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Whatcom
Whatcom
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
One of my other passions in life is backcountry skiing. A person gets used to going up in the mountains and being cold.......good thing today was one of those days were you put one the chest wades be...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Back to Silver Lake for my Friday morning outing. Gave the green wooley bugger with a silver flash smiley blade a try with a dry line that put the fly about a foot under the surface, minimal action. ...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Warm windy morning on the lake, have not had much luck with wooley buggers this year, but then I have not been messing around with depth to much either. I have been rigged behind lead line with 2 - ...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 4/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 1
As always waited to the week after opening day to drop the boat in the water. Had my usual game plan for blue collar fly fishing with a green wooley bugger rigged behind a smiley blade. Well the tro...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started the lake season with an outing to Silver Lake. My usual approach is a green wooley bugger rigged behind a silver flash smile blade. Past seasons this would slay the fish, not today. Red wed...
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Baker
Baker
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 8/8/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is my third try at the sockeye fishery. I must admit this is my first year and new to using a down rigger. I have followed the wise words of others who have been posting what has worked and yet...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/31/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Back in Whatcom county after a fishing trip to the sunny dry east side. Landed a 20" 3 lbs. Rainbow at Sprague Lake. Oops, sorry this is about Silver Lake. Things are slowing down to the regular ear...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The last couple of Friday's have been very productive, but then from opening day until early summer I've always had good luck on Silver Lake. As I posted previously, the fine tuning of the blue colla...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2014
Hot Spots: 2
What a great start to a new lake fishing season. The fish were hitting like crazy on the green wooley buggers with a silver scale smile blade. Had a limit in about an hour and a half. This year I'm...
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Nooksack River
Nooksack River
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 3 days in a row with no luck. This is a new fishery for me so I realize that there definately is a learning curve. On my last day fishing I had gotten some pointers from some guys that were h...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 7/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My son Grant was home for a visit from Los Angeles and really wanted to go fish at Silver Lake. It looks like he is learning the same leasson that many young men before him have. Whatcom County isn't...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
As the season unfolds the fishing takes a little more time. Its a good thing that I have a comfy seat in my boat. Like last week the the fish seemed to hit on a sinking tip line more than any other ...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/14/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 9:30 am from the boy scouts end with a few other boats on the water. I found last week that a green woolly bugger tied with a Matquasdurg Quasar Dubbing (It looks lite oliver with a gold f...
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Silver
Silver
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from the boys scouts end of the lake with a 2nd part of a little experiment in mind. Some history for the reader, I usually use power bait, floating off the bottom. I tie up on the Western m...
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