Northwest Fishing Reports

I'm thinking about going tonight just to see what it's all about. I was doing a no heat call last week, furnace was in the garage, while I was diagnosing the problem, I looked up and saw in excess of 30 rods and reels placed carefully in the overhead. Oh crap, I'm gonna be late for my next call, I'm thinking! LMAO So an hour or so of conversation about fishing followed and yes I was late to my next call. The customer handed me a PSA card and invited me to the meeting. North Bellevue Community Center 4063 148 Ave NE, Redmond

Sorry I won't see you there tonight, just too tired and I work tonight. You may see the Sickbayer there.

Wasn't bad, "Ridge to River Outdoors" guide gave a presentation on Puget Sound sturgeon. Matt, I think you would have enjoyed it. If I understood the guide correctly, he targets the sturgeon in the shallow, 2-10' depth, salt water this time of the year where you would find sandshrimp, and, head into the rivers more along the time salmon carcasses are drifting down. I don't know anything about the fishery, I got the impression that this guide spends more time in salt water when targeting sturgeon and fighting off bait stealing crab. He only uses live sandshrimp, no dye or cure. He was pretty tight lipped about any specific location maybe due to increasing pressure on the fishery, but also, these fish move around a lot and there is NO specific location that they stay for long. Here today, gone tomorrow! Speaking of which, they certainly encouraged catch and release. Someone else actually had the gall to say don't post your success stories on the internet because it gets everyone all excited and puts more pressure on the fishery.
The guide targets multiple species, multiple rivers/waters, Columbia on north, Skagit ect.

Yep Doug is a good guy.

MarkFromSea wrote: Someone else actually had the gall to say don't post your success stories on the internet because it gets everyone all excited and puts more pressure on the fishery.

That cat got out of the bag about ten years ago.

Mike Carey wrote:

MarkFromSea wrote: Someone else actually had the gall to say don't post your success stories on the internet because it gets everyone all excited and puts more pressure on the fishery.

That cat got out of the bag about ten years ago.

Longer than that according to the guide! The guide was good! I come to this site to get excited and I don't mind sharing, of course, right now, I'm just targeting those little fishes, I reallize that lots of people just don't see the point of going after perch or little trout thru hard water, but it gets me out away from the tv, and apparently, I'm lucky at it most of the time I go. I'm comfortable lost in the fog targeting salmon off of Westport, bangin elbows down on the Duwamish with city folks, hiking to a mountain lake for cutts, Lichtenwasser, fishin Eloika, Hatch, Pierre, Evergreen, Williams(colville) thru hardwater, or that bang up trout fishery at Williams near Cheney, Roses or Dry for trout, pan and cats, day and night. I figure I'm lucky at the fish I target. I haven't targeted bass or steelhead. Steelhead has always been one of those hit and miss fisheries, fish all day for maybe fighting one fish that's native and must be released if you get him to the shore, my hat is off to those fishers, I'm not that patient. LOL Bass sounds addictive! I think that is one to try in earnest this year. Of course I've gotta save some time for those pinks this year, and a crabbin trip ot two, don't forget the razor clams! Wheh!

That is why most reports hold very little info. For myself I'm ok with giving the following and I feel it won't hurt my "bite". The lake or stream or area fished. The water temp the deep I was fishing and the tackle I caught fish with.

Example: Area 9 was great today for me. Water temp was 51 degrees. I was fishing 180 ft of water with 80 on the DR. Fished a green dragon flasher with a cop car coyote spoon. Caught limit of silvers for 2 people big fish was 18lbs.


That is enough info for a guy decided if he wants to fish an area or not. That helps. We all know that the tide on a spot can make it bite or not. The variables in the info above are infinite............but a good fishermen can take that info to the bank.

I have no problem with brief reports or great, detailed reports. It's all up to the person posting the report. You're right, sometimes a brief report is enough to motivate a person to try a spot. It's all good in my book.

People that cry about the information being on the internet are like the dawn of the automoble - the guy then would be saying "I'm not getting one of those dang-nab-it auto-mobiles. My horse gets me where I need to go just fine".

I like a little color in a report. Dry facts are helpful though, so thanks for all of those too! As long as the fish catching details are truthful, I like to hear it all.

LOL I'm still fightin with this slow computer thingy, and now, my daughters want me to text! Oh No! LOL