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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/23/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This report spans several days of fishing the Thorn Bay area of Alaska, out of Anderson Lodge. I was joined by Rob Holman, as well as NWFR members Paul and Bruce for an Alaska filming adventure. This ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/14/2019
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/13/2019
Hot Spots: 0
By divine good luck I manager to get a Saturday free to hit Baker lake for sockeye. Pretty excited, I was joined by Randy Rausher and we headed up Friday afternoon, leaving early enough to avoid the m...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/4/2019
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Day Three Zeballos report:
Our final day of fishing with Adrian of Reel Obsession Sport Fishing we targeted getting the rest of of our halibut limit and kings we didn’t get the past two days.
T...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/1/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Day Two Zeballos report: "We can't get to the coho because of all the kings!"
Well… if I thought it could get any better…I was wrong. Today was about the most amazing chinook fishing I have ever be...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/30/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, the west side of Vancouver Island is experiencing some outstanding chinook fishing!
Joining me at Zeballos this year for our Vancouver Island fishing adventure are Rob and Hillary Holman, and ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/22/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2019
Hot Spots: 2
After reading the recent reports on Lake Washington kokanee I found myself with a free weekend, no commitments, ya! On top of that, my wife JoAnn was down with doing some fishing so we looked at our ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Cle Elum has my attention as a close, “go-to” destination for a shot at big lakers. I’ve caught some nice fish out of this lake and wanted to share my experiences with a couple NWFR members. So Sunday...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/14/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Rob Holman and I had the great good fortune of fishing with Keith Eshbaugh, owner of Dutch Fork Custom Lures. He also guides on Lake Erie and I have to say, what an amazing place to go fishing! After ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/10/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I got an amazing opportunity to go fishing for walleye in Lake Erie with Keith Eshbaugh of Dutch Fork Custom Lures. Along with me was Rob Holman of NWFR. We flew the redeye from Seattle leaving at mid...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/26/2019
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2019
Hot Spots: 1
After enduring two rainy windy days down at Tillamook that included a bar closure it was a blessed relief to arrive at Ilwaco with a forecast of sunny skies and calm winds. Time to go halibut fishing!...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/21/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun day fishing the Potholes!
I joined NWFR Rob Holman and his friend Rob, and set off with Shelby Ross of Ross Outdoor Adventures. We spent the day fishing for walleye and it was a blast! ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/12/2019
Species: Flounder
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2019
Hot Spots: 1
I’m always up for a new fishing adventure so when NWFR writer Hanna Pennebaker suggested showing me the Puget Sound flounder fishery around Vashon Island I was all in.
We met at 7:15 AM at the Redo...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2019
Hot Spots: 1
I got the good fortune of fishing with Lance and Kristy Effrig of Washington Guide Services this weekend - and even beter was the destination - Stehekin! If you've never been to the very end of Lake C...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/21/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/21/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Special treat today, I got to fish with a local legend, Bruce Pearson founder of the original GameFishin web site. It's been many years since I had seen him and my friend Robbie invited him to join us...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/9/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2019
Hot Spots: 1
I had the unique pleasure and opportunity to fish with my business partners, Rob Holman and Aaron Borg, and also Russ Elgin, owner and creator of the God’s Tooth lure which so many anglers are discove...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/28/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/27/2019
Hot Spots: 1
The weather forecast said "foggy/cloudy AM with light and variable winds clearing to partly cloudy in the afternoon"... ya, right!
I met up with fishing buddies Robbie and Randy R from NWFR at Newp...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/14/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/13/2019
Hot Spots: 2
Seeing the recent perch reports coming out of Lake Washington, and the amazing winter weather, I had to go check out the winter perch fishery on Lake Washington. My fishing buddy Robbie joined me and ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/17/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes the best made plans still fall apart...
I set up a Saturday trip with Paul Lewis of Fast Action Guide Service, Randy R, and Robbie from the site. The plan was to spend the day fishing Lak...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/1/2018
Species: Surf Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This is a late report for a weekend getaway of fishing at Long Beach for red tail surf perch.
JoAnn, the dogs, and I loaded up the car and hit the road - and Friday evening traffic - for a weekend ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/10/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I got to spent a rare two weekdays fishing with rseas and Scott Crawford of Chrome Inc Guide Service to film a future episode for the TV show. To say I was looking forward to it is an under-statement!...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/28/2018
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
*This is NOT a fishing report!
I got to spend the weekend visiting my son and DIL in Great Falls, Montana for our annual three day weekend of pheasant hunting. I look forward to this trip immensely...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This was a tough coho season, at least for me. I had some success but also some tough days, not at all like the easy limits of last year.
Last trip out with my friend and NWFR camera guy Robbie. We...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/3/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I hit Lake Washington for a shot at some coho. We launch at crack o dawn and ran across the lake to fish the Kirkland slot and off Yarrow Point. Not a lot of fish marks in the slot but Yarro...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/29/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well we got a big piece of humble pie going 0 for 0 today. JoAnn and I launched from Edmonds and started right off the bat with a 15" resident coho caught on a gold Artic Fox trolling fly at 45 feet. ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/24/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/23/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It's hard to give this report a fair rating as we only got to fish for a little over an hour.
JoAnn and I launched out of Magnusen Park and ran over to fish the Kirkland location. There were around...