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Deer
Deer
By: Aaron
Posted: 10/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived an hour behind schedule (8am). Had everything rigged and ready to go when I got there. Used a Frisky Jenny Black Ant with a bit of worm on my braided line, with a 5' leader and a small split s...
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Deer
Deer
By: Aaron
Posted: 10/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I think I'm finally beginning to understand this lake. Erin and I arrived around 7am. It was cold!! Frost on the windshield and fog inside the boat. Lucky for us I picked up a 4000/9000 btu propan...
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Deer
Deer
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I finally hit the jackpot on Deer! I stopped into White Elephant yesterday and picked up some Apex lures (size 1.5). One in Chrome with a reflector on it and the other in a rainbow color. They worked ...
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Deer
Deer
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water about 7:30am. Trolled the Southwest bays at about 1.7-2 mph using a black/green wedding ring with a yellow spinner and a chunk of worm. Set the downriggers to about 33'. It took about...
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Williams
Williams
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Built a new enclosure for my GoPro hoping to film some trout taking my bait but without a laptop on the boat it's impossible to make needed adjustments in the field so the footage was a waste. The fis...
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Deer
Deer
By: Aaron
Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Skunked. We trolled the north shore from the west end, through into the narrows, and back out without even a hit. We used Chartreuse U20 flatfish, red wedding rings, silver/blue spoons, and even still...
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Clear
Clear
By: Aaron
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Had a very hard time finding the fish today. We trolled from the launch over the west side of the lake and then dropped lines to the fish. They weren't biting. We moved all along the west shore using ...
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Clear
Clear
By: Aaron
Posted: 6/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Trolled around the lake for a few hours using a red wedding ring with worm, and a 2" perch Rapala without luck. Decided to park it on top of the marked fish for awhile to see if I could manage to catc...
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Yakima River
Yakima River
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Keven Samuelson of The Evening Hatch Guide Service took Mike Carey and I for a day trip down the Yakima. The weather was somewhat miserable, but the fishing was fine! We caught fish off and on all day...
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18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence
18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence
By: Aaron
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Noah and I met up with Hewesfisher and his wife at the Seven Bays launch and headed directly to the mouth of the Sanpoil. We trolled various perch colored flys and plugs for a few hours with...
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Liberty
Liberty
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/13/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/13/2009
Hot Spots: 1
It figures that someone other than me would catch the first fish in my new boat. Dale and I fished Liberty from about 4:30pm to 8:30. This was my first time on the lake in a boat so there was a lot of...
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Deer
Deer
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/9/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The 3 of us arrived at about 6:30am and headed for the east side of the lake. We trolled up and down that side at various depths, changing speed and lures. We kept at it for about 4 hours, eventually ...
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Rock
Rock
By: Aaron
Posted: 3/28/2009
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/28/2009
Hot Spots: 2
AnglinArcher and I hot Rock lake early this morning at about 6:30. He took me on somewhat of a tour, showing me a lot of the hazards the lake has to offer. I marked as many as I could in my handheld G...
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Rock
Rock
By: Aaron
Posted: 3/14/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2009
Hot Spots: 1
I decided earlier in the week that I had to get down to Rock soon because of the decent winter action and because it's relatively close to home. I picked up my friend Noah and we arrive at the lake ar...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Aaron
Posted: 11/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Great fishing was had by all! We caught 55 triploids, and 2 perch as well! Water temp was 59 degrees all day. Air temperature was more like 45. :( When the bite was on, it was ON! Many doubles were...
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West Medical
West Medical
By: Aaron
Posted: 7/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water about 7am with both of my sons. We were into the fish by 7:30 and caught 11-13" trout regularly for the next 5 hours. Logan just had the luck today. We kept making him switch poles, t...
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Downs
Downs
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I dragged my friend Noah along with me to Downs tonight to see if we could get in on some of the good bass fishing I've been reading about. We got to the lake, paid the lady $5 and proceeded to launch...
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West Medical
West Medical
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just HAD to get out fishing today and one of the closest places to go when you don't want to use a boat is West Medical. I got to the launch area about 5:00 and dropped my line in on the east side t...
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Clear
Clear
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Got on the water about 6:45 with little fanfare. There were only a few others on the lake. Trolled once around the lake with no luck but then concentrated our efforts in the southwest shoreline. Water...
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Liberty
Liberty
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/20/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Liberty this afternoon to see if I could catch my first fish of the year. It was not meant to be. There were quite a few people on the fishing dock, and not one of them had a fish yet. Dur...
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Spokane(Long)
Spokane(Long)
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took my 6yr old son out to the dock at the Lake Spokane launch. I didn't expect to catch much of anything other than suckers and squawfish, but we didn't get any bites at all. We tried suspending ba...
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Silver
Silver
By: Aaron
Posted: 6/3/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Noah and I went back to try again for a Muskie. We rented a boat at the resort for $12 and hooked up my electric motor. We covered the northeast end of the lake trying a few different lures but didn't...
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Silver
Silver
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/27/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 2
Headed out to the lake with my friend Noah at about 4:30pm for some Bass fishing. While we were getting everything in the boat the subject of Tigers came up. We thought it would have been a treat to h...
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Williams
Williams
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was supposed to be perfect today so we couldn't resist heading to Williams Lake. My daughter and I were on the water, wedding rings in tow, by 8:00am. Trolled the SE side of the lake all t...
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West Medical
West Medical
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/5/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I've been having horrible luck this year finding a lake that I can pull fish out of. This morning was my 3rd time out in the last month (Sullivan and Loon) but it was my first fish of the year. Tolled...
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