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Area 12 Hood Canal
Area 12 Hood Canal
By: shawn
Posted: 8/13/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent about a hour and a half down in the Hoodsport area with my stepdad and grandpa. It was a last minute trip. First off I didn't catch any fish. Mostly due to me running the boat and shooting the b...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Island Lake hoping to hook into to some carry overs.The weather was the only good thing. No bites, nothing, but it was worth it just to hit the water. They should be stocking it soon but I'm not r...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 1/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to my normal lake today,wanting to use my new pontoon boat I got for X-Mas. But no dice the lake is still frozen.I need to catch a fish.I go back to school full time again on Monday.Did have fun ...
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Minter Creek
Minter Creek
By: shawn
Posted: 11/14/2008
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Minter to check out all the hub-bub.I will have to agree with castanova about the folks out there.I ended up keeping two bright ones and let about twelve go do to being foul hooked or just rea...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: shawn
Posted: 8/15/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Sinclair Inlet to check out the Salmon fishing from shore.Hit it around 6:30 pm the tide was starting to go out.The wind was starting pick up a little bit.Before fishing I watched one of t...
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Skokomish River
Skokomish River
By: shawn
Posted: 8/6/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start on the day my girlfriend couldn't find her fishing license.After a hour or so of looking we found it and off we went.It was about a hour long drive to the Skok from our house really a...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 7/26/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Island Lake around 4:30.Didn't catch a thing not even a bite but that was kinda expected the water is really warm. So my attention switched ferrying my nephew around the lake.He's 2 and a half...
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Square
Square
By: shawn
Posted: 7/14/2008
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Got bored and decided to try Square Lake for some bluegill and other spinys.Stop on the way and got some night crawlers got to lake and it was packed busiest that I have ever seen it.There must of bee...
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Secret Spot
Secret Spot
By: shawn
Posted: 6/8/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up with fishinislife,Trent and his buddy Mark.They turned me on to this gem of a lake tucked away in the woods.I caught two dinks on a silver Rapala floating minnow.With me not knowing a thing ...
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Square
Square
By: shawn
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Square Lake today to try my hand at some bassin.Tried a few times this year but not being a basser I was getting discouraged.Today I tried the Ol' Rapala in the perch color the small floater ...
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Square
Square
By: shawn
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Square Lake in hopes of catching a bass.Well since I'm no Bass fisherman.I had no luck so I tooled around the lake do prospecting and I found a lot of bluegill and crappie sitting on beds.So m...
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Leland
Leland
By: shawn
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day with a 4:30 am pick up from fishinislife.We headed to the lake too meet up with Trent Hale.We were in the water around 5:30 am.This being my first time fishing this lake I was surprise...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Hit the lake around 3 o'clock.I was gonna troll around in the float tube but after getting on the lake I decided to toss some dry flys around.So I tied on a parachute adams and got to it.I picked up a...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Met up with fishnislife to go hit up Ludlow Lake we got there and behold I forgot my waders.So back to the house to pick them up and try another lake.So we made our to Kitsap Lake and the wind was out...
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Haven
Haven
By: shawn
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Went out again with Grandpa after spending the morning in the garden tilling up for planting. Launched the boat around 2pm.Trolled around for a little bit. This being my first time at this lake I want...
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Bay
Bay
By: shawn
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Loaded up the boat with grandpa and headed to Bay Lake. My first time on that lake would have to say I like the lake. It's good sized the boat launch is pretty good. We hit the water around 2 pm I oar...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 4/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started out around noon.The wind kept kicking up,but the rain never came.Trolled around the Lake with my float tube to scout a good place to start.Found a little lagoon away from the trolling boats so...
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Kitsap
Kitsap
By: shawn
Posted: 3/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Kitsap Lake today to catch some of those little stockers and to practice casting from my float tube. I just had shoulder surgery about 6 weeks ago so I gotta loosen up the casting shoulder. Bu...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 11/14/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 1 pm.The water was calm.Trolled around for a couple of hours.Caught and released four bows.Boy did this years planters get healthy.Will be back out there soon.But boy it gets cold...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: shawn
Posted: 10/27/2007
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out last night to fish the outgoing tide.The conditions were great just a little breeze.Used plug cut herring.I perfer fishing the night at Yukon Harbor no crowds or combat fishing only two othe...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: shawn
Posted: 10/24/2007
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I went out by Curly Creek to get in on the run action.I was using cut plug herring and a bobber.I bought a package of slip bobbers for salmon the worked pretty good they were called ''Salmon Stalker''...
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Dewatto River
Dewatto River
By: shawn
Posted: 10/12/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Tried my luck at fly fishing today for river Coho.Tried for about 4 hours with no luck then all of sudden Bam out of no where.Just as soon as my fly drifted into a slow moving pool it was on.I fought ...
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Island
Island
By: shawn
Posted: 10/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to go out and try the inflatable raft my Grandpa gave me.I was actually surprised how well it works.It's a Sevylor Fish Hunter,and used my Minn Kota 40 pound thrust electric motor.I got it of...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: shawn
Posted: 10/9/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I gave this a five because I had a blast Fly Fishing for Coho.I had a lot of hook ups but only got one to the but and in the net.It is a totaly different fight on a fly pole.I was a 8 weight set-up,a...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: shawn
Posted: 9/24/2007
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Heard there was a surge of Coho pushing thru that area.So we loaded up the boat and took off to Allyn to launch.Did some trolling around a couple of the islands out there.Fish were on the screen and j...
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