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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/28/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/27/2019
Hot Spots: 1
The weather forecast said "foggy/cloudy AM with light and variable winds clearing to partly cloudy in the afternoon"... ya, right! I met up with fishing buddies Robbie and Randy R from NWFR at Newp...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/14/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/13/2019
Hot Spots: 2
Seeing the recent perch reports coming out of Lake Washington, and the amazing winter weather, I had to go check out the winter perch fishery on Lake Washington. My fishing buddy Robbie joined me and ...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/17/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes the best made plans still fall apart... I set up a Saturday trip with Paul Lewis of Fast Action Guide Service, Randy R, and Robbie from the site. The plan was to spend the day fishing Lak...
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Area 1 Ilwaco
Area 1 Ilwaco
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/1/2018
Species: surf perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This is a late report for a weekend getaway of fishing at Long Beach for red tail surf perch. JoAnn, the dogs, and I loaded up the car and hit the road - and Friday evening traffic - for a weekend ...
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Secret Spot
Secret Spot
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/10/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I got to spent a rare two weekdays fishing with rseas and Scott Crawford of Chrome Inc Guide Service to film a future episode for the TV show. To say I was looking forward to it is an under-statement!...
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Montana
Montana
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/28/2018
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
*This is NOT a fishing report! I got to spend the weekend visiting my son and DIL in Great Falls, Montana for our annual three day weekend of pheasant hunting. I look forward to this trip immensely...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This was a tough coho season, at least for me. I had some success but also some tough days, not at all like the easy limits of last year. Last trip out with my friend and NWFR camera guy Robbie. We...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/3/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I hit Lake Washington for a shot at some coho. We launch at crack o dawn and ran across the lake to fish the Kirkland slot and off Yarrow Point. Not a lot of fish marks in the slot but Yarro...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/29/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well we got a big piece of humble pie going 0 for 0 today. JoAnn and I launched from Edmonds and started right off the bat with a 15" resident coho caught on a gold Artic Fox trolling fly at 45 feet. ...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/24/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/23/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It's hard to give this report a fair rating as we only got to fish for a little over an hour. JoAnn and I launched out of Magnusen Park and ran over to fish the Kirkland location. There were around...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/19/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2018
Hot Spots: 1
I got to host CJ and Janice Kogler of the Facebook Group Hard Core Salmon Fishing for a weekend of fishing. This is a report on our Sunday trip. We met at 7am at the Edmonds sling. Helping out toda...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/15/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2018
Hot Spots: 2
Another weekend in September, must be Puget Sound Coho Fishing! Robbie and I joined new Canadian friends CJ and Janice Kogler, Admin of the Facebook fishing group page, Hard Core Salmon Fishing. Wi...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/10/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2018
Hot Spots: 2
Our last day of a four day "weekend". JoAnn and I hit the waters off of Edmonds in search of more coho. Conditions: partly cloudy, 60s, winds out of the south 10mph, LT at 11am. The first fish...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/8/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Tougher morning than I expected... Caught our first fish at 7:40, 70 ft on the wire, purple hoochie heading into the tide (south). 8:10 another one at 45 ft on the wire, army truck hoochie, with the ...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/7/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/6/2018
Hot Spots: 1
A brief report on Area 10. JoAnn and I decided this year since our first weekend of fishing out of Edmonds coincided with the derby that we would moor our boat for the weekend. We arrived and got a sl...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/7/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2018
Hot Spots: 1
What do you tell your friend if you're fishing and they get sick and throw up? "Suck it up, there's fish to be caught!" What do you tell your dog? "Darn Rudy, let's get you in to shore right away." ...
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Billy Clapp
Billy Clapp
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/6/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 3
Billy Clapp has been on my Bucket List for a while now. The potential of 20” kokanee (past performance does not equal present reality) had me salivating. Throw in walleye and bass and I was more than ...
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Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/14/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The original plan was to fish lake Roesiger however, when JoAnn and I arrived we found the lake down about a foot and after givign it some thought I decided to pass tring to launch my 20 foot Thunderj...
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Baker
Baker
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/6/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/4/2018
Hot Spots: 2
Had an opportunity open up to fish Baker lake for the weekend and was able to have NWFR web guru Aaron Borg join me for a boat-camping-fishing outing. We met Friday evening and put the boat in the ...
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Rimrock
Rimrock
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/31/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
My son James and I hit the road Friday as soon as I got home. Our plan was to drive to Rimrock lake, put the boat in the water and anchor up to a nice peaceful sunset, then go out in the morning and s...
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Area 124 - Open water southwest of Clayoquot Sound
Area 124 - Open water southwest of Clayoquot Sound
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/26/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I had the good fortune to visit Tofino with our dogs, fishing again this year with Rob Frawley of TofinoFishing.com. Joining us fishing were Rob and Hillary Holman of NWFR and Noah, a memb...
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Baker
Baker
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/14/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2018
Hot Spots: 1
JoAnn and I missed fishing Baker Lake last year but this year we found an open window and were able to get in a day of fishing. We arrived Friday evening at Panorama Point boat launch and put in th...
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Cle Elum
Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/4/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2018
Hot Spots: 2
I got to go fishing with my son James on our annual overnight trip. Decided to head over to Cle Elum and use some of shad I had caught on the Columbia. Last time I tried this I got a huge laker of aro...
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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla)
07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla)
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/29/2018
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Late report... Last weekend I got to fish with Jacob Munden of Rising Son Adventures for a future NWFR TV episode on shad fishing the Columbia River. Joining me were Rob and Hillary Holman and Rob ...
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Area 25 - Nootka Sound, Esperanza Inlet
Area 25 - Nootka Sound, Esperanza Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2018
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Our 3rd NWFR Members Adventure at Zeballos, Vancouver Island with Reel Obsession Sport Fishing was another huge success! The fishing is kicking into high gear and Rob Holman and I came home with full ...
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