Northwest Fishing Reports

I am too cheap to get a boat and drive a car which can't haul a boat of any size. Have looked into those floats though which carry one person and can be blown up by an air pump. Just fish on shore/banks and most often role up my pants and get a little bit wet. Today actually saw 3 kids riding in an ...

Like i said last time, I only got started doing crayfishing just 2 weeks ago when I bought the traps. I put 3 traps in Beaver lake on a stump. Came back 2 days ago and found nothing on it. I thought that maybe these western washington lakes have nothing. I was using these cut up polish hotdogs I got...

Yesterday after an Wildlife Officer gave me a $150 for not having a license, I bought a license and went back to Lake Sammamish and caught over 40 fish, mostly perch but also a few sunnies. The perch I got were HUGE. What can I do to avoid catching the perch? I am trying to get Bass, not Perch but t...

I have been shore fishing on the Lake Sammamish Creek inlet maybe twice before this week and yesterday went there in the morning. Haven't been fishing or anything for maybe 7-8 years. Didn't intend to get a license since I just started again. Some Wildlife officer came along and asked for my ID. Wro...

I just got into foraging and found out that the cattails that you see in the shores of marshes are edible. Seems that if you peel the layers off, there is a starchy center which you can chew and suck up. The Rhizomes in the roots can be dug up and boiled to be eaten like a potato. I plan to pick at ...

When does the season open again?

I just bought 3 traps and put some cut up hotdogs into them and put them over the dock at Beaver Lake in King County just 1 day ago. If I pull something up in 4 days when I come back, I'll say that Beaver lake has crayfish.