Post by: Hurricane on May 30, 2013, 09:17:21 PM
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on May 31, 2013, 09:20:04 AM
--Steve
Post by: Crunchy on May 31, 2013, 09:29:14 AM
Post by: Alchase on May 31, 2013, 12:10:06 PM
The problem was only one in 10 was a salmon, the rest were gear trashing dogfish :puke:
Post by: Hurricane on June 02, 2013, 06:42:56 PM
Post by: Smossy on June 02, 2013, 06:48:24 PM
Hit Pt. Defiance both days this weekend and was skunked. Fished both sides and could not get any keepers to the boat. Saturday was better seen fish caught all around us but we could not get it done. Better Luck next time. Better than a good day at work.True that, We do alot of fishing off the Pt Defiance Boathouse Docks.
Post by: rudedawg1085 on June 04, 2013, 08:22:41 AM
Post by: mossyoak arrow slinger on June 04, 2013, 08:25:49 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on June 04, 2013, 09:30:33 AM
Post by: Alchase on June 04, 2013, 12:13:03 PM
Its 13 dollars. Everyone should launch at Gig Harbor though. Its free! :rolleyes:
Except the bridge toll, lol
I can't remember the name, but there is a nice ramp south of the bridge, on the point?
About a 15 minute run back to the point.
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on June 04, 2013, 12:19:17 PM
I live on the GH side so no toll.
Post by: Alchase on June 04, 2013, 12:41:00 PM
It has been a couple years since I fished the point, it got to where I did not even want to use bait the dogfish were so bad.
Post by: mossyoak arrow slinger on June 04, 2013, 02:10:55 PM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on June 04, 2013, 03:09:10 PM
When area 9 opened it even got worse. Now the guys up North are picking them off too. Not that its a bad thing, just not worth my time after how good it once was. Puyallup River mouth used to rock for Kings! Now its a ghost town....and 13 bucks to launch, what a joke.
I fish Southworth, Dolphin and St Clair nowdays...
Post by: mossyoak arrow slinger on June 04, 2013, 04:36:26 PM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on June 04, 2013, 04:45:16 PM
Oh it's gone down hill but that's not the area that's the state and how it's managed. Not the areas fault and when you know as well as I do then why fish any where else
Im with ya.
Post by: mossyoak arrow slinger on June 04, 2013, 09:15:39 PM
Post by: brianmtsinc on June 06, 2013, 07:46:31 AM
When you guys mooch, what are you using? Herring?
Post by: hunt_fish on June 06, 2013, 12:27:41 PM
Oh it's gone down hill but that's not the area that's the state and how it's managed. Not the areas fault and when you know as well as I do then why fish any where else
Yup Area 11 isn't as good as before. But like another poster said, I noticed it once they opened up Area 9 and 10 a couple years ago. We've just been fishing Jeff's Head ever since because we don't do as well down in the Gig Harbor/Tacoma area anymore when we have went.
Post by: Alchase on June 06, 2013, 12:28:45 PM
I caught myself watching him more then fishing, lol.
Post by: hawksfan75 on June 06, 2013, 09:44:19 PM
I'll be on 68 all weekend going by HawksFan out there.
Post by: rudedawg1085 on June 07, 2013, 08:32:00 AM
Post by: DrakeKill on June 07, 2013, 11:16:22 AM
Post by: MuleySniper on June 09, 2013, 08:18:47 AM
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Post by: rudedawg1085 on June 09, 2013, 08:24:08 AM
Post by: yorketransport on June 09, 2013, 08:57:16 AM
Andrew
Post by: MuleySniper on June 09, 2013, 10:16:38 AM
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Post by: fish-on37 on June 09, 2013, 11:31:01 AM
Post by: Hurricane on June 09, 2013, 12:28:40 PM
:chuckle: Nice Fish
Post by: MuleySniper on June 09, 2013, 12:51:26 PM
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Post by: Crunchy on June 10, 2013, 10:50:51 PM
Post by: MuleySniper on June 11, 2013, 07:08:24 AM
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Post by: hawksfan75 on June 11, 2013, 12:32:57 PM
Have our first ultra sound for baby #2 in the am, then running out after that.
