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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Second lake of the day for Bob Johansen and myself. A good choice as I only had a couple hours to fish and this lake is a bit smaller than Panther (our morning lake). Crescent is hardly clear - it's v...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Got to fish this lake for the first time with fishing buddy Bob Johansen. First, a word of warning - if your truck/trailer is too long you will not be able to turn around in the WDFW launch area, mean...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Big Bass Dez and his friend Lacy. We pounded the water from 9am to 4pm and tried just about every type of presentation we could, but the best we managed was 3 small bass and one trou...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Aaron and I spent the day fishing with guide Shelby Ross on the Potholes. The fishing was consistant, not on fire but we seemed to be getting bit and catching fish throughout the day. Shelby started u...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Got to spend a day of fishing for the "infamous" Pend OReille river pike with Craig Dowdy of Yankin Jaw Guide Service. The conditions were less than ideal but better than I could hope for as we left S...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First time on this lake. Really stained-colored water, wow. I worked the shoreline with jigs and spinnerbaits. No luck. There were 3-4 trout boaters out. I talked to a couple and they reported fair su...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/7/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/6/2010
Hot Spots: 3
I got to spend a fun day on the water with Aaron, Anton Jones, and Andy and Kevin who work with Anton. Anton had wanted to show me the trophy fishery for Lahontan Cutthroat trout that Omak is known fo...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Got to spend a day of bass fishing on lake Washington with Big Bass Dez and Chris Ferry. The bass fishing was really good, with bass caught consistantly at each location we fished. Dez and Chris also ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the morning and had not much luck - just one little trout, almost looks like a steelhead smolt but at 4,100 ft not likely! Caught on a Fish Creek Spinner bronze spinner. No fish seen rising,...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/28/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Another day in front of the White River on the Columbia river. This time Aaron and I trolled with a guide, Herb, from Ed Iman's Fish Camp. We started the day using chartruese kwik fish wrapped with sa...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/28/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish for chinook outside the entrance of the White River with Aaron, Ryan, and Steve Leonard of Steve's Guided Adventures. Perfect conditions, a bit of a breeze which settled down in short orde...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/13/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Hiked up to Rachel, nice hike except the last 1.5 miles is grueling and the trail is in poor shape. But the lake is FULL of eager cutthroat trout so I won't complain. Fish were aggressively feeding on...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/26/2010
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2010
Hot Spots: 2
In a word - wow! I noted immediately that there were fish rising everywhere, and pretty quickly determined that they were quite picky. The wooleybuggers gave zero interest, and the Fish Creek Spinners...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Got over to Sawyer for a few hours of morning fishing, video, and pics. My boat had been buried in a garage full of junk but the last few weeks I dug myself out. I got me WL.com members rjn cajun and ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish with Dave from the site. We launched out of Everett at 4:45am. My first time launching here, what a great facility. The ride to Possession in Dave's boat was smooth. ONce out there the wat...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 2
My son James and I hiked into Goat lake for an overnight trip. Spent the afternoon fishing primarily the far end of the lake and had good success on the eastern brook trout. The lure of choice were Fi...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 2
I wasn’t sure if there were fish in this lake. I was unable to find any information other than an elevation listing in my Washington State Fishing Guide, but that was good enough to bring my gear with...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/8/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 0
Fished: 7/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I'd been pursuing my nemesis for many years now, and finally the day came when he was in my sights. The beast put quite a scare into my group, almost grabbing and taking away a member of our expeditio...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2010
Hot Spots: 1
Hiked up to Heather today, not a bad hike. The fishing was very good with either a fish, a hit, or a follow just about every cast for awhile. Best action was on the far side of the lake. I had good su...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 2
It was a tough morning on the water at Rattlesnake. Weather conditions were great, upper 40s, calm, partly cloudy. For the day after Opening Day there were not that many anglers, maybe a dozen or so b...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Aaron and I went out for a day trip with Keven Samuelson, a guide for The Evening Hatch Guide Service for a day of fishing and video shotting. As our luck would have it, a front moved in and the Seatt...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/20/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/16/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Our second day of fishing southern Oregon for Aaron and myself was with guide Mike Springer. We had the river to ourselves as we fished a half day float on the beautiful Rogue system. About the same s...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/19/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/19/2010
Hot Spots: 1
Went fishing with guide Zach Hancock of Rogue Wilderness Adventures. We were fishing yarn balls, side drifting out of a drift boat. Aaron and I pounded the water for a full day trip with no luck. Had ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/11/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is a fishing report for Sat and Sun. It was cool (crisp) but sunny and calm winds for our trip to visit the Cabin By The River and the Rufus Woods fish pens. Aaron brought his boat, which was gre...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/11/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is a fishing report for Sat and Sun. It was cool (crisp) but sunny and calm winds for our trip to visit the Cabin By The River and the Rufus Woods fish pens. Aaron brought his boat, which was gre...