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Cle Elum River
Cle Elum River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So after not doing to well on the Cooper River above lake Cle Elum, I returned down to the places I knew better. I had caught a really nice wild 16" rainbow on the Lower Cle Elum about 2 weeks ago. ...
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Cooper River
Cooper River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
OK,, this is a few days over due. I've had my cornputer in the shop, etc. I had a really fun day this past Sunday. I picked up my new 3wt fly rod from the fly shop in Cle Elum. Props to Tyler at t...
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Cle Elum River
Cle Elum River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! today was such a great day. I was near Roslyn for the weekend. I was doing a family weekend and fishing was not really the focus.... but if you knew me, that means that the rod was stashed in ...
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Cle Elum River
Cle Elum River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the night over near Roslyn with a couple buddies. I showed them a few of my fishing holes on the upper Yak, and the lower Cle Elum river. Upper Yak, near Ensign ranch produced no results. We ...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I just had to get myself on the board officially, as far as the Shilshole coho go. My regular fishing partner, Mr. Pip, and I have been skunked in so many different situations lately that it f...
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Ballinger
Ballinger
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/23/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had a hall pass from the family, this evening. I was hoping to get over to Forbes lake in Kirkland for some largemouth, but the sun was getting low, so I went with Ballinger due to proximity. As I...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/27/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So, this was a banner day! About 5 days ago I dropped crab pots, usual place off from Carkeek. At the end, I could not find one pot. ( 2 anglers, 4 pots) I had written it off. Today I decided ...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/22/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Gort (Byron) and headed out of Shilshole about 0715. Dropped 4 pots off of the Carkeek park area, in mostly 80' ish of water. Seems the pot line gets farther N. from Shilshole every yea...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit bitter just after 0600, in the tube. It was quite windy, and kind of unrealistic I thought, to fish. Worked my way down the N. shoreline. Started off with a white spinner bait. No luck there. ...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I snuck in an hour on Bitter after work. Wife thought I was still working,lol. 3rd cast i picked up a 3.2 lb largie. I thought that was pretty cool, so early on. I always start off at the overhang...
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Secret Spot
Secret Spot
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I have a cool lake that I bushwack to. It is up near Cassidy lake in Snohomish County. Anyway, old report from a couple months ago. Nothing special to report, sorry.. I basicly just got my SD card...
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Echo
Echo
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Echo lake (in Shoreline behind Costco) this evening. In the water by 6:00 pm, out by 9:00pm. Started in my tube at the beach area, worked my way SLOWLY counterclockwise. Took me 3 hours to cir...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't hit bitter since about Feb. so I got a couple hours in between 1630-1900. Was fishing as usual from my float tube, targeting large mouth. Worked my way casting towards the lilly edge and d...
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Shannon
Shannon
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Geez, I almost hate to stick another 1 star report on here. Shannon doesn't get that many reports so I guess I'll throw mine in. Got to the launch about 10:00 am. We wanted to fish the N. end of th...
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Cle Elum
Cle Elum
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 1
This is a report for my fishing experience in the 3rd Annual Mackinaw tourney on lake Cle Elum recently. This was a very fun day for us. The check in the am was at 0700. They told me "Blast off" wa...
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Forbes
Forbes
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 3
HIt Forbes lake over in Kirkland near Costco this morning. I was in my float tube. The lilly pads are already quite heavy on this lake, kind of strange. Lake has LOTS of cover. At least one beaver ...
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Yakima River
Yakima River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Disregard the Benton county listing on this report. The Yakima river flows through a handfull of counties, and the website only lists it under Benton county. Anyways, not much to report... Spent so...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It was a warm night so I decided to make it my first night of bass fishing at my home lake for the season. I'd only been bassing once this year on lake Union. When I was in the parking lot fellow...
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Washington
Washington
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/18/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with fishing buddy, "Motoboat" launched at that launch located just S. of Seward Park, I forget the name. FYI... they've gone up to 10 bucks. We almost didn't leave the house, due to a lot o...
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Sammamish
Sammamish
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/29/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had unexpected day off from work on the 26th, so I called up another forum member here,"Centershock", i.e. Thomas, and headed to lake Samammish to troll for cutthroat. We launched about 0915. The...
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Cle Elum River
Cle Elum River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/11/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had an unexpected day off from work so I decided to head over the the lower Cle Elum river. We had recently purchased some property of there, and I found some beautiful stretches of river that I wa...
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Washington
Washington
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
"Motoboat" i.e. Wayne, and I hit Lake WA. via the Mercer Island launch this morning at about 0900. I have grown to like this launch as it allows me to be fairly close to a variety of areas I like to ...
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Green
Green
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
met up with Gort and The Urban Anlger at the 65th street dock, Green lake. Arrived a little after 0700. Beautiful sunrise, water was like glass with a little fog on top. Not really any fish rising ...
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Washington
Washington
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/23/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out trolling for Cutts. on the big lake with "Gort" from the website. We launched at Mercer Island's launch so that we could spend a little time trolling I-90, before heading to the South end o...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fish are very bright. Caught one on my second cast. Squid jigs, heavier jig head the better. Picked up a second fish b4 leaving. Not the fastest fishing this afternoon, but still a good time. To...
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