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Green
Green
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 11/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Greenlake on Friday hoping to catch some of the 10k trout they put in over the last couple of weeks. We trolled from the boat launch all the way to the other side of the lake without a sing...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 11/10/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This is an addendum to the Bitter Lake submission. It's a hard luck fish story for sure. I'm adding it to the Snohomish River since that's where I catch the majority of my fish. A lot of you that...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 11/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Bitter Lake on 11/2. Got there early and tried trolling and cast/retrieve for about 90 minutes. Had a couple hookups and one landed on kastmasters and spinners. Switched to power bait and ...
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Green
Green
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/31/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing the past 3 days at Greenlake - no luck yet! I had 1 hook up this morning but he got off. I'm using spinners and spoons only - no bait. I did see some folks catching using power-b...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/31/2015
Species: Squid
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I went to Edmonds Pier again last night and it was going off! There were times that it was every cast I was pulling up at least one and sometimes 2 at a time. I quit with 42 (about 6 lbs) in 2.5 hou...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/27/2015
Species: Squid
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Squid are coming through really good right now and I gave it a try for the first time in my life. I caught a few and had a great time. It's pretty different from fishing as there is no fight and not...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/21/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I found out that WDFW had posted their fall stocking report with last year's information, so I thought the triploids were being stocked in November and totally missed last weeks big days. I...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/17/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I was hoping for a repeat or better from Wednesday, but didn't see any fish rolling or jumping and no bites. We trolled up to Thomas Eddy and cast spoons, spinners and corky/yarn with no success - th...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/14/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We put in at Cady pre-sunrise and putted up to the Pilchuck & anchored. We tried 1st bite with spinners, jigs and spoons but didn't get anything other than a big nasty humpy that took my yellow vibra...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We put in pre-sunrise and were anchored up at the mouth of the Pilchuck river by sunrise. Within 10 min of anchoring, my buddy caught a super bright 6lb hen on a yellow/black vibrax. I started with...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/9/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Dang! I've just got fish kryptonite or something! We got there just before sunrise and put in. I have small boat with an electric motor, so we can't zip around anywhere...we putt slowly! We trolle...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Man! My Coho mojo has been a no-show mo-fo so far this season! We started at Cady park about 7:30am and pulled plugs down just past Farmer's riffle about 1 mile downstream from the Hwy 9 bridge. ...
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Samish River
Samish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 9/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got up at 2:30 this morning and out the door before 4am to hit pre-sunrise at the Samish river mouth. I was stunned to see a lot full of early-birds wanting to hit morning bite. I can't actually eve...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 9/3/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another awesome day on the river. We got caught in a couple of serious showers, but that made for some spectacular photography! Great rainbows! Back to fishing - we put in about 2pm and motored d...
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Samish River
Samish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/31/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day on the river - saw 3 fish pulled out total. I didn't get any bites but had one bump my line. I DID get wet :(
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/27/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We really worked at it today but couldn't limit! Still, very happy with five pinks, 3 of which were pretty bright, although small. We were right in the middle of a couple of big schools rolling al...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/26/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day! Put in at Cady park and half drifted, half slow trolled down past Farmer's Riffle. I saw all the bank and wading fishermen where I normally fish. It was an odd perspective being in th...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/24/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
This is actually a combined report for a 4 day odyssey of persistence from Thursday to Sunday. Thursday - jockeyed trucks around and ready to leave. My truck died in the driveway w/a bad starter....
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the river at low tide and saw a large one swim past us within the first 15 minutes. Caught a small bright pink (maybe 1.5 lbs) on a pink buzz bomb and let it go. Another BIG salmon (not ...
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Area 8-1 Deception Pass
Area 8-1 Deception Pass
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/6/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at Mukilteo around 6:30 and motored/trolled down to the first set of homes just before the shipwreck south of the lighthouse. We caught a few small steelhead (geez..I think that's what they we...
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Rattlesnake Lake today using barbless single hooks & no bait (fishing restrictions in place there). Caught 1 fish, but had several bites as well. At the end of the day I let my fish go - cou...
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Langlois
Langlois
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 6/5/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We hit Langlois about 7am. Water was so still it was hard to tell the reflection from the real thing (see photo) We tried both casting and trolling. I had the first hits on a kokanee Dick Nite. 4 s...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 12/15/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the hatchery this morning with a full arsenal of fish catching equipment. Got there to a full parking lot and a large crowd of people fishing the banks on both sides of the river. I tried ev...
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Green
Green
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 12/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/6/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Got down to the kiddie pond at about 8am. The bite was good but not as good as yesterday. Lots of folks fishing bait - and lots of bait/gut caught fish being thrown back. I saw one in its death...
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Green
Green
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 12/4/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went down to the 3-year old kiddie pond today for first bite. They were picky but I kept changing out lures until one worked, then would change again once it didn't. The most successful lure was ...
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