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Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/2/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Tough day . Had 4 or 5 take downs.with only one little one in the boat. Seen a few jiggers nail a few in the deep water, which where I was trolling. Corn tipped my pink hoochie and guilded Lilly from ...
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Big
Big
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Had A very active holiday weekend on Big Lake. Caught six inch perch all day , all weekend with wedding ring and worm setup. water temps were in the upper 70's. Only a few cuttys took the bait and a f...
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American
American
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/18/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Tough afternoon. Got in the water at 1pm and off at 5. Landed a 14" trout on a flat fish, but two others on the Kokanee gear. Nice calm day on the water though.hit the north and east sides. Good day w...
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American
American
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/2/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tough morning, but weather was great. Landed one 16 1/2" kok and a 12" BOW. OFF THE Water by 10am. Got Brett his first American lk Kokanee though so this should be a little higher rating. Water temp w...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a tuff day.n the water, but still managed 4 keepers 15 to 19 in. Pounded the mouth of crab creek for hours with just a few smalleye. Switched it up to deeper in the creek and slammed a few. Then w...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got the kid on a few fish today. Hit a trout on medicare beach and a wally in the lin cooley arm. Can't compalin too much, but the bite does need to pick up. hit the trout on a fire tiger wiggle wa...
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American
American
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake before light and pounded the west side for 5 hours. Nothing but a couple bows when we got tired of the downrigger troll. Water temp was only 51..so we could have a few more days. Good mor...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
With the water lowering I decided to try the Puyallup one last time this year. I went to my usual chum spot and only one other angler there. After about an hour of trying to get the hang of the new cu...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/9/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Fished for the better part of Sat and Sun. Only one keeper with one pig lost at the boat. Lots of jumbo perch though. No wind and good company. Fished 10-20 ft on the face of the dunes. Didn't see mu...
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Soda
Soda
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 9/20/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Normally we take Dug along to insure we outfish someone... This day was Dugz! Never mind the fact it was my rod, my jigs and me unhooking the fish like he was a 9 year old... Big Redneck kid is what ...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/15/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning on the water. Could have been better, but when you start the catching with a 27"/ 6.5# walleye.. the rest of the day is hohum..fished crab creek all morning, but didn't hit fish until we...
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Mineral
Mineral
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Late post, however definately worth mentioning. Hit Mineral @ 6am and fished till 2pm. Caught alll our limits... (8) My boat faired well trolling frog crocs and cha-cha squidders (pink/orange/purple)...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/28/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 1
What a weekend. If we didn't stop the kids they would have brought back 5# of fillets a day. Perch were so thick of the Mardon docks that you couldn't see the bottom. Tip of worm on the bottom with ab...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well it was a cold foggy morning that burned off quick and the fishing was quick too. First cast 5.8lb trout in the boat. Another 3lber in the boat on Toms next cast and we were jigging for a few hour...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks WL for the walleye video with Ross's guide service. It was the missing piece to puzzle for Thomas and I after many years of frustration.. caught 10 Friday, 5 Sat and finished up with 6 on a sho...
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Tapps
Tapps
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught smallmouth consistently today.the bonus was catching my first crappie fish on tapps.. water temperature was about 60 degrees , overcast in about 7 visibility .used yamamoto grubbs, watermelon b...
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Kapowsin
Kapowsin
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/25/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Fished the lake from 10am to 3pm. Light wind and water temp was still a bit chilly.(forgot thermometer). Fished the islands west side near shore as the fish were hitting the dry flies. Tried trolling...
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Nunnually
Nunnually
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled a wolley bugger in a black pattern around the west end of the lake. Hooked into three, C/R'd two 21" $ 18". Worked hard to get into position as the wind was in full force. Would have been a be...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 9/20/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, another year at the Mardon Dock Tournament is in the books... and another year I didn't even make the board... My buddy Thomas, for the second time won first place, this time in Blue Gill.... A ...
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Tapps
Tapps
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 15 minutes fishing at Tapps, while waiting for the wife to gt back from the Texco station. Hooked two, landed one small one.....not bad for 15 min :) Also got in some fam time, toobin, lake s...
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning trolling fox island and had one little one on. It's still slow in the south sound, but I've seen and heard of a few lucky anglers. I'm in a drought in the salt. Just can't get one th...
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Puyallup River
Puyallup River
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/11/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Slow times. Didn't see a single hook up...Can someone scare the fish up the river so my drive home involves catching rather than casting till my arm falls off :)
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Area 13 South Puget Sound
Area 13 South Puget Sound
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/10/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished and crabbed all weekend down south by Penrose. Not one fish and only a few take downs. However the red rock crabbing was on. 28 total for the weekend. Made for a different meal while camping at...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/2/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the mouth for the opener at around 4:30 am. fished all freakin morning with 3 or 4 take downs. No fish for me today. My brother hooked into a nice 10lb native at about noon, right in front of the ...
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Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
Area 11 Tacoma - Vashon
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the salt for the first time this year. Not much to talk about but dogs. We couldn't get away from them. We managed 3 flonder and one copper rockfish that we released from about 70 feet of water. ...
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