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Nisqually River Fishing Reports

Nisqually River
By: punch
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Maybe it was the incoming tide but we had no luck running the river Monday Morning. A lot of nets in the water and we saw a few fish caught in them but no where near the numbers that it should have be...
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Nisqually River
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 9/2/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well I have rated the fishing as a "3 - Average day". I shot down to the Nisqually with Uncle Ricky the other morning and although we didn't hook into any fish ourselves, we did see several fish bein...
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Nisqually River
By: Travatarp
Posted: 9/5/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
So I was rigged heavy on the off chance I hook a King. I never fish this river due to the snags and limited beach . But alas the Puyallup is closed half the week now. Caught one on my first cast. It ...
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Nisqually River
By: Mr Fitten
Posted: 9/2/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Nisqually on a week day and found some room to fish. Spent a lot of my childhood in Alaska and got spoiled having the ability to move up and down a river without asking permission. Ca...
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Nisqually River
By: seattle150
Posted: 8/29/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nice King 32inch. Have a great day. Fish jumped in the evening everywhere. Lost 4 got 1. River will be closed on September 1. What a pity.
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Nisqually River
By: Brendenp007
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a couple buddies yesterday morning from about 5:30-9:45-10am. Got to the spot and it wasnt too bad looking, clearish water and fish were jumpin everywhere and we all had pretty high hope...
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Nisqually River
By: chrisalex1
Posted: 9/17/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
the river is still so very cloudy chalky. only had two brief hookups in a four hour period. people are starting to get the word or idea of at least picking up their trash after they leave it looks som...
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Nisqually River
By: bandseeker
Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fly fished in the afternoon for a couple hours and caught a mess of cutthroat and rainbows. All fished came on a grasshopper pattern with most fish averaging 6 to 8 inches. Saw one big trout about 18 ...
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Nisqually River
By: bandseeker
Posted: 6/21/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, after throwing in my crab pots in Oro Bay, I decided to take the boat up the Nisqually to see how far I could get up it in my outboard. I noticed on the way up lots of drift nets or bouys for dr...
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Nisqually River
By: Jbear
Posted: 12/17/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to JBLM for chum had a good day with my boy. He tied up a a Bobber with a jig pink/black. He fished for an hour with no take downs and all of a sudden I hear fish. His heart was pumpin,I look...
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Nisqually River
By: tombee77
Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Nisqually for a few hours this evening. Tried my hand using spinners and after almost an hour of no luck I has a fish hit so hard it nearly ripped the rod out of my hands. After a few run...
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Nisqually River
By: bandseeker
Posted: 9/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I guess DNR got the word of no salmon too. The river is closed to harvest of chinook due to low returns until further notice. https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=1494
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Nisqually River
By: NECVL
Posted: 9/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Off of Old Pacific Hwy there is a location that DoD card holders are allowed to fish from. It is on the stretch of river south of five just north of the Old Pac Hwy. I went there for my first time sal...
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Nisqually River
By: ecofisherman
Posted: 9/1/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tried my luck for the first time at the bridge off Mason Rd. Pretty low bite rates as no one seemed to being catching anything from about 6:30am to 9:00am. Unfortunately, it yook me all of 10min to co...
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Nisqually River
By: Gandhi57
Posted: 8/29/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Long day but came home with 15 pound hen.
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Nisqually River
By: fisherman4ever
Posted: 8/16/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing except mosquitos and good conversation. Lots of people at the river at 6am and most were leaving by 8 with a new crowd showing up. I fished the mounts river bridge. A lot of people there, so m...
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Nisqually River
By: bandseeker
Posted: 8/14/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well I keep hearing rumors that a chain link fence got thrown in the water down stream of Mounts bridge last weekend to try to make fishing difficult. Not sure if the rumor is true, but a lot of peopl...
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Nisqually River
By: bandseeker
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
10 Aug Went out to the mouth near the green can. Nisqually Tribe had 3/4 mouth netted up. Seen one native checking nets with a silver alumnacraft and then took off up river after checking his catch. I...
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Nisqually River
By: gunsafmc
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Slim pickings, Landed one nice chromer, about 20 + pounds, 35 inches long.
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Nisqually River
By: salmon addict
Posted: 7/30/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this morning from 7 to 12 at mounts rd. Bridge No hook ups just a lot of snags, saw a few roll a couple large kings jumping, The indians were back and forth from the mouth along wth the warde...
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Nisqually River
By: bandseeker
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I caught and released one 6 inch rainbow trout and caught my second dolly varden trout in the river. This one was 7 inches long. The previous one I caught 7 years ago was a 12 inch fat one. Not sure w...
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Nisqually River
By: tombee77
Posted: 12/18/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/18/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the Nisqually River this morning. Fished for 1 1/2 hours without a bump, hit, strike, or twitch of the line. Beautiful day though sunny with a high temp of upper 40's. Taked to a few others and...
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Nisqually River
By: iwnt2retire
Posted: 11/29/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped at Mounts Road on the way home from Black Friday shopping at Cabelas. Heard reports of Chums.. Not a lot of people. Fished for 2 hours and cooked lunch. River a little high but great weather. ...
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Nisqually River
By: Travesty 85
Posted: 11/1/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
finally getting around to adding some photos and catching up on some posts I've been procrastinating on. Nice day on the river. Lots of pinks rolling through. Here's one of the many fish caught for th...
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Nisqually River
By: lbcatcher
Posted: 9/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Spent a couple of hours on the Nisqually River. I did catch a Pink of decent size. However the real good information is that some of those fishing around me were catching Chinooks.
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