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casey belarde
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fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:52 am

river is looking good , went down last sunday was into some cutthroats, on the dry flies early a.m.
looking for some fishing buddies, to float it with or hike the shoelines, [biggrin]

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by Anglinarcher » Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:39 am

Don't tempt me!

Sure they were Cutts? Should be some Bows, lots of Red Bands (native Bow look alike), maybe some Browns, perhaps some SMB in the upper stretch.

Wish I had a drift boat, my boat won't work. :-"
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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:42 am

been seeing more and more cuts in the upper river [thumbsup]
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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by Anglinarcher » Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:43 am

casey belarde wrote:been seeing more and more cuts in the upper river [thumbsup]
AWSOME!!!! :cheers: :salut: =D> [thumbsup] [thumbsup] [thumbsup]

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:54 am

woo hoo the river is open, I think I'll head down while my daughter is at soccer practice, at plantes ferry

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:17 am

hit the river yesterday in the morning. landed to beauties ( cutties :cheers: )
had one get away from me [blink] the river is in good shape, going down again tonight

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by dwh4784 » Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:31 am

Lived in the valley for all 31 years of my life and never fished the river until last Thursday. Got one small rainbow on a fly (spinning tackle with a casting bobber) off the rocks at Mirabeau. I work right there so just ran down there on my lunch break. Last night I went up near Flora and nailed some smallmouth. I plan to fish this thing a lot this year.
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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:55 am

let me know when you go again, I'll show you some hot spots along the river.
do you have a pontoon?

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by dwh4784 » Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:15 pm

I will do that, thanks!

I don't have a pontoon, just walking the bank for now. As low as the water is that is fairly difficult!

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Wed Jun 17, 2015 7:05 pm

Bank fishing and wading is all i do. I have a pontoon just no one to go with. Yeah the water is super low already

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by dwh4784 » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:53 pm

Sent you a PM with contact info.

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:36 am

Anyone been hitting the river lately? I know silverbow been having fun.

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by dwh4784 » Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:08 pm

I did once, been bass fishing out of my kayak mostly this year though.

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by casey belarde » Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:16 am

right on, just in the lakes?
I need to float the river on the toon still

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Re: fly fishing the spokane river

Post by dwh4784 » Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:47 am

I've hit up quite a few different lakes in it. Liberty, Silver, Newman, Long, Medical, Fan, Eloika, Sacheen, and one sekrit spot that I've been hammering some nice smallmouth in. I'm getting pretty confident in the kayak, maybe next year will try out some moving water. I also definitely want to do the Little Spokane from St George's to 9 mile sometime. Just have to figure out the vehicle situation since I normally fish alone. Reason being my days off are in the middle of the week, sucks mostly but makes for some peaceful fishing opportunities.

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