Northwest Fishing Reports

I bet that guy could feel the hot breath of that bull elk blowing down his neck! Wow! What an experience.

There is great fishing to be had at Offut Lake! We've fished there several times, catching a bunch of trout and one little largemouth bass. One trout was a real big fellow and he broke my little girl's fishing pole! Our best fishing there was when we were trolling a half worm with a 3' - 4' leader. ...

My guess: 23,700

Congratulations, catchafish , fishin, dafishmeister , cabincubs , wetwaders , f1sh1nf00l , and especially Snoop!

ZogTheFuzzy
Columbia River Archery

No members of WashingtonLakes.com have taken advantage of our 15% discount yet, so we at Columbia River Archery are instead going to sweeten the deal like this: 25% off the price on a bunch of our bows, including many of our longbows and warbows. Our favorite deal is the Solid Yew Heavy Weight Engli...

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, Columbia River Archery is giving away an Apache Shortbow at the 2011 Sportsman’s Show. Here it is: Apache Bow As we have said before, this bow is patterned after an actual Apache bow made over 100 years ago. A true shortbow (only 53” long), this design serve...

The only strike I ever got after days and days of steelhead fishing was at Blue Creek over on the Cowlitz, so I definitely recommend fishing that area! LOL!

We at Columbia River Archery are offering a 15% discount to all WashingtonLakes.com members!!! So, we've added a coupon for all of you to use as many times as you want through January 30th. In the Payment Information section at checkout, enter the code 2011 in the Coupon field and click "Apply Coupo...

http://columbiariverarchery.com/image/apache_plain.png Mike was kind enough to provide a picture of the Apache bow we at Columbia River Archery are giving away. It is pictured above. It is set at 50-55 pounds at a draw length of 25". This is a shortbow, so the draw length is less than the standard ...

Hey, Fish_Bait...did you go hunting with your uncle, yet? I was wondering how well you did.

coretron22 wrote:I have 2 sprinklers with motion detectors on them...Occasionally I forget it's on though...always good for a laugh when the family goes to check out the pond.

Great, non-lethal weapon for the raccoon war, coretron! And, very funny story.

YellowBear wrote: They will come up to the top of the cover and then head out.

This is a great tip, too. I've seen them skim just over the top of sagebrush before landing well out of range.

Quail are one of the best tasting game birds in my opinion. Some like to just breast them out, but they are so easy to clean and I keep the whole bird. They are delish! We keep the whole bird, too. And, as crappiemaster said, they are easy to clean. If you are fortunate to get some quail, here's on...

I'm not too experienced, but I do know it helps to be able to hit your target (as a multitude of still-living quail can attest to). Try to get some shootin' in before you go. For something to shoot at, our family has used thrown worm-infested apples when we didn't have clay targets.

Quoting AMX:

Lead the bird. Shoot where they WILL BE, not where they ARE.

I definitely need to work on that. I could hit a cheerio at 30 yards with my good ol' .22, but as a newby shotgunner, I have launched a ton of steel into the air with only one quail to show for it.

Hey, we do have a GPS, too. Forgot to list that.

The dunes, eh? Okay!

Quoting you: "Has anyone else had any luck lately?" Nope...mainly because I have never gone duck hunting. :-" My son and I have shotguns, we have a tiny boat, probably need a duck call. I live in Moses Lake, and there seems to be a ton of ducks and geese out here. Any other tips from all of you duck...

Okay, maybe I'm becoming a junk fish junkie. I know that my first memories fishing were for sucker fish in the South Umpqua river in SW Oregon. I don't remember how they tasted, but I do remember catching them with my dad and one of his friends. Anyway, has anyone recently catch some whitefish in th...

One of our fellow members of Washington Lakes sent me a note asking about quail hunting. I offered some tips, and I wanted to share them with everyone else, and maybe some of you have some tips, too? (Likely, they'll be better than mine) 1) It seems from around 10 AM - 2 PM, quail like to hang out n...

yes it can be done!....it limits where you can go sometimes....it means you will either have to hunt where you can wade out and pick up your birds yourself , use a boat to go and get them or stick to hunting fields and hope you don't wound any birds and have to chase them for 1/2 a mile...but yeah ...