Northwest Fishing Reports

Sadly yes.

Yes both the Skate and the Tilton were popular.

If you like trout Mineral has still been doing good.

Hi everyone!! Sorry for the delay! We don't have the warmwater plants online but I will look into making that available. Both Kress and Swofford were stocked in August of 2014. We are hoping to get additional fish this year but not sure if that decision has been made. At this time there are no plans...

If Kokanee were not a part of the trout limit it would be specifically listed. See Merwin Reservoir as an example in the pamphlet. For Merwin Kokanee are listed as not a part of the trout limit. For American there is not an additional rule stating Kokanee and trout are separate limits - so they are ...

The following information is for southwest Washington fishing opportunities for the weekend of December 19-22, 2013 Hot Spots! Merwin Reservoir - Fishing continues to be great! Silver Lake - crappie and yellow perch being caught. Reminder: crappie size limit 9", 10 daily limit The winter fishery is ...

Underground tourneys and underground stocking.

Speaking of tourneys - any ideas there that you have on SW Washington waters?

I'm hoping to get around to a lot more this coming summer. Let me know if you'd like me at yours - if they are in SW Washington.

Yep. I don't have an answer as to the reason for the jump though.

Anytime!

It sounds like they will not be decreasing. The person in charge of issuing them did his best to make it smoother but was not able too. The decisions came from above us. Your best bet would be to have your clubs write a letter to the director. That is what I have been telling my fish stocking applic...

I will see what I can find out.

I will start doing some checking on the watershed transfer issues.

The following information is for southwest Washington fishing opportunities for the weekend of December 5-8, 2013 Hot Spots! Merwin Reservoir - Fishing is REALLY great on Merwin right now! Kress Lake, Battle Ground, Klineline Pond, Ft. Borst Park Pond, South Lewis County Park Po nd - All continue to...

Glad to be of help!

I like the ideas being put forth. What about a tourney for the removal of bass? Sort of like a 'make it fun' deal? I'm all for less complicated rules. I think the easiest way to go about it would be an emergency reg that covers going over the statewide limit for bass on THAT particular body of water...

They seem to be pretty popular considering the number of requests I get!

Information on Lake Tapps http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/169/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Don't forget we have our REALLY cool Fish Washington site that you can find all sorts of great info: http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You can contact the Regional Offices for info on their trout lakes:

King County - Region 4 425-775-1311
Pierce County - Region 6 360-249-4628

Personally I think once you get to a point where too much vegetation is removed from a lake, then portions of the fisheries like bass can suffer. That is what happened in Silver Lake. Over the past couple of decades we've been able to refine the stocking ration of carp to make sure we don't have a r...

The focus is pretty much trout right now.

The popular bait seems to be neon powerpaits or plain ol juicy worms!

Oh I have no plans on rehabbing Mineral. We couldn't get that passed even if I tried. Rehabs are not very popular on the west side of the state no matter what their importance is. So the bass are likely there to stay unless we tried to do some sort of transfer. Thing is, the bucket brigade would fol...