Northwest Fishing Reports

Thanks. I need to get back out there and catch some walleyes myself. I got only three pike yesterday but one was a doozey! 43 1/2" and 23 pounds. Yee haw! I'm up to 37. Good year for nice fish just no real numbers yet.

8 more on Sunday gets me to 34 on the year.

Still finding pike in the shallow water. 6 more nice ones on Sunday gets me to 26.
Soft plastic frogs and spoons still doing the trick. Photos can be seen in my report.

5 more last night after work gets me to 20 on the year. Got some decent fish 27-33" Biggest was 33" and 10 1/2 pounds. Silver minnow spoons in less than 3 feet of water.

8 more yesterday gets me to 15 for the year. Nice fish again from 6-10 pounds. And one 25" dinker.

I put 5 pike in the boat Saturday to bring me to 7 on the year. See my report for details. the 5 fish weighed 7, 8, 8, 9, and 10 1/2 pounds.
Great short day on the water!!

Fresh water fish, Sea Bass??

Sounds like a fun idea. Nothing too official just a fun yearly photo entry deal. Wouldn't call it a contest, there might be some kind of red tape issue with the state or something.
NWFR big fish of the species award. I like it.

Larry, You are correct. I was in that shop one day when a lady from the newspaper called three times before the guy answered the phone. He blasted off a fishing report to her that sounded like he was reading it from a prewritten form letter. When he got off the phone, I laughed with him and I said, ...

OK, I'll get this one started. I managed to catch 2 pike on day one of the Lester Smith memorial pike tournament. It was a tough tourney for everyone entered. The top weight for day one was 28 pounds, and big fish of that day was 12.5 lbs. I weighed in a 31" fish that was 6lb 10ozs. caught in one of...

Thanks Larry. I'll need it if I'm going to be competitive this year instead of just donating to the winners pot again.

I have done ok chasing walleyes because I was going to fish a small tourney at Roosevelt. Unfortunately the weather was going to be real bad that day so we bagged that. I was out of town for the last two weekends do when we fish the big pike tourney this weekend it will be my first pike fishing trip...

No. It does not. Everyone with a boat needs to stop and be inspected, if they pass an inspection point. The inspection normally takes less than 2 minutes. They ask where you're heading, where your boat has been in the water last, walk around your boat, and it's done. However, depending on where you'...

Larry, I bought an Idaho invasive species sticker online once and they did mail it to me. I also remember printing out the receipt and putting it in the glove box of my boat. They told me that would suffice until the sticker got to me. If you made an online payment to them and print out your receipt...

I just saw this information in a response from hewesfisher on another forum post, and thought I would put it on it's own thread so others like me that haven't seen it until now can be informed. If this has already been discussed, please forgive me for having not seen it. Thank you hewesfisher for sh...

I'll be on the shelf for the next three weekends. Weather sucks this weekend, and the wife and I are heading off on vacation that will keep me out of the fishing action for the next two weekends after that. The Packernut and I plan to begin our pursuit of Pike the last weekend of the month in the Le...

Here it is. The new scoreboard for the 2018 pike season.
Feel free to post your photos and fish counts for the year here.

Wow. It sure doesn't sound like a 2 1/2 year project to me, but I guess the lake will have a nice population of fish by the time it becomes usable.

Not sure when you're planning to go out to Ft. Spokane but check this link out before you go if you're planning to go soon. The water levels are dropping out there, and as of today, if it drops another two feet, the launch at Ft. Spokane will be out of commission. http://www.lrf.org/recreation/boat-...

I fished past there last Saturday and it looks like it did the day of the slide. :(