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Secret Spot
Secret Spot
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 12/31/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 0
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Ice Fishing for Kokanee close to Winthrop, WA with my buddies at Patterson Lake near Sun Mountain Resort. I have been ice fishing for 50 years in North Central Washington and this year is crappy ice ...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 11/4/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Rufus Woods is my play area as a guide! You need to have a Core of Engineers license to guide these waters. That being said, "the Colville fish checker at the Seeton Grove launch is rather lonely th...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 10/31/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/29/2015
Hot Spots: 1
The Walleye fishing is very good on Potholes right now! The perch are extra big and fat as an added bonus. My buddy Dave Getzin and myself headed out before the weekend storm to get in a morning of ...
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10 - Hanford to Vernita Bridge
10 - Hanford to Vernita Bridge
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 10/9/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Many salmon fishermen gave up too early due to thw fact that their favorite fishing program wasn't very effective since the middle of September. The water temps have been over 63 all season. What ha...
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11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam
11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 9/3/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is true.. Vernita is putting out big fish..... My customers Brett & Killian McGinnis had a blast watching the reel scream several times today. Are the fish rolling? Yes! A good indication wher...
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11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam
11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 9/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Epic day all alone at Vernita. I guided Darin and Christine Randall and their two children on a trip of a lifetime. We got down to Vernita at 6am and the water was 15 feet lower than normal. I wasn...
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Wenatchee
Wenatchee
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 8/7/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hello again, Four guide trips and 78 Sockeye landed this season so far. The fishing was tough for most of the boats today. Again the other boats asked how deep all day long!!! This means that al...
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Wenatchee
Wenatchee
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 1
What is Sockeye catching consistency? Opening day is an easy brag when it comes to limits. It gets tougher for most average boats as the season wears on. Why? You do the same thing over and over a...
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Wenatchee
Wenatchee
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 7/31/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a party of 6 out fishing today at 7:30am after the mad rush to get the first bite. This was ladies day. We made it comfortable and had some outstanding Sockeye action on Lake Wenatchee. I am n...
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Wenatchee
Wenatchee
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 7/30/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Wenatchee Sockeye Fishing has returned!!!!!!! The numbers are getting better every day and the fish are biting extremely well on my guide boat. I left the house at 6am today and put the lines i...
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15 - Lake Entiat
15 - Lake Entiat
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 7/20/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is a brag report about the last report I made on Lake Entiat. If you follow the procedure of changing out your scent bombs every 30 minutes, then you will increase your odds of catching m...
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15 - Lake Entiat
15 - Lake Entiat
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 7/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This was a split full day guide trip. The warm up was Brewster for Sockeye and the second half of the trip was below Wells Dam for Kings. We already know that Brewster is on fire for Sockeye. We ha...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 6/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2015
Hot Spots: 2
It may be a strange time to start a guide trip at noon at Lake Chelan, but the kokanee are biting in the afternoon right next to the jet ski traffic. The 24 inch king was a bonus that we bagged early...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 6/22/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My first guide trip was 100% successful. I took the Chris lynch Family from Montana out for a day of Kokanee Fishing at Lake Chelan. We found the big Kokane at the Yacht Club right in the middle of ...
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