Northwest Fishing Reports

Alright WA I want to see your hardwater fish and hardwater fishing pictures! With the season going for you guys now I thought I would start a thread for some cool ice fishing pictures...

Fish Lake, Plain, WA 1/2/11 perch, trout, sculpin

Mark- Nice pics; You eat sculpin? How big do they get?

[quote="Jay K"]Mark- Nice pics]
No, just toss em on the ice. Most were 3-4". Kinda a running joke from the report I wrote. LOL they were a bit of a pain eatin my worm and all.

@Mark - In your last pic, is that middle column of fish also perch? Those look like some pretty big perch.

Jay K wrote:@Mark - In your last pic, is that middle column of fish also perch? Those look like some pretty big perch.

All but one of those is perch, one trout at that time. good size keepers, just not the jumbos.... they were definately FAT! 8 1/2" the smallest,,,most were 9,, a couple were 10
Jay K wrote:
@Mark - In your last pic, is that middle column of fish also perch? Those look like some pretty big perch.
All but one of those is perch, one trout at that time. good size keepers, just not the jumbos.... they were definately FAT! 8 1/2" the smallest,,,most were 9,, a couple were 10 " limit is 25 perch on Fish LK, I limited, took the day, first time I did that well on perch at Fish, I used to just fish the shallows for them,,, these were 20-30 feet, I didn't count the pulls, just went to the bottom! I was told to try deeper at Fish from someone here at WA-LKs.com 2 years ago. Thanks Guy!:salut:

Mark, can you send those pics to me, mike@washingtonlakes.com? I'd like to add them to the Fish lake overview. It's a nice change of pace to start getting some lake ice fishing pics posted to the overviews. Thx.

Mike Carey wrote:Mark, can you send those pics to me, mike@washingtonlakes.com? I'd like to add them to the Fish lake overview. It's a nice change of pace to start getting some lake ice fishing pics posted to the overviews. Thx.

sure! Just got back from E WA, about a week visiting and ice fishing.

Well I can still find bass....



here is one of the big perch I have been finding



Still getting the kids out!

@Dakota - Nice mess of gills; Been hoping to get into gills all year, but can't seem to find anything they want to bite (not that I'm even sure where they are in the lakes I'm fishing). Surprised they're hitting something as big as a lindy rattler. Nice job and thanks for sharing; That'll be some good eating.

Dakota- What lake is this and how do i get there? I miss fishing for big gills.

Brrrrrrrrr!!!! Nice pics guys. Sculpin in the midwest are good. I've cleaned them to use for bait and the meat on a bullhead is a very nice white meat. Bullies (sculpin)make great perch bait.

Guys,
That is Winchester Lake over here in Idaho(just south of Lewiston). Been pounding gills all winter with Buckshot Rattlin Spoons and that Lindy Rattlin Flyer spoon. They are averaging nearly 9" with the largest taped at 10". And yes, MOST have been returned to the water unharmed....have a good two meals in the freezer so why be a hog?

Jim

I got into some perch and gills today here are the two biggest. I did catch others around the same size also just snapped a couple pics before the cold froze my camera batt.

nice pics so far everyone! lets keep this thread rollin'!

Motor1's tiger musky. Silver Lake, Spokane County.

wow! nice musky through the ice! I didn't know you could really get them through the ice! nice work raffensg64! congrats to Motor1!

here are some pics from ice fishing over the weekend. it was a great day!