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Cooper
Cooper
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/3/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Made the trip to Cooper Lake and put-in a bit after 8am. The wind was blowing from the north so I thought I would use my energy from breakfast/coffee to row up to the NW side of the lake where the Coo...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 10/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched the pontoons at Beaver at first light and headed to the docks on the NW side of the lake where we've always had luck in years past, after the stocking. Took maybe a half hour before both my b...
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Lost
Lost
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/21/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start and headed east to fish Lost Lake, a favorite of mine for twenty years since high school. Conditions were sunny and windy with the water temp being significantly cooler than some of t...
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Munn
Munn
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 2/28/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I took the pontoon down to Munn Lake after seeing the stocking reports stating a plant of some good size cutthroats. I tried the fly rod for a while without any takers and then spent the rest of the d...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 12/21/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to try and get to the river before what is forecast to be a few days of rain/snow. The river was in good shape and not running too high, with visibility not bad either. The wind was making ...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 10/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the rowboat at Beaver at around 9:30am yesterday, foregoing the morning bite because I expected the day to get warmer and the fish to get more active. We still had to seek them out like year'...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the power washer hole from first light through noon. I landed one and lost two more. The first two were hooked using a green body Blue Fox, silver blade with a chartreuse strip on it. The 3rd o...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 9/5/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We put in at the Sultan bridge about 6:30am and spent all day fishing our usual spots all the way down to the Ben Howard take-out. I twitched jigs (caught 3) and float fished with the centerpin (caugh...
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Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I hiked a bit up the closed Middle Fork road with my partner in crime last evening and fished a nice eddy where they are planning on putting in a kayak launch on the river. The pool was very deep and ...
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Takhlakh
Takhlakh
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/7/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I camped up at Lake Takhlakh over 4th of July weekend and fished most of each day and into the evenings. Takhlakh is one of the more beautiful spots in our state, situated right at the base of Mount A...
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Lavender
Lavender
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 6/25/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I headed out to Lavender after a meager showing at Rattlesnake earlier in the week and still wanting to catch trout in a lake despite the heat. I pulled up at noon and cast a line in and sat in on my ...
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 5/20/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Rattlesnake twice these past few days, for a couple hours in the morning on Sunday and Tuesday all day. I didn't arrive yesterday until about 10:30am, got the pontoon in the water, and prompt...
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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We launched from Washington Park and started fishing in a hundred feet of water at first light. We had two in the boat by 10:30am using herring and octopus and two bags of chum. We were anchored next ...
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 3/29/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hiked up to the top of Rattlesnake Ridge and then went back to the truck to grab the rod and try fishing the shore of the lake along the trail. It was very windy but the trout were jumping. Hooked fou...
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 3/15/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out in the rain to fish Rattlesnake Lake for the first time today. I was going to hike the shoreline, expecting the wind to keep me off the water, but when I got there the wind was minimal so I...
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Offut
Offut
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took the pontoon down to Offut to take a crack at the stocked cutthroat, practice casting with my new fly rod, and perhaps catch a rainbow or two. The lake was calm for the most part and I did my usua...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 12/23/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First day of winter break for us teachers and I am always looking forward to a couple weeks off to spend with family, friends, and fishing. Showed up at the river right at dawn and we were planning on...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 11/11/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Beaver this Veterans Day to fish the brood stock rainbows that had been planted this past week. After trolling the shore for a bit I headed to the sunny side of the lake, dropped anchor, and...
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American River
American River
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 10/14/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Some buddies and I rented the USFS American River Guard Station cabin and spent the weekend playing poker and fishing the American and Bumping River before the rains came mid-afternoon Saturday. We dr...
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Takhlakh
Takhlakh
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 9/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent three nights camping at Lake Takhlakh last weekend and moored the pontoon lakeside for the entire time, taking it out occasionally over the course of the weekend. The weather was wet all of Satu...
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Area 15 - Brettell Point, Powell River
Area 15 - Brettell Point, Powell River
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I spend most of my summers at my family home up in British Columbia and while there I fish morning and evenings for Chinook and Coho salmon at a number of locally known spots. My house is at Bliss La...
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Crescent
Crescent
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/30/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I camped two nights at Fairholme Campground in the Olympic Peninsula over last Sunday and Monday night and fished Lake Crescent for Beardslee Rainbows, catching two on Monday and catching only bites o...
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Lost
Lost
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I headed to Lost Lake Sunday afternoon with a buddy and found a nearly deserted campground and completely deserted (albeit windy) lake all to ourselves. The campground was surprisingly clean given the...
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Offut
Offut
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We headed to Offut from Seattle to celebrate getting our butts kicked doing yard work all day. My girlfriend and I had ourselves a little contest/derby challenge to see who could land more with compet...
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Lost
Lost
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 6/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My girlfriend and I headed to Lost Lake to get out of town and try and catch some trout. I spent many high school camping trips at Lost Lake in the early nineties and it’s nice to know that it’s a sto...
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