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Bob R's Reports

By: Bob R
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I fished Saturday and Sunday, I brought home a 6 lb. silver on Sunday, similar to the one Melanie caught on Wed. and pictured in that report (and misidentified by Jeeper 2586) Melanie caug...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/24/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay in posting this report, really been busy with our veg. garden. This report covers Monday and a previous trip last week. On that trip we caught 13 fish with two dollies being ove...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/23/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2015
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Melanie and I fished the Chehalis River for the 1st time this year. Tough day, one drive-by and this nice 6 lb. buck that my wife caught on a spinner. Most folks we talked to didn't have fish in the b...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 8/17/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary Friday night and Saturday at Lake Quinault. After hearing massive rain in the middle of the night we awoke to clearing skies. Fishing was good alt...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't posted in a while, busy with garden, computer issues,etc. We fished from about 7:00 a.m. 'till 11:45 a.m., we caught 15 fish, which is one limit on this lake (tribal regs.). We had enough fi...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a nice day on the water despite strong winds which brought us in early and kept us from eastern end of lake. Weather report was for calm winds becoming 5 to 9 m.p.h. Ha! We went out early to take ...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 5/25/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, best day ever on Lake Quinault even though I only took one fish home. It was my birthday so the fish gods gave me not two but three great gifts 2 being fish and the 3rd being a lovely wife who l...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 5/19/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at about 8:30 a.m., using spoons with no bait or scent with single hooks we set out. Melanie flatlining had most of the luck, with 2 rods on the downrigger I still couldn't keep up with h...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 5/11/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First report for Lake Quinault this year, beautiful day on the lake, lake surface was like glass for most of morning. Dollies were hard to keep off the hook, only caught 2 cuts as compared to 8 (!!) ...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to fish close to home on Sunday, so we hit Summit. Fishing was O.K., not red hot by any means. We caught 3 kokanee, noting more then 10 inches, pretty small this year. We also caught 2 trou...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/9/2014
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I decided to go to Lake Quinault again as the Chehalis River has a lack of fish and high water temps.Fishing was good,we caught 7 Dollies and 3 cutthroat trout. Dollies were a good size wi...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/1/2014
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We went to Lake Quinault for one day this holiday weekend, weather reports were shakey for saturday and tuesday, (a day off this week for Melanie) so we forgot about camping and hit one day, Labor Day...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 8/18/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake today, we caught a total of 8 fish, two cuts and 4 dollies, plus two small cuts that were lightly hooked and released. Bite has transitoned to the afternoon and early evening, typical for...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 8/6/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the lake is open again, permits for boats are issued after inspection by an employee of the Quinault lodge, his name is Regan. They are worried about invasive species, particularly mud snails wh...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day on this lovely lake high in the mts. for the opener Saturday. Tough day, this lake has a 2 fish limit with a 12 inch minimum size. Since it's not stocked it can be a lng time betweeen ...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 5/13/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Melane had a 4 day weekend so we tried Summit as the larger trout have been really nice. With the abundunce of smaller trout (7 to 10 inches) we decided to troll spoons to enable safe releases on smal...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 4/29/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie had a long weekend so we decided to fish at Summit again, slower day then Saturday, we had to work longer for 6 fish, two of which were larger ones. Two fish were caught on a dodger and hooch...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 4/27/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I went to Summit this opening day to try our luck with larger trout and were not disappointed. I caught 3 between 1 1/2 lbs. to 2 1/2 lbs. Beautiful fish, no copopod marks and salmon red m...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Summit Sat. and Sunday, picked up 2 nice kokanee and two trout plus a yellow perch on Sat. All caught trolling, used spoons early in day 1st day, caught one koke and the perch on the spoon, beg...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I spent our last day fishing this week for salmon, we each caught a jack, mine was an 18 or 19 inch king, fought unbelievably well, 3or 4 vertical leaps clear out of the water and 4 or 5 b...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/21/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again today but launched in monte instead of cosmo, we heard of fish being caught and with bad weather in the forecast we decided to be closer to home in a more protected area (at least prote...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Launched out of cosmo this morn, caught my fish about 10:00a.m., Melanie's was close to tide change in afternnon about 1:00. Got some great drive-bys after that but couldn't make it stick. fishing wa...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
we arrived at Monte to launch early Sunday morn, but lightning and downpour greeted us at ramp. Decided to head home, weather cleared by afternoon, went out for a couple of hours but no hits and no lu...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
As the Chehalis river had been slow for salmon we decided to hit some fall trout and kokanee. I caught my largest trout from Summit Lake, a 3lb. 1 0z. rainbow. We caught 13 or 14 fish, released small ...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 6/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I hit Summit this morning having done so well last time using no bait and catch and release 'till we got some decent looking fish. The copopod chewing up the trout is hit and miss, I think...
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