Northwest Fishing Reports

*LOL* caught my hat..it was happily floating away once I got some of the water out and a bit off of me....as for tieing off, the boats a little 12 foot fiberglass and wood job that will be getting some of that closed cell spray in foam...pretty sure I'll sink faster than it. The oddest part is that ...

Oh yeah..the things I learned... 1: Patch ALL the holes dummy 2: tie a rope to yourself to the boat, just in case 3: Put the wallet in a water proof bag (wet cash anyone?) 4: no matter how wide a boat is, a fat boy like me can STILL make it rock 5: even though it seemed like a good idea to take the ...

I really wanted to post a nice little fishing report on Lake Erie tonight, But thats not going to happen. what IS going to get posted is a fast story on how a simple shake down cruise on a new boat can turn bad fast, even if ones laughing the whole time. Awhile back I bought a 12 foot fiberglass row...

I have no idea what I'm going to do with it but the price was right. Well if you don't need it, sell it...o:) If I hadn't just bought a minkota (sp?) for $70, I would make an offer..course I might be interested anyway (just don't tell the wife) I recently bought a 11.5 foot fiberglass v hull for 39...

working the weekend, but my 16days off starts the 27th, going to hit cranberry lake (island), then the week after I'm planning on going up to Lake terrel to harass the catfish they say is in there.

I'll be hitting lake Terrel in about two weeks (day after memorial day), going to be staying at the state park up there for 10 days (took two weeks off of work)...we were going to head south and hit sworfford pond and that are..but this is closer and if its nice then I'll hit it more often.

Hoping to get the truck legal in Washington (plates) this week, then get the boat floatable...with luck a few weeks down the road I'll get to take a couple off and head down there... We were looking at the Mossyrock state park as far as camping goes.

yeap, thats my Grandmother..long live that record

Aye, Rock bass...those have a long history in my family, my grandmother still has the Nebraska state record for one of them, and once Nebraska lost their breeding stock one year they came to my grandparents to find more (She did have the record after all).. but it seems to me they are members of the...

I hit Beaver the other day, more to check it out than really fish it... I fell in love with it, hard to explain, but most of the lakes I've been to out here feel..dead or sterile to me..that one feels a lot like the ones back home do..I will be hitting it hard once I get the wood replaced in my boat.

Normally I can argue either side of anything...in this however...

McCain is just more of the same
Clinton is, well, better off as a joke in the history books

only one real chance of anything new.

Not sure if this is the right way to do this but, planning on hitting some of the smaller lakes up around Clear lake tomorrow morning if anyones got the day off like me... some of those smaller lakes sound like fun to check out (Beaver and Mud)..I'll pack the camera as well for pics. Let me know if ...

Thanks.. :joker: shortly after I posted I asked the wife..her reply was the thing she DOESN'T have on her finger (long story), so I ended looking them up...seen them, never used one though.

ok I give up..what IS a wedding ring? I've probably seen one or know, but for the life of me I'm getting a blank everytime I see someone say it.

man..nice cat..makes me hungry all over again....

*edit* I would guess about 5 - 6 pounds on that cat

Those all sound like fun, and the photos on th elake pages make it look nice..only one more question (yeah right)...any good comp grounds in the area?.. we have a 36foot bus conversion to camp in and would need a place to park it.

Well I'm not picky *S* Bullheads and I get along just fine...tough little shits, they are almost as tough to kill off as carp are. I know of a lot of small ponds back home that are over run with them...the key is to drop in some large catfish to prey on them before they get stunted.... 2 to 3 pounde...

Being pretty new to the lakes out here, are there any with good sized catfish on this side(west) of the mountains? Hoping to take a couple of weeks off soon and would like to plan ahead.

Goals
1: Fish more, work less
2: take my son out fishing more often
3: get the new(old) boat in the water, with the water on the outside
4: hit some nice warm water lakes in Eastern washington
5: resist the urge to toss said son overboard

We ate carp a lot back home..One thing we learned was that they changed in taste and texture depending on water..the warmer it is the musher it gets...we had a nice little cold water stream that we would fish for them in. Gramps would either smoke them using a simple brown sugar/salt rub or slice th...