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By: downriggeral
Posted: 1/17/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Slick roads and fog this morning as we headed for Seven Bays. Roads actually got better as we got closer to the lake. I was with friend Ron in his 22' Hewes along with Scott and my brother in law Da...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 1/11/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Left Spokane about seven in the AM on Saturday headed to Seven Bays through the unexpected snowy roads. Wait a minute I thought the snow was not supposed to get here until Saturday PM. So much for t...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 1/5/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What a great way to start out 2015! Left Spokane at 7:00AM with friends Scott and Ron and launched at Seven Bays. It was a balmy 18 degrees when we started fishing around 8:30. We talked with one o...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 12/15/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day at Lake Roosevelt! We launched at Seven Bays and ran down river towards Sterling. Had poles in the water about 9:30. Friends Tom and Gareld were with me and as always we have a gr...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 12/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Interesting day today. Got up to the expected rain this morning. Met up with Ron and Scott and loaded boat in the rain, then drove to Fort Spokane in the rain. Launched the boat in the rain; did I ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 11/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First trip this fall to Roosevelt for me after recovering and doing well from the surgery I had. Those fish were just calling to be caught!
One of the nice things about fall/winter fishing at Roos...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 10/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry about the late report. I had some minor, or not so minor, skin surgery just below my eyelid. They ended up having to do reconstructive surgery and a skin graft. Are we having fun yet? Thankf...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 10/7/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
WOW what a trip! Fished with my three sons at the mouth of the Deschutes river starting Friday through Sunday the 5th of October.
Friday was clear skies, no wind (yahoo) and 80 degrees. We caugh...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/14/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for our annual trip to fish the Columbia at the mouth of the Deschutes River. I arrived the night of the 28th of August and stayed until September 10th.
The wind blew HARD for the f...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 8/18/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well it had to happen eventually. Soon or later just when you think you have a fishery all figured out it will throw a curve ball at you.
I took my grand children to Loon on Saturday night with hi...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 8/9/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
LIGHTS OUT!!
Took my brother in law Dan out to Loon for some kokanee action last night. We saw the most amazing red sun (from the smoke) on the way up. Rats left my camera home! Got on the lake ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 8/2/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took fellow Wa Laker Hewesfisher out to Loon for some kokanee action. He had never fished at night for them so this was a whole new experience for him.
We met at the launch around 7:30 PM, launched...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 7/20/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fish Dawg and the Fish princess arrived Saturday afternoon for the much anticipated Loon Lake kokanee night fish expedition. We visited and enjoyed dinner and a cold one after their HOT trip over fro...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 7/12/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sure love fishing at at night during July! Got on the water with my brother in law Dan just before dark and motored down to the Granite Point end of the lake. Lots of rigs in the parking lot, seems l...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 7/6/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
What a great night! I took my son inlaw to Loon for some kokanee action. He had not fished in at least 30 years; didn't know what he was missing! This is a picture of his first ever kokanee, the g...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 6/30/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at Kettle Falls on Thursday the 19th for the annual Mens Retreat. We camped at the Locust Grove group campsite. There were about 65 men and a dozen boats or so. Not every one fishes but...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I and friend Scott fished Hayden for the first time (mine). We got a late start because Scott had to get a fishing license at WM. First step was to find somebody who knew how to sell it to him.
S...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Many of you have been asking about Loon and if the night fishing has started yet. Well I can tell you for sure it has!
My son and his family were over from the West Side this weekend and I wanted ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went with a group of guys from our church to fish for Kamloop Rainbow Trout at Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho. The ten of us fished on a Charter. What a unique experience. Captain Ken is a great guid...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Drove up to the Mill Bay launch, what a nice facility. Paid the ten bucks to launch and park, boy was the wind blowing! Put the boat in and about got beat to death; be sure to put on the bumpers as ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2014
Hot Spots: 1
What a trip! Headed out Thursday PM for the Washington Lakes get together and camp out. Stayed in Wenatchee at the Walmart parking lot camp area; beautiful and lots of pavement to park on! Up early ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I live out at Nine Mile and the water going over the dam has been pure mud! We decided to launch at 7 Bays and fish down river instead of the confluence like we have been doing. As we approached 7 B...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/1/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Nice to see the WL site back up; thanks Mike and team.
The weather reports didn't look so good for this weekend and for that matter Friday either. It was supposed to be cloudy with wind picking u...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 2/1/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Friday and Saturday. We launched out of Seven Bays Friday morning and started trolling in the bay as you come out of the launch area. The water was calm, too calm. I like some cho...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 1/22/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We left Spokane about 7:30 in the fog and ended up following a car all the way to Davenport at 40 mph...long trip since it wasn't that foggy in the daylight. Launched at Fort Spokane; ramp was in gre...