Northwest Fishing Reports

Im enjoying my Lexa 100, fished it only this last season and its handled all the pinks and silvers from the puke to the kings and chum from the skok without a hitch. I do feel the drag is a little weak but I normally keep my finger over the spool and had no problems and enjoyed assisting the drag wi...

I bought a diawa lexa 100hsl and freakin love this reel, I went from the round abu c4 to this and its just awesome, its cast further then I need, fits my hand great and holds a ton of line. Ive had this reel for about 3 months now and cast everything from a single split shot to a 1oz cannonball with...

Well just got back from rufus woods for the first time, just to say that place is freakin sweet the view is awsome and the fishing is great. We ended up stayin at the campsite at CabinbyRiver.com on Timms Ranch, great place awsome people running it, they were there all the time seein if we were ok, ...

I go every year shad fishign at bonneville we normally used the shad dart jigheads pictured in the first link. I prefer chartruese with a red or orange head or a white with a green head. From my experiance almost any jighead or small spoon/spinners work ( I know dicknites and the lil fish shaped one...

Ive kinda noticed recently that people just dont care which really sucks because lots of these places are and can be really nice. Ive noticed on both ends boaters and bankers you get a handfull of really nice and courteous guys/gals and then you get people that could care less about anything except ...

thanks all for the helpful advice we will prob be trolling lures most of the day, guy im goin with loves weddings rings so those will prob be used the majority of the time but I have a small assortment of spinners too that I may break out. Anyone have any info though on needing the tribal pass to fi...

Well as the title says im goin to be headed to rufus woods for my first time with a group of buddies, we have a boat and we have downriggers. I read lots of reports and on the forum from the search feature about trolling spinners are you guys just weighting these or using downrigger? I also read of ...

Curious of anyone was doin any good gettin any smelt anywhere? i wouldnt mind gettin some to deep fry. Someone at work that lives near Kelso told me they saw a few people down by castlerock dipping and they had 3 of em. If there was any place closer to Tacoma area ish like within 30mins-ish of drivi...

Well ive been told by a few people that they are starting to get some squid. Was curious if anyone else has been out and how they have done. i think I may run down to Les Davis and give it a try tonight

OK so I chickened out with the float tube (air pump had dead batteries and couldnt find my wader shoes helped in my decision too) but I did go to Bradley in South hill bout 9:30 by 11:30 when I left I caught 5 trout 4 were lil 7-8 inchers but the last one I got was about 12-13 inches all realeased e...

i plan on taking off here in a few more hours (prob round 8am). yeah Ill wait till theres some light out, i dont have the ability to get on Ft lewis anymore so I think I will prob give it a try down by that public launch in Tillicum, i thought bout Harry Todd but I think there would be alot of boat ...

I dont have any experience with them either but I was lookin at those at Costco yesterday and was considering getttin one if I had the spare money. Im pretty sure it said it came with the wheel thing, If ya get it let us know, im actually goin out tommorow goin to try out a buddies float tube for th...

I think Im goin to hit up american lake in the mornin,was hearing and reading that they seem to be doin well at the moment. One of my buddies from work loaned me his float tube and I plan on giving that a shot, anyone reccomend a good area to try? I was thinkin bout juss goin down by the VA but am w...

thanks all it was the Hobie, it was what I saw and they even have a Hank Parker speacial. here is a link to the website with them
hobie kayak
cheepest I was able to find only was $1500 looks like ill be waitin a while if I plan on finding one of these

i know alot of people like to go to certain beaches and fly fish for these but since I dont fly fish I would love to take out my trout gear and try for these, anyone have any advice on what kinda lures would prob work for this? im thinkin maybe castmasters or vibrax? and if anyone has ever tried fis...

where exactly is Kayak point? I would love to be able to go to a dock and catch some flounder like we used to be able to do here in Tacoma. when I was growing up my dad and i used to go to Les Davis, Point Defiance, or that dock off teh Nisqually basin(used to be able to get some rally big flounder ...

my dad and i do this every year when we make a bunch of shad darts to go to the columbia. i ahve a question for ya though does baking them really make them that much stronger? We normally dont bake ours (mainly cuz the jigs dont last that long for us before we get snagged) I think we tried it one ye...

Hi all first post but have been browsing the site for a while. was just curious if anyone has seen these, I think i was watching Hank Parker use this thing that was shaped like a canoe but it was man powered like paddle boats. it didnt look too big and I think would be kinda fun to have. I tried doi...