I'll have an open seat if anybody wants to tag along? Will be drifting cut plugs as I don't have the EZ Troll for the boat yet...
Post by: Crunchy on June 11, 2013, 01:05:54 PM
Nice haul! We're you trolling?
No I rarely troll Point Defiance. I target fish in specific holes. All caught jigging.
Sent from my Spaceship
Post by: Smossy on June 11, 2013, 03:56:12 PM
Post by: MuleySniper on June 12, 2013, 11:06:58 AM
Nice haul! We're you trolling?
No I rarely troll Point Defiance. I target fish in specific holes. All caught jigging.
Sent from my Spaceship
Nice! My preferred method as well.
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Post by: brianmtsinc on June 12, 2013, 11:30:16 AM
Post by: MuleySniper on June 12, 2013, 11:41:14 AM
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Post by: Fishaholic on June 12, 2013, 12:01:40 PM
Post by: MuleySniper on June 12, 2013, 12:03:24 PM
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Post by: wildmanoutdoors on June 12, 2013, 12:04:08 PM
Post by: Alchase on June 12, 2013, 12:07:35 PM
Does anyone ever bottom fish there?
Around the corner from Point Defiance, heading towards the bridge, there is a little housing area on the water on the East side of the narrows. This is Salmon Beach, out front of Salmon beach use to be a killer lingcod area. I have not fished it in 15 years though.
Post by: Fishaholic on June 12, 2013, 02:32:01 PM
Post by: Smossy on June 12, 2013, 02:46:48 PM
I am lucky i can catch bottom fish and rock fish and all sorts of other fish year round in westport. lings have a season and cabazone do to i think.Go to indianola pier. As far as I know its the longest public pier in the state, It stretches out 775 feet into the water.
Its pretty flat out there though and if you can get your line out about 100 feet from the end of the dock there's a really steep couple hundred foot drop off. I caught a small halibut there one time, Probably 10lbs or so. Lost it pulling it over the railing though, sad day.
Post by: Fishaholic on June 12, 2013, 02:51:09 PM
Post by: Smossy on June 12, 2013, 02:52:34 PM
Were is that at Smossy? Sounds like a good place for a surf pole.Quite a ways from you, but Its worth it for a trip. I love it out there, extremely small town. Just google indianola washington and go to maps. It should pop up then just zoom in.
Post by: yorketransport on June 12, 2013, 05:42:04 PM
Does anyone ever bottom fish there?
That's all I fish for out there. You can do pretty well for sole out there. If you're lucky you can snag a ratfish or dogfish. I've been trying to get a dogfish in the boat the last few times I've been out, but keep getting skunked. I got my hands on a dogfish cookbook that I want to try out. :chuckle:
Andrew
Post by: Fishaholic on June 12, 2013, 06:08:54 PM
Does anyone ever bottom fish there?
That's all I fish for out there. You can do pretty well for sole out there. If you're lucky you can snag a ratfish or dogfish. I've been trying to get a dogfish in the boat the last few times I've been out, but keep getting skunked. I got my hands on a dogfish cookbook that I want to try out. :chuckle:
Andrew
How do you catch sole? what kind of bait and hook size and set up
Post by: yorketransport on June 12, 2013, 07:12:37 PM
How do you catch sole? what kind of bait and hook size and set up
We've caught them on just about everything. Typical rig is just a mooching rig with a 6-8oz weight and some herring chunks on the hooks. I've used different jigs, baits, hook sizes, and lures but had the same results no matter what. Just drop some bait down to the bottom and give it a couple minutes. You're bound to catch something!
Andrew
Post by: rudedawg1085 on June 14, 2013, 11:19:25 AM
Post by: Alchase on June 14, 2013, 01:03:15 PM
Does anyone ever bottom fish there?I've been out, but keep getting skunked. I got my hands on a dogfish cookbook that I want to try out. :chuckle:
Andrew
:yike: all you have to do is say outloud:
"I am fishing for salmon, sure hope a dogfish does not eat my bait!" See dogfish are evil, they will come up just to tear your leaders up enough so when you do get the salmon of a lifetime on, the leader breaks right at the boat.
