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By: Lundegard
Posted: 12/31/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Our most recent trip to Roosevelt was in mid-October of this year. We had typical fall walleye fishing then, with 3 days worth of limits for two of us. Winter for us at Roosevelt usually means rainb...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished our club tournament. Two other clubs were on the day before so it was tough to find big fish. I caught 14 bass but nothing over 2.5 lbs. bedding fish would not bite if they saw you. Caught a...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A little late in the spring, but due to the windy weather forecast, I gave it a go. The lake is getting weed choked already, and very slimy. Water temp was 65, and wind was strong. I caught 7 largem...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/24/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Fished our club tournament with a partner I often fish with. We launched from Cascade Park, and had a plan but quickly changed it since two other clubs had fished the day before. We decided to look ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/15/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Given the stable warm trend of May weather, and a recent trip of fair success, my usual walleye partner and I decided on a trip to Banks, since I had a work-schedule change and could therefore go duri...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished a local club tournament for one day. We started at Big Dune and boated three bass. Then we tried some other dunes with similar features but didn't find any takers. We moved to the Goose Isla...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the Potholes Open this year. In two days of fishing, we landed one largemouth. We learned that our approach was not always going to work. Our approach was to go to spots we knew held fish...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/3/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We spent two days fishing hard for 3 walleye, 9 rainbows, and 7 lings. Found the walleye and lings on jigs, in 75 to 105 feet of water; we never had a bite in any shallower water, trying all the way ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 3/5/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The calendar says it's March, so that means it's time to see if the big girls are moving up to Rock Island Dam. The water temperature confirmed it's too early in March, however, and so the bite was n...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/19/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I've been meaning to take a bass-fishing partner out fishing in the winter for some time now, and we were finally able to get our schedules to match this weekend. We didn't get on the water early lik...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful day on Lake Chelan. I think that's the calmest water I have every been on there. We got to the launch a little after 7, and it was about 20 degrees with brisk east winds. Luckily, ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 1/9/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
After monitoring the weather stations for daily hi and lo temperatures, and watching the web cameras, and getting 3rd and 4th hand reports from friends, we decided it was time to try the ice. There i...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had to get out fishing, for several reasons. 1. Cabin fever 2. New sonar 3. Marginal ice conditions for ice fishing 4. Keep my drop-shotting skills sharp So I went to Lake Chelan. Couldn...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 11/14/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Due to the fact that "everything is late" this year, I waited awhile to check out the fall walleye bite below Wells Dam. I also waited for a poor steelhead report, so that there would be less fisherm...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/30/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a few years since I've fished Chelan late in the year for bass. So after spending a couple hours yesterday cleaning up the boat from a tournament, I was awake this morning and said what the...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/5/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the combo bass-walleye tournament out of MarDon on October 1 and 2. I normally fish the WSBF Scholarship tournament at Banks on this weekend each year, but my usual partner had other plans. S...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We wanted to see if the fish were stacked up in the drawn-down lake. Normally this time of year the walleye bite is pretty good on Banks, so we thought that the skinnier water would increase our odds...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After a morning at Banks, we decided to try our known spots at Roosevelt. We picked up 5 keepers in about 3 hours in the late afternoon. We really had to work for these bites, and they were deep, 80...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went solo to Chelan, looking to prove (or disprove) my dismal results from last week. I decided to change things up from my usual August tactics, just to eliminate possibilities as to why last week w...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This was supposed to be a 3-day trip with my usual battle buddy, but he had a little accident, so I went solo ... paybacks! (inside joke). It took me all day but I finally got a limit. Magic depth ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with some good friends finally, after a long time not fishing together. We took two boats, with two of us in each boat. We started at about 6 a.m., and quit about 4 p.m. We went after smallm...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/2/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Day 3 of a 3 day trip. Good thing too...don't know how much more furious action like this a guy could take. Plus, we ran out of cooler space! Limits of kings by 9, and back to break camp and head h...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/2/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Day two of a 3 day trip. In a word, Unbelievable. Limits of kings, limits of silvers, and 4 short of limits on bottom fish. And to think we almost turned around at the mouth of the Strait due to a ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/1/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Where to start. I was fortunate enough to get invited on a 3 day kamikazi trip to Neah Bay...word was the salmon bite was on and the bottom fish usually cooperate. And boy howdy. We had our salmon ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the local bass club two-day tournament. My partner and I brought our 9-year-old daughters along, and camped at O'Sullivan Resort campground. The weather was warm and nice, tolerable unlike mo...
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