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Fish
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 1/26/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy Jordan and I fished Fish Lake from about 4:30-5:30pm. We were so late to the lake we just poached some open holes from a couple of guys who just left versus auger-ing our own. The fishing was...
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Fish
Fish
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 1/13/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Fished Lake for about two hours-- about 1-3 pm, Sunday evening. I was driving back from a weekend in Plain and assumed the ice would still be unsafe. Three nights of mid-teen temperatures pro...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
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 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
Area 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 12/12/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Squidding Monday; razor clamming Tuesday-- I'm living the dream! I wanted to get my Mom out clamming and she's really night blind, so despite the weather I got some time off work for the 4:51 -1.1 tid...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
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 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
Area 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 11/18/2012
Species: Clams
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went out to Grayland to go razor clamming for the first time this year. Low tide was about 8:10 pm, so it was a night dig. I arrived around 4:00 and surf perch fished until dark. I had no bait so I ...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
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 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
Area 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 10/24/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2012
Hot Spots: 1
My better half and I spent the weekend in Copalis to celebrate our two year going steady anniversary. I hit Roosevelt Beach for redtail surfperch both Saturday and Sunday. I spent about two hours on (...
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Yakima River
Yakima River
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/29/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Yakima River in Benton City for about an hour hoping to catch a bridgelip sucker or chiselmouth. I caught one dink smallmouth and a chiselmouth-- both fish took half a nightcrawler near t...
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Burbank Ponds
Burbank Ponds
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/29/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/22/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Went fishing for white crappie in Burbank Slough, and got skunked. There are no water craft of anykind allowed on the body of water, and the area you can fish from shore is very small. I figured I cou...
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Area 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
Area 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Black Rockfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day on the jetty! Low tide was 12:30. I hit the jetty around 11:30 to start hiking out. The conditions were perfect—haven't had rock traction like that in a long time. It took 20-25 minute...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
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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Cowlitz River
Cowlitz River
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/13/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Blue Creek. Fished dawn to 10am. Went 1/1, a 7 pound steelhead. Back trolling red and purple brined shrimp behind hotshots. Bite was off-- sun on the water early, very low clear water,...
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Baker
Baker
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Baker Friday and Saturday. I launched by 3 am both mornings, and headed in around 10:30 am. My main rig was a pink smiley blade, two beads, pink mini-hoochie (trimmed up/legs thinned), single...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
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
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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Area 13 South Puget Sound
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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Offut
Offut
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Offut from 3:30-7:30. Great weather and water, but no fish action. I tried almost everything in my bag of tricks- hildebrandts, flies, powerbait, nightcrawlers, and roostertails. No dice-- ju...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
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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Black
Black
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished wax worm-tipped micro-jigs near the swimming area at Kenny Del Park from 8:45-9:45pm . I caught three amazingly small perch and three rock bass. One was pretty good size (for a rock bass). It...
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Black
Black
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 6/21/2012
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished off to the side of the Kenny Del Park swimming area the last three days for the 20 minutes leading into dusk. I have been using red micro-jigs tipped with wax worms. Previous two days; no dic...
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Palouse River
Palouse River
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My girlfriend and I fished the mouth of the Palouse River Saturday from 6 pm to midnight, and I went out again Sunday morning 6 to 11 am. We were targeting channel catfish from my boat. Saturday (6...
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Swofford Pond
Swofford Pond
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Swofford Pond from about 5:30-8:30pm using a red tube tipped with a wax worm, typically under a bobber. I caught probably a dozen small bluegill, one averaged sized black crappie, and one lar...
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Black
Black
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/24/2012
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I state I was targeting rock bass, but I was actually targeting anything that would bite, which I assumed would be bluegill. I wanted to wet a line in the nice weather, so I headed down to Black Lake ...
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Area 6 East Juan De Fuca Strait
Area 6 East Juan De Fuca Strait
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I camped at Salt Creek and fished Freshwater Bay for halibut Thursday-Saturday. Great trip, but we got skunked! Thursday and Friday we only got about an hour and a half of fishing a day d...
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