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Cle Elum
Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I had a great three day weekend of fishing. Day ½ (LOL) was spent on Cle Elum with Mark, AKA Gringo Pescador. We arrived and had gear running at 6:30am. Our target was macks and kokanee. We knew there...
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Stevens
Stevens
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
With one more day off before having to do ten days in a row, I saw the nice weather reports and talked my wife into getting up at 4am to go fish Lake Stevens. I figured a couple days after the Derby t...
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Fiorito
Fiorito
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/12/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Today I got to fish with “The JigMiester”, David Gerhauser for some crappie action. For those of you that don’t know him, David pours some incredibly life-like soft plastics for jig fishing crappie, w...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My body is telling me I’m still on the water but I am, alas, back home. Four days of fishing Lake Chelan and our Kokanee Get Together. What a great weekend it was! JoAnn and I arrived Friday mornin...
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Stevens
Stevens
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I got to fish this morning with Zack of Northwest Sportfishing on Lake Stevens for kokanee. We started at crack’o’dawn (6am ish anyway) and the bite was on from the git-go. Since I was running the cam...
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Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I’ve driven by this lake so many times going back and forth to visiting my son in Montana, always wondering how the fishing was. So when the opportunity came up to fish with the Club Chairman for the ...
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Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/14/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/13/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I had an itching to fish this lake again and as my day got free I asked JoAnn if she wanted to fish and she said "yes". So off we went, me with thoughts of the last time I fished the lake and did real...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 2
After a few trailer and downrigger and boat water/fuel filter issues (always remember to fill the new filter with gas…) JoAnn and I final got to fish two days, Sunday and Monday on Lake Chelan. Las...
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18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence
18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/29/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron and I got to go fishing with Craig Dowdy of YJ Guide Service. Our target was burbot. It was a cold morning but the roads were clear. We launched out of Porcupine Bay and headed up the branch to ...
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Stillaguamish River
Stillaguamish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/1/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Day off to go fishing and a dang cold and wet front moved in. We had already made plans to run a three boat convoy to fish the lower Stilliguamish as it opened for steelhead December 1. Gringo Pescado...
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Green River
Green River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/18/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/17/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I got to fish today with Nate Treat, floating the Green river from the launch above the metzler drift down to the take out at Hwy 18. I really enjoy floating new water and was looking forward to this ...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/17/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes plans just don’t go the way you hope they will… After seeing salmonbarry’s nice Chico report I decided to explore this fishery as I’d never been there before and hadn’t really thought abo...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/11/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Cady this morning, fishing with Nate Treat. The water was high. Nate gave me a shrug when I said I only had a few hours to fish and wanted to give the Snoho one last shot, hoping to fi...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/5/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the same location as yesterday with totally opposite results. One meager bobber bounce and no fish in the boat. I fished solo today and hit the same slots we caught six at yesterday. The hole w...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/4/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First off, no “Hot Spot” locations on this report as all our fish came from a spot that Nate Treat scouted earlier this week and hit fish in, so thanks Nate! I got to fish this morning with Gringo ...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/28/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/28/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Another day off, forecast of sunny skies, of course I’m going fishing! I gave Nate Treat a call and he was down for fishing out of my boat. Gotta give a guide a break and take him fishing, right? W...
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Skykomish River
Skykomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/23/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today was “convoy” day as a group of WashingtonLakes anglers got together for a nice float from Sultan to Monroe. It was a chance to drift a different part of the river, shoot some video, and catch so...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/14/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/14/2013
Hot Spots: 2
My salt water trips are done for this year so it’s off to the rivers. After working the weekend I was ready for a fishing day on my (one) day off this week. I called up Nate Treat and invited him on m...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/8/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Last trip of the season on the salt water for JoAnn and I, and our last fishing trip for the year as well. We started way back in April with a super successful trip to Lake Chelan for kokanee. Sad to ...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/5/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Clean Up Day on the Snohomish! Met up with Gringo Pescador, Oneshot, Steelheadin360, and other members of the site for some fishing and cleaning up of the Snoho. We broke into groups and headed off...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/30/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Got to fish today in the wind with Gringo Pescador and Nate Treat, out of my boat. We launched from the Edmonds sling and as we came out of the marina I immediately scratched my original plan to run d...
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Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
Area 10 Seattle - Bremerton
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/24/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/24/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fished today with Gringo Pescador and a co-worker, Robbie. We launched out of Shilshole and had lines down at 6:55am. HT was 9:45. Winds light-mod out of the south, temp 50s. Cloudy to start, and clea...
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Potholes
Potholes
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/24/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2013
Hot Spots: 2
What a treat I had today, fishing with Big Bass Dez and Shelby Ross of Ross Outdoor Adventures. Shelby had called me to let me know that “the crank bait bite is hot right now”. Sign me up, I said. I t...
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06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Our last day of Fish Camp and one more shot at Columbia Fall Chinook. Where else but at the mouth of the Deschuetes river. Aaron and I are again fishing with Bruce Warren of Fishing For Fun Guide Serv...
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06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/18/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another fun day on the water! Fishing with guide "Walleye Willie" (http://walleyewillie.com/, 541-993-7335) off the mouth of the Deschuetes River on the Columbia. We used standard hover techniques wit...
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