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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Showed up at low tide, many people fishing the tukwila rec center bridge. Caught 2 in the first hour, then the tide shifted and bites slowed. One person caught a king, and then a bystander chased h...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Another day on the Green, showed up during low tide shift. Many fish jumping, snagged a few and released. finally caught one during a slow retreival. Over all, it was a good day on the green, got a...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Lou
Posted: 9/5/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out for a few hours this morning, caught 1 rather large pink on a 2" orange buzzbomb. Other than that fish, there were no signs of any pinks around. No jumpers or strikes. Quite rainy, so ca...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Lou
Posted: 8/28/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made another trip to try out the waders. Decided to use Orange instead of the usual pink buzz bombs. First humpy had a rather large hump, but the second fish was my first Coho for the season. Had a...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Lou
Posted: 8/28/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Got off early, headed to the water for a little wading and catching. People were catching their limits all around me, and I caught my own after a few releases of snagged or small fish. Awesome day t...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Lou
Posted: 8/16/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Two friends and I went to Dash Point this morning for a few hours starting around sunrise. Got our spot as the closest to the dock but still down in the water in waders. I got 4 within an hour, and ...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 11/13/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
A little too windy to be casting, but that wasn't going to stop me from trying. Mainly used large wobbler spoons today, had the most hits on orange. Had 2 hookups but nothing got close enough to eve...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 11/13/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this afternoon with a buddy to my usual spot. Tossed mainly bluefox spinners, all sorts of colors and scents. Real windy day, hard to keep the casts going where they were supposed to. Buddy...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 11/7/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to my spot around 3pm. No strikes from my usual side, but decided to change sides of the river. Cast out my bronze bluefox spinner, and had strike after strike. Finally hooked into this m...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 11/7/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Another day on the river. I hit it up after work around 3pm till dark. Tried a few different baits, mainly fish eggs. Had many little salmon taking my bait, but nothing of size. By nightfall, I sw...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 11/7/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
So went down to my spot on the green by the rec center in tukwila. Fished from 1pm to 5pm till it was too dark to see my line. Tried many different lures/baits, but only had a few strikes (or what ...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 11/3/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 4pm till dark, tossed a blue fox spinner (#3 blue) and caught 1 little guy, nothing worth keeping. Hoping the chum reach up here soon, as I dont have my usual lakes to fall back on. ...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 10/28/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to my spot for a few hours. Tried drifting my fake eggs and I got a small guy. Decided that I didn't want those small guys grabbing my hook, so I changed to a Blue fox spinner that everyon...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 10/20/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to my usual spot to meet up with a friend after he got off from work. Drifted the last of my own home-cured eggs and had 2 fish on in 5 casts. Both spit the hook when they breached the surface...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 10/12/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the river to my normal spot at sunrise. Plunked some eggs out and got nothing. after an hour, I drifted the eggs and caught 1 fish. To me, it looked like a 2lb rainbow trout, but the guy...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 10/10/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the green today to my favorite spot with my roommate. He brought his old fishing pole rigged with light line, and I brought my ultra-lite ugly-stick with a cheapo reel. I drifted large ...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 10/9/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the green around noon. Drifted eggs for a while, tried a few spoons to no avail. Around 3pm I decided to clean up the bank I was fishing at, tossing all beer cans and stuff into a bag i b...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 10/7/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Took off work early today to try out some new lures I recently purchased. After an hour of casting, I drifted an orange wobbler and caught a 20" coho. Next I'll learn how to drift eggs. -Lou
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 10/7/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
So I decided to try out drifting eggs from shore this evening, and found a few fishermen who wanted to teach me how its done. After a few minutes of perfecting my rig, I cast and was greeted with a 1...
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Green River
Green River
By: Lou
Posted: 9/10/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the Green at 42nd street around 11am. The water level was low, so i waded out and was able to stand right next to the incoming pinks. A few casts later I had a fish on and I had to chase...
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Duwamish River
Duwamish River
By: Lou
Posted: 9/5/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Tried a new spot today under a bridge. Arrived around 6:30 pm, had 1 pink by 7:00. Then proceeded to lose a few lures on underwater structure. Finally seeing more fish caught this far up the river...
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Wilderness
Wilderness
By: Lou
Posted: 8/14/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at wilderness around 5pm, left at dusk. Trolled most of the time with a flatfish trying different baits. Fake worms had about the same number of strikes as real worms, but fake worms lasted ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Lou
Posted: 8/11/2007
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived a little after noon to see how Des Moines was fairing with pinks. We stayed till 6 and caught nothing but bait fish off the pier. We also saw no-one catch anything besides crabs and small ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Lou
Posted: 8/10/2007
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Finally arrived at Dash Point around 6pm. As we reached the pier, someone was already reeling in a salmon, but people were yelling that there was a seal taking his salmon. The man reeled for a min...
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Washington
Washington
By: Lou
Posted: 8/8/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Had the fishing bug after work, decided to check out the fishing area at Coulon park on lake washington. I scouted it out and decided to try and see if I could catch something. Only stayed 2 hours,...
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