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Duwamish River
Duwamish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 9/14/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My efforts finally paid off. First Coho from a river. Hit 112th this morning before work. A few more people than yesterday, but not as many fish jumping. Hardly saw anything caught. Guy across ...
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Duwamish River
Duwamish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit 112th before work this morning. Quite a few people fishing. Saw a couple caught, so set up shop. After a while of nothing on spinners, I switched to a hammered silver spoon. Decided to try jigg...
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Pine
Pine
By: BentRod
Posted: 8/29/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a friend visiting from the east coast who doesn't do much fishing. He wanted to catch a bass, so I took him to Pine Lake to try for some SMB. Launched at 6:30a with the lake to ourselves. Start...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: BentRod
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wife was working today, so attempted to take my two girls (3 & 6) out for some bass. Thought the dinks might be active enough to hold their attention. NOT SO! Did manage to hook one 12" that renewe...
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Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
By: BentRod
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped three pots and a ring around 9am in about 40-50' of water. Low tide was around 9:30a. Only one other boat out crabbing in the vicinity at the time. Dropped the ring first, so after getting ...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: BentRod
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was able to take my dad on a short fishing trip on Sunday. Launched at noon. Weather was calm and there were not a lot of people on the water. Started trolling a SuperDuper and spinner. About 12 m...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: BentRod
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried a "dinner" run on the lake. Picked up dinner on the way to the lake and launched at 6pm. Got the kids set up with their meals and proceeded to troll three lines. The water was calm and there ...
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Pine
Pine
By: BentRod
Posted: 5/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took the family to Pine to try for some stockers as my wife wanted to go fishing ....well, bummer! :). First trip to Pine this year. The pier looked crowded, but the launch wasn't overly busy asi...
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Area 6 East Juan De Fuca Strait
Area 6 East Juan De Fuca Strait
By: BentRod
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got an invite to go halibut fishing and shrimping. Tried getting on the water on Friday, but the water in area 6 was too rough for our 20' boat, so after a couple of drifts over the shelf we were tar...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: BentRod
Posted: 2/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got a chance to go fishing and was seriously debating hiting Tokul for Steelhead, but thought it would probably be crowded, so opted to hit Beaver for trout instead as I really didn't want to ...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: BentRod
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It was such a beautiful day that I decided to haul the family up to Beaver to take a boat ride. Quite on the water with about 6 other boats and pontoons on the lake. Made one whole circle of the lak...
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Snoqualmie River
Snoqualmie River
By: BentRod
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple of hours in the late morning to go look at the Snoqualmie. Stopped by Tokul hole just after 10am and it was a zoo. The wind was also blasting down the river, which helped make up my mi...
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Snoqualmie River
Snoqualmie River
By: BentRod
Posted: 12/8/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tokul hole this morning at first light. Couple other guys got there when I did. Had a take down on the second cast and it came unbuttoned after about 15 seconds. Thought it was going to be a...
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Snoqualmie River
Snoqualmie River
By: BentRod
Posted: 10/23/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a couple hours to get out, so hit Fall City and fished under the bridge. Water is high and muddy. Didn't see anything rolling. Few zombies in the shallows. A few other people fishing without an...
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Duwamish River
Duwamish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 10/12/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river for an hour at lunch. Right about low tide. Water was low and a bit brown. It was windy where I was. Tried tossing some jigs, but lost two in the first 15 minutes, so switched to spi...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tried again by Snohomish. Fished from 10:30 till 1:30. Started with spinners for a bit, then switched over to drifting corkie and yarn in various colors. About 12 people within eyesight. Didn't see...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished around Snohomish from 11am to 2:30p. Lots of moldy Pinks on the shore and zombies in the river. Quite a few people fishing, but no fish being caught, aside for the occasional moldy humpy. Sa...
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Duwamish River
Duwamish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 10/7/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tried another lunch time outting. Hit the Duamish from noon till just after 1pm. Incomming tide. Threw Blue Fox spinners in green, orange, and bronze. Nothing.
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Duwamish River
Duwamish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 10/7/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tried my first ever lunch time run down to a spot on the Duamish. Forgot my drift fishing gear, so all I had was a pink buzz bomb left over from fishing for Pinks in the sound. Tide was coming in an...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: BentRod
Posted: 9/25/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my daughter to Beaver to see if we could catch some entertainment. Got there about 2:30 and no other cars at the launch. Calm, warm, and muggy. Rowed out to the middle of the lake and dropped...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: BentRod
Posted: 8/14/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Lagoon Pt. Sat. evening with a couple friends. Trolled from 4:30 to 8:30 running three sets of gear at three different depths all with flashers. Mainly trolled in water 70-150'. Only hits we ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: BentRod
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got a chance to take my dad out to cast for some Pink salmon. Something he's never done. Got to our beach location about 10:30 expecting it to be packed....but it wasn't. (??) One guy fishing...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: BentRod
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was allowed a few hours to fish today. Decided to go try the Sky for steel. Have only fished there once and that was years ago. Thought maybe the fishing gods would smile upon me being father's day...
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Pine
Pine
By: BentRod
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Thought it was going to be a stellar day. Got on the water at 7am. Calm, clear, no wind. Water temp 55-57. Trolled both shallow and deep with various spoons, flatfish, and Rapalas for over and hou...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: BentRod
Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake just before 5pm. Met a nice couple coming off the water who said they'd only had one on between them and lost it. Another boat coming in had picked up five on wedding rings with worm...
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