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06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Ed Iman's Fish Camp 2013! Aaron and I are in Merryhill, WA at the Columbia river for this year's Fish Camp 2013, put on by guide Ed Iman ((503) 658-3753). This is a yearly gathering put on by Ed Im...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/9/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2013
Hot Spots: 1
The fog was thick – and so were the fish! JoAnn and I launched from the Edmonds sling at 6:15 along with a half dozen other boats. My plan had been to run over to Possession and fish the tide chang...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Gotta love it when a Plan works out the way you hope it will. JoAnn and I launched out of Edmonds today for some end of summer coho fishing. I was hoping we would have another morning like we did l...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2013
Hot Spots: 2
An Epic Day at Edmonds Wow, sometimes fate plays a big role in one’s fishing success. After yesterday’s poor fishing at Shipwreck, I decided to forego the pinks and target silvers. Changed all my f...
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Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
Area 9 Admiralty Inlet
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Day 4 of my Five Day Fishing Marathon. We launched out of Edmonds. My wife JoAnn, and our friends from Montana, Bill and Joanie. This was their first time fishing for salmon. I wanted to get them ...
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Snohomish River
Snohomish River
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My five day fishing extravaganza continued today as I fished with Nate Treat, his BIL Jason, and Aaron. We did the Skykomish/Snohomish drift from Tualco Rd to Cady Park. The Tualco launch is for drift...
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Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish today with Gringo Pescador and Aaron who is visiting from Spokane to see our amazing pink salmon fishery. I would like to say I got him on limits of saltwater chrome brite pinks but alas...
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Cle Elum
Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/13/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2013
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I went on our finally overnight gunk holing adventure of the year to lake Cle Elum. When we arrived, we were shocked at just how low the water had been drawn down. The end of the concrete ra...
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Hope
Hope
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/7/2013
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2013
Hot Spots: 1
A brief separate report for this Alpine Lake. Hope lies at the end of a 1.5 mile hike up the Tunnel Creek Trail, which is quite forgettable. The lake itself is more like a pond. James and I arrived at...
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Trap
Trap
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2013
Hot Spots: 1
My son James and I went on our (mine) much anticipated overnight hiking trip to Trap Lake in the Alpine Wilderness. The trailhead is located just before you reach Stevens Pass, at the hairpin turn. ...
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Stevens
Stevens
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First to the boat launch this morning for JoAnn and I . We motored over to the south side of the lake and got our kokanee gear down . Four rods, staggered depths. I was optimistic with the overcast sk...
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Stevens
Stevens
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/30/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Having decided that Baker Lake was just too slow to fish another day on, JoAnn and I returned home yesterday and decided to fish locally. Lake Stevens was up and kokanee was the target. I was interest...
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Baker
Baker
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/29/2013
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I went back to Baker in hopes of finding some success. We arrived Sunday and fished the afternoon, using our sea anchor to keep a controlled drift of 1.2-1.4mph in the afternoon winds. Saw f...
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Fisher
Fisher
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/26/2013
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/26/2013
Hot Spots: 1
My son James and I made our first Alpine hike of the year today. We decided to hike to Fisher Lake, in the Alpine Wilderness. This lake is described as having been planted in years past (by I assume t...
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Baker
Baker
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/24/2013
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I got to Baker for our much anticipated yearly fishing/boating/gunk holing trip. The reports for Baker seemed to be “OK”, however, the fish counts are way down this year vrs. Last year. Curr...
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Merwin
Merwin
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/16/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2013
Hot Spots: 3
JoAnn and I went on our much anticipated trip to lake Merwin. We left early Saturday (arrived and boat on the water by 9:30am) and stayed until Monday 5pm. I was running numbers in my head, making gra...
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Cle Elum
Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2013
Hot Spots: 2
And this report is Part Two of my wife JoAnn and my trip to lake Cle Elum. This report focuses on a under-utilized kokanee fishery on the lake. I’ll start with a couple factoids: Cle Elum has a ...
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Cle Elum
Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Wow, wow, wow! (and that’s just for part 1 of my two day report) JoAnn and I decided to drive up over to Cle Elum Sunday and moor the boat overnight for a two day fishing adventure. I had a revelat...
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04 - Longview Bridge to I5 Bridge
04 - Longview Bridge to I5 Bridge
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Day One of my Father’s Day fishing adventure felt kind of weird to be away from home and on my own. A sign of grown kids - my younger son wasn’t interested in a two day fishing trip, and the older boy...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today I got to fish for shad for the first time (well, I fished a bit last night I’m counting this as the first serious effort). I arrived at 5:30am at the location closest to the dam, about 30 yar...
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Spencer
Spencer
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I had the pleasure of fishing with my fishin' buddy Bob Johansen today. We decided to try Spencer since it has some decent LMB in it and (bonus) I could get some video for a future production. Afte...
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Stevens
Stevens
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got up way early to go fishing on Lake Stevens, and told JoAnn "We should have got up earlier!". We had our lines running at 5:25am, and in no time at all had two fish in the boat, a 12" caught at 25 ...
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Mason
Mason
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Our next fishing trip on today’s marathon for JoAnn and I took us to Mason Lake. Again, in search of kokanee. We arrived to a late start from lake Cushman and only fished from 1-3:30pm, about the w...
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Cushman
Cushman
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I got to fish lake Cushman for the first time ever. I was curious and looking forward to seeing this lake. We fished in the evening, and then the morning. Our target species was kokanee. T...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I had the pleasure of fishing with Jeff Witkowski, who is a guide that works with Anton Jones of Darrell and Dad’s Family Guide Service. Our target was Lake Chelan Lake Trout. We left th...
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