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By: Gisteppo
Posted: 6/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Its a little bit of a fight, but with patience and persistence the bass are coming out to play. Working the rocky shorelines with lots of cover seems to produce low numbers of larger fish instead of t...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 6/21/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took the Brother In Law from SD and his cousin from Cali out for a little spiny ray mission today, with high hopes and low expectations. Bad thunderstorms recently made the likelihood of a consistent ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 6/18/2009
Species: Pike
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Friggin Prigan took The Thumb and I up to the Pend Orielle river for the insanely hot pike fishery they have this time of year. He was talking about the "cant keep them off the hook" problem with the ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 6/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Exceptional evening on Lk Spokane. Took our new neighbor out for round 3 of fishing LS for something other than Squwalter. Headed down to the Sportsmans area and carpet bombed.
Managed to hook up ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit thurs-sat out at Neah for rockfish and hallies. Went with another buddy on the coast who had some experience in the area, so we trusted what was planned. Got the big goose egg on Thurs, going 0-0 ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Some days I hate bass tournaments.
The tourney guys ruin the fishing experience when you are trying to take people out for the first time of the year. Not only did they sorelip every bass in the l...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Pike
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
What a way to start the year! Finally got 5 minutes to fish (been working all day on projects in the house, wife says "you should go fish", hmm, ok.
Headed down to a current break looking for pike...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 3/26/2009
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Turbidity is still pretty bad at LS. Its hopefully going to improve today for an evening session, but the rains should then give us more dirt for the watershed. Fish put on a good nibble in clear wate...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 12/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Id show photos of our catch in this report, but there weren't any!
5 hrs, trolled downriver, trolled the lower dam, went upriver, trolled by the confluence, dropped a drop shotting rig, cast cranks...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 11/18/2008
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Looks like cold water fishing is starting to pick back up on Long.
Did a little trolling to pick up crab bait (squawfish) and have been having trouble finding them in the numbers I'm used to this ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 11/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/9/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Feels like winter is around the corner....
The Thumb and I headed over to Sprague to have a look-see at this supposedly fantastic stocker fishery. Overall a good day, but read on, dear fisher-frien...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 8/5/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Once again, no camera.
Trying to find the perch again, seem to be hiding in 12-16 feet around weeds. Problem is, the weeds are all in different places. Hooked up a few yesterday, gonna go back out ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 7/24/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Only got two 15 min sessions in today. First one got the pictured bass, second one I didn't have the camera, which was a damn shame.
19.5" Smallie!
I sure love smallmouth fishing....
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By: Gisteppo
Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Its on kiddies!
Hit the shallows today for crappie, saw what looked like a decent spot for a bass or two. Changed to a swimtailed senko, and WHAM! First cast.
Second cast? WHAM.
4 fish in an ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 4/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Lookin for some way to get out in the sun Sat, so we headed out to get the sled off her anchor. Made our way out to some not particularly special spots to see if the crappie bite has started. Nope. So...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 3/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I'm getting sick of being the only contributor. Of course, that might be because the boat launches are a little dry. Kinda figured some shore fishers would be getting in on the goods by now.
Took ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The water is rising slowly, so it was time to get out!
Took a few different trips, taking the bass tournament junkies out for a little recon mission. Stopped and marked much of the specialty struct...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 2/7/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for round 2 and 3 recently of the lakebottom investigation experiment.
DO NOT GO OUT WITHOUT A JET! Many stumps and woody structure are within 6" or less to the water surface. Also, from ...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 1/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Rock lake 1, Gisteppo and The Thumb, 0.
Sunny, warm, no wind.
Had a good time, it was a nice boat trip. We rallied down to Rock as this was The Thumb's first real day away in quite a while due t...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 1/11/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This is more of an FYI than a report.
Long lake has begun the annual drawdown, where it will reach 14' below maximum summer level. They intend to keep it down through January, but the lake can rem...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 12/9/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Its cold as hell, why not go fish?
Left at 11, before it started snowing.....
Broke ice out to the main channel in The Thumb's boat. It was chillery out there. Hit Willow to try for trout, and c...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 11/20/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/20/2007
Hot Spots: 0
It was a COOOLLLD day on the water. Not necessarily the coldest, but its been so warm for so long that near-freezing is pretty cold.
Took the new squirtboat out and hit some spots. TumTum, the var...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 11/7/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Its fall, that means its time to do your part to save the fry age class of this year.
Do your part!
Squawfish are capable of eating 15 salmon smolt a day, which means in lakes they will eat mor...
By: Gisteppo
Posted: 10/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
As it turns out, I am a bass fisherman!
3lbs 8 oz, 18", its still out there so someone else can catch it. BTW you will know when you catch it because its a jumper.
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By: Gisteppo
Posted: 9/27/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Just forgot to post this for Shayne. He is a fish slayer...