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Area 12 Hood Canal Fishing Reports

Area 12 Hood Canal
By: Seabeckzag
Posted: 8/2/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished first light and it was slow. Saw a few nets out but cut plug herring and lures weren't working for us. A number of locals were fishing it hard and seemed to be coaxing some bites. We finally...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
By: dhunter_02
Posted: 8/2/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Twanoh State Park around 0930 and headed to Alberbrooke. Jigged with a few other boats, marking a few fish but only landing a couple flounders. Ran over to the Tahuya River area and ji...
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By: noreaster
Posted: 8/1/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Potlatch at about 5:30, motored over to Alderbrook. Trolled between there and Union with many other boats. Tried herring, green hoochies and green spoons behind green flashers. No bites ev...
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By: Diverdoyle
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
1st time out at hoodsport for the season showed up right at low (7am) few fish jumping/ fining . guy next to me was tossing a jig caught his 1st one with in 20 mins of showing u...
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By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 7/6/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Threw out the pots and over the 2 days of crabbing, we caught a total of 19 crabs that we kept. Used walleye heads and some old stinky squid I had left over from last year's sturgeon fishing.
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By: bhabeck
Posted: 11/8/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Although it was a beautiful morning of fog and calm winds and water, and fish were in the area, I was not having any luck throwing out my seahawk fly (green yarn, blue rubber legs and a bit of green f...
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By: chongo469
Posted: 10/25/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/25/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Fished on Saturday at Hoodsport for chum.... Fish are not in yet ( at least in big numbers ). Hooked a few but nothing to write home about, and very rainy and windy.... Best part of the day was eating...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
By: DjButler
Posted: 9/27/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This weekend was a huge treat for me. My clients from work have a cabin right on the water and let my girlfriend and I stay out there for the weekend. The trip was cut short due to some medical issues...
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By: DabobDipper
Posted: 9/5/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Went out for Labor Day weekend to fish the Big Quilcene River Coho run. Fished Sunday and Monday with little luck. Fished from the low through the high in Dabob and Quilcene bays. Gorgeous weather, c...
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By: dhunter_02
Posted: 8/17/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Saturday morning from about 10:00 - 4:00 fishing around the mouth of the Tahuya River. Marked a lot of fish on the fish finder and seen quite a few of them jumping all around, but could never g...
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By: tmib
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I spent this past weekend out at my parents' place just north of Hoodsport, fishing for Kings on Hood Canal. TL;DR version: saw a few fish, but the kings aren't here in any numbers yet. I brou...
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By: Ezlivn89
Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to get our pots, loaded with crab, the fullest i have ever seen. For ever male there were 5 females. We did get our limit though among the 5 of us. Got checked by the warden, real friendly, j...
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By: dhunter_02
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Twanoh early morning of the opening day. Let the pots soak all day while I was at work and pulled them about 6 pm. We came away with only 3 keepers. Re-set the pots for a night soak an...
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By: fourrays
Posted: 11/24/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Laid 3 pots on Friday 11/21. After a 24 hours soak had 10 Dungeness keepers. No females in the pots. Best results were close in toward the mussel floats. Weather was great, sun was out and water...
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By: Cougar Zeke
Posted: 11/19/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to Hoodsport today. Arrived about 11AM. I walked out to take a look at what was going on and the place was covered in nets and boats. I had no idea there was tribal netting on Tuesdays ...
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By: obryan214
Posted: 11/14/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
after leaving Carney Lake I decided to drive down and look at the Skokomish though I had no plans to fish it. I saw several Chum in the river as well as alot of people trying for them. I only saw one ...
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By: chongo469
Posted: 11/14/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/13/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Some friends and I headed down to Hoodsport to tangle with some Chum and were not disappointed. Mid week had very few anglers and it was loaded with dogs and some were very bright. green corky's and b...
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By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 11/10/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the SKOOK Friday gpt few nice chums high water few on the River Stopped by the Hoodsport Hatchery WOW!! The Storm earlier in the week stopped the Netting and now WOW!!! Fish counters nightmare ...
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By: schu7498
Posted: 10/21/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2013
Hot Spots: 1
The ol doggies are pouring into the canal. Go stock up on those eggs, winter steel love em!
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By: BlackCat
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 2
THANK YOU RULE CHANGE! I caught my first salmon! Not to for forget clams, crab, and sculpin. trolled along the boat launch with pink hoochies. Great fight great fish. But our rental house was behind t...
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By: Old Man River
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2013
Hot Spots: 2
First trip to Dabob Bay. Fished/crabbed Dabob Bay Aug 16-18. Crabbing was poor; plenty of crabs just few legal males. Got one or two keepers a day for two pots. Set pots from 35-80' deep. Didn't...
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By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After work Thursday crabbed and fished Hood Canal. For crab we were using salmon carcasses for bait. The commercial crabbers were just pulling out. Four pulls resulted in about 20 females crabs. For s...
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By: christophertroy
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
spent the morning watching fish go by.... lots a fish next to the hatchery. pink buzz bomb and other misc pink lures... not a strike. maybe mext time. One fish caught by someone on shore... thats it.
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By: schu7498
Posted: 7/18/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well the pinks are running on the hood canal. Went out yesterday evening and saw a few schools. Went out this evening and they came rolling in thick. Way more fish compared to yesterday. Crazy what a ...
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By: schu7498
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/12/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well we took a trip out to Tahuya to get some crab. Dropped our pots around 2:30 with high hopes. One pot at 65ft the other at about 120ft. Pulled them up at 8:00pm to find a few female dungies and 3 ...
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