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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Dustin07
Posted: 9/7/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I scouted 4 or 5 spots trying to find one where I wasn't going to impede on everyone already there. everywhere I stopped people said it was slow. most had only caught 1 in many hours (or none at all)....
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Up by 4am to the smell of coffee, on the road by 4:30. At my spot at 5am and completely alone. rigged everything the night before so I pretty much just hung out and relaxed and enjoyed the solitude o...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 3
just east of boston harbor in about 70ft of water, pulled two nice limits of HUGE red rocks. some of these things were pushing WAY over dungy size. just a couple salmon heads and a few hours soak. def...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Heard rumors of fish hooking up, and saw lots of people working the area but did not see a single fish caught. With the exception of the two sharks I hooked into. both on a plug cut herring behind gre...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Why aren't sharks an option for target species? I'm pretty sure I was targeting them today! ;) My buddy ran a combination of different lures, spoons, kingfishers, and hootchies. I stuck to just one...
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Sawyer
Sawyer
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
it was cloudy and cool and only about 10:30am at home so I figured I'd be the pleasure boaters for sure. stopped in at my favorite gas station for worms. they were out. that should have been a sign...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/2/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
launched before 5am. brought the boat back in at 5:20pm. Trolled herring, hootchies, and spoons behind flashers. depths of 45' and lower. hit all the known hots pots starting at redondo, then das...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I didn't expect much today since I didn't hit the water till 1pm, but my wife and little boy both wanted to go out and a day on the water in 80+ degree temp is better than a day just about anywhere el...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Worked Dalco to the Campground during the outgoing tide, then came back across to work the beach during the incoming tide. Caught three sharks, zero salmon. Fish checker said so far had counted 5 chin...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Crabbed along ruston for a couple hours with only two pots and fished for flounder while we let them soak. I threw all my bait in the crab pots, so I went after the flounder with a texas rigged drop s...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 4am on the water. Dropped crab pots and started trolling. Used cut plug herring the whole day, green label, behind flashers. The only real adjustments we made through the day was depth. We ...
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Sammamish
Sammamish
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Had to put a new relay on the big motor so we started late. hit the lake around 12:30 and was surprised by the lack of dock traffic. One guy who was just finishing told me the kokanee were biting like...
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Kapowsin
Kapowsin
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/15/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Love this lake, kinda grew up on it really. Parked next to the leftovers of someones broken window. I came here with the break-ins on my mind, parked next to glass, and boated away hoping that the fu...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fished two days. Saturday mostly trolled Brown's Pt. zero bites. Sunday morning woke up to a motor that wouldn't trim down... so delay of game for about 2hrs until I manned up and just decided to ...
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Deep
Deep
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Took my 4 year old out for his first "non U-Fish" trip. I didn't suspect he'd take it seriously so I didn't really rig him up quite as aggressively as I would have if I were trying to catch a limit o...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Dustin07
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 1
The lack of fish boated is more likely a sign of my inexperience than an indicator of the fishery, we've all see the reports ;) It was more of an exploratory trip for my brother and I. we launched ...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Dustin07
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fished incoming tide in the new boat with a buddy and the wife. It was more about getting to know the boat than anything but we did a lot of fishing as well. boated (and released) 3 cabezon, 1 rockfis...
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Conconully Reservoir
Conconully Reservoir
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/19/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from weds the 10th till we left pretty much on the 15th. I never got skunked on any of my outtings and usually each time I went out I caught more fish than everyone else in camp combined ( th...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/19/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Be careful if you wade out in the deeper areas, that's all I got to say! I had quite a few strikes and a couple on. one biggun who RAN AND RAN AND RAN, it was really impressive but he shook free. ...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
counted around 25 people at one point, never saw or heard of one hooked up. no luck for us, about 3hrs worth of work. great day on the river though, beautiful weather!
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Mattoon
Mattoon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sunday morning wasn't as hot as saturday afternoon fishing, and I didn't see a single triploid caught (saturday night 5 or 6 of us on the dock got easy limits and 2-3 triploids each). But I still caug...
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Mattoon
Mattoon
By: Dustin07
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I know they were all stocker rainbows, but it was a great way to get back in the game. I C&R'd most and kept a one man limit between my buddy and I combined. They were biting everything. The least...
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Conconully Reservoir
Conconully Reservoir
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to add one report for trout fishing as our group of 10+ people did a fair amount of it, although I targeted bass the whole weekend. Because the water level is so much higher, the fish seem ...
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Conconully Reservoir
Conconully Reservoir
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Again, used all colors of plastics, and cranks. Only thing bass didn't bite on was spinner, although rapalas and other cranks weren't that productive either. Consistently caught small SMB's and LMB's...
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Conconully Lake
Conconully Lake
By: Dustin07
Posted: 8/13/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Mostly used black again, caught some on pink though. I almost gave the day a 4 compared to the first day, but I still caught probably around 50 fish even though it seemed slower. I was out during the...
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