Started out last Monday on Osullivan and knocked the walleye out! caught our limits before 5 that day fishing in 25 feet of water off the humps of lower crab creek while all the other fisherman were up in the top of crab creek fishing the flats in 14 feet. They may have had some luck up there in 14 but from what I saw they weren't catching anything. So we dropped back down in to deeper water and BAM! They would go anywhere from 18 to 23 inches.
Then we headed up to Banks for a few days and caught some early males moving into 18 feet of water. Average size was 18 inches. After getting rained on and dealing with the wind we moved back down to Osullivan and got a few more. Finally was able to locate Winchester Creek and a few LMB but they were pretty scarce as the Carp were stacked up like a salmon run.

Then on Sunday we headed up to take a charter out of Anacortes and went ling cod fishing. I have to let everyone know NOT to take this charter. When I made the reservation I asked the captain if he had a bathroom on board and he said yes we do. The reason why is because my brother has MS and he has to go frequently and I told him so. We get on the boat which was supposed to leave at 5:30 and didn't get out until 6:45. I asked where the head was when we were out of the harbor and he pointed to an antifreeze bottle with a hole cut in it. By then it was to late to turn around and my brother stressed all day about it. The captain was berating us about losing weights (we lost two), snapping hooks, and losing bait the whole time. Heck I'm paying for it buddy! He had something condscending to say to each one of us for 6 hours while we were out there. He was a pompous, arrogant, condecending jerk the complete time. Not to mention he snapped the barbs off of our hooks, gave us single hook leaders while he gave double hook leaders with the barbs on to his deckhand and also bait injections. All said I caught one keeper cod $465 dollars later and regret taking my brother and son aboard his boat and suggest that if any of you want to take a charter to go cod, salmon, or bottomfishing choose another outfit.

tightlines!

*Editor's Note: charter name withheld (no it's not one of our sponsors). If you want to know you can PM jdozier

Captain Nemo

6/8/2010 4:41:00 PM

That a shame! The few times I've taken charters, I've had pretty good experiences. It's too bad there are jerks like that out there. Washingtonlakes.com: You guys should post his name so everybody can see it. That's one of the reasons I use this site so I can have the best chances to enjoy my fishing experience. Let the charters live up to customer expectations. jdozier: Thanks for the post!

BMGW

6/8/2010 8:06:00 PM

Yikes! Fishing is supposed to be FUN! Sorry to hear of your experience, I doubt the charter will be around for long with that attitude any way. Great report on the Walleye!

tvh1882

6/8/2010 10:12:00 PM

Thanks for the Potholes report but what exactly do you mean when you say the humps of lower Crab Creek. I'm assuming that you mean closer to the main lake than the power lines. Is that correct?

willial13

6/9/2010 2:04:00 AM

Just a note, ALL of the good charters would want you to publish the name. I ran the scamp out of Lapush until I became ill and I would have loved it if this site would have referredto me. Anyone out there that fished with me would support what I'm saying fully. Guys like that destroy credibility for many hard working people. Thanks, Larry

jdozier

6/10/2010 8:58:00 AM

tvh1882: What I mean by the humps of lower crab creek are yes closer to the main lake. As you drop into the deep wider channel depths of 38 feet, just left of the high grass on the west side of the creek, stay to the east side of the drop off and ride your GPS across the top of the many variations of depth from 25 feet up to 12 feet as the fish are lying in the deeper crevices. Half the fish we caught were females just releasing eggs and staging up. Everything that we caught in 14 feet were males between 16" and 18".

As for the charter, yeah it was a real shame and I wish the experience would have been better and I greatly appreciate all your responses. It's exactly why I come here to Washington Lakes as well, to become informed of where the fish are and to experience a new adventure that will stay with me a lifetime. I hope all of your charter experiences are better than the one I had.

tvh1882

6/17/2010 10:37:00 PM

Thanks for the info on the Humps. Iv'e been fishing further up toward the power lines but will give the Humps a try if I get over there in the next week or two.

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