Puyallup is Hot Hot Hot

[Tom Tamer]

Went to the Puy tonight after work. Hooked a ton of fish and kept three hens for eggs. Fishing was really good until the idiots started standing halfway across the river, which is where the fish were laying.

  The fish are so thick though they're laying everywhere

[Antlershed]

Went to the Puy tonight after work. Hooked a ton of fish and kept three hens for eggs. Fishing was really good until the idiots started standing halfway across the river, which is where the fish were laying.

  The fish are so thick though they're laying everywhere

Once those guys stepped out there, it was game over for us. I won't be back up there. Too many edible fish to be caught elsewhere... 

[cohoho]

Once those guys stepped out there, it was game over for us. I won't be back up there. Too many edible fish to be caught elsewhere... 
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I am surprised you even went up there to battle.....   

[WAcoueshunter]

I haven't fished the Puyallup for several years, but I recall it being a flossing show - throw a long leader, get the leader into the mouth of the fish, then pull the hook into the side of the head.  That still the deal?  Or are they truly taking it in the mouth? 

[dawei]

How much longer does this Pink Fishery last?

[BigGoonTuna]

it'll be going on for at least another 2 or 3 weeks.

they definitely aren't biting much in that river, you're flossing them even with short leaders.  they're just stacked in there so thick that it's unavoidable.  if you look carefully at that cement water you can see the ripples just out of the current.

i made my 1 trip there yesterday just because i haven't been fishing much.  i could see probably 500 people in either direction(i was "fishing" below the mouth of the stuck).  garbage everywhere and the place stunk like a sewer.  like brent, i gave it up pretty quick, after some hillbilly dumb*censored*s walked in directly below me and waded 15 feet out(which was about 10 feet past where i was hooking my fish).

she's more fun to fish in november when the water clears up, but i'm moving soon, so i probably won't be there for that...

[Dmanmastertracker]

I haven't fished the Puyallup for several years, but I recall it being a flossing show - throw a long leader, get the leader into the mouth of the fish, then pull the hook into the side of the head.  That still the deal?  Or are they truly taking it in the mouth? 

 BINGO, of course if you check the reports on some other web sites they all say what a tremendous fisherman they are, hooking a dozen fish and of course most legally. I've fished it enough this year to know better. I saw only 2-3 fish caught legally out of dozens......

[cohoho]

I haven't fished the Puyallup for several years, but I recall it being a flossing show - throw a long leader, get the leader into the mouth of the fish, then pull the hook into the side of the head.  That still the deal?  Or are they truly taking it in the mouth? 

 BINGO, of course if you check the reports on some other web sites they all say what a tremendous fisherman they are, hooking a dozen fish and of course most legally. I've fished it enough this year to know better. I saw only 2-3 fish caught legally out of dozens......

I am not advocating flossing, lining, shredding, flipping or anything else, but it is a style of catching pinks and reds within rivers.  But if they aren't catching them in the mouth then it is illegal to keep.  Which your right about about that only a few are catching legally...  I watched the other day, what a zoo and 90% weren't even beginning to be in sync with others on the line.  Some casting up river, some down river, some two foot, some across the river, some flipping, some I don't know what the heck they were doing?   The best were the ones hooking up river and trying to fight the fish like they got a prize steelhead on with light weight line.  Yelling down the line- "FISH ON" and cutting in front of everyone..... It is nothing more than a meat run (Blah), if your going --- heavy lines and once hook up occurs, bring them straight in.....  Too bad, so many idiots, it would be a great place to take some kids that never fished and get them into fishing.  Be kind of nice for the State to set aside an area like that in the future.....  Oh the best part was ----- the crack heads under the bridge........ and the drunks in parking lots, mixed in with the Redneck White trash......  Nice trash piles everywhere too.....  Have fun, wear your safety glasses.....  What a beautiful fishing place it is...

[Gobble]

I love it when all the idiots are casting all the way across the river and the fish are laying 5 feet in front of you and behind you. There is a reason they keep running into your legs in the river. No need to cast that far.

[Dmanmastertracker]

 I saw three guys, no BS, I actually fished in behind them, because the waded I would say 100 feet out to the far shoreline, total idiots. people were hooking fish in back of them.... Fish were rolling all over behind them. I think the thing about the whole deal that bothered me is the younger kids fishing, with pops, their uncle, etc.. who were being shown the wrong way to to thing's like it's OK. The kids next to me were yarding them in snagged up, and dad is oblivious, they kept a limit of illegal fish and dad could have cared less if the were brought in backwards and upside down .

[bowtech721]

Having never really seen the river and checked it out is it boatable? sounds like everyone is on the bank... might sound like a real stupid question to some but i really have no idea?  dont want to be in that whole mess of people but have a drift boat and sled so 

[Dmanmastertracker]

 You could try it, but I think you'd be really unhappy with the results, you'd have guys casting and wading all around you.

[bowtech721]

its that bad huh?

[Gobble]

its that bad huh?

Oh ya! You'd be pummeled by weights and insults 

[bowtech721]

wow guess if i still do end up going ill stick to the bank for safety reasons