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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/26/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled with the downrigger for these two dollies and one cut about 12 inches. The dollies weighed 3 lbs. on Melanie's and 2 3/4 on mine. Both were caught on little cleo spoons down 30 ft.I believe th...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/9/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the Quinalt derby was today and it was tough fishing with the rain yesterday and the water temp. being colder due to snowmelt from that rain. Water level was up higher then last week, took from ...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Quinalt to prepare for derby next week, thought it was this week until we called prior to leaving, always has been held the 1st saturday of june, but the Lions club is not sponsoring it thi...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, went fishing solo on Friday as we wanted a particular campsite with privacy and shoreline to pull the canoe out of the water and Melanie had to work on Friday so she dropped me off Thursday even...
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American
American
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Left the launch at 7:15 or so. I believe we are hitting it late but with the long drive(an hour or more) and the late opening of the lakewood city launch(7:00) an earlier day was not in the cards. I w...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day at Quinalt, great morning, rainy afternoon. First Dolly and biggest was caught by Melanie, 22 1/2 inches, released a small cut, caught one other cut and 3 other Dollies. Sunday caught 4 fi...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't get to post this on Sat., been a hectic weekend with a clam dig on Monday(last one of the year, only day on north beaches) , beautiful weather, sunny and warm, easy digging with limits of big c...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got Melanie on that big one today, 4 lbs. +. Watched an osprey catch a trout only to have a pair of bald eagles jump him and make him drop it. As a wildlife photographer who specializes in raptors I w...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 9a.m., decided to use the electric motor instead of the outboard, set speed low and paddled to vary presentation speed. trolled the east side of lake with homemade wedding rings wit...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Melanie caught that large fish today, a little smaller then yesterday's but a nice fish!Rest of limit was good, total of 3 over 14, rest were from 10 t0 13.Nice to get 3 out of 4 for that only 2...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water, 68 degrees(!), a little breezy but a warm wind. We started out at the ocean digging two days worth of razors Sat, and Sunday, great size and easy digging!Came home, unloaded cl...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 2/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Onhly one fish today, it's been really slow with the cold winter, lake was at 43 degrees, nice fish, though. 13 inches.Getting REAL tired of cold weather.Trolling has been at least as slow as still fi...
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Nahwatzel
Nahwatzel
By: Bob R
Posted: 1/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished both Sat. and Sunday, but report for Sunday is same as Sat.On Sat. it rained slightly, I didn't limit but my wife did. I caught large fish at 15 inches,, we had a visitor that day, really shook...
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American
American
By: Bob R
Posted: 12/6/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a COLD morning trolling aroung Silcox Island with my wife and my friend John but no hits, 4 rods, dodgers, squids, spoons, nothing!Only marked occassional fish but no bites. Oh, well. Back to my...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got skunked this time out we saw some fish caught but not in our boat. Bob R
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 10/3/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the river about 9 a. m. , trolled through the tide change, hooked this nice 9lb 9oz. silver, I wanted to catch a salmon on a new rod and reel, a lamiglass XCC 934 composite downrigger rod and ...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/26/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning getting beat up by rain, looking for the elusive coho. Did't see any fish netted, only talked to one sucessful boat, all others were also getting skunked, I thought the rain would br...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/26/2011
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After catching a few small sockeyes (under 5 inches) even at depth switched to some larger spoons and it paid off late in the day with a nice sea-run hen cut-throat of about 13 inces and a Dolly Varde...
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Nisqually River
Nisqually River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/21/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Nisqually early in the A. M., caught this nice pink hen, lookied to be about 5 lbs. or so, no silvers but a ton of pinks jumping . Good fishing to all, Bob R
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/20/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Posted this report last night, but it never came up, here goes second try.Launched from Friend's landing, had 4 hook-ups but only able to slip the net under this one, a 10lb4oz. hatchery buck . Really...
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Chehalis River
Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
1st time fishing the chehalis river, hooked 4 and landed one, a beautiful 10 1/4 lb.hatchery silver buck,Melanie's 1st river fish.Jumped 4 times, put up quite the fight, but Melanie made no mistakes a...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 4 days of fishing, thursday evening Melanie dropped me off as she had to work on Friday and we wanted a good campsite for the holiday weekend so I fished alone a little on thursday ...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/16/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Kind of a slow day, only 3 fish, two cuts and a dolly, real slow morning, picked up fish after 11:a.m., had to leave due to weather and other plans, but a nice cut and Dolly caught by Melanie, I caugh...
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Quinault
Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had two great weather days and two great fishing days, one greater then the other. I caught two(!) sockeye salmon, one at 4 1/2 lbs. and the other at 6lbs., 3 ozs.Both males with the typical hookno...
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Summit
Summit
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/12/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with Melanie to fish Summit after reading a late June report on some good Koke fishing.We caught 3 kokes until 10:00 a.m. when the bite dropped off.One 12+, 11 and 10 inches.All caught on spo...
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