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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/9/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day fishing Possession, east end at 90 feet. Trolling three rigs. One humpy setup, two coho setups. Worked our way along the horseshoe contour and hit a nice 15 pound king on the SW side. ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/7/2001
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Our much anticipated yearly trip to the desert. New boat, good friends, great weather. Lousy fishing. We spent 3-4 hours each morning trolling from 120-190 feet ten feet off the bottom, using plugs. W...
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McMurray
McMurray
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/24/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Once around the lake trolling a variety of thin blade spoons. Fished 11 to noon. Had other stuff that I needed to do. Anyway, no luck but I did see quite a few fishing rising, some type of insect husk...
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Whatcom
Whatcom
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/9/2001
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with guide Mike Carney using plastic lizards cast among the various docks and structures on the north end of the lake. The day started quickly as I briefly had a fish on my first cast. Mike soo...
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Pine
Pine
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/28/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake late - 6am so I had to park over at the Elementary School and walk a ways back. We started fishing about 6:30. My sons, my friend Brad and his daughter. Started off with power bait off...
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Stevens
Stevens
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/11/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Drove out to Stevens to explore the lake. I fished for a couple of hours until noon. Trolled the west side of the lake in various depths with various rigs and caught no varieties of fish. But it was a...
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Roesiger
Roesiger
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/4/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2001
Hot Spots: 0
It was a beautiful spring day out on the water, temps in the 50s, sunny, just perfect to be out. Started fishing around 10:30 the middle third of the lake, trolling a small plug just off the surface. ...
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Offut
Offut
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/28/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/28/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by and fished the lake for a little while in the morning. I trolled a variety of thin blade spoons tipped with a maggot. I had no success. I think the cold break in the weather put the fish of...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/8/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 10/8/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with my friend from 7 to 11am. Started the day off Hunt's Point and within two minutes Brad pulled up a jack coho on a plug. Depth 60 feet in 85 feet of water. We fished the area until 10...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/4/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2000
Hot Spots: 0
OK, I admit it, I'm dog tired fishing twice in one day. It wouldn't have been so bad except the wind came up a bit and the evening was spent battling to keep the boat on a good trolling line. I took m...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/4/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at daybreak to fish for coho. Per an excellent post over at NWFishing.com from Steelhead Slayer, I came prepared to either jig or troll plugs. I decided to start out with plugs and watch...
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DeCoursey
DeCoursey
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/1/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2000
Hot Spots: 0
The kids fished midday. More of the same- lots of fish jumping but few biting. Saw some nice trout caught but no salmon. I know they can be caught, it's just a matter of being there when they are in t...
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DeCoursey
DeCoursey
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/27/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 9/27/2000
Hot Spots: 0
The WDFW has planted DeCoursey today with 500 hatchery coho. I took my two boys out to try to catch a few of these fish. The limit is 5 coho, no size restrictions. DeCoursey is a juvenal only pond. No...
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Sammamish
Sammamish
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/17/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 9/17/2000
Hot Spots: 0
My mom visited from Wisconsin and I took her out fishing lake Samm from 7:30am to 11am. We hit three of my favorite spots, trolling for rainbow trout. We tried everything in my tackle box (well, a lot...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/10/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2000
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Brad and I fished West Point from 6 to 8:30am. Saw a few caught, but since it was slow we ran over to Jeff Head. We caught a nice 6 lb bright hen at 9am. Caught a few small shaker blackmou...
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Trap
Trap
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/5/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2000
Hot Spots: 0
About ten years ago, minus one wife and two kids, I used to do a fare amount of hiking. I had a job which gave me weekdays off, working every weekend. So I got to see a lot of country. One lake that...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/16/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to as favored owed by a co-worker, I managed one more trip for sockeye. My kids and I hit the water at 5:30am and had our gear down. Matt is getting quite good at running downriggers. Makes lif...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/13/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I begged borrowed and bribed my co-workers to cover for me so I could get Friday off since I can't go fishing this weekend when the sockeye season closes. On Thursday I took out my friend Brad, his da...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/12/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 5:30 with my sons and friend Manuel. We fished three lines at 60, 70, and 80 feet. Used both red and black hooks today. We fished south of 520 on the east side. Saw a few caught but i...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/9/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing can be such a frustrating sport at times. We started a bit earlier today. The line went down at 05:35 to 70 feet on the downrigger and within 2 minutes we had our first fish in the boat, a nic...
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/8/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing seemed to slow down a bit today. After 30 minutes in line to launch the boat (and thanks to my wife for driving my rig away and picking us up at the end of the day) we started fishing at 6:30....
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Washington
Washington
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/5/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Atlantic Park launch at 5:20 am, the parking lot had just filled up. We started fishing at 5:30. Pretty slow at first- a fish here, a double there. At 7 am we began to hit fish. Three by 7:...
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Sammamish
Sammamish
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/25/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2000
Hot Spots: 0
A beautiful day should start with fishing, so I got up and drove to the lake. Started fishing at 0605 and had my first fish at 0610. A nice 14" rainbow that hit a green/silver spoon at 25 feet on the ...
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Banks
Banks
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/18/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/18/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Drove over to Banks on Sunday, set up camp and let the kids swim all afternoon. The water sure felt cold to me! We went out in the evening to the ledge on the south point of Steamboat and started fish...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/27/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2000
Hot Spots: 0
My boys and I spent three days in search of the lunker lake trout and Chinook that reside in this huge lake. I had to set up my boat to fish deep, rigging up my electric downrigger and swapping out my...
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