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Wynoochee
Wynoochee
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I forgot what a tough lake this is to fish since our only post about 6 or 8 years ago.We caught about 5 or 6 fish but had to release them all except this one, really a pretty fish, 17 inches, native c...
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Secret Spot
Secret Spot
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow. What can I say? Melanie's 1st steelhead. At 11 lbs. on an 8 lb. leader on a 5 1/2 ultra lite lamiglass rod.Put up quite the tussle, personal best for her.Had an impromptu dinner party, worked out...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fast day of fishing, I don't think we've ever had a day when the fish were so cooperative. We limited in about 1 hour, 15 minutes. At one point we had three fish in the net as I didn't have time to st...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the lake for 3 days this weekend, limited out each day, lots of fish for family and the smoker. largest one was the fish I caught, 2 lbs.,14.7 ozs. after bleeding, puts it over 3 lbs.All fish w...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/17/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This isn't a fishing report, just a heads up that the Lake will not open for the fishing season, tribe has closed the lake due to pollution believed to be from failing septic tanks(!). I'll try to fin...
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Merwin
Merwin
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/9/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Merwin to fish with a friend from the kokanee fishing forum. We started about 8a.m. and fished 'tll about 2p.m.We caught 11 kokanee between 3 of us, using sling-blades and hootchies. Rain off ...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take a day off due to the fact that Wed. was the only positive day weather and wind wise for fishing this week.Tried trolling, fish are still finikey about chasing anything. After 10 or 15 ...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 3/31/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Really nice weather yesterday, went to the North coast for an early morning clam dig, limiting out in a half hour.We then went to our favorite year-round lake. We had only one strike while trolling, w...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 10/3/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/1/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Hit the Chehalis Monday, didn't hook any kings(of course not, since we could keep them today!).We did take two chrome silvers, one 10 lbs., the other around 5 or 6.Great fights, lost another that went...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Great day on the water, just about 180 degrees difference from yesterday. No lost lures to snags and 3 fish caught(but one released).1st fish I was up, Put my favorite rig on Melanie's spinning rod,...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Tough day, but Melanie caught this nice buck in the morning, she also hooked a king about 20 or 25 lbs. got into some timber and snapped off my mepps Flying C" ,my go to lure this year.I had a tough d...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/23/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! What a day, Melanie and I limited on great sized silvers. Trolling from the bridge at Mary's lumber we picked up two in the morning and two in the afternoon. All but one were on the "flying C" th...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day! After going fishless yesterday, the first day of salmon fishing in the Chehalis, we came back strong today with a chrome bright silver each! I took mine after a biteless first 2 or ...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the trout bigtime today, caught 15 fish, 14 cuts up to 18 inches (biggest cut out of the lake for us!)and one dolly about 1 +1/2 lbs.Spoons on downrigger, 25 to 40 ft. down.Will break in new bbq. ...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
No fish or hits for us, we starterd late(9:00a.m.) and fished the incoming tide, saw about 4 fisherfolk that had caught 1 each, overall slow. Will give it another shot earlier tomorrow. Bob R
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We caught 5 fish, 4 cuts and this 3 1/4 lb. Dolly, heck of a hard fighting fish, thought he'd go 5 lbs. or more from the way I couldn't lift him off bottom easily.One trout was a nice sea-run, 13+ inc...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
Area 12 Hood Canal
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day in successful pursuit of dungies, caught our limit for 4 persons, we went out with a nice couple we know. hard day till 5:00 p.m. when we really hit them. picking crab tonight! bob r
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Summit
Summit
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Caught no kokes but the trout were somewhat more cooperative. we caught 7 rainbows, released 4 and kept the best looking 3, the largest fish had a few copopod marks, the 2nd largest was just about unt...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we wanted to catch a Dolly for the 1st annual Chehalis River Basin fisheries task force meeting and potluck at the Satsop springs hatchery, after a slow morning we connected with two dollies i...
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Area 12 Hood Canal
Area 12 Hood Canal
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went crabbing with a couple that wanted to take us out, an old friend of Melanie's and her partner, they were great hosts and we hope to do a lot of fishing with them, esp. Jim, he's a real nice guy. ...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/22/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a banner day at Quinalt on Saturday,gibbs spoons were the hot ticket but we saw fish taken by a couple of other boats that were using the two bladed pop gear type set-up that is legal on the lake,...
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Summit
Summit
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Summit lake as Melanie had the day off and I knew the fish were biting from last weeks trip. Whjle I was targeting Kokanee with the downriggerMelanie was the one to catch the only Kokanee. She...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the dog to Quinalt as the fireworks were driving him crazy in our neighborhood and they are not allowed in the national forest or park. I caught my biggest dolly of the year, didn't ge...
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Summit
Summit
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to get some kokanee info for our local state biologist Larry Phillips as he is responsible for stocking our lakes.Only had 3 hours and started late(8a.m.), caught 2 kokes about 11 inches and ...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Only caught 4 cuts today, slow fishing but quality fish, this is the biggest trout we've caught in this lake, great fight, went airbourne twice, threw the hook as Melanie slid the net under him.No d...
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