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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon Fishing Reports

By: fishbite
Posted: 7/9/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/5/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Took off from Point Defiance boat launch around 7:30am. We dropped the pots over on the Browns Point side of the bay and then let our lines out. Not many fish on the sonar, so we pulled up and tried...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled a 742 hootchie behind an e-chip flasher this morning. released a clipped shaker, may have been legal but not worth measuring. hooked 2 other fish, both bigger. one felt pretty good sized. didn...
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Posted: 7/6/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I launched the boat and motored out, and noticed something wasn't right. There were only 6 of our 8 pots and were set in a different location. We got nothing besides seaweed. On July fifth we limit...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 7/3/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Did a little salmon trolling at the clay banks while waiting for the crab pots to fill up. no salmon in our boat, saw one caught by a boathouse guy, about 6lbs off his meatline. should've stayed over ...
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By: wsucoug93
Posted: 7/3/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning on the water with my boy. Soaked 2 pots for 3 hours at 65' and 95' just south of the Redondo Pier. Took home 6 keepers, all dungies. Also trolled spoons behind flashers on the downr...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
took a coworker out in the boat today. we started jigging at the claybanks. i was using pt. wilson darts, he was using squid he caught over the winter. he caught a red irish lord, me nothing. we moved...
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Posted: 6/27/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Got a late start but then only one other boat working the area around the Ferry Dock. Put the Silver Horde spatterback green hoochie/blue crush glow flasher on, dropped it to 125 FT trolling into the ...
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Posted: 6/15/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Saturday 7:30-10:30 at Dolphin Pt. and 10:30-12:00 at Southworth. Trolling hoochies and spoons from 55’ down to 150’ on the wire. It was a beautiful morning, but no joy either place. Not muc...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 6/12/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
trolled a black/white hootchie behind an 8" flasher at the clay banks. caught one king about 11.5lbs. lost another fish to a seal. saw 2 others of similar size and a fish that went 18 to 20lbs dependi...
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By: glowball
Posted: 6/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went out saturda morn...fished the girlscout camp...pulled a 742 hoochie on the bottom in 130 ft of water...first pass got a 6.5 lb feeder...2 nd pass a shaker....bout 5 th pass picked up another feed...
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By: Byte Me
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Off the dock @ 0630. Headed south today. Dropped lines at Dash Point and fished down to Browns Point. Didn’t mark any fish or see any bait, only a couple seals. Fished Browns Point as the tide changed...
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By: Byte Me
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water @ 0630. Started at Beal and fished it through the high tide. No luck and no bait. Moved north as the tide turned & fished both sides of Dolphin. Finally found a little bait & started mar...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 6/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
fished pt. defiance for the high tide change. 2 fish, the unclipped one was released. both in the 9 to 10 pound range. the keeper had a bunch of shrimp in its stomach. trolled a white tomic plug off t...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 5/12/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
fished several areas between the clay banks and the narrows bridge searching for lingcod. released 1 undersized fish, 3 rockfish and 1 irish lord. herring was the bait. got checked by the police boat ...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 4/25/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
figured I try for one last time before the closure in a few days. released an undersized blackmouth which would've made a nice trout if I were lake fishing. started at the claybanks trolling the 742 h...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with someone who prefers to jig so thats what we did. Shimano butterfly jigs for me, pt. wilson darts for him. Just about every color known to man was used. A couple shakers caught in my boat...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 4/17/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
nice day on the water, sunny and no wind to start. dragged a 742 hootchie behind an 8" flasher around several areas by point defiance, dalco, evans and random spots. 2 small ones released, may have be...
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By: jschmoof
Posted: 3/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Dalco Saturday morning. It was the only place to fish out of the wind.fishing about 160 feet got a 25 inch black mouth other than that fishing kind of slow....better than a skunk
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By: obryan214
Posted: 2/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Put the boat in the salt this morning to do a bit of trolling around Pt. Defiance. A few others had the same idea. 2 small shakers released, one good hit missed. Didn't mark much bait and only 1 seal ...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After watching guys load up on squid the last couple weeks during the morning I got a spot in the crowd at the dock at the Pt. Defiance boathouse this morning. Only was able to find one of my jigs unt...
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By: linh.uw
Posted: 11/25/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Squidding Report for Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Went squidding from about 8pm - 1 am on Friday night with a friend of mine (Minh). We started an hour before high tide and were in the water by 8:00PM. ...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 11/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to jig blackmouth off the clay banks. Only managed to get half a dozen squid on my butterfly jigs. The other boats got squid also. No salmon but tons of bait. A large pod of Orcas with a news cho...
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Posted: 11/13/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So I get off at work at 11:30 Pm and head straight to rodonda after work so about midnight very cold this of what I like to call banana.....(big squid) also about a week before on a wed day tons of b...
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By: aquaking
Posted: 11/7/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Squid are in and reaching full size around 8inches. Smaller gear which you cannot find at the store are best. I use glow paint on bullet weights with squid hooks. The lighter the better so you can fee...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 11/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
2 shakers this morning, the first while trolling a green Ace Hi Fly with a herring fillet. the second took a Shimano Butterfly jig in a blue and chrome. the trolled fish was near the slag pile, the ji...
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