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Area 13 South Puget Sound Fishing Reports

Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Very late report, but on Easter I went manila clamming just north of the Bay Shore Golf Course near Shelton. Limit of 40 manila clams is easy digging there, even during a low plus tide. Very mucky mud...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Nangusdog
Posted: 3/9/2013
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Nisqually Delta today from my Kayak... caught plenty of Sole and Starry Flounder all day. The bite was really strong just before and after low tide.
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By: r.sok
Posted: 3/4/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a nice day so we decided to try fishing at Ruston way in Tacoma. My fault for not checking the tidal charts, the water was getting lower & lower by the minute. Managed 3 pile perch, lost 5 hit,...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 1/26/2013
Species: Squid
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A coworker and I went squid jigging Tuesday night before the rains came back. We got one (really small) squid in two-plus hours. The squidding was very slow over all, but it was one of those nights wh...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 1/7/2013
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went squid jigging with my buddy Jordan Saturday night. We were there from about 5-7:30 pm. The dock was packed! We had to kind of jig off to the side, but I got to test a new light. I recently purc...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/12/2012
Species: Squid
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/10/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I've gone squidding three times in the last two weeks off of the Clyde Davidson public fishing pier in Steilacoom. As a rookie squidder I am amazed at how nice most of the folks are at the pier! I've ...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: lost360
Posted: 12/4/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Perry creek cought some boots lost a good one . Was a good day
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: lost360
Posted: 12/3/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to mud bay not to much going on today was not there long
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of buddies invited me to chase chum in the south sound. We launched out of Boston Harbor at noon and headed up Hammersley Inlet. We checked out every hole from from Boston Harbor to Shelton C...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Toni
Posted: 10/25/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Fishing for chums in the salt is so different than anything else I do. We used bobbers and anchovies. They have to hang just right, at just the right depth, have to watch were they jump and kinda line...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: obryan214
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
only 1 keeper coho and several shakers released.was using the 742 hootchie with a herring strip behind a deep 6 about 60 poles. started at the slag pile and went out towards vashon where we saw atleas...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: obryan214
Posted: 9/7/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
went out and saw a few schools moving around but nobody getting anything. tried jigging and trolling. released a sea run cutthroat with a silver spinner. the day gets a 5 because of the mother and cal...
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By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/3/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My girlfriend and I soaked two pots from 12:30-3:00 pm (low tide was 2 pm). We pulled both pots twice. We caught six red rocks and two dungeness. We kept two male red rocks (5.25", 6") and both dungie...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: rseas
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I think that someone hid a banana in my boat some where. While fishing Johnson Point and Fishtrap in the south sound we went 0 for 8 on some nice kings. Not sure what was up. We had it dialed in and h...
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By: salmonbarry
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 3
So after winning the mystery fish last weekend decided to enter this Saturday's south sound derby. Now my wife witnessed my winning check so she wanted to go with me today for her 1st salmon trip; I...
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By: Caldwell
Posted: 8/8/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2012
Hot Spots: 1
The fiance and I dug for clams at Tolmie in the afternoon starting about half an hour to an hour before low tide. We got between us about 50 Manila and butter clams and the pictured horse clams. I'l...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: kingchaser
Posted: 8/7/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was very slow. A lot of fish marked at all depths. Had a few good take downs but nothing hooked. Tried spoons, ace hi-flys and coho killers different colors. Very slow down there.
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By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 530 from Luhr beach, went north to deep water dropped pots at 70', 120' 130' and 140'. This was my first time at Nisqually and everything I read said go deep. I didn't think the tide was e...
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By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy Jordan and I went out to catch a few starry flounder around 10:30 am. But the tide was just starting to come it-- about two feet too low to launch. We fished from the shore by the condemed do...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/13/2012
Species: Flounder
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2012
Hot Spots: 1
After receiving some sage advice from the "walakes.com saltwater forum all-stars" I decided to go after some summer starry flounder after work on the Nisqually Delta. I was probably on the water from ...
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By: Five92
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Went out crabbing for the day with the wife, neighbors and two kids. First time out for my wife so we were hopefull to get in some good action. We launched from Pt Defiance and had a good smoo...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I went crabbing out of Luhr's Landing around 4pm. I dropped my pots at 80 and 125 feet out from the Nisqually River mouth on flat terrain. We then went flounder jigging for an hour and a h...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It was a -3.3 around noon on the fourth. I went to Tolmie to see if geoducks were to be found. My buddy and I searched high and low, but alas no geoducks or even horse clams. We dug a couple of large ...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Hank
Posted: 12/28/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
No Fish, but had a great time.
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I hit Luhr's Landing around 2:00 pm to do some crabbing in the sun. This was my first time ever crabbing Area 13 although I live in Tumwater (borders Olympia to the south). I used chum sa...
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