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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: Matt
Posted: 12/18/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I figured I would submit a report for the islands as no one has really had any real opportunities to get out due to the horrendous storm conditions we have been having through November and December. ...
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Stillaguamish River
Stillaguamish River
By: Matt
Posted: 9/8/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Scouted the Stilly on Sunday getting ready for the season and trying to track down the fish. Started in Arlington at Haller and hit all of the normal spots. Finally found fish down in Silvanna at th...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Matt
Posted: 9/8/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the Edmonds Derby this weekend. It was a good day. The fish are smaller this year (so far) than in the past, we caught a few pushing a measly 2-3 lbs, not much of a "salmon". We had 12 go...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Matt
Posted: 8/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is the weekend in review Chinook fishing in A9. Fished the Appletree --> Skunk Bay area Thursday, Friday, and Sunday and the fishing could only be described as white hot. Thursday - Lines i...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Matt
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, since I am not seeing many reports out of the 9-10 mark selective Chinook fishery here is my recap of the season thus far. Thursday 07/17 was our first day out. Fishing the Pilot - No Pt -...
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Stillaguamish River
Stillaguamish River
By: Matt
Posted: 10/11/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Stilly again in my spot yesterday evening. Hooked 6! fish from 5:30pm till 7pm. Lots of fish in the slot AGAIN today and some TOADS. Hooked one that popped my 15 lb maxima leader, never...
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Stillaguamish River
Stillaguamish River
By: Matt
Posted: 10/11/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report, work has kept me really busy this week. Fished the Stilly last Friday evening right before sundown... silver are in in great numbers. Saw lots of PIGS jumping and lost one...
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Stillaguamish River
Stillaguamish River
By: Matt
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had some time to kill this afternoon so I rolled over to the Stilly. Haven't really fished much down there in YEARS but the old holes are still pretty much the same. Fished a bar I like up above I-5...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Matt
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the upper Snoho in search of Coho on Sunday with Curado and another buddy. We plugged from the bridge upstream. The morning started out pouring down rain, but cleared up after only about a half ...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Matt
Posted: 9/11/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well ok, so to start I rated this day a 5 due to the AMOUNT of fish we caught, mostly all humpys.... but listed it as a Coho report since that is really what we went out after. Launched at Highbridg...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Matt
Posted: 8/16/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got off work around 1:30pm today and had the boat in the water at Rotary park by around 4:30pm or so. Lines in the water by 5pm, quit by 6:45pm. Hooked 10 pinks, landed 7 of them. Biggest was a toad...
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Baker
Baker
By: Matt
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After a fun (long) night of partying and camping with good friends we got a bit of a late start due to the brown bag flu! lol Hit the water at 6:00am. Luckily out campsite was inside of the Shannon ...
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Baker
Baker
By: Matt
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Baker both Saturday and Sunday this weekend with good results. Some were struggling, but we managed to put a few in the box! Fished predominantly at 35 feet with a few fish above and below tha...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Matt
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a day! Fished with Sickbayer from the forum out of his T-jet and focused our attention up in the Pt N Pt area. Got out there bright and early for the early morning high exchance, and as th...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Matt
Posted: 7/16/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the A9 opener today and had a pretty good day on the water. From the sounds of the radio chatter and talking to a bunch of my buddies it seems like it was a bit of a slow opener. Not much goi...
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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: Matt
Posted: 7/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After hearing tale of some awesome fishing in the Juans since the Chinook opener on July 1st, I was more than eager to jump on an open seat to go. I tagged along with a member of another site for an...
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Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
By: Matt
Posted: 7/5/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got out late for the crab opener on Friday. Launched at around 3:00pm and had pots down out of Everett shortly thereafter. Our first pull was a little on the short side with only 6 keepers. We slig...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: Matt
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ok so yesterday was just the warmup for todays outing. We hit the water late (tired from yesterday) and were fishing by 9. First pass I am fairly certain we hooked the SAME dolly varden from yester...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: Matt
Posted: 6/25/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sky today in the dropping water. Water level was around 9500 when we got there, 8400 when we left. Started the day below Lewis St. and saw a few fish moving as well as 1 landed. My buddy...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: Matt
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sky Friday targeting steel. Launched at Lewis around 11am. Made a run up to just below the Sultan and started drifting. First drift WhAM backed down on a log and busted off the prop........
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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: Matt
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished are 7 this weekend with WAlakes members Bawk Bawk and Sickbayer out of Sickbayer's boat. We launched at Bellingham around 10:00am and had lines in the water at South Lummi at 10:30am, first li...
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Stevens
Stevens
By: Matt
Posted: 3/26/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Getting ready for the kokanee season, so I decided to go poke around a bit at stevens. Weather was crap! Windy, rainy, just crap, but I fished for about 2.5 hrs with nothing to show for it. There wa...
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Cowlitz River
Cowlitz River
By: Matt
Posted: 3/21/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Blue Creek around 630-700 am, had to get in line with about 10 other boats waiting to launch. As we readied my rig for the water the boats just kept pouring in to the parking lot. The wo...
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Cowlitz River
Cowlitz River
By: Matt
Posted: 3/11/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Blue Creek at about 7am and fished with the WAlakes member Bawk Bawk on my boat, tons of boats out, lots of bankies too. Water was high but not ridiculous, visibility about 1-2 feet. As ...
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Sammamish
Sammamish
By: Matt
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I hit Sammamish today from about 10am till about 2pm fishing for cutts. We started on the East shoreline and trolled up and all around the weather station. Picked up our first fish up pa...
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