Ratfish,
When I was a kid we would bring them up and put them on the dock at Olsen's in Sekiu. They would crawl across the dock hissing at all the tourists, :chuckle:
Post by: mainer78 on June 15, 2013, 08:39:20 PM
Post by: Crunchy on June 15, 2013, 09:24:37 PM
Post by: rudedawg1085 on June 15, 2013, 10:30:26 PM
green flasher and hootchies/spoons right??
Post by: Dustin07 on June 21, 2013, 10:12:05 AM
green flasher and hootchies/spoons right??
thats what I usually run, wondering what these other guys are using. I fished hard on the 9th without a single bite and fish checker told me she only saw 6 for 44 boats. I figured we were still too early to make it worth going.... but now i'm thinking I may go Sunday!
Post by: rudedawg1085 on June 21, 2013, 01:18:21 PM
Post by: Dustin07 on June 21, 2013, 03:35:31 PM
Im thinking of making an apperance there this weekend, rummor has it the best and only time to fish the Pt anymore is between the hours of 400am and 600am, hope thats note true
I've always been told incoming tide is more important than time of day... but what do I know
Post by: Alchase on June 24, 2013, 08:52:12 AM
Post by: zackmioli on June 24, 2013, 09:33:33 AM
we are in an arima named tinbottom, hope to see some of yall out there this summer!
Post by: MuleySniper on June 25, 2013, 09:55:01 AM
Post by: Alchase on June 25, 2013, 12:29:43 PM
1995 the Puyallup was one of the premier steelhead fisheries, now they barely exist on the puyallup.
Yes the Carbon gets a few nice fish, no salmon or steelhead go up the puyallup anymore.
From 2001 - 2011 there has been a 35% decrease in Puget Sound salmon released
No steelhead released in the Puyallup
Post by: flinger on June 25, 2013, 12:51:17 PM
Post by: woodman on June 25, 2013, 01:20:44 PM
Rumor has it that the clarks creek trout hatchery is being shut down and being returned to a steelhead facility to re establish a puyallup river seelhead run
Hey flinger, how are those down riggers doing? ;)
Post by: Dustin07 on June 25, 2013, 01:58:21 PM
Quote
As planning for the 2013 salmon fishing seasons began in early March, the Puyallup Tribe notified WDFW of their intention to greatly expand the number of days closed to sport fishing. In subsequent meetings throughout March and early April, the Puyallup Tribe conveyed their view that conflict had not subsided with the limited closures agreed to in the previous three years. The Tribe’s position for 2013 is to close sport fishing on all days opened to tribal net fishing from mid-August through December, a total of 54 days.
http://fishingthepuyallup.blogspot.com/ (http://fishingthepuyallup.blogspot.com/)
Post by: Alchase on June 26, 2013, 12:37:12 PM
Rumor has it that the clarks creek trout hatchery is being shut down and being returned to a steelhead facility to re establish a puyallup river seelhead run
I wish they would, no reason to let such a fishery disapear to be replaced by....................................................Pinks :yike:
Nothing really against pinks,
They are just not steelhead
Post by: Mr56Jeep on June 26, 2013, 01:11:00 PM
have they even announced a season on the Puy yet?QuoteAs planning for the 2013 salmon fishing seasons began in early March, the Puyallup Tribe notified WDFW of their intention to greatly expand the number of days closed to sport fishing. In subsequent meetings throughout March and early April, the Puyallup Tribe conveyed their view that conflict had not subsided with the limited closures agreed to in the previous three years. The Tribe’s position for 2013 is to close sport fishing on all days opened to tribal net fishing from mid-August through December, a total of 54 days.
http://fishingthepuyallup.blogspot.com/ (http://fishingthepuyallup.blogspot.com/)
Ya, this? :dunno: :dunno: Might be a good topic for a new thread?
