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Baker
Baker
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/1/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 2
OK, my wife JoAnn and I arrived around 6pm at the lake and launched (at Horseshoe Cove) with the plan to fish for a couple hours and then find an anchorage for the next morning's fishing. So that gave...
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Meridian
Meridian
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/30/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Had the pleasure of fishing with Basser90 and Big Bass Dez before today's WL.com picnic on Basser90's boat. We did a once around the lake and then a bit more, fishing combinations of dock/structure/we...
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Baker
Baker
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2011
Hot Spots: 2
wow. This had to be one of the more bizzare fishing trips I've ever had. Started off yesterday. Had my 18 ft cuddy cabin boat all ready. Plan was to put the boat in with my son James, find a nice anch...
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Barclay
Barclay
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Hiked up with my son James to check out this close in mountain lake. At 2.4 miles and 250 ft of elevation gain, 2,400 up, it is snow-free unlike a lot of Alpine lakes this year. The lake hold rainb...
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Whatcom
Whatcom
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 3
wow, I love this lake! Coming up here is a treat. I fished with Big Bass Dez and Tyler Walker on a wet/clear/wet kind of day. We started the day off by being solicited in the parking lot by a man and ...
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American
American
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Got to fish with bassin' buddy Bob Johansen today on American lake. We hit the lake at 0600 and ran to the north end near the boat launch up there and started fishing. Conditions were initally a bit b...
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Wallace
Wallace
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
OK, so I got my first summer hike in to Wallace lake, which was nice enough and my body survived (but required Ibuprofen back at the truck!). The fishing, however, was cut short after a dozen casts as...
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Shoecraft
Shoecraft
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/3/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 3
My skunk continues. Fished with my wife along (just for the boat ride) which was nice. It was a good day to be out, except this lake has way more waterskiers than I expected, and must all be home owne...
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Cassidy
Cassidy
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My son James and I fished Cassidy today. I was excited to fish this lake as I know it has some quality fish and lot's of great bass habitat, so I had high hopes of getting James into a quality fish. ...
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Angle
Angle
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Angle lake has once again skunked me. Went out with my son James and hit the water at 6am (thank you Sea Tac police officer for unlocking the gate!, the web site says "open dawn to dusk" but the gated...
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Crescent
Crescent
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Second lake of the day for Bob Johansen and myself. A good choice as I only had a couple hours to fish and this lake is a bit smaller than Panther (our morning lake). Crescent is hardly clear - it's v...
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Panther
Panther
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Got to fish this lake for the first time with fishing buddy Bob Johansen. First, a word of warning - if your truck/trailer is too long you will not be able to turn around in the WDFW launch area, mean...
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Goodwin
Goodwin
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Big Bass Dez and his friend Lacy. We pounded the water from 9am to 4pm and tried just about every type of presentation we could, but the best we managed was 3 small bass and one trou...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Aaron and I spent the day fishing with guide Shelby Ross on the Potholes. The fishing was consistant, not on fire but we seemed to be getting bit and catching fish throughout the day. Shelby started u...
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Pend Orielle River
Pend Orielle River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Got to spend a day of fishing for the "infamous" Pend OReille river pike with Craig Dowdy of Yankin Jaw Guide Service. The conditions were less than ideal but better than I could hope for as we left S...
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Shadow
Shadow
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First time on this lake. Really stained-colored water, wow. I worked the shoreline with jigs and spinnerbaits. No luck. There were 3-4 trout boaters out. I talked to a couple and they reported fair su...
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Omak
Omak
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/7/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/6/2010
Hot Spots: 3
I got to spend a fun day on the water with Aaron, Anton Jones, and Andy and Kevin who work with Anton. Anton had wanted to show me the trophy fishery for Lahontan Cutthroat trout that Omak is known fo...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Got to spend a day of bass fishing on lake Washington with Big Bass Dez and Chris Ferry. The bass fishing was really good, with bass caught consistantly at each location we fished. Dez and Chris also ...
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Mason
Mason
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the morning and had not much luck - just one little trout, almost looks like a steelhead smolt but at 4,100 ft not likely! Caught on a Fish Creek Spinner bronze spinner. No fish seen rising,...
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06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/28/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Another day in front of the White River on the Columbia river. This time Aaron and I trolled with a guide, Herb, from Ed Iman's Fish Camp. We started the day using chartruese kwik fish wrapped with sa...
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06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/28/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish for chinook outside the entrance of the White River with Aaron, Ryan, and Steve Leonard of Steve's Guided Adventures. Perfect conditions, a bit of a breeze which settled down in short orde...
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Rachel
Rachel
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/13/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Hiked up to Rachel, nice hike except the last 1.5 miles is grueling and the trail is in poor shape. But the lake is FULL of eager cutthroat trout so I won't complain. Fish were aggressively feeding on...
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Summit
Summit
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/26/2010
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2010
Hot Spots: 2
In a word - wow! I noted immediately that there were fish rising everywhere, and pretty quickly determined that they were quite picky. The wooleybuggers gave zero interest, and the Fish Creek Spinners...
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Sawyer
Sawyer
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Got over to Sawyer for a few hours of morning fishing, video, and pics. My boat had been buried in a garage full of junk but the last few weeks I dug myself out. I got me WL.com members rjn cajun and ...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish with Dave from the site. We launched out of Everett at 4:45am. My first time launching here, what a great facility. The ride to Possession in Dave's boat was smooth. ONce out there the wat...
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