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By: rseas
Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We had a couple hours to kill Monday mid-day so we headed off to Ala Spit to check out the spit on a minus tide. At the last minute I figured that I would haul my fly rod and the dogs along. On arriva...
By: rseas
Posted: 3/25/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day and had a couple hours to kill so fly rods in hand we headed to a little beach in the Deception Pass area. The tides were perfect for cutthroat fishing and we settled in working the insi...
By: Dave
Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today I took my wife, sister in-law, and her husband Dan out for some Dungeness crab fishing in area 8-1. My in-laws had never been in Puget Sound and had never crab fished. We set 3 crab pots and 1 h...
By: salmonator_1228
Posted: 9/2/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing around 6:45, and around 7 is when the bite started I hooked into one almost landed buuuuuuttttt my friend doesn't know how to net fish. He put the line in between his legs and i said...
By: rdrwolf
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We were originally planning on going to Bush Point, but because of success on Saturday, returned on Sunday. What a difference! Stareted fishing around 8:00 am, fished until 11:00 am. Due to how crowde...
By: rdrwolf
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to North Beach about 8:00 am (2 hours before low tide). there were 3 of us, including a family friend who had never caught a salmon before. We were able to fish together at the East end of beach. ...
By: burlee
Posted: 8/28/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hump-Fest..part II. After yesterday,, I had to go back and see if it would be repeated, and for the most part, it was. The word was out, 'cause there were a lot more people fishing. Shoulder to should...
By: burlee
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow.....It was a Hump-fest for about an hour around slack current this morning. At 8:20 it was cool, foggy, and a little windy. The beach had fishermen lined up about every ten feet. 10 or so boats ju...
By: Fishin@Knight
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pulled the boat out to area 8-1 this morning to head out for some pink fishing. Got to the boat launch around 6:15 A.M. and saw fish finning and jumping right off the ramp. We took one look at that an...
By: fishfiend
Posted: 8/8/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Gorgeous day with about 20 people on the beach with me. Pink Buzz Bombs seemed to be what everyone was using. There were about 7 boats drifting close to the shore as well, so seemed like maybe there...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Crabbed North Camano Island today. Very few boats or gear out today however we did see three big boats stacked to the brim with pots pass slowly by us headed towards Camano Island State Park. How nice...
By: saltyseadog
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
fished from 700 to 200 elger bay and greenbank uv flashers sivler horde spoons and squids. no bait no fish. fish checkers checked 6 boats no fish. new electric downriggers work nice though.
By: Dave
Posted: 9/5/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This morning I took my buddies Dan from work and Pradeep from WALakes.com and his son out for one final go at the 2010 summer Dungeness season. We soaked 8 pots twice for 1.5 hours each time and harve...
By: Dave
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I met my fishin buddy Dan and his wife out on the water for some crabbing. We had our gear was in the water by about 11:30 am fishing the incoming tide. We tied our two boats together and ...
By: chefjake99
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decent day got a little choppy around when the tide changed. A lot of crab thrown back that were either just barely under or ever so slightly soft still. Was a fun day and my son reeled in the dog fis...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
On Friday July 16th I had the opportunity to go crabbing with 6 friends from work. We had gear in the water for a total of 3 hours and harvested 35 very nice Dungeness crab including several in the ov...
By: Dave
Posted: 7/9/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I and my buddy Dan crabbed north Camano Island this morning and had to work hard for our 15 keepers. I’ve never seen so many under sized males and females in my life! Thanks to our Tribal ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/2/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched in freeland after sunrise. Fished 120 feet right on the bottom boating 2 nice keeper blackmouth each fish caught an hour before and after low slack. Weather was barely fishable so we cal...
By: TomD
Posted: 3/29/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tom and I fished Saratoga Passage, but the winds made it tough trolling in the morning. Only got a couple of hours in mid-afternoon when it felt like everything was working. Tom ran a Hot Spot and a...
By: dave b
Posted: 2/26/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I just did some maintainance to my boat and wanted to make sure everything was functioning properly. I launced at Everett at around noon and headed out to Hat Island. The motor was working fine so I...
By: high tide
Posted: 1/11/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
launhed @ freeland park @8 am fished north bluff 90 120 ft water one blu crome coho killer and one green crome coho killer no bumps no action other than cachin a comercial pot with both downrigger ...
By: calico68
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fish West Beach at Deception Pass state park. Started fishing about 5:30 got a strike after about ten cast with Buzz bomb, lost it. Then got another strike this one did not get off. He went about 6 lb...
By: kutztribe
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Husband and I headed out to Deception Pass and got there around 8am. We were there for about 4 hours and saw about 11 fish pulled in and a lot caught and lost. There were a lot of people fishing No...
By: calico68
Posted: 8/11/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 5:30pm. Saw fish jumping in close and out. On the tenth cast hook up fish on. After that had a few hits but nothing called it at day.
By: Pradeep
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Did an overnight soak in 8-1 for 10 hrs. Resulting in 18 nice keepers. As Dave has reported previously, this area is producing very well. Chicken halves were the bait of choice for this particular tri...