Northwest Fishing Reports

I fish a fair amount in Idaho every year. We have a place on the Pend Oreille River.

PO River - My kids love it. Lots of sunfish and bass. Troll near the dam with a red rooster tail.

Priest Lake - Kwikfish for big Mackinaw

Lake PO - up to 30 lb Kamloops and big Macks. You have to search for the bows and you need some patients. I've had days of catching and releasing 5 and 6 Bull Trout, 1 bow, and a couple of Macks. Then I've had days of no fish at all.

Coocalala - good fishing. Thousands of triploids.

CDA - up to 40 # landlocked Chinook

Stop in at the Pend Oreille Valley Sportsmans Shop in Newport off HWY 2. Talk to Andy for more info.

I have no idea what he is talking about, Idaho sucks for fishing, stay in your own state 'cause the fishing sucks over here! Nothing but tiny perch and squaw fish.hehehe

Fish4brains...its not our fault. First off the WDFW is a joke, plain and simple they couldn't manage a outhouse let alone wildlife.

However, when in doubt I always blame California. Here's my logic California moved to seattle, that displaced seattlieites to E Washington. Use 509'ers have to move to Idaho to get away from the coastie invasion.

Montana has the same problem. A year ago I was fishing Rock Creek North of Philipsburg Mt. I was in a friends truck with Id plates when we came up on a local montana guy. He said "Idaho I'm sure glad to see local boys" We thought he was joking until we go down to the campground. All the plates where from New York, Florida and Texas!

jmay, you hit right on the nose! Especially about WDFW. =d>
Unfortunately just about every state has the same problem. Look at what they did in Idaho to Priest & Pend Oreille lakes. Same with Montana, look at Flathead….
I frequent Montana about once every other month. We fish the Flathead River and ALLWAYS run into guys from Idaho. Snowmobiling is the same way; you see more Idaho license than Montana.

My sarcasism always lands me in trouble. The grass is always greener somewhere else. If that wasn't true we would all still be living in the orginal 13 states right?

fish4brains wrote:I have no idea what he is talking about, Idaho sucks for fishing, stay in your own state 'cause the fishing sucks over here! Nothing but tiny perch and squaw fish.hehehe

I guess that's why Idaho has held at least two world records both out of PO. Now that they're netting bows and Lakers it's slowed down but I can still catch 10# Macks. On Priest we caught a 20#er and 25 at 1-5#s in 6 hours of fishing. We fished Hayden but it was terrible weather and snowed on us so we quit early.

Palmer: My previous statement went right over your head!! I am suprised because it just emitted sarcasm. My point was to not let the "great Idaho Fishing" cat out of the bag.