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Area 1 Ilwaco Fishing Reports

By: Ganno
Posted: 8/29/2012
Species: Albacore Tuna
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Left port at 4.30AM. were on the grounds with jigs in the water by 7.30. Not five minutes into the troll fish on one of the hand lines. Circled and tried for a bait stop. Cleared hand lines and jig ro...
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By: NimmunDay
Posted: 8/20/2012
Species: Black Rockfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Targeted rockfish but I at least got a crab.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time over the barge. We initially targeted Chinook Salmon, though realy had no luck. Had luck with a mixture of native and hatchery Silvers. Started fishing around 7AM. Had my limit of ...
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By: cneames
Posted: 8/16/2011
Species: Albacore Tuna
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
9 of us did a tuna charter. Fishing was hit and miss but our captain did an excellent job keeping us in fish. We ended up with 34 nice albacore. Fishing may improve over the next few weeks.
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By: procaster
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went out on a charter for my buddies bachelor party. It was my first time on one, usually we would go on personal boats but it was just easier with 12 people. We left marina at about 530 and ran...
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By: JM73
Posted: 8/6/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Myself and three freinds fished off Ilwaco on Friday 8/5/11 After crossing the bar and heading NW for around 20 miles (roughly), we dropped the gear. Varying colors of divers followed with an anchov...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/25/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went Razor claming on Long beacg near Ocean Park and got easy limits. Cleaned the clams and went surf fishing for the first time. Used 4oz pyramid sinker with double hook set up and clam necks for bai...
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Posted: 8/23/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Ilwaco Wed-Thur-Fri in private boat. Wed was slow, a couple of silvers that we could keep. I had three hook ups within the first couple of hours, bringing in two nice wilds which got cut loose b...
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Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to a kayaking crab derby Saturday and tried for bottomfish while my trap was soaking. Got one hit the entire day. Crabbing was decent though. I had 7 keepers, but being new to crabbing I t...
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Posted: 8/22/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the area caught some keepers was an awsome day had alot of fun my camera was broken but i got one picture.
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By: Rob G.
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Uhhh....the silvers are runnin'! Some Kings mixed in too! I went out on a charter for the 1st time...it was fun, but I like personal boats boats better, too many people on the boat! But lots of fish t...
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By: terry329
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Left out of the Hammond marina at 6 a.m. on board a charter boat, which is a 25'er which will hold up to 4 customers and the captain. Headed out the mouth of the Columbia to about 25 yards west of th...
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Posted: 3/10/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was horrible and all we could hook was crab. I'm sure it was because of the weather front we had. It most likley pushed all the sea perch back in deeper water but I will be back soon with ...
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By: camjam80
Posted: 8/29/2008
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today with my 2 friends to go salmon fishing. First time ever and had a blast. We meet his dad down there who is a guide so we were lucky there. Fished from 7:30 till 12 ish and caught one ke...
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Posted: 7/21/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Took my wife and mom out on a commercial charter, 14 on the boat, ended the day with 1 fish per person, all Silvers, all between 4-10 lbs. More natives thrown back than non natives kept. Lots of lin...
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Posted: 7/19/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my yearly trip out of Ilwaco for Salmon the weather was very windy and wet and the ocean was pretty sloppy but the fishing was good for those who could get out (no small boats) we had no probl...
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Posted: 7/17/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out of ILWAKO with a Charter Service 7-17 and 7-18. Boat limited both days by 10:00am. 80% coho 5 to 8 pounds, 20% Kings 8 to 12 pounds. Great fishing. It was a little rainy but the ocean was ca...
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By: prozaxxx
Posted: 5/12/2007
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
went out for the opener. we chartered a boat 9 hours on the water and 1 fish between 12 guys and gal. and it was 2 inches to long. was a rough one there was 7 charter boats out that morning and only 1...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2007
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the in coming tide and were there for about 30 min when just a peck hit the bait and out came a 6 foot giant sturgeon it took about 1 hour and 30 min to get it to the boat what an exp. That ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/23/2005
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
The salmon were jumping like crazy but nothing was biting. Then a couple of small flounder found there way to my hook.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/9/2005
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to take a salmon trip before the rod run to the end of the world weekend began. Bad weather conditions forced us to fish the river as high winds had closed the river bar we fished all the wa...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/28/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2005
Hot Spots: 0
well i went and fish the columbia on sunday and had some good and bad experiences. we really had to fished hard for the two fish we keep . the water temp on the columbia had jumped up to 68.5 and the...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the birthplace of the Konezone Trolling Flasher on the 23rd and man it was hot. The Fish are here. 5 Chinook and 2 Coho were kept. We had a 3 for on and landed them all with only one being a ke...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/16/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/16/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with a Charter one fish for the whole boat. Don't waste your time or money with this charter. Several other charters and people in there own boats did much better. *Editor's Note: Charter na...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/6/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2005
Hot Spots: 0
My cousins and I decided to try our luck with the dungeness crab. We arrived at a pier and baited our ring nets. There were already quite a few other people crabbing. While we let our nets soak, We de...
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