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By: Toni
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 1
I rushed home after work to get ready because my 4 year old granddaughter and I were going fishing. She told me early in the day that she was my fisher girl. We got to the lake just after 6pm. gave a ...
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Clear
By: Toni
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2010
Hot Spots: 3
I am tired so this report is short. I was at the lake from aproxamatly 8am - 3pm. I caught so many trout I can't keep tract, at least 6 times over. I usually lose tract some where after 5. It was s...
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Clear
By: Toni
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got on the water about 9:30am and it took about 10 or 15 minutes to get my first trout. I left around 5. I tried all the spinners from the swap. I found the spinners weren’t very productive today. I...
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Long
Long
By: Toni
Posted: 5/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2010
Hot Spots: 2
I have never been to this lake before. The weather was overcast and at one time I unzipped my coat. I took the temperature of the water right after I got there at 9am and it was 54. I c&r a stocker...
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Clear
Clear
By: Toni
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I am blessed to live so close to good lakes. Today, my day off, I was getting ready to go fishing but at 8:30am I get a call to come to work. At time and a half I said yes. I don’t have to be there un...
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Clear
Clear
By: Toni
Posted: 4/29/2010
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It rained, it hailed, and the wind blew but I caught lots of fish. The best fishing was as it was hailing. It was sunny for short periods of time. I trolled all of the time with many different things ...
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Clear
By: Toni
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I am so grateful to live close to so many lakes. I got to Clear Lake in 10 minutes and as I pull into the launch I wonder where I will park because there were so many rigs. There were four boats goi...
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Whitman
Whitman
By: Toni
Posted: 4/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing at 8:30am and the weather was cloudy, calm and the air temperature was 56. Water temp was 53. I caught 2 trout by 9:30 trolling. I fished some docks for a short period with a jig ...
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Offut
Offut
By: Toni
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was the first day I have been to Offut. I found the parking at the boat launch was, indeed, small. We got the last two spots before one has to start looking for side of the road parking. The ...
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Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River
By: Toni
Posted: 3/23/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I drove down to go fishing at the Skook and what did I see on my way...9 turkeys and then 36 elk with at least 2 spikes in the group. I get to the end of the road and there is only 1 truck parked ther...
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Whitman
Whitman
By: Toni
Posted: 3/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I went to try things out in the boat for the first time this year. I added the down rigger and it was my intention to use it but my granddaughter spent the night so I took her with me instead of the...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Toni
Posted: 2/28/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I went with friends, Glenn and Cami in their boat, out onto Puget Sound. Most of the time it was not rainy but breezy so Cami and I were cold but Glenn was a trooper in his shorts. We started out by...
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Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River
By: Toni
Posted: 2/14/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I left home as the rain was letting up and it looked very nice when I got to the river. Leaving my rain coat in the vehicle with the moon roof open I headed out to fish. There weren’t a lot of peopl...
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Secret Spot
Secret Spot
By: Toni
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I had a great day today. I was in a sled on a “unknown” river because I have been sworn to secrecy as to where. Our target was steelhead and I picked up two. I caught my first native that was rele...
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Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River
By: Toni
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bobber down! That is the first time my bobber has gone down due to a fish in a river. Ok...it was a trout (about 8 inches). The river had people all over. They started at the openings upriver from ...
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Lewis River
Lewis River
By: Toni
Posted: 1/16/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Since most the local rivers were blown out I took a long drive to the N. Fork of the Lewis River to see what it was like. I have never been there. I checked the gauge before I left home and they let ...
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Nisqually River
Nisqually River
By: Toni
Posted: 1/2/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The river was up a little about the same clarity as yesterday but it was swifter. Not too much going on today. Showers for part of the morning. When I took the temperature the air was 46 (it did fe...
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Nisqually River
Nisqually River
By: Toni
Posted: 1/1/2010
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the river close to 7:30am just as it was getting light. I choose to fish at the spot where the guy hooked 8 and I think he landed 4 or 5 on Christmas day. There were only 2 other fishermen i...
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Nisqually River
Nisqually River
By: Toni
Posted: 12/25/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the river through the campground at 10:30am to see a man bringing in a nice Chum which he released. He had one bleeding on the gravel, too. Another man down off to the left was bonking one ...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Toni
Posted: 12/10/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted it to warm up so I didn’t get to the water until 11:30am. That was too soon. The outside temp was 30 and the water temp was 32. There were small ice slushbergs floating in the river. Where ...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Toni
Posted: 12/3/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
From 8-10:15am I was trying to catch a salmon at the 115th st hole with a few other people. No one I saw caught any fish. I did not see any fish at all. The water visibility was at least 12 inches b...
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Carbon River
Carbon River
By: Toni
Posted: 11/24/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The Carbon was high but has good visibility, a little over 7.5 feet and just under 400cfs. I was trying to find a different spot and I only had a short time after work before dark. I tried two new s...
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Carbon River
Carbon River
By: Toni
Posted: 11/12/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Only had a little bit of time for fishing from 10:30 to 12:30 to see what the river was offering. It was offering solitude. I didn’t see a single person fishing. Of course, I didn’t see any fish ei...
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South Puyallup River
South Puyallup River
By: Toni
Posted: 11/11/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the river somewhere close to 3pm and left at 5pm. There were 3 other people fishing and they left by 3:30pm leaving me with it all to myself. The river was in very good shape. The clarity ma...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Toni
Posted: 11/5/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was near the 5th NE bridge and I fished from 7-10:30am without anything hitting but leaves. The visibility in the water was about 7 inches. I used the flies I tied but then switched to corky and egg...
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