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By: Tiny Tyee
Posted: 8/3/2024
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Made a half day trip to the south end of Hood Canal looking for some Chinook action. Wanted to avoid the early morning madness,so I arrived at the ramp at around noon. Boats were returning from the br...
By: Nook2387h_v2
Posted: 9/16/2023
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Walked the river trail down to check out the coho action on the Skokomish river out at the mouth in preparation for the OCT 1st opener of the lower river fresh water.
You can fish the saltwater now...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 8/21/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2023
Hot Spots: 2
Took my buddy down and he got into some nice king action at the Skokomish tide flats. Took home a couple bright chinook happy as a clam.
More fish are coming in a little darker. Might not be much l...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 8/19/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2023
Hot Spots: 1
Filled the cooler with 4 Chinook from down at the Skokomish Tide Flats again. 4 fish limit of chinook is going to fill my garage freezer really fast!
Nice going down on weekdays with way less peopl...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 8/13/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2023
Hot Spots: 3
Insane fishing on the skokomish river tide flats.
Full 4 fish limits!!!!!!! of Chinook for everyone in my crew in less than 2 hours out on the saltwater area of the Skokomish river tide flats.
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By: Nook2387h
Posted: 7/29/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skokomish River tide fats before sunrise with drifting down in my kayak out to saltwater. Could see schools of salmon coming up river past me. Went jigging around in deeper water.
Nailed a ...
By: Nook2387h
Posted: 7/22/2023
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife down to the Skokomish tide flats due to seeing people getting chinook down there from the creel reports.
Used the directions from the previous area 12 report on skokomich tide flats. ...
Posted: 10/20/2022
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2022
Hot Spots: 3
MONSTER HOOKNOSE COHO COMING UP THE SKOKOMISH TIDE FLATS! WOW!
Fished one of the river mouth channels with a pink spinner and landed this coho-zilla. Probably what 16+ lbs?
Directions to how to ...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 10/6/2022
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/3/2022
Hot Spots: 0
That is 2 lbs of Dungeness crab meat. Went crabbing Monday ?? north of Ayok Point. Winter season opened on the 1st. First pull almost gave me a heart attack. Largest Dungeness crab I’ve ever caught an...
Posted: 9/27/2022
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2022
Hot Spots: 1
Insane fishing out on the Skokomish Tide Flats again! Lots of Coho Salmon running hard. Pretty much looked liked everyone limited very quickly.
Not sure why more people are not out there seeing as ...
Posted: 9/26/2022
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skokomish Tide Flats with my friend and dog. The Creel Reports have been showing super-hot fishing there the last 3 seasons. Parked along the side of the river just south of power lines whe...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 8/7/2022
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2022
Hot Spots: 0
First day crabbing this summer season. Can't believe I wasn't out on opening day. I was out before the best tides. Got tons of rock crab but onyl a few Dungies and only 1 keeper :( Many many many soft...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 11/20/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/20/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Was looking forward for this day for about a week. The forecast looked good and good crabbing tides. End ov November and no rain so hewaded out to Hood Canal, North of Ayok Point :) Got a late start s...
By: Sharkbait123
Posted: 10/31/2021
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/31/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Halloween Chum run on Hood Canal, it was an absolute bloodbath! The bilge pump kicked on and left a blood trail behind the boat on the way back to the dock! A similar event earlier this year is how Sh...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 10/2/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I love winter Dungeness crab season. Was planning on Friday afternoon but plans change. Headed out Saturday and had the boat in the water just after noon (Pleasant Harbor). Was planning on dropping th...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 8/2/2021
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
You know you are getting old when you want to start a post by saying, ...I remember back when...... Crabbing is not the same as decades past as evident of the closures in lower 12 and 13, not to menti...
By: BremertonSquid
Posted: 10/2/2020
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Was excited to find out a winter crab season was opened. Like the good old days when it was part of the typical crab season. Hood Canal is where I crab. I moved back to WA 5 years ago and could not b...
By: Andrewwarrior329
Posted: 2/15/2020
Species: Clams
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Got some Manila clams and little necks a few cockle clams and 1 eastern softshell clam. Me and my dad also got limit of oysters. We put in egg and breadcrumbs and fried it soo good. We will cook clams...
By: JoshH
Posted: 11/3/2019
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I participated in the 2019 Salmon Slayride benefitting Heroes on the Water, and actually won!
60 kayak anglers from all around the Pacific Northwest showed up to have a ton of fun and to help out ...
By: lohans4
Posted: 5/12/2019
Species: Oysters
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son in law, brother in law, and 4 grandkids to Wolfe state park on Hoods Canal for some clam digging & oyster shucking. The weather was great and we hit the ferries at Edmonds and Kingston at ...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 1/2/2018
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Plucked a few clams to make clam chowder and fried clam strips. What a way to finish the year. Yummmm!
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 11/13/2017
Species: Oysters
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We went to my In-Laws on the Hood Canal (private beach) for Veterans Day weekend and tore up the oysters and clams. Easy pickings and the oysters were fantastic. We plucked about 5 dozen and enjoyed t...
By: dustyfisher007
Posted: 9/22/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This trip was mainly to give my new kayak a spin on the saltwater. I went out of Belfair State Park and trolled around the river mouths and estuaries. Not much going on, didnt see much of any fish a...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 9/2/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of triton cove at 530 am. Went up to quilicene bay and dropped down riggers. Ran shallow with other boats early on running gear at 20-30 foot, no pick ups. Saw some fish jumping but not ...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Put in a Potlach around 530 and dropped 2 pots near the park, then headed toward Union and put 2 in near the mud flats. Tried 30 to 80 FOW. Pulled the pots near the park in an hour and nothing. Moved ...