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Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great evening out with Dale and Hunter Payne of Gig Harbor. We started out trying to reproduce my late morning bite in the flat, but only garnered one fish in about two hours of trolling. W...
Posted: 7/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
That little purple glow F7 flatfish at the nursery and again on the Bar scored for the Follette family all the way from Singapore to visit our valley. Check out our sunset with fish pictures.
Anto...
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning to take Tommy (8) and his father Stuart Hoisington of Tacoma. We started a bit later than usual so we made two passes over Mack Bar. That netted us a nice quality fish and a cou...
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy once again had a banner day at the mouth of the Okanogan pounding Sockeye. More of these fish are in the 4 to 6 pound range. You might try adding a Mack's Lures smile blade and a set of stack b...
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little F7 purple glow flatfish continued to out produce everyting else. It was nice steady bite on the Bar albeit no giant fish. Then we continued to plunk them working through the indetermina...
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those T4 Purple Glow flatfish off the outriggers allowed Andy to produce some great fishing for the Greve kids from Sammammish. Boy, did they have a ball! Woo hoo! Work the Bar, the Yacht Club and ...
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Tangborn crew wanted to focus on Chinook so Andy and Jeff ran a plug cut herring off the downrigger for Chinook. Also hanging out on the Columbia side of the channel helped. Finally broke throug...
Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again that little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outriggers scored the biggest two fish of the morning. It looked like it might be one of those days as we had the first 3 fish pull off. But the...
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Jeff and Andy beat the red paint off the hooks today. They took the Zimmerman's of Tumwater and the writer Rob Phillips out to sample the Brewster Sockeye Fishing. Once again, shrimp baited ho...
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Bar produced it's standard 3 fish on the first 3 passes of the morning. Then we faded into the indeterminate flat fighting wind that varied from 10 to 25 mph. We plucked a fish here and a fish t...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away off the mouth of the Okanogan to try and break through on the Chinook, but no luck. So he ran some Sockeye gear and got the Bennion's some sockeye to take home.
Anton Jones - Dar...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Shrimp baited red hooks behind dodgers allowed Andy to hook some fish for Cass Hania and his daughter. They started below Wells Dam and fished 2 hours without a bite. Oops, time to move. They picke...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rod saved the day. It got 3 of the 5 fish that we put in the boat including the 2 biggest ones. We started on the Bar (no surprise there). We got...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It's really nice having your eldest grandson deckhand for you. He preps the boat and I get to fish. It frees me up for 5 to 15 minutes before customers show up. Today was pretty cool. I got 7 or...
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Andy took out the Templeton crew below Wells Dam for sockeye. They boated nine sockeye and a jack Chinook. They also released a 10lb+ steelhead. Once again shrimp baited hooks behind chrom...
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff used Red Hooks baited with Pautzke cured shrimp behind a big chrome dodger to get Hal Signet his Sockeye limit. These fish are depth specific. You've got to experiment and find out which depth ...
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After getting back from a leisurely trip to Wapato to get some suspended Rainbows my 8 year old granddaughter said it was time for me to take her fishing. I decided the nursery fish need a bit of thi...
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to do a change of pace and fished Wapato for 2 hours with neighbors Donn and Pepe' of Blueberry Hills fame. We fished the 55 to 60 feet deep water about 20 to 25 feet down with blue and white flo...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tandem red hooks baited with pieces of shrimp cured with Pautzke cure behind a 00 chrome dodger worked for Andy today below Wells Dam. He found that when the bite slowed adding a Mack's Lures stack b...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing tandem red hooks baited with Pautzke cured shrimp behind a 00 chrome dodger produced sockeye off the mouth of the Okanogan today for Jeff. It was difficult fishing, but all in all there was a...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away with shrimp baited hooks behind a big chrome dodger off the mouth of the Okanogan River to get those Sockeye. It appears the run is tailing off, but he hung with it and got the Gano...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a nice start on the Bar and 0500, the bite slowed for Andy as the morning wind uncharacteristically picked up. He finally pulled up and ran to the Yacht Club and cleaned house for the Clinton N...
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Plucked a fish off the Bar and one from the flat before the wind made things really difficult. That UV / Glow Kingfisher Lite by Silver Horde scored both fish. I picked up and spent the last hour at...
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little F7 Flatfish on the outrigger rods really produced today. We pulled 3 off the Bar in 4 passes for the first 2 hours. We also lost 2 to, to the learning curve. Stop and go is the way to ...
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away to produce limits of Columbia River Sockeye for Ed Rauvola of Chelan and Chuck Hammond of Manson. Working the edge of channel off the mouth of the Okanogan River in depths of 20 to ...