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By: northfork
Posted: 9/13/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Arrive at the lake at 0630. 35 degrees. Really not prepared for winter fishing when it was 92 two days ago in Wenatchee.
The water looks like pea soup. 62 degrees.
Trolling a green wedding ring ti...
By: northfork
Posted: 9/11/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Weather forecast was for gusts up to 30 mph.
Got to the lake at 0600 and the lake was glass, one other boat had already launched.
Headed out and started looking for fish with the sonar.
Pretty muc...
By: northfork
Posted: 9/10/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Was on the water before the sun made it's appearance.
Launched at a rough launch so I wouldn't block the main ramp as I assembled the boat. It was the West end where you first come into the lake.
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By: northfork
Posted: 9/9/2016
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2016
Hot Spots: 3
What an awesome day of fishing!!
I have never caught a Bluegill or Crappie in my life. Was raised a trout and salmon guy.
On the lake at 0730. A spectacular sunrise with no wind.
I couldn't locate ...
By: northfork
Posted: 9/8/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake just after sunrise.
The wind was already blowing 15 mph.
As I am not into wind surfing I decided to pass on inflating the raft.
Headed down to Rufus Woods for a look. The Game Warde...
By: northfork
Posted: 9/7/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is the start of a 6 day fishing expedition in my new Sea Eagle 1 man fishing machine.
Sonar with down vue and GPS, forward mounted rod holders, electric trolling motor and anchor.
Started with ...
By: northfork
Posted: 9/7/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Moved from Whitestone lake spinyray fishing because of the wind.
I have not been to this lake in over 10 years.
There was a group having a picnic where I fished before with such good catching.
En...
By: northfork
Posted: 6/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Headed out to Storm lake for some shore fishing. Had not been to Storm for probably 10 years.
Stopped at Flowing lake boat launch ( across the street from Storm). The dock is gone! They left the plaq...
By: northfork
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 0730. The surface was just like glass.
There were a few fish rising and the Bull frogs were going at it hard.
1 Pole with a bobber the other with slip sinkers.
Not a thing fo...
By: northfork
Posted: 5/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Back at the launch this morning at 0730.
Same setup as before.
The trout are just playing with the bobber setup. No take downs right away.
Nothing on the pink Gulp eggs on the sinker rig.
Switch t...
By: northfork
Posted: 5/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 5/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started researching a new lake to go fish at after fishing Silver Lake in Everett. I was looking for a little more laid back scenery than just houses.
Came across some interesting prospects while sea...
By: northfork
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Read a report on the site for Silver Lake.
Thought I would give it a try.
Got to the lake around 0800. Went out on one of the short docks. Cast some red Gulp eggs out