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Puyallup River Fishing Reports

Puyallup River
By: the piranha
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the upper section on the morning, mostly checking for high water areas to fish. I mostly used sardine wrapped kwikfish either flat line from shore or with side planer. I threw jigs a little a...
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Puyallup River
By: ilikefish
Posted: 10/28/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Conducted a scouting trip down to the lower river to see if the chum might be in. There were some fish, but the seals were Chasing them around. One seal caught a nice chum. He made it look very easy a...
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Puyallup River
By: catchanything66
Posted: 10/19/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my fishing buddy and his son hit the puyallup early and when we started it wasn't until about an hour or so later that we saw the first other risers to come out and fish. It was good practice f...
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Puyallup River
By: the piranha
Posted: 10/4/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I finally caught one this morning, it was pretty dark though. Mr fire truck was about 4 or 5 lbs. He took a purple jig. Purple/white is my second hottest color, but I added more legs and tried some g...
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Puyallup River
By: Diamonddave
Posted: 9/28/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 5th st using bobber and eggs, spinners, bobber and jigs, buz bombs. A lot of casting practice and learning to read river and working gear. NOT any fish were caught while I was there but some gu...
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Puyallup River
By: pinkpole
Posted: 9/27/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got into my first silver on the Puyallup this morning. Did not land it. I was distracted and honestly thought I was on another snag until it jumped. I saw only one other fish and he landed h...
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Puyallup River
By: odddoylerules
Posted: 9/26/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 6-dark in what seemed like high water at the soccer fields, fish were all up on the banks hooked one in the pool upstream from the rocks after hitting opposite bank, then saw fish near shore on...
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Puyallup River
By: the piranha
Posted: 9/23/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I fish the river better when the water is clear, but I'm getting impatient. I started on the carbon, but left after about 10 min. The water is still too dirty n. I then went to 115th st hole. There ...
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Puyallup River
By: salmonslayer264
Posted: 9/23/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went down to the puyallup river/carbon river seam after i tried the nisqually with no luck,I fished until around 8:30 pm.I saw a lot of fish surface and a couple guys catch some nice chromers.I figu...
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Puyallup River
By: cpt.bungee
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2014
Hot Spots: 1
North of the White river ... fished for a few hours after work. .... fish rolling around everywhere ... used black yarn ... got a nice one after about an hour ...
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Puyallup River
By: bairfishin
Posted: 9/6/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the north side of Levee Rd today behind Toyota. In the river at 6am and had one at 7am. Sweet, my first silver of the year, pretty good sized too; then I realized I forgot my net on the shore. ...
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Puyallup River
By: the piranha
Posted: 9/2/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I took the kids to the hatchery on Saturday afternoon and the pond was stacked with fish, even saw a couple chrome silver's jumping. I got excited and went to 115th st hole. My favorite spot was tak...
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Puyallup River
By: bairfishin
Posted: 8/30/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Puyallup up today for about four hours. No action at all. Saw a few fish roll but no catches. A lot of people on the river. I didn't see any fish brought in but a few people I talked to sa...
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Puyallup River
By: Diamonddave
Posted: 8/22/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My son and I fished behind Safeway only caught a garter snake no fish caught by us or any one with in sight! We need more rain!
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Puyallup River
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 8/20/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the upper river a week ago and saw a hole I wanted to target but the river was running too high to get where I needed. I went out last night around 4:30 and as I got into position and was re...
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Puyallup River
By: dhunter_02
Posted: 8/19/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing this morning behind the old KMart from about 10:30-1:30. Couldn't even get a bite. Did see one guy pull in a really nice fish but the was about all. Once again it was rather slow but nice...
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Puyallup River
By: plunker
Posted: 8/19/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a walk on river walk by the stuck/white river. right at 7pm watched several silvers being hooked and one small king. Lots of trash already building up. please pack out all you can. water was lowe...
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Puyallup River
By: Ripple
Posted: 8/16/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished behind Safeway in Puyallup for a couple hours in the morning. Saw a guy walk out with a 8-10lb king and saw a guy foul hook a fish across the river. Not much action at all for how many people...
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Puyallup River
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I have never salmon fished on a river. I spent the afternoon on Saturday tying my leaders and had everything organized and ready to go for Sunday morning. I hit the river at 6am and nobody was there...
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Puyallup River
By: the piranha
Posted: 12/29/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The river is closing in a couple days so I figured I better get down there while I could. I fished yesterday (Saturday) from 1130 until 130. There was so many people that I wasn't expecting much. ...
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Puyallup River
By: Toni
Posted: 12/25/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I put the turkey in the oven and figured I had 2 hours to spend. 1 in travel and 1 fishing. So I went to 116th street between Sumner and Orting. I found myself on the river most of the time alone. The...
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Puyallup River
By: the piranha
Posted: 12/12/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So, I have been down on the Puyallup since Tuesday. I haven't touched a fish. With the last high water, all my holes changed or filled in. I wasn't even going to fish, but then I remembered I am...
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Puyallup River
By: Diamonddave
Posted: 12/5/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went on the 4th and 5th I waited till the tribe got done with thier netting, then I put my line about 1000 yards from were they had taken their nets out about 1 hour after. The chum were there in numb...
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Puyallup River
By: the piranha
Posted: 11/28/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Happy Thanksgiving!! So after Sunday, when the guys throwing spinners were out fishing me, I had to come up with an answer. I think it is the cold temps making the fish sluggish. my j...
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Puyallup River
By: Toni
Posted: 11/27/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I met pinkpole at the 115th hole to sling a weight in the river and get the dust off of that rod. We were only there for about an hour and a half. I didn't see any fish. Although I met a Facebook fri...
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