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Sultan River
Sultan River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 6/20/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My goal to explore our local rivers for trout continues with my edition on the Sultan River. What an excellent day on the river in terms of weather, scenery, fishing, new territory explored and kno...
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Wallace River
Wallace River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 6/17/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday afternoon after leaving work I headed out to the Wallace below Reese Rd. to get some evening trout fishing in. I had been wanting to get out to some of the smaller rivers that are relatively...
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Area 8-1 Deception Pass
Area 8-1 Deception Pass
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/29/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stepping out of my car into the cool, salt tinted air of a late spring morning along the shores of Puget Sound, my eyes are greeted by the hills of Whidbey Island back lit with the rose glow of a swif...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/21/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I finally managed to get my first sea run cutthroat out in the salt on the fly today (first sea run in the salt period actually). After work I headed down to Picnic Point to fish the incoming ti...
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Cowlitz River
Cowlitz River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/21/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So, this is a skunk report, but I got a lot of good info in the process and have decided to share with you all. Also, this report has absolutely nothing to do with fishing the barrier dam, so if you a...
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Antilon
Antilon
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After an excellent day of fishing Omak lake, my wife was kind enough to let me go back to Antilon for one last trip and one last good chance to catch a Brown Trout before we head back over to the west...
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Omak
Omak
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, where to begin with this report....put simply, I am now a firm believer of the incredible fishery at Omak lake and can very easily see myself making a yearly trip (or two, or three) over there. I...
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Antilon
Antilon
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So my wife and I had headed over to Chelan for a long vacation weekend with a decent amount of fishing thrown in. Our primary targets were the Lahontan Cutthroat of Omak Lake, however, I had done some...
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Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Rearranging my work schedule a bit so I could get down to the river today, I took full advantage of the rain that came through yesterday and caused the river level to spike. My hope was that with the ...
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Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Despite the torrential rain that was in the forecast, I headed down to the Skookumchuck on Saturday to see if I could find some willing biters. I was really on the fence about going, given how low the...
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Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/2/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Skookumchuck for the second time this season on Saturday morning, still in pursuit of my first "real" Steelhead for 2015. After becoming somewhat convinced over the past two months that m...
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Green
Green
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 2/7/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I counted it up a few nights back...before today, I think it had been at least a dozen fishing trips that I had made since the beginning of the year where I had not landed anything. Before today, I ha...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 12/8/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, here goes. I know that posting this will probably make Reiter explode....but then again....it is quite obvious that it is already getting packed with people. I was out on Saturday on the hatcher...
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Lost Lake by Chaplain
Lost Lake by Chaplain
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 12/2/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I will preface this report by saying that if you read whorde's report for 11/29, that basically sums up my report as well since we fished together that day. I did however want to put my own report up ...
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Green
Green
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 11/27/2014
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So I checked with my wife and got clearance for a trip to Green Lake this morning before the holiday activities. I gladly accepted the opportunity, and spent about three hours fishing from 8:15am to 1...
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Green
Green
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 11/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, last night I had a choice to make as to which "Green" body of water I wanted to hit. Go down to the Green River and possibly hook into some hard fighting Chums, or make the much shorter and easi...
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Whatcom Creek
Whatcom Creek
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to head up to Whatcom today for the first time as it sounded like things were in full swing for Chum up there. Got there at about 2pm and started drifting a pink and white jig tipped with shri...
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Green
Green
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/27/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed back to Green Lake with my wife to see if we could find some of the stocked rainbows. We purposefully spent the entire time casting lures rather than using bait. Up until today I had primarily ...
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Green
Green
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/21/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First off, I listed the target species as Largemouth Bass because I caught so many of them, even though I was actually targeting rainbows. Now that I have that cleared up, on to the report. I got t...
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Cowlitz River
Cowlitz River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/14/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz at the barrier dam with some friends. We were standing in the water ready to go when the clock registered an hour before daylight. Started the day off drifting glow corkies and imme...
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Stillaguamish River
Stillaguamish River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/7/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Stilly this morning for Coho down near Silvana. Started out about 45 minutes before sunrise drifting a glow corky and then switched over to twitching jigs once the light had come up a bit m...
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Stillaguamish River
Stillaguamish River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/18/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Made my first trip up to the Stilly for this year. I started fishing around 12:30 and it was overcast the entire time. It seems like it still may be a little early for Coho, so I didn't really know wh...
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Twin Lakes
Twin Lakes
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hiked over to Twin Lakes from the Mountain Lake campground in the afternoon to see what they had to offer fishing wise. Got to the bigger lake around 12:45 and saw fish rising consistently, although n...
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Mountain
Mountain
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is actually a report for three days of fishing Mountain Lake on Orcas Island. My wife and I spent a few days camping right on the lake, and so naturally I was out fishing quite a bit. All days we...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/6/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Again hit up the Bush Point morning low. Fished chartreuse hoochie and rotator from 7am to 10am. Right about 9 saw another fish caught and shortly thereafter hooked up on a jigging cast out deep. Land...
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