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Posted: 6/18/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
A nice searun cutthroat for Father's day.
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By: unoeye
Posted: 6/17/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went crabbing today at Seahurst park. If you are looking for small females, I have found your spot! using chicken, 3 hour soak from 11am to 2pm. While waiting did a little bottom fishing with the chic...
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