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By: arniejl
Posted: 4/16/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at 5:00, after work, of course. Was hoping to find the leery largemouth bass, female. Failed. I still give this a rating of 2 beings I got a smallie, 14 feet of water dragging a Powerteam Lures...
By: arniejl
Posted: 3/29/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 0
Fished: 3/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out on Wednesday after work. Water temp. was up around 53-53.8. Seen many largemouth. Seen a group of 10 or 12 or maybe even 15. Seen some others, as well. Threw everything that I had tied...
By: arniejl
Posted: 8/12/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Actually, we were targeting small mouth. Caught a couple of perch that we let go and 8 or 10 small smallmouth. Was moving to a place that I really like and was going slow watching my sonar. It showed...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from noon or so until around 6:00 p.m. Caught 30 or so smallies. Mostly dinks but fun and lots of action. A couple of unusual things, though.
First off, I was fishing and tried a few cast...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Day two of two:
After about a 16 hour soak we went to pull the pots in for the week. Got 7 more keepers. Highlight of the day was a nearly 9 inch crab. It was a monster. I wanted to mount it but ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to a long time friends on Hood Canal with part of my family. That would be wife, step daughter and step son. My friend has a beautiful place there with lot's of lodging and, well, pretty much ev...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Summit with my old buddy today for the first time. Windy as all get out. We got blown all over the place but caught some fish. I would classify it as a dinkfest, but there were some borderline ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7 a.m. until 12:30. Had one bite, a lmb a pound or so, soaking wet, oh wait, he was wet. Enticed the dink with a spinner bait. Saw a couple of others. Saw spawning perch. Multiple beds. F...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
MY wife's first cast in 60' of water as I pulled up to get stuff out and ready was a three pound or so Rainbow. She caught it with a craw colored crankbait. She did not want to keep the fish so the ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day but it was fun. Tried Clear Lake for the first time today. Launched and started fishing the docks. Got the big one under a dock on a bed. I seen him swim in there then I seen the bed. I thr...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/13/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Did not set the alarm as I did not intend on fishing. Woke up at 3:45 and seriously thought about getting up and going but decided not to. Woke up at 5:10 and the birds were singing and all happy and ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, decided to waste all that gas in hopes of finding fortune at Riffe Lake:( Only having fished the lake one time prior, and that was more of a hunting outing than fishing, I was not totally sure...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to hit an opener so my wife's first fishing expedition of the year was to Ohop. I was thinking that I might hit it at a good time with nobody fishing it and the little plants in there...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 4/27/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, my kid who has the absolute worse luck ever when it comes to fishing was over for a visit. I got off work and asked him if he wanted to go fishing. He said sure. So we headed to Spanaway Lake. ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/15/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
After the third day this year of fishing St. Clair without a bite, decided to hit Spanaway this morning. Water temps. started out around 55 and reached 56 before I left at 1:30.
I had caught a fe...
By: arniejl
Posted: 3/24/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Dragged my boat to work to save me a half an hour getting home, getting hooked up and back to Spanaway. Fished my normal good spots. I usually will, when the fishing is good, catch a mix of smb and l...
By: arniejl
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Strange day. I had been doing very well with some nice fish, as of late, so decided to give Spanaway a try this morning. Fishing was no good, so there is my report, but shortly after I put in I heard...
By: arniejl
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and two of her kids hit Banks for the week-end. It was time to teach. First off was the 13 year old boy who has never cast a line in his life. Gave him the quick run down and off we went at 5:00...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/31/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was gonna take the day off and then read Ocktane's report. Sitting there looking at that picture of his buddy with that largemouth made me want to go fishing, again... I know, what are ya gonna do ab...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/30/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I launched at daylight, well, actually before daylight. Fished pretty hard east of the Alder launch around the south half of the island and then through the bays to the far east. Seen at...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 5:10 a.m. this morning. It is my 1 year anniversary so needed to be back early:) Fished until 8:15 or 8:30. Caught 3 Smallies all around the deeper docks, say like 16 to 20 feet. Used a d...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Oops, forgot to date my other Banks report as July 9.
OK, on to today. If you read my other report, I was going on a little over 3 hours sleep, a 5 hour drive and 10 hours of fishing. Finally got...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
OK, proof is in the pudding that I suck at bass fishing. Fished Banks Lake with my 17 year old kid for the first time ever. Expectations were high but were dashed. I can get skunked at Spanaway, 5 mi...
By: arniejl
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Probably a two star day most of the time beings I usually struggle in Alder but today ended in f1sh1nf00l and me hooking and boating 5 fish, of which 2 were LMB and the other 3 were smallies.
Cau...
By: arniejl
Posted: 6/11/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today would be a zero if I had the option. Fished early for 3 hours or a little more to no avail, not even a peck.
I was so disinterested, to be honest, that I never even took my depth finder out...