Post by: BigGoonTuna on June 26, 2013, 08:27:36 PM
Look what happened to the hatcheries on the Puyallup, you will easily figure out what happened to the fish.the puyallup hasn't been a "premier" steelhead fishery since around 1985 or so. they were dumping a ton of smolts in there until 2008 or 2009 or so, but the hatchery returns have been piss poor since the early '90s. the river used to get a plant around 1/3 of what the cowlitz received...cowlitz gets several thousand from that, the puke would get around 500. there were more winter runs caught in there in 1984 that most of the west side rivers in this state combined today. sad. i think it has more to do with puget sound/ocean survival than anything else, if i remember correctly most smolt mortality in the south puget sound rivers happens as soon as they hit the sound.
1995 the Puyallup was one of the premier steelhead fisheries, now they barely exist on the puyallup.
Yes the Carbon gets a few nice fish, no salmon or steelhead go up the puyallup anymore.
From 2001 - 2011 there has been a 35% decrease in Puget Sound salmon released
No steelhead released in the Puyallup
Post by: MuleySniper on June 27, 2013, 10:20:29 AM
Post by: Hurricane on July 13, 2013, 10:49:52 PM
Post by: gasman on July 14, 2013, 05:23:54 AM
Were burning day light here.......
nothing for us, and seen nothing caught. Talk to the fish checker last night when we came in and about 10 fish for 100 boats :bash:
And there sure is a lot of seas out there for no salmon in the area :dunno:
But our main propose is crab and were doing OK with them :tup:
Just gotta pray no one stole our pots over night.
Post by: yorketransport on July 14, 2013, 11:55:40 AM
My brother and his GF had a ton of fun and were chopping their own bait after the first couple fish. The only thing they were a little squeamish about was when I killed the dogfish.I got the "pleasure" of cleaning all the fish but it's worth it if I can keep them coming out.
Andrew
Post by: Crunchy on July 14, 2013, 12:10:10 PM
Post by: MuleySniper on July 14, 2013, 12:18:21 PM
Post by: gasman on July 14, 2013, 03:32:19 PM
Seen one fish caught by jigging and picked up a bunch of dog fish :bash:
Talked with the WDFW checker on the way out and at 2pm, 16 fish for 50 about boats.
Post by: Crunchy on July 14, 2013, 10:17:49 PM
Post by: rudedawg1085 on July 15, 2013, 08:34:19 AM
I did pretty good for having the wife and kids in the boat with me. Boated two the hatchery king was about 13 pounds, the native 20 lbs that swam away once I got the hooks out. Lost another 10 or so pound king at the boat. And had a pig on but lost it before I set eyes on it.
Kicking myself now! i had the boat all ready to go for the afternoon tide, but decided to stay home. From reading the past post it seemed slow. looks like its picking up a little now
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on July 15, 2013, 08:57:42 AM
Post by: Crunchy on July 15, 2013, 09:05:08 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on July 15, 2013, 09:20:31 AM
They slam allot of fish up there before they can make it down.
Post by: Crunchy on July 15, 2013, 10:45:17 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on July 15, 2013, 11:27:43 AM
It used to be bonkers at Pt D. With no Putallup fish, and area 9 and 10 open. It sure went south... :(
Post by: WSU on July 15, 2013, 11:32:49 AM
I hear ya there. After fishing this area 10 years ago and before. Its just hard to get excited anymore.
It used to be bonkers at Pt D. With no Putallup fish, and area 9 and 10 open. It sure went south... :(
There are still 60K kings that make it back to Oly. The fishing up north lets a ton of fish through still....
Post by: Button Nubbs on July 15, 2013, 02:03:31 PM
Not if I have anything to do with it. :chuckle:I hear ya there. After fishing this area 10 years ago and before. Its just hard to get excited anymore.
It used to be bonkers at Pt D. With no Putallup fish, and area 9 and 10 open. It sure went south... :(
There are still 60K kings that make it back to Oly. The fishing up north lets a ton of fish through still....
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on July 15, 2013, 02:29:56 PM
If some could have seen the fishing the Pt D area used to have...Especially the river mouth when it opened. Bonkers everywere!