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Sol Duc River Fishing Reports

Posted: 5/22/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great couple of days out on the water, went fishing with my buddy last weekend. woke up at 4 to get to the river at 6 and got our first bite on the first drift. went 5 for 6 through weekend great memo...
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By: Tragedy
Posted: 3/27/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2017
Hot Spots: 2
Went out drifting on the Sol Duc water was at 13 boards from all the rain and was running pretty fast, clarity was decent however and we put in at Maxfield Road and drifted down a bit fishing plugs ch...
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By: Red beard
Posted: 10/27/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Just thought I would pop in and put up a report for this system. Some people are arguing about how people are catching fish here. From what I've seen everything is just fine. I met a few guys this wee...
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By: Red beard
Posted: 9/28/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the night friday in forks and hit some holes below the confluence on saturday morning. After the rain on friday it was on fire the next morning. 3 of us landed at least 20 fish and many more wer...
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Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was able to sneak back over for a few days for the real end of winter steelhead. Said I was done a few weeks ago but with fresh fish still swimming, well I couldnt help it! Three days, 30 or so steelh...
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Posted: 4/27/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 1
After a week of rain the Sol Duc was running pretty high but barely fishable. It was coming down but one more day would have made it a lot better. Not a lot of fish caught by the other boats on the ...
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Posted: 10/26/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty good day , floated eggs under a float with some mikes sandshrimp oil and spit , granny always told me to spit on my worm so I spit on all my tackle :) , anyhow caught a few jacks then got a goo...
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Posted: 3/27/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well havent done a report in a while so I figured I would do an update on fishing since I got the new Driftboat. This report is actually for 2 days on the Sol Duc, and I also spend 3 Days on the Wynoo...
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By: jpjames14
Posted: 3/26/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sol Duc this weekend from the bank. I have been "productive" according to the reports - ie averaging 1.5 fish a day most times I fish (which are usually weekend trips). Got mine this time...
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By: Tesla
Posted: 3/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Conditions lined up this past weekend for a river trip that has been on my mind for years, but have never pulled the trigger on it. This year the peninsula rivers are open for retention of one wild st...
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By: dryfly24
Posted: 1/13/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day fishing the Sol Duc with my brother-in-law and guide Mike Schmitz of West Coast Outfitters. No sooner got the plugs in the water than wham! fish on! After a minor tackle episode managed to...
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By: Red beard
Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Alrighty then... we fished the mighty Sol Duc yesterday arriving at Whitcomb-dimmel about 9am. The water looked great and we saw a nice bright king jump sky high right away. I started with eggs under ...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 4/22/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took a person trip to the Sol Duc river, Lady, my pops and I fished for early kings and winter steel. We fished several of our favorite holes, and the water was up a little bit. The weather was specta...
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By: chengpu
Posted: 11/10/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another awesome trip to the coast and it produced big time. Headed out to Forks early Sunday and fished till Tuesday mid day on the ole Sol Duc. Sunday was an ok day ended up hooking and landing 5 si...
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By: chengpu
Posted: 10/27/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 23rd,24th,25th (i know its late but what ya gonna do). So after the heavy rain that fell i knew it was time for the annual trip out to Forks and to hit the Sol Duc. This river is...
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Posted: 8/1/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Came home from college for a couple days to this awesome weather. Fished the sound on Saturday morning and caught nothing. It was an amazing sunrise for any of you who saw it. Boated the rest of th...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/12/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
well i seen a report on here about the sol duc and the guy says drift fishing is pretty much flossing . I have been drift fishing for over 40 years and flossing isnt part of drift fishing if you know ...
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Posted: 10/12/2010
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to do some bank fishing on the Sol Duc. There were fish in the adult trap, and one fish on the 'bank'. There were lots of fish jumping too. Unfortunately, there isn't really a 'bank' and...
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Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with a couple fishing buddies (Don and Ron) to hit the Sol Duc today. Got to the hatchery at 0600 and Don and i walked down the boat launch to check the river out. We get close to the bottom an...
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By: tkfishing
Posted: 2/5/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the solduc today didn't have much luck. This trip started out as a trip to lake pleasant no luck there. Had some reel troubles so we ended up in forks at Olympic Sporting Goods These guys ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/23/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Grabbed the pole and headed toward the peninsula around 7:30 Monday morning. After about 5 hours traveling from Pugetopolis my friend and I arrived at the Sol-Duc Salmon Hatchery. We hiked down bel...
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By: Lance
Posted: 2/19/2008
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a beautiful day to go fishing, sunny and warm! I went to the hatchery and fished from the boat launch down just a bit to a log pile. Used a float and jig starting with pink then switched to whi...
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By: Lance
Posted: 2/11/2008
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was my first time to this river so it was more of a scouting trip with just a little time on the water. I did get a little time in at the boat launch at bear creek and found a nice spot just up ri...
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