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Washington
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 11/5/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to LK. WA. fishing for cutts. on Wed. It was a nice day with mostly clear skies. Water temp. was 55 deg. I launched at Magnuson and decided to head across to Kirkland. I was fishing a flas...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was a pretty nice day out at one point, so I went down and launched at Shilshole. I headed over to about 200 yards off of Carkeek park to troll in shallow for coho or catch and release cutts. I h...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/30/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent two hours at the beach from slack to outbound tide. Threw a white buzz bomb for awhile with no hits. Threw some Vibrax spinners, not hits. Then settled into a Kastmaster. I had something on...
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Evans
Evans
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Got an early start and drove up to this nice alpine lake, 10 miles behind the town of Skykomish. Blue sky with too much sun for this shallow lake. Water was crystal clear and you could see bottom in...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/6/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went out with my imaginary friend, "Gringo Pescidor... Mark." i.e. online fishing friend. (Only my son has seen him.. but I have told many about our adventures. Anyway, today we went up to th...
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Ozette
Ozette
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/29/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2009
Hot Spots: 2
I gathered my friend and his son, along with my son, and packed the gear for a trip to Lake Ozette. Lake Ozette is the 3rd largest natural lake in the state, and it is part of the Olympic National Pa...
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Round
Round
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/16/2009
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was pretty shocked that this lake was in the data base. I had to go over to Eastern WA. for the day, so I decided to spend the night and fish one of my favorite small time lakes. Round lake is loc...
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Sammamish
Sammamish
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Gringo and I hit lake Sammamish at about 6:30 this morning. We threw top water frogs nearly the whole time. Mark found success pretty early on with the 3.5 lb lmb in the pic. Then it was very quiet...
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Kellogg
Kellogg
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was dying to check out this lake today, after hearing about it just Friday. I got a call from CKM85, and that was all it took. We got a bit of a late start, so only fished for 1.5-2 hours. It's ...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/29/2009
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
tonight on this scorcher day I decided to go out and hit up Picnic Point from the beach with some buzz bombs. Short report,, No fish seen, heard, felt, etc. Calm warm waters, a few too many be...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/7/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2009
Hot Spots: 1
I met up with "Returnofthefish" (John) at Bitter lake.This lake is usually such a no-brainer for rock bass. We started of trolling and casting a 3" green grub that I like. John had a couple of hits...
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Coal
Coal
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had a wild hair and decided to go and see if Coal lake had thawed out. Of course I saw that it had, but there is still A LOT of snow around the shoreline. The whole campsite side is with snow. If y...
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Cassidy
Cassidy
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time fishing this lake, so I didn't have a feel where to go or what to use. The lake looks like it has some great shoreline structure for bass though. I concentrated on the shoreli...
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Ozette
Ozette
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I made a trip over to Lake Ozette. This is a very remote lake located on the coast, just South of Neah bay. It is the 3rd largest lake in the state, yet most people haven't heard of it. The lake fal...
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Secret Spot
Secret Spot
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/4/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Ok, so I discovered a semi-secret lake, at least I didn't know about it before.LOL The lake has only one small spot to access it. It was a beautiful day so I left work at lunch and launched out in m...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a friend for some basic bottom fishing fun in area 10. We put in at Shilshole around 7:30 am. Motored up to the Carkeek Park area. Fished anywhere from 30'- 150' of water using mostly...
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Haller
Haller
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/28/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Wow! Today was a banner day. Haller lake is 5 minutes from the house, so I got up at 5:00 am and put the float tube in. Within a few minutes I hooked my first dink LMB. Then I got 4 more, all thes...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 2
Wow, tonight was a blast on Bitter lake. I launched the tube at about 6:45 pm. I usually go with small grub plastics trolled behind the tube. This time I went with 5" Senkos which I would cast over...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I had been on Martha lake, (Alderwood Manor) for about 3 hours with only some bites to speak of.... So, on the way home I stopped into Bitter lake for a quick once around in the tube. It was windy...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 4/29/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I had just about 30 minutes for some beach fishing for C/R cutts from Carkeek park. The water was like glass at sunrise. No one else out there. Didn't see any rises, except as I was leaving one goo...
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Bass
Bass
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I had heard about this lake via the article on various bass lakes by Bob Johanson (sp?) sorry. I got on the water about 1:00 I had a hard time finding this place due to Hwy 169 being closed at the...
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Bitter
Bitter
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/29/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Nice sunny day for a change, snow seems to have stopped, LOL. Went down to Bitter. As usual slowly trolled the perimeter of the lake, about 50' from shore. I do best here with a green plastic grub....
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Beaver
Beaver
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First chance to go fishing in ages presented itself today, so I jumped in the car and went to Beaver. Once on the plateau it was sunny skies, but still only 35 degrees air temp. I don't know what th...
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Green
Green
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 12/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went home from work right after getting there today, sent my wife on a plane out of town,, and proceeded to check out Green lake for maybe some fall trout. Nope.. no trout for me today. I was in m...
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Beaver
Beaver
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 11/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
OMG.... OMG... I went out to check out what all the talk about the recent planting at Beaver lk. was all about. I don't know the area so when I got near to the park I saw a ton of cars parked on th...
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