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Area 13 South Puget Sound Fishing Reports

Posted: 6/29/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the family to Joamama Beach to crab. The weather sucked at first with rain and wind at times, but didn't do to bad. 5 Red rocks. Was on the boat dock.
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By: jefe43
Posted: 6/23/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 2
A friend and I set out for some crab from Joemma Beach on Saturday 21 Jun 2014. We were in my 14 ft Starcraft with 20hp outboard. High Tide was at 2:44 PM and we launched close to 12:30. We were us...
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By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/11/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After trying depths from 100 - 160 feet earlier in the week, we moved to one pot at 65 feet, one at 100' and 2 at 175'-180' 2 small red rock is all we got today. There were a lot fewer pots out ...
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By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/10/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/10/2014
Hot Spots: 3
We set 4 pots yesterday afternoon in Wollochet Bay near Gig Harbor. We went from 100' - 160' deep using chicken legs as bait with some pellets added for good measure. Pulled the pots today after a lit...
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By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to throw out some crab pots during the early crab season in area 13. Dropped 4 pots in the mouth of Wollochet Bay near Gig Harbor with a bunch of other folks. We had fair success there last ye...
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By: nwtoolman
Posted: 6/4/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the kayak, was planning on spending several hours but that didn't work. I dropped one cage baited with stocker trout, then rowed about another 100 yards and dropped the crab ring. After ...
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Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at pt defiance and headed south! Got 4 limits of big red rock crabs but only 1 keeper dungy lots of under sized and wrong sex. All in all good day as my 4 year old son hunter is a pro crabbe...
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Posted: 12/29/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbing continues to be great for red rocks out of Boston Harbor. Went out twice in the last couple of weeks. Easy limits of red rocks (only on the water for about 1:30pm -4:00 pm both times). I've b...
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Posted: 11/24/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went crabbing with a buddy out of Boston Harbor from about 1:00-3:30. The trip was basically to keep my boat motor active. Only took out two pots, and did four pulls total. I wasn't really expecting...
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By: Toni
Posted: 10/30/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Chum fishing in Area 13 by Shelton with Trent and Steve is always a hoot and it was again for 2013. The chum weren’t as cooperative as in the previous years but they were there to be had. It is always...
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By: gascan
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went out Sat. afternoon and fished till dark, no salmon caught just 2 dog fish and lots of seals. Sunday went out in morning in the fog, ended at Nisqualie flats in 5' of water and had to work my way...
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By: bruceka49
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The low tide made it interesting to begin with. After slowly making it out to the channel it was decision time. Anderson Island, the green can at the mouth of the Nisqually, look for pinks along Dupon...
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Posted: 9/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is fairly late-- but figured I'd submit for historical reference. A friend and I launched out of Luhr's Landing around 5:30 pm; returning at 8:30. High tide was 7:33. We dropped two crab p...
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By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 3
just east of boston harbor in about 70ft of water, pulled two nice limits of HUGE red rocks. some of these things were pushing WAY over dungy size. just a couple salmon heads and a few hours soak. def...
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By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Heard rumors of fish hooking up, and saw lots of people working the area but did not see a single fish caught. With the exception of the two sharks I hooked into. both on a plug cut herring behind gre...
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By: jjm98401
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Out for a few hours with my kids enjoying the good weather. Lots of seals out and about. Son caught his first pink of the season casting a pink buzz bomb off the swimboard.
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Posted: 8/4/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the Sound by Steilacoom. Set four traps at about 60 feet deep and ended up with 5 redrock crabs. We got as many starfish as crabs which were difficult to get out of the trap to toss back, ...
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By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/28/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Boston harbor and dropped of 2 pots at 12:45pm. Putted around fishing caught 1 red rock on the fishing pole and 1 flounder. Checked the pots after about an hour 1 keeper red rock in 1, and for...
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Posted: 7/24/2013
Species: Flounder
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Not much to report since I don't actually know where in Area 13 we were fishing since we were on my cousins boat but we absolutely slayed the rock sole that day. I don't know how many we actually caug...
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Posted: 7/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was out at Browns Pt. theSaturday looking for pinks with no luck, but did talk to a fly fisherman who said he had done well with coho and cutthroat at Narrows Park. We headed down there on Sunday wit...
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By: nwtoolman
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't check the tide, my son and I got to the dock at low tide. Used chicken parts for bait in traps. Two traps soaked for two hours with nothing, saw others catching a couple red reck. Since it was ...
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Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day of crabbing! Caught a five man limit of 25 crab. We have 8 pots and pulled them all up twice. Even threw back 4 keepers since we limited out, and swapped out the smaller ones. They su...
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Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day for crab. Many 8 inch tops...
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Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got a new boat last month (14 foot WC Lund). My fiancée and I took it out for the first time today. We launched out of Luhr's Landing around 4:30 pm; high tide was 6:33. Plenty of things went wrong ...
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By: Dustin07
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fished incoming tide in the new boat with a buddy and the wife. It was more about getting to know the boat than anything but we did a lot of fishing as well. boated (and released) 3 cabezon, 1 rockfis...
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