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Scootney
Scootney
By: tluedeke
Posted: 8/20/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Scooteney with the Jigmeister and FishinChristian. Targeted walleye, smallmouth, yellow perch, and other spiny rays in general. Before I start, I encourage anyone fishing this body of water...
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Scootney
Scootney
By: tluedeke
Posted: 9/13/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a colleague from work who'd not fished since he was a kid, and we decided to go back up to Scooteney Reservoir (see my report from last weekend, when I went with the two masters). This trip, tri...
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Scootney
Scootney
By: tluedeke
Posted: 9/8/2014
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the brilliant Jigmeister and fishinChristian for a day on Scooteney Reservoir. Always heard mixed news about this lake, usually that it can be quirky due to significant flow changes imp...
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I-82 Pond 4
I-82 Pond 4
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/25/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/25/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Another tough day (I'm up to I think six reports rated three or below this year, and none above). Picked up one perch fairly quickly running a bottom walker in ~35 feet of water, and had a fair num...
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03 - Lower Monument Dam to Little Goose Dam
03 - Lower Monument Dam to Little Goose Dam
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Ayer Boat Basin to try for channel cats/bullheads. This place has been pretty reliable in the past, and I've always caught a few. But streak broken. Not a bite in five hours of fishin...
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08 - Lake Wallula
08 - Lake Wallula
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/21/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, admittedly it was a "2" kinda day, but it was so pleasurable fishing with the eternal fishinChristian and the immortal Jiggy (LOL), that I added a star. The ostensible excuse was to try above M...
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Yakima River
Yakima River
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, thought I'd take a break from studying my thermodynamics and physical chemistry, and give the Yakima one last whirl. I've spent three years trying (two years trying hard) to figure out the catf...
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Yakima River
Yakima River
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/5/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2014
Hot Spots: 1
After my major meltdown yesterday, I thought about the puzzle of handling heavy current and rocky/snaggy bottoms all day (I've never fished salmon/steelhead/whitefish in rivers, and have no idea how y...
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Yakima River
Yakima River
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/4/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I'm far, far beyond the annoyed or irritated stage. I'm far into white hot, slam my expensive fishing gear into the ground rage. Literally. I've had at least a half dozen people tell me how fishi...
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Scootney
Scootney
By: tluedeke
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Carp
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Finally the carp shoot at Scooteney lit up. Water was low, the weather finally got to reasonable (if not good). The carp were in the shallows in big numbers. My shooting was mediocre, and should ha...
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I-82 Pond 4
I-82 Pond 4
By: tluedeke
Posted: 4/17/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take a whack at the (hopefully still) pre-spawn perch in the I82 ponds. Blowing slightly in Tri-Cities, but by the time I got to the winery outside of Prosser, flags were stiff out. Shoul...
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Scootney
Scootney
By: tluedeke
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Carp
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Gave a couple of weeks after my last run up to Scooteney Reservoir, to see if the river of mud and tumbleweeds (due to the flushing of the irrigation project with spring upflow) had subsided. It had,...
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Scootney
Scootney
By: tluedeke
Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Carp
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Having driven past Scooteney and seen the increased water flow into the lake, I thought I'd swing by and see if my favorite carp shooting spot was in action yet. The answer was 'not yet'. It's getti...
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I-82 Pond 5
I-82 Pond 5
By: tluedeke
Posted: 3/22/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Met with the brilliant fishinChristian to take a whack at I-82 Pond #4/5 for perch and/or crappie. Pretty rough going, at least in terms of the catching. Couple little crappies, two little bass, and...
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Chiwaukum
Chiwaukum
By: tluedeke
Posted: 10/13/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hmmm, can't figure out how to be discrete/secret about the lake, but for your information, Chiwaukum Lake ain't it. It was a trip invited by others, so I feel the need to be discrete. I can't figure ...
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Scootney
Scootney
By: tluedeke
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Carp
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Still highly irritated with I82 Pond #4, so I decided to skip it. Went up to Scooteny to see about whacking a carp or two with the bow, since I had a couple of spare hours. The conditions were very ...
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I-82 Pond 4
I-82 Pond 4
By: tluedeke
Posted: 8/7/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A little grumpy, so excuse the cynicism. With regards to solunar theory, I've long believed it has substantial basis in the ocean (I grew up in Port Angeles fishing salmon and rockfish, and tides wer...
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04 - Little Goose Dam to Lower Granite Dam
04 - Little Goose Dam to Lower Granite Dam
By: tluedeke
Posted: 7/28/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Went up to Ayers Boat Basin again with the boat. First tried heading a couple miles upstream, to investigate an inlet on the north side of of the Snake. Fished that for a couple of hours, trying dif...
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Walla Walla River
Walla Walla River
By: tluedeke
Posted: 7/21/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Yuck, what an awful night. Got going late to the Walla x 2, with the intent of trying this river for catfish. Dragged my boat out to the launch at Madame Dorion Park. When I got there, it looked li...
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03 - Lower Monument Dam to Little Goose Dam
03 - Lower Monument Dam to Little Goose Dam
By: tluedeke
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Ayers Boat Basin, and fished all night for catfish. Caught two channel cats (roughly 3 and 5 pounds) and two yellow bullheads (maybe a pound each). Missed several others. Not bad, but an...
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I-82 Pond 4
I-82 Pond 4
By: tluedeke
Posted: 7/4/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got to fish with the ever gracious fishinChristian, hitting I82 Pond #4. Ended up with about a dozen perch and a half-dozen bluegill, using a Jiggy white minnow jig. Great day!
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I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After my dismal catfishing trip Saturday, decided that I needed to rediscover that fishing is fun rather than just frustrating. Went to I82 Pond #6 with the pontoon in hopes of spiny rays, particular...
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01 - Pasco to Ice Harbor Dam
01 - Pasco to Ice Harbor Dam
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/29/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
OK, gotta apologize for the frustrated report, but this is about my fifth or sixth trip for catfish in which I've gotten savagely skunked. This is getting really, really old, and I think I'm probably...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished my annual shad run on the Columbia, Oregon side, on Bradford Island, facing the Washington shore. Did this a number of times in the late 90s/early 2000s, and after relocated out of and then ba...
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Yakima River
Yakima River
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I probably shouldn't be posting this report, since I'm pretty much furious after another hard day of analyzing and fishing, with the usual result of a skunking with no bites. I have multiple people t...
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