Northwest Fishing Reports

It seems lake WA bass like crankbaits running at 5ft or deeper, althoug in some smaller lakes in the city, just twitching a rapala on the serface will get some attention. I know a place were pumpkinseeds will hit lures the size of them all day long, but you need a boat or float tube. I tried some fr...

Top water is my favorite summer time Bassin tecnique. Much more effective in the ponds and lakes on the east coast tho, and can produce alot of big bass and pike. Have had better success with jigs and carolina rigs here in Wa.

I have lost a tip or 2. Big 5 has replacment tips for a few bucks. I just take some dikes and snip it off. I then like to take a lighter, and just melt the frays, sand any weirdness out, and glue on the new tip. Gorilla glue works just fine. I always keep a few extra tips and glue in my takle bag

I'd like to get my hands on one of them Perch lures. Great for my local bassin hole. Was using a Rapala perch, but them bass busted it up

If you want to paint them, use finger nail polish its cheep. I just snatch my Girlfriends or my sisters, so its more or less free! Those are looking great. I am a big fan of making your own lures, I like to save up my morn out rubbers and make all kinds of jigs and spinners n such

Holly Crap thats a big fish! I loved catching Pike up in Virginia. Realy wish we had some around here, maybe to eat up all these darn sculpins. It seems every one around here hates them, and not to many Bass fishers either

Are tench related to carp, or just look alot alike? How about the fight they put up?

This was the only pic I still have of a smallie, guess I'll havta go catch a bigger one

Hahaha these fish's eyes are alot bigger than there stomachs!

One of the purdiest fish out there

Awesome!

I wouldnt mess with the flare gun. You never know they might have a firearm, and might not be afraid to use it, and shooting a flare at them might give them more of a reason to shoot at you. The game camera is the better option, and let fish and game,police or sheriff make contact. You could try usi...

Id fish the canal over the arboretum. Its usualy productive.Both sides of the cut have some good spots. Right now I use soft crays on the bottom in the mid day-late after noon, and shallow diving rapalas in the early morn and eve. If you can get fresh crays, then rig up for bait fishing, relax under...

Rite on! Now if only I could trap them crays. Should work well in lake washington/union yeah? Is it better to fish the botto mid or top? I got no experience with salmon and trout

hotdog on small hook about a foot under the bobber. And if you get hungry you can eat the rest of the hotdogs. Dont be to discouraged, the weather has been kinda to hot and sunny latly.

Would crayfish make good silver and king bait?

I use both mono and braided. I like the braided much better than mono when using ultra light and bait fishing, but mono on my med action spinning. With my ulta light the thing I hate the most, is when I'm botom fishing, its every snag I break off. ARG! Becuse of the super light line used 2-6pnd, But...

Come on rain and over cast! Its been a ruff couple of weeks, and I've seen a few floaters If its rainy and over cast y sun- wens I might just camp out next to the water til it gets to hot again

I dont think that blue area is prohibited, sometime when they show husky games they pan out there and theres all kinds of boats sitting there. I cant imagine geting anything bigger than a canoe into the arboretum, to shallow and weedy. Never gotten a bass outa there, but lots of perch and crappie

Ive had good luck on rapalas,grubs,crickets/grasshoppers,worms,bread, and the best yet hotdogs. I dunno why but they just love hotdogs. I've cought them in lakes,rivers,ponds,stream,canals. Best bait being hotdogs on a little hook