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By: the thumb
Posted: 2/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Made the run all the way down to long lake dam again. The water is a little clearer but still murky. Only took about a hour to put 2 limits in the boat. Most of the bows are 14 1/2 to 15. Weighing...
By: the thumb
Posted: 12/15/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Quick story is I found fast action at long l as keep dam. A bit of a run but worth it. The fish seem to have moved down river consistently. Averging14 to 15 inches. Best success seems higher up.. u...
By: the thumb
Posted: 10/31/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/30/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Left the house at two and back by four. Total for the day was 3 rainbows, 1 squaw fish and a surprise 24 inch kokanee. The kokanee came on a orange apex and the rainbows on a double whammy walleye s...
By: the thumb
Posted: 10/30/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/29/2014
Hot Spots: 1
went out with a friend and trolled sportsman's cove by suncrest around noon. We were done in a few hours with 2 limits. The trout are averaging a little over 14 inches now with a few pushing close to...
By: the thumb
Posted: 9/30/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 7am till 630pm. Had a 2 hour wait in the launch line. We fished above and below the bridge
1 bite for the whole day
Water was moving fast and high. It was all the way up to the t...
By: the thumb
Posted: 9/21/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for the last week ( 4 trips out total, averaging 2-3 hrs). Here's the lowdown, water is now down to about 66 degrees. Trout starting to average 12-13 inches, these are the triploids...
By: the thumb
Posted: 10/13/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
took the kids and a friend out to see if the perch fall bite was happening yet. Started trolling off the point at spokesmans bay. Took about 5 minutes and we had a triple. Fish kept hitting from 4-...
By: the thumb
Posted: 8/7/2012
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
left spokane at 2am and had both downriggers fishing by 6am. First and only fish at 645am. I counted 42 boats and I probably only saw 2 dozen fish caught. I'm sure more were caught but even the gui...
By: the thumb
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2012
Hot Spots: 2
This was the 3rd perch outing between jun 29 and july 2. Crazy easy fishing. The family (even the wife was getting into watching the kids catch fish) was fishing off the big farmers field by suncres...
By: the thumb
Posted: 10/2/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
took the kids out for another day of fishing. Fished from 330 to 515 in the sportsmans cove area. fished on edges of the weeds out to 30 foot of water. Took about 1 minute to get a double going. W...
By: the thumb
Posted: 9/26/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
started fishing sat in the afternoon till 600. Fished sun from 600am-300pm. I fished almost the whole time below the bridge. On sat I managed 1 jack and nothing on sunday. I didn't see all that ma...
By: the thumb
Posted: 9/9/2011
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
went out at about 630 last night to try and put some more squawfish in the freezer for crabbing. I wasn't fishing 5 minutes before a strike. It didn't stick and I grabbed the pole and it hit again. ...
By: the thumb
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
fished last tue thru fri the 26th. fished upriver of the bridge and out as far as 100 ft of water straight out from the north jetty. Results 1 small clipped coho and 1 wild coho upriver of the bridg...
By: the thumb
Posted: 8/13/2011
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
finally decided to fish today (kids didn't come on the boat). I live on the lake but haven't really fished it much the last couple of years. Wanted to get a jump start on crab bait this year. Last ...
By: the thumb
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
went up to two rivers for their spring trout derby. had to launch at seven bays. We stayed on the boat at two rivers marina. Don't forget anything up in the parking lot, all those stairs going up a...
By: the thumb
Posted: 2/22/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
launched at keller ferry around 10 am. Ran across to the deadline in the sanpoil. This spot has always produced fish. fished 6 1/2 hrs for 8 fish in the boat. had another 8 or so hits that didn't ...
By: the thumb
Posted: 2/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
took a few days to get around to the report. Lake is full (or close to it) and it was time to get the boat back in the water and on the dock. great weather but the lake is green with lots of vegitat...
By: the thumb
Posted: 1/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
launched around 930am and headed to a spot just downriver from lincoln that produced awesome 3 wks ago. It was fairly choppy (love that wind chill) and sunny. Had a fish on in 5 minutes, I'm thinkin...
By: the thumb
Posted: 12/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
just going to pretty much echo dbrowning report from the other day. My boat started out in hawk creek. We caught one fish in a couple of hours. We were using apex,s (pink and watermelon), with cowb...
By: the thumb
Posted: 10/4/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
fished 12 hrs sat and 3 on sun morning. we ran a downrigger off each side of boat. had a double deep six diver out the middle. we used either brads super baits or a brads super cut plug bait. caug...
By: the thumb
Posted: 9/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
pretty much the same as the last report. when fishing the bottom, bites were fast and furious(small fish, couldn't hook them). kids were sleeping in the cuddy so I tried a new shoreling and let the ...
By: the thumb
Posted: 9/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
took the 3 yr olds out to see if the bass are staging yet in one of my favorite fall spots down by tum tum. they are there. we were just dragging a motor oil 3 inch ribbed worm or a small paddle tai...
By: the thumb
Posted: 9/20/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
fished the confluence of the snake and clearwater from about 9 am to 3 pm. not a bite. counted 40 boats around us for the first part of the day. saw 1 keeper kept, 1 native released and 1 small fis...
By: the thumb
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Carp
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
notice to all the carp hunters out there. the neighborhood is finally fed up with the hunters who are not taking the fish they kill with them. we have started calling crime check (sheriff) and fish ...
By: the thumb
Posted: 6/8/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hit the same spot as on sun nt. nice warm sunny evening. 3 of us went. ended up with 10 keepers. nothing big though. variety of colors worked, but orange was probably best. one of the guys who h...