Northwest Fishing Reports

So on the 14th of july me and my friends are going camping. they are a bunch of city boys who think they know everything there is to know about the woods. (yeah rite) Well anyways they want to go to a campsite that is really really rustic. I mean primitive. All they need is a fire pit and a place to put up their tents. thats great and all for them, but i need fishing. if we dont go to a lake with either great bass or pan fish fishing i am not going. so i was hoping you guys could through some good campsites my way. here are the requirements:

No Showers
Preferably no bathrooms
Fire Pit
Lake or River w/ bass within 1000 ft
Landscape must be wooded (they are to high class to sleep in the desert)

Bottom line a campsite more close to camping and roughing it. 2 yrs ago we spent 450 dollars reserving a campsite with sprinklers and showers. i really dont want some like that. can any one help me. i want to make this camping trip enjoyable.

If you have acess to boat, there are boat only acessable campground on Roosevelt. You have pine trees and bass

Twin Lakes near Inchelium in Ferry County or The Upper Conconully Lake.

The far end of Conconully is in the National Forest. There are large bass feeding on the crawdads and large bows as well. Deer, beaver, jack rabbit, turkey and other wildlife are all over the place.

Another idea is the scatter creek drainages NW of Republic. You have Long and Swan lakes however they are trout lakes

I'd try the seep lakes. Rustic camping and dozens of lakes to choose from.

That's a good one, I've been "counceled" about camping in "un-established areas" in the Seep Lakes. More friendly camping but the fishings not as good is on the other side of 90 at the Quincy wildlife refuge. Evergreen resurevoir has big bass and Tiger Musky. There's also some kind of really big sort of brown skined fish I've seen spawning in the shallows but never caught one. Any one? If you don't mind a short hike Dusty has some very nice fish It's comparitivly deep and is fed by a spring (= Clear water).....selective rules. They might close July 1st........ check the regs.

The seep lakes are very productive and offer a huge variety of fish. So does the Quincy area, this is what I would have recommend too. But.......unfortunately they are both in the desert

Any idea what htose huge brown fish are in Evergreen?

Large brown fish??? No idea there are muskie's and walleye in Evergreen, but they are greenish. The only thing that comes to mind would be Carp? They are golden brown, large and in shallow areas

They may have been Walley's spawning. They were big, some 3'or so and crawling all over each other in those little ponds on the other side of the road from Evergreen. Not carp, they didn't have the scales. I was dropping everything in the tackle box on them and they wouldn't bite anything.

i wouldnt know what to tell you aboutt that brown fish. could be some prehistoric fish that crawled out the earth or something. but my best guess would be a muskie taht looked different in the water because of the lite. that water is pretty murky. so i wouldnt be suprised it was somethign like that. but could not be either because muskies are lone wolves. so yeah a dead beaver is my guess.

Bodofish wrote:They may have been Walley's spawning. They were big, some 3'or so and crawling all over each other in those little ponds on the other side of the road from Evergreen. Not carp, they didn't have the scales. I was dropping everything in the tackle box on them and they wouldn't bite anything.

That's crazy you mentioned this. When we were there on memorial day, we saw these as well. In that little tiny pond across the jetty at evergreen res. We watched them from the truck a couple of different times. We wanted to go down and get a closer look but we ran out of time. A few times we concluded they were carp, but a couple of times we concluded they were smallies, they were acting like carp but looked like small mouth. This isn't the first time I heard there were fish in evergreen that people have never seen before. I doubt they were walleye, they like the bottom of the lake

Wierdest fish I've ever seen. I've seen them several years running. I always hit Burk and Quincy for the early opener. But usually see them later like you did. I've climbed right out on the culvert and had them right in front of me. They aren't carp, no scales. They have more like skin than scales. I was thinking about trying to snag one to see what it was but the WDFW and the sheriff spend a lot of time there. Maybe catfish.

Bodofish wrote:Wierdest fish I've ever seen. I've seen them several years running. I always hit Burk and Quincy for the early opener. But usually see them later like you did. I've climbed right out on the culvert and had them right in front of me. They aren't carp, no scales. They have more like skin than scales. I was thinking about trying to snag one to see what it was but the WDFW and the sheriff spend a lot of time there. Maybe catfish.

I know there are cats in evergreen. Do you know if that little pond is there all year or does it dry up come august? Iv seen little ponds in the seep lakes by potholes that are dried up by august but come following June there are 3lb carp in there swimming around, so carp grow pretty fast. Iv have never seen a grass carp, have you? Do you think it could be a grass carp? There is also a less common type of common carp, I think its called a brown common carp but Im not sure, it looks like a common carp but a little bit different. Those fish did look kind of lake a brown bullhead catfish but the state record on those is only 3.90 lbs, so those fish would smash that state record

They are both in Greenlake (Seattle). They both have large scales. Tiger Muskies too and a whole bunch of tripps every year. don't know if I'd eat any of them. Watch your small children playing in the lake.

The Upper Conconully Lake has tree camping at the far end of the lake. There are no facilitys and the lake holds lots of bass and other fish.

Palmer wrote:Twin Lakes near Inchelium in Ferry County or The Upper Conconully Lake.

The far end of Conconully is in the National Forest. There are large bass feeding on the crawdads and large bows as well. Deer, beaver, jack rabbit, turkey and other wildlife are all over the place.

Keep in mind, Twin Lakes is on the reservation, you will need to buy a tribal fishing permit.