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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/7/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My boys and I launched Friday night and anchored around the corner from Jeff Head. Ate popcorn and watched a movie. At 6am we motored over to Jeff Head for salmon. The bait was as thick as I have ev...
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Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/3/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with Carl "Easy Limits" and friend Brad. We started at 6:30 and trolled south from the boat launch at Mukilteo. The standard pink gear in the water. LT at 4:30am. DR depths varied but most prod...
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Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/27/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Took out my friend Brad and his daughter, plus my two boys. We fished from 6:30am to 11am. The action has slowed down, at least for us. I still saw plenty of humpies being caught. We ended up with f...
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Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/20/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2003
Hot Spots: 0
A much anticipated Wednesday fishing trip with my sons and Tom Jacobs. A beautiful day full of promise as the Humpies are back in town. And what an appearance! We started fishing at 6:40am with a lo...
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Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/9/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with my friends Brad and Manual. We launched out of Edmonds and ran up to shipwreck. Fished from 6:30 to 9am in the rain. Using humpy setups (pink lures, white flashers). Ran three rods, 65...
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Whatcom
Whatcom
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/16/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with Mike's Bassin Adventures for a day on the lake. My kids were with us. We had moderate success, catching several 2-3 pounders. Best lure were sluggos and lizards on a Carolina rig. It was...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/12/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/12/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 4am with Carl C and pounded the water four six hours. Low tide (-3 ft!) was at 10:30. We threw a variety of gear at them and fished the entire water column. Nothing, nada. Heard s...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/18/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/18/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Had some some time and decided to search for chinook. Fished from 6 to 9am. Started at Robinson Point and trolled for an hour. Saw bait balls and herring dimpling the surface but no luck. Decided to...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/20/2003
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Pulled the mothballed seaswirl out of the carport and took it over to lake W. with my two boys. We fished a couple hours in the afternoon, north side of 520 over to Kirkland. Downriggers and flat-lini...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/6/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2003
Hot Spots: 0
I went over the mountains for some winter fishing on lake Chelan. We started fishing at O Dark Hundred. After fiddling with ling lines (pulled two lines and yielded one ling) we started to jig - but n...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/8/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/8/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Carl. We started at Elliot Bay, fished for an hour. Although there were good bait balls in the bay (say that real fast), the fishing was nada. So we ran over to 4 Mile Rock and i...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/7/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 1/7/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Squid fishing was fair to good last night. I started at 7pm, quit at 9pm. High tide was 7:30. No super fast action but steady. Most f the suid are the bigger ones now. I did only fair, but the guy ...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/13/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 12/13/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Squiding so slow tonight. My friend Brad and I started at 8pm and finished at 9:30. Caught a total of 6 squid between us, one good sized one. Saw a few being caught but no big rush to the pier. High...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
Area 12 Hood Canal
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/30/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/30/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Dead, dead, dead. The fish are there but they aren't biting. At least not this day. We saw fair numbers of fish jumping but they were very dark and not bitign. The snaggers were getting theirs but...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
Area 12 Hood Canal
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/20/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2002
Hot Spots: 0
So it's Wednesday and the Indians haven't been netting Hoodsport on Wednesdays. Until this week. Having never seen a netting operation, I figure "hey, we can find a spot to fish, how bad can it be?"...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
Area 12 Hood Canal
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/17/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/17/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I took my sons for morning chum action. The fishing continues to be great. We started fishing at 7:30am, low tide was I think around 10:30 or so. The fish are in thick. Best setup was a small pink c...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
Area 12 Hood Canal
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/13/2002
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/13/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Hoodsport is indeed in full swing. I started fishing at 8am, surprised by the sparse mid-week crowds. Plenty of fish to go around. Fishing from a boat, I started off slow compared to those around me...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/25/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/25/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Out on the water at 0600 with Tom, in his boat. The target - silvers, of course. Tom has no downriggers so he was using a Deep 6 with medium flasher and hoochie. I brought along my "Poor Man's Downrig...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/18/2002
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/18/2002
Hot Spots: 0
The coho fishing was hot today! My sons and I met Tom Jacobs at Shilshole and after dropping off his pots we motored over to Meadow Point. We started fishing 0700. Within two minutes of dropping our...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/4/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Don't tell me this web site doesn't provide valuable information! I checked out Tom's report below and said to my friend Manual, "lets try Meadow Point, looks like the fish are starting to come in."...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/28/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Took my sons and their friend Addy salmon fishing. We launched at 6am at Shilshole, dropped two pots and ran over to Jeff Head. Started fishing at 7am. The setups: deep rod @ 65 feet, red flasher...
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Riffe
Riffe
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/21/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I took my sons to fish the lake in the morning. We started out near by the dam, northwest corner of the lake. Couldn't keep the kokanee off the riggers! The hot rig was a small gang troll, small spinn...
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Sammamish
Sammamish
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/16/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing on Opening Day of Chinook on the lake with Carl and Tom. We used downriggers, fishing varies depths out from the mouth of the creek to the southwest point. There were fish out there, both...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/7/2002
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tom Jacobs and I hit the water at Point Defiance. We fished in front of the slag pile from 6am to 9am. Saw several nice kings caught. We trolled cut plug herring and hoochie/flashers with herring ...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/28/2002
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Sockeye 2002! A bonus awaited my return from vacation - the sockeye run had reached escapement goals and was opened for the 26-28th. I put the boat in at 2:45pm at Coulon with my sons. We started at t...
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