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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: jeepster on November 18, 2013, 01:50:48 PM

Title: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: jeepster on November 18, 2013, 01:50:48 PM: Ok so this is the weirdest fishing hole I've found yet, but the park along the waterfront in downtown Bellingham (where that big creek dumps into the bay) is loaded with salmon right now... I bet they are dogs, but they smoke up well and are fun to catch....there were a bunch of guys fishing it today, saw some guys walking out with fish. No point keepin this spot a secret....urban salmon fishing
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: CP on November 18, 2013, 01:56:34 PM: Whatcom creek, not much of a secret:
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: jeepster on November 18, 2013, 05:47:56 PM: I never go to Bellingham..... Ive never seen it before :tung: I live under a rock
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: aaronoto on November 18, 2013, 05:49:19 PM: And what takes place there is the furthest thing from "fishing"....
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Post by: bowhunterforever on November 18, 2013, 05:57:03 PM: :yike: Bet that just a pain in the butt
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: paytonma on November 18, 2013, 05:58:03 PM: i hate that place with a passion so many snaggers its terrible :sry: :bash: :bash:
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: go4itlab on November 18, 2013, 10:25:30 PM: Aaaaaaah the Ol Wall of Shame!!!! One of these days I'm going to wade out at low tide and paint that on the wall.
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: 6x6in6 on November 18, 2013, 10:37:06 PM: Ah yes, Whatcom County's finest venue for combat fishing. I'll pass thank you...
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: wildweeds on November 18, 2013, 10:38:38 PM: I can remember actually fishing there............ for steel head over 30 years ago.It wasn't no snagfest either.It turned into a snaggapalooza down there late 80's early 90's,guess things haven't changed much
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: go4itlab on November 18, 2013, 10:54:44 PM: It turned in ti a real zoo. I was there the day of stabing of the guy with the needle noise pliers, Watcheed fist fights. The breaker for me was when I was standing need the wall. I wasn't fishing I was going to over to the other side, Well the kid pull of his jacket to his side and he packing large revolver. He thought I was going to slide into his spot on the Wall of Shame. All over chum that most even when see bright, sea lice on them already have loose eggs and the bucks you pic up and jizz runs out of them.
I have always though it would be a perfect spot for a handicap fishery and/or Seniors. Get the homeless out, the poaching rusians, etc..... Shut down the WALL OF SHAME!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: Button Nubbs on November 19, 2013, 09:46:45 AM: That place is nuts! I watched a kid snag a chum in the back and had it planing on the surface about 30 yards out. His leader broke and his led came flying back and tattooed his a$$ right between the eyes. K.O.'d his a$$, out cold.
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: wildweeds on November 19, 2013, 10:03:00 AM: Sheesh, when was that?Stabbed with pliers really?
Quote from: go4itlab on November 18, 2013, 10:54:44 PM
It turned in ti a real zoo. I was there the day of stabing of the guy with the needle noise pliers, Watcheed fist fights. The breaker for me was when I was standing need the wall. I wasn't fishing I was going to over to the other side, Well the kid pull of his jacket to his side and he packing large revolver. He thought I was going to slide into his spot on the Wall of Shame. All over chum that most even when see bright, sea lice on them already have loose eggs and the bucks you pic up and jizz runs out of them.
I have always though it would be a perfect spot for a handicap fishery and/or Seniors. Get the homeless out, the poaching rusians, etc..... Shut down the WALL OF SHAME!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on November 19, 2013, 10:51:05 AM: Quote from: Button Nubbs on November 19, 2013, 09:46:45 AM
That place is nuts! I watched a kid snag a chum in the back and had it planing on the surface about 30 yards out. His leader broke and his led came flying back and tattooed his a$$ right between the eyes. K.O.'d his a$$, out cold.
I am sorry but :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: lmao ! :yeah:
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: 6x6in6 on November 19, 2013, 01:09:43 PM: I'm surprised the Bellingham City Council has not amended their Muni Code to ban fishing or any kind in Whatcom Creek.
Wouldn't surprise me if they tried considering they are as :tree1: as a council could possibly get. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: singleshot12 on November 19, 2013, 05:06:51 PM: Quote from: BOWHUNTER45 on November 19, 2013, 10:51:05 AM
Quote from: Button Nubbs on November 19, 2013, 09:46:45 AM
That place is nuts! I watched a kid snag a chum in the back and had it planing on the surface about 30 yards out. His leader broke and his led came flying back and tattooed his a$$ right between the eyes. K.O.'d his a$$, out cold.
I am sorry but :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: lmao ! :yeah:

gotta love irony :chuckle:
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: GEARHEAD on November 19, 2013, 09:39:49 PM: found youtube videos of that park hole, one from last thanksgiving weekend, they were hauling in alot of steelhead on that one...get ready!....wish it were closer to me.....looks neat.
Title: Re: Downtown Bellingham urban salmon fishing
Post by: go4itlab on November 20, 2013, 01:29:30 AM: The stabing with the pliers I think happened in 97-98. Used to be a good place to go early and catch a couple of hens and get out but the homeless is living in the area. A couple years ago a young woman was killed right near the holding tanks. They do have a have very small run of stealhead that the crowds don't come out for. The fishery is sad especially sense the tech school runs it and they are trying to do right.