Fishing Articles
Clearwater Springer Fever
Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. As the days grow longer and the temperature starts to rise, the rivers swell with the first run-off of the year. This tells me to start watching the fish counts over Bonneville as I eagerly await the best eating fish around “Spring Chinook”!
Idaho’s Clearwater River has by far some of the best Springer fishing around. Spring Chinook are highl...
Spring Walleye Fishing
Walleye are probably my favorite fish to catch and most definitely the best eating of our freshwater fishes. Late winter and early spring is a great time to go walleye fishing in Washington lakes. The number of fish caught may not be as great as in late spring and summer, but the average size is greater and the fish are in great condition. There are many techniques for catching walleye, but these ...
Catching Spring Chinook
From northern California to Canada, and the Pacific to Idaho, few secrets are as carefully guarded as uncrowded areas for spring bank-caught salmon. Each time one of my fishing buds gives the slightest hint of a clue of a lean in that direction, my phone goes dead, his email is lost, or I have to remind him “I don’t text.” I turned the ringer off on my phone nine years ago. Even my wife, Suz, and...
Spring Trout Tips
When I hear the opening lines of the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” I don’t think of Christmas. Instead I think of late spring fishing small lakes for trout.
Here in Washington state spring means Opening Day of trout season. Even though there are plenty of places you can fish year round in the state for trout, this is a special time when waters that have been closed all winte...
Vancouver Is. Spring Report
Spring is definitely in the air on the Island. The last couple of weeks, we have had some great weather and some great fishing to go with it. Salmon fishing has been very consistent. Constance bank and Whirl bay have been good. The west drop off on the bank have been best on the ebb tide. G-Force spoon in no bananas color and coyote spoon in blueberry muffin have been my top lures. Small herring h...
Super Fishing Event
April 16th at the Fishing Hole
Located in Argonne Ace Hardware Spokane Valley, Wa
Fishing is starting to heat up in the Inland Northwest, with monster Kokanee being caught on Roosevelt, Bass tournaments around the area, and Springers showing up in the Columbia system anglers have lots of options. With all the lakes in the area open by the end of the month, the Fishing Hole Tackle Shop has pla...
Columbia River Springers
The Columbia River spring Chinook is a special fish. If you doubt it, just take a look at the Columbia in late March when the run is just getting started. From Cathlamet, Washington, to Troutdale, Oregon the river is covered with boats. It sometimes seems as if every boat in the Northwest is on the river, trolling, anchoring with plugs, and working hard to catch one of the region’s most sought-...
Campbell Lake ID Perch
The adventure began years ago when a friend in the local bass club asked “I have a good spot for Yellow Perch thru the ice, are you interested?” You must know that ice fishing was and is the passion of my winters. Fishing a spoon on hard water is effective and much the same as open water in the warmer months. Wow, what a spot that was at Yuba Lake, Utah. Two pounders were as common as the mosquit...
Kokanee Fishing Tips
Every year I find the Kokanee season begins earlier for me. This last year we began chasing Kokanee in December with great success on several eastern Washington Lakes. But the arrival of April means one thing, Kokanee season is here in full swing. Lakes like Chelan and Roosevelt have been pumping out healthy Kokanee for months but soon my local Lakes such as Lake Stevens, Roesiger, Samish, Cavana...
Kid’s Event at Clear Lake
For many year’s now the Inland Northwest Wildlife Council (INWC) has partnered with the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) to host a “Spokane Kid’s Fishing Event” at Clear Lake. Clear Lake is a popular fishing hole, located roughly 30 minutes west of Spokane just a few minutes off I-90. Popular for its trout fishing, anglers try the waters all summer long. The event is held at the Fai...
Lake Chelan Mackinaw
Lake Chelan, Washington’s deepest and largest freshwater lake is a mecca for those in the Evergreen State that seek sunshine, fresh mountain air and plentiful lake trout that grow to enormous sizes. With sunshine that gleams 300 days a year and a lake that is 55 miles long and over 1,400 feet deep there is plenty of room for all that like to use the lake. For fishermen the size of the lake can be ...
March Steelhead Madness!
I was quickly reminded why I should not take my lightweight super sensitive steelhead rod out with me for a day of late winter steelheading. The large fish took the six inch pink worm and turned to the fast water heading for the downstream log jam. Tightening the drag and pulling back hard on the limber rod the line came to its maximum breaking point just as the hook came free from the big fish. A...
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