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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

By: Onmygame
Posted: 7/15/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My youngest son and I put in at Redondo and soaked 4 pots for 3 hours on the flat south of the launch a couple of miles and trolled a bit while waiting on the crab. While trolling we used smallish Le...
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By: fishbite
Posted: 7/5/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbing was good. We were able to catch our limit of Dungees and Red Rocks in a few hours of soaking. We were also able to catch some flounder and Rock Fish and Flounders, but we threw them back. ...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 4/10/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Late report. Fished friday and saturday around the clay banks for blackmouth. Action has been decent for some. Saturday was the better with 2 being released due to extra fins, another lost. Friday had...
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By: MrShades
Posted: 2/10/2016
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I took my boat outside the mouth of Quartermaster Harbor on Vashon Island to fish for Rock Sole. I fished in water anywhere from 65-130 feet using small curly-tail grubs normally used for bass and sma...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 2/1/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
fished the blackmouth opener this morning trolling hootchies. nothing. t was a nice calm morning on the water and only a few other boats out. one boat lost a blackmouth on his meatline at the slag pil...
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Posted: 1/5/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My son and his girlfriend were home from college and she had asked to go fishing while they were here. What could be more fun than a day chasing sea-run cutthroat! Bought bait at Pt Defiance and off w...
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By: losaturn
Posted: 12/22/2015
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out and tried my hand at squidding for the first time. The water was dirty, and it was kinda slow overall. I was fishing two jigs to start off like everyone else, but later switched to four tiny ...
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By: Larry3215
Posted: 12/15/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Soaked 2 pots for 3 hours. WE used a combo of fresh chicken, salmon carcasses and bait for a scent trail. We got a total of 6 small red rock. Most of them only had one claw and only 2 were legal sized...
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By: Larry3215
Posted: 12/15/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a while today after blackmouth. Got one very very small native shaker. Only saw one very small bait ball the whole time. We trolled from Pt Defiance almost to Commencement Bay and back. O...
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By: Fishizzle
Posted: 12/4/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stolen Pots I know this has been brought up before but I just had to share this. One of my friends lives on Vashon and was tending his pots yesterday and found 5 derelict crab pots in the shallows,...
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Posted: 10/21/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Put 3 traps in at 11:30. Went back at 5:30. I'm pretty sure some pathetic piece of shut pilfered in 2 of my traps as there were only a couple of very large females. The third had 1 jumbo male dungene...
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Posted: 10/21/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
1st time I ever went out on the sound. With that said we launched at redondo and markex a ton of fish as we putted through the fog south toward tacoma. We dropped 2 crab pots along the way and started...
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By: glowball
Posted: 10/18/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/18/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Got to the boathouse about 3:30 am and started squiding Jigged for 3 hrs and got about 50 squid Took some of the squid and put them in the crab pots and started trolling herring for a couple hours,net...
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Posted: 10/13/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Pulled herring about 75 ft behind the boat in 5-10 ft of water. Limited out Sunday and Monday.
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Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/11/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to fish solo after the Seahawks gut wrenching loss. Launched from Redondo and fished 2pm - 5pm using cut plug green label herring dyed blue. 150 - 200 FOW varying DR depth between 45 - 105 fee...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
late report. 11lb blackmouth off a white hootchie sunday at quartermaster harbor. nothing else hit. nice calm water though. fished a few other imes last week for a couple tiny coho in ma11 too but not...
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By: Larry3215
Posted: 9/30/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We went out coho fishing this morning mostly because my brothers heard a glowing report on one of the Saturday morning radio talk shows about how hot the coho fishing was along the Gig Harbor shore li...
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By: Hunter757
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/27/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Well decided to hit the salt for the first time in my own boat. Launched at Point defiance and trolled back and forth for a few hours along the beach area. Got one fished hooked up my two sons went ...
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Posted: 9/22/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2015
Hot Spots: 1
10 minutes out of point defiance boat house in front of slag pile trolling deep 6 &dodger with herring at about 40 - 60 feet.
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By: Billm
Posted: 9/20/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water and started fishing by 7:00am. Had one on, and lost it at the boat. Got two others in and had a couple other takedowns. Fishing 45 to 65 ft, in 90 to 130 FOW. Hits came on green spat...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 9/14/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
been out fishing almost every morning the last couple weeks with little luck, 2 kings, 3 silvers and a pink for all that time. today wasn't that great. a couple small trout sized kings released. troll...
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Posted: 9/14/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Launched off Redondo while still dark. Water was like glass so trolling was easy to navigate. Noticed half as many boats as last Saturday, and they thinned out throughout the morning as it became obvi...
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Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Redondo at apprx 8:00am. Started getting hits during low tide change at 10:00am and the two of us had 4 Coho in the boat by noon. Used green glow flasher with a purple haze hootchie apprx ...
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Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Monday was a rough bite for us. We had three hits that were most likely pinks and three shakers. Boatingone of the pinks. All looked promising until the whale showed up. He cruised the area forsometim...
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By: hollydog
Posted: 9/6/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
well kinda on the very slow sign seen nothing,no hook ups .just plain slow. droped the crab pots and did get some dungies not many . got back to the docks and game check said 0 kings 8 coho and 20...
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