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By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 3/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Stalked the stockers at Star.
Started out trolling but found casting to risers to be more effective. I caught 8, let 3 barely hooked ones go and kept a limit. All fish were caught on a copper wee...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 1/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Yes I know its been awhile since I posted a report.
I tried Carlisle for the first time from the shore. The weather was great, and I had heard of recent broodstock plants. The bait was power e...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 9/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I was visiting Family and we thought we should hit Carney for the Fall Sept 1st opener. Loaded up two boats in two cars, Got all the poles and gear ready and headed for the lake.
Too bad when we ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 8/28/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Capitol lake for the first time in the Pontoon.
I rowed from the launch near the I-5 bridge down to the railroad trestle. There were some Kings jumping, many were a little dark already. Th...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 7/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the Pontoon on Gissberg South Pond.
I had planned on fishing Lake Stevens, but lightning strikes caused me to move the show here. Too bad I couldn't move any of the fish here.
Fished h...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Coffeepot after seeing a school bus load of kids and many other fishermen at Twin Lakes.
Launched the Pontoon and headed down the lake. Soon as I hit the main lake the wind picked up. I s...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Roosevelt 6/9 at Hawk Creek from shore.
We caught 5 Walleye to 18" although most were pretty small. Also caught a few smaller smallmouth bass, and many small trout. My buddy pulled in a 7...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 6/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished two lakes looking for "Homestead" lake in Grant county.
We followed the hunting trail north from the parking area. We could see a large lake to our left, but the trail ended at dam with a nar...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit Slim Shady for some trout fishing.
First off I was surprised at the crowd at the boat launch. Lots of shore fishermen clogging the ramp, and also lots of boats on the small lake. I started wi...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to Bob for getting this lake up on the site.
Man this lake is hard to find! I made my second attempt to find this lake, this time armed with extra detailed topographic maps. I was just abo...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 3 year old Nephew Trenton out for his first fishing experience.
The weather was beautiful and the volunteers did a great job of cleaning up the park recently. I was surprised how many peo...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water at about 6:15am. Caught a couple small Trout near the boat launch. Trolled towards the Hospital with the rest of the folks and only got one other bite. I was trolling Dick Nites in C...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit Meridian at about 7:30am.
Got into the Kokanee right away although they were pretty small. The keepers were all 8.5 to 9.5 inches. Before I switched to Bass I caught 8 and released 4. All ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/7/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us hit American after renting a boat out of Bill's Boathouse.
I caught 5 bows all on a wee dick nite in Copper. "E" switched to the same lure I had but went deeper and caught 2 nice fat ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time on this nice clear lake.
I quickly realized I forgot all my lures at home so I was stuck with digging up a couple of Salmon lures to try. I started out with the largest size gold Dick N...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/23/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I thought I would try targeting Kokanee today to see if they were biting at all. I tried trolling a dodger with a tube bait tipped with shoepeg corn. I got lots of strikes, but was only able to boat ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Did some angling at Angle out of the pontoon.
Fishing was slow at first, I released one healthy stocker for the first couple hours. I tried the same copper spoon I used yesterday it just had the o...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started out trolling different lures trying to hook up. I tried Flies, fly and Spoon combos, Worms, Powerbait, tube jigs, Dick Nite spoons and spinners. I even tried the Kastmaster that worked well l...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this lake for the first time today with a spoon followed by a fly setup. I missed my first couple of strikes. I then trolled another hour as the wind and rain picked up before landing an acr...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took the pontoon out for a row around Killarney. I heard it was just planted and this was my first time there. There was only one other boat and a guy in a float tube.
I started out casting a gol...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled Meridian for a few hours. Picked up the first fish and biggest 12" on a bead head wooly bugger. Trolling slowed, tried a shrimp imitation with no bites. I caught a couple more casting a go...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 3/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Angle today for a few hours. I trolled a dick nite spoon, and a flasher and mini squid. I tried still fishing on the bottom and with bobbers. I used powerbait, corn and worms.
I caught two s...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 12/12/2007
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
After getting skunked yesterday in Kent, I moved up river to Flaming Geyser today. On the second cast I hooked and landed a nice Native Steelhead about 6 pounds. My camera was up on the bank so I wa...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 9/6/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I started on the Skykomish near Sultan. I saw a few fish jumping, but I think they were mostly suckers. Headed down to the Snoho and caught a pink on my first cast. I lost one more for the day, i...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 6/26/2007
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Vaughn Bay yesterday the water was nice.
Lots of boats with motors kept stopping in front of me while trolling in my Pontoon. I had to real the gear in, they just wanted to know how fishin...