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By: river rat
Posted: 7/30/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a few everytime out but the numbers seem to be low compared to previous years. Did catch and released a beautiful 3.2 lbs. that fell for a dark green curlytail grub that I removed most of the ...
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By: river rat
Posted: 7/18/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the P.O. river last couple of days in between the rain storms with spotty luck for smallies and an occasional crappie. We fished from the Newport to Furport. My grandson got a nice one on our...
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Posted: 8/6/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up a little bit late again (I'm a sleepy college student). Went out on the dock at about 11:30am and caught two smallmouth bass, but they were too small to keep. Went out on the kayak at about 12...
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Posted: 7/7/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up around 7:30am and decided to go cast out a line while the fish were jumping. Put a Yamamoto 6" plastic worm on my hook and on the first cast caught a nice 13" smallmouth. Waded in the water f...
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Posted: 7/7/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My cousins and I have a bet every so often to see who can catch the most fish, biggest fish, and first fish. Since I am a girl, they usually tell me its not possible and I usually end up winning. This...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 6/8/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the whole month of May. Had to take advantage of the awesome weather weekends in May so we were up at the crack of dawn and on the water at 7:00 am out of the Cusick launch. We fish...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 9/25/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The wife was out of town on a trip so I invited my younger son along to try and hook him up with some smallmouth on a nice sunny afternoon. Arrived at the Cusick launch around noon and headed out to ...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 9/5/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Yep, another post, thought I combine 2 trips into one so this report is for Saturday too. Cold and foggy Saturday morning, fall is definitely in the air! Although we boated quite a few Sat most were ...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 8/29/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We were at it again up on the mighty PO targeting the smallmouth trying to duplicate what we did last week, but as you know, fishing changes daily! Even though the numbers were close, we only boated ...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent another wonderful day up on the mighty PO. Hard to believe this is only our second trip up here in July and August. We managed to get about 15 good quality fish in the boat with only a couple d...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This post is for the whole month of May and first weekend of June. We've caught quite a few Bass during our outings up on the mighty PO, anywhere from 15-25 between the 2 of us on each outing, averag...
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By: Pat Perez
Posted: 10/26/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my partner spent the last couple of Sundays launching out of Cusick to get on the fall bite. Both days were very slow as we only boated a few fish. Using senkos, and tubes. We were also throwi...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 10/13/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Sept-Oct. Thought I'd combine our outings into one report. We've spent most of Sept and Oct fishing up on the Mighty PO due to the success we've had catching quality bass. I also...
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Posted: 8/27/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a blast fishing the Pend Oreille River and Loon Lake last weekend with my son. No big fish but great to hang out together. Saw a lot of wildlife, many wild turkey, a lot of deer, a small herd of E...
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By: river rat
Posted: 7/25/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning before the rain started and caught some dinks on jigs and senko. Kept a couple of medium size ones that had bellies full of hellgrammites. Got a nice one on a perch rapala. Sa...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Sat and Sun up on the PO again, this time with our younger and older grandson's, they wanted to fish with grandma n grandpa before they move over to Seattle next week to Lake Sawyer. We really ...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 5/31/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had another wonderful day up on the mighty PO river, this time with our middle grandson. Spent most of the afternoon up in Campbell slough again with the water up a little due to the storm up there l...
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By: bgolob18
Posted: 5/31/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took the small boat out north of Newport last night going after smallies. Started fishing at about 4pm and had the first 2lb in 5min. Ended up bringing in 6 at around 2lb then hit 645pm that's when ...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 5/26/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
To avoid the pleasure boaters out on all the lakes we thought we'd give the mighty PO river a go, and was a great choice! Only two trailers at the Cusick launch when we arrived. Launched about 10:00...
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By: ilv2fish
Posted: 7/26/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After a week of house projects it was time to take an afternoon off and do some fishing, decided to give the PO another try. Our hopes were not high catching any fish based on our past outings and ev...
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Posted: 6/11/2014
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Hit up Metaline City Park today with pops, my old lady, and the boy. Saw some occasional large risers. No bites whatsoever other than the 21" pike the old man landed. It was a male, and had close to n...
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By: kdcottage
Posted: 5/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Rainbow I caught from shore, using a green and a rainbow power bait on a #8 hook, was a good fighter weighing just under 4 pounds and 18".
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Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had not been to the POR for a couple of years since the netting for pike had started so I thought I would give it a try again. Going in with modest expectations, I got about what I was hoping for. M...
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Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
on vacation and spent the day on the beach, me and my friends fished on and off all morning until about 3. we caught 6 smallmouth, 1 rock bass and 12" trout and the next morning a monster pikeminnow. ...
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Posted: 8/8/2013
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched dinghy off from behind the Usk store after teaching wifes friend how to fish with bobber and worm on shore. First fish I saw was a 20"+ pike upside down in the weeds. Noticed very large LMB a...
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