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Green River
Green River
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 9/14/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to the Green again for humpies. I was there from 9am to noon. It took half an hour or more for the flow to change from flowing downstream to upstream compared to yesterday. Once the flow cha...
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Green River
Green River
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 9/13/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to fish the green today at dawn. Low tide was around 6:22 am and sunrise was around 6:45. Started with 2 inch buzz bombs and had a hooked fish within the first five casts.It became unbuttoned an...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 9/8/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had my best day at the Puke today. Landed 7 including a 24 inch 5.5 pound silver. It was my first silver ever. I thought it was a large pink untill he was jumping a few feet from shore. I can not wait...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 9/2/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Puke again on Tuesday. I was at a different location then the first trip. Fishing was real slow for atleast an hour from sunrise. I am still learning to fish rivers. I found that I was drif...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I landed 5 and took home four after fishing for several hours. I started off casting pink pixee spoons. Had three hits on the spoon. Changed to drifting corkies after observing everyone catching fish ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 8/18/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was there from 6 am to 3pm. I limited out after fishing all day long. I released one foul hooked salmon. My friend could of limited too, but we left the net in the car. That was a bad move. One ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Needabiggerboat and I went back to Browns Point on Tuesday for round 2. I was the second person there at 5 am. Needabiggerboat arrived later after 5:30 am. The water was calm and the rain was wicked. ...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The Quadfather invited me to go fish for salmon. We were out in the water from 2 to 4pm. I caught a 10 inch blackmouth. It was released. We trolled using white flashers and pink hoochies. That blackmo...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 8/9/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Needabiggerboat and I were very excited to see the pinks were biting in area 11. We were at B point at 430 and didnt get the line wet till 5 am. I had real bad line twists problems after my first 15 c...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Bitter Lake for the second time. Trolled with a 3 inch grub around the shoreline of the entire lake without a bite from rock bass. I made it all the way back to the far west shoreline at the pa...
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Washington
Washington
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 7/14/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Racfish for some perch action. We were at the Y dock just south of the I90 bridge around the Mt. Baker area. Be both caught atleast 1 perch. The bite was slow and sporadic. There was a dec...
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Cassidy
Cassidy
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was going to Camano Island to fish a private lake, but plans got canceled. Since I was already nearby Cassidy, I made a detour to check it out. The rain was coming down hard, but it stopped when I g...
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Washington
Washington
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 7/10/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for an hour and a half till sunset. I was at the "I" dock between San Sayers Pits and the I-90 floating bridge. I had 6-8 nibbles. The nibbles were real quick and the fish didn't commit on ta...
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Cedar River
Cedar River
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 7/9/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went on a scouting trip today down in the Cedar River. I was by the Non-Motorized boat launch near the mouth of the Cedar between the Renton airport and the Boeing plant. The river looked like a can...
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Washington
Washington
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for perch from 6pm to 830pm. Everyone around me was catching perch. I didn't even get a single bite. Used nightcrawlers on a bottom rig like everybody else. It was just one of them days where e...
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Washington
Washington
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to the old dock that I use to fish years ago around the Mt. Baker area. I caught one 3 inch perch on worms bottom rigged. I got the skunk off my back from unsuccesfully fishing for trout the...
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Gissberg
Gissberg
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/23/2009
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made the hour drive to Gissberg for some catfish action. I was there from 6-9pm after fighting traffic. I used stinky catfish baits on a slip egg sinker set up. Thats what the package recommended. I d...
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Shady
Shady
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/22/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was at Shady Lake fishing for 4.5 hours. I used everything from Gulp eggs in (white, orange,green), Power eggs(chartreuse), Power Bait (Green,orange, yellow mix), lunker lotion, and Mike's chartreus...
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Spring
Spring
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off the boat launch for the first trip to Spring Lake. I used power eggs without sucess. No bites in an hour and a half. Saw lots of cattails and lillies to the right of the boat launch. A boat...
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Pine
Pine
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to Pine after not fishing there a few weeks. I knew that less fish were being caught from word of mouth and the last Pine Lake fishing report from this website. The fish bite is still slow ...
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Arbor
Arbor
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/9/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
FIshed this lake after see reports of perch being caught. I saw a 12 inch bass through polarized glasses in 1-2 feet of water. I tried to throw a lure on my line, but it swam away before I could cast....
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Shady
Shady
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off the boat launch for a couple of hours at Shady. I caught one 12 incher in 2.5 hours of fishing. I had one good hit that caused my rod to turn into a 3/4 u shape. The line was tight and the ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went shad fishing for the first time ever. We traveled 3.5 hours from Seattle to see what the shad fishing was all about. The dam access road was easy to find. We picked the very first spot we could f...
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Phantom
Phantom
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent an hour and a half at Phantom going for perch. I didnt get any bites. There were a lot of weeds there. I would get a chunk whenever I reeled in my rig. I didnt notice any signs of fish or peop...
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Larsen
Larsen
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent about an hour and a half casting all the lures I had at Larson Lake, I didnt get any hits. The dock was a long walk from any parking nearby. A group of teens were drinking on the dock whil...
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