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By: kadofish
Posted: 12/15/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful low water. Swung some flies. I'm a newbie to this so not sure if my lack of ability was reason for no hookups but ran into another couple of fly guys and they had no luck either. Feel the...
By: PatrickC
Posted: 12/12/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Okay so I started my morning on the puyallup but the 162 bridge in alderton, floated eggs and twitched jigs. Fished my way up pretty hard. Hit drifts that didn’t have a trail to it, so I put in the w...
By: PatrickC
Posted: 12/11/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great weather, no fish. Floated beads and jigs. Left the eggs at the house. River is in beautiful shape. They should be here soon. Tight lines
By: Anonymous_
Posted: 10/8/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the Carbon River, Saturday October 7th. I woke up to chilly 42°F and decided to pack up my gear and head for the river. With the pink run essentially over, I suspected that most of ...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 9/15/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river after dropping the kids at school. On the water about 830. Walked from the water treatment plant down to the gate hole and then fished back up. The river was silty and low. Lots of coho ...
Posted: 9/14/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
beautiful day on the carbon, fishing rollling and jumping everywhere ,saw a few caught on eggs looked around 10-15 lbs ,i was throwing eggs under the bobber but no takes for myself , but there in ther...
By: fajitamondays
Posted: 9/10/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I had high hopes of waking up at the crack of dawn and driving down to Orting for the opener, but that did not happen. Instead, I arrived for the early evening bite, but it was a day of fishing, and n...
By: the piranha
Posted: 12/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Same old thing, one more silver and my personal best dollie that was just under 4#. River is looking good now. I would like to catch a steelhead in there some day though. Jigs as usual.
I haven't...
By: fajitamondays
Posted: 12/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
With mostly dry weather, the sun making an appearance, and the Hawks game keeping people inside, I decided to head out to one of my favorite places to enjoy some quiet and scenic fishing. With the sal...
By: the piranha
Posted: 12/1/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Report is for thanksgiving morning. I went to the Puyallup first right at first light. The water looked good, but no one was catching any. It was 26 degrees when I was there. I didn't have much t...
By: the piranha
Posted: 11/6/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The water looked good enough to fish so I walked across the street. The color is good, about 3 ft, but the water is still at least 6 inches high, maybe a foot for me. As usual the river changed...
By: losaturn
Posted: 10/24/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I was in the area again, so I decided to try my luck. Seen a few others out there on the river, one guy I talked to had a couple darker fish on a stringer. I fished eggs in the same spot as yesterday ...
By: losaturn
Posted: 10/23/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went and fished a stretch of river that I use fish a lot when I lived in the area. It has changed quite a bit, but was still holding some fish. I started off float fishing for a little bit and drift...
By: Mikeyo1989
Posted: 10/20/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I got there around 9 fished till 2:30 went 2 for 4. Gonna head back tomorrow with eggs! I used Corky and yarn.
By: fajitamondays
Posted: 10/19/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After my local river (Green) got shut down to coho retention, which pretty much shut it down for all intents and purposes, I was in search of a new river to find salmon in. Boy, 162 into Orting can be...
By: catchanything66
Posted: 10/18/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Started out about 7 am, got down to the carbon and was only using corkies. I guess I just got lucky and manage to land both a hen and buck in just over an hour. Both weighed at 7 lbs and 9 oz. manage ...
By: Mikeyo1989
Posted: 10/18/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got there before sun up. I tried floating eggs Corky and yarn. Had a few hit Thur out the day. I went 2 for 5. There are still quite a bit of fish coming up.
By: the piranha
Posted: 10/4/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Same thing as yesterday, caught one more on eggs about 3#. I took off my weight and just used weight of eggs to drift. Eggs cure is just borax, salt and sugar. Saw a guy lose a nice one right at the...
By: the piranha
Posted: 10/3/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The pinks crapped out about 2 weeks ago after the last rain, so I figured out was safe enough to start using eggs. I only had one skein and haven't caught a coho on eggs before. I usually just use j...
By: faasusu
Posted: 10/1/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the carbon today from 11am-3. Very slow. Saw one pink caught. Water is very low and slow behind the treatment plant. Hooked one zombie. Might try farther up river next time.
By: StevenMNielson
Posted: 9/29/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Weather: Cool autumn temperatures
Water Temp/Condition: Colder than normal, milky white flow, slowing flow over the past several days with cooler mountain temps and no rain
Anglers: Only about 10 af...
By: StevenMNielson
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2015
Hot Spots: 1
River was high and milky white, the best way to fish the carbon. All the zombies had washed down the river and only live fresh fish remained. In about 90 minutes I had my pick of Pinks and small riv...
By: woady
Posted: 9/14/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Checked out the Carbon River for the first time!
Fished behind the treatment plant and hooked into a couple of pinks. Man, they are in rough shape by the time they get to the carbon. Tired and woun...
By: hollydog
Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
well I gota say bit on the slow side went to treatment plant area had no luck seen a few folks with a fish or two but lots with nothing.seen alot of fish moving up but not hitting . tried evry thing ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 9/4/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for about an hour with 2 of my kids. Found a few biters, I hooked 7 in seven casts. And maybe five others besidesthat. They were all caught on my daughter's 5 ft llight action pole. I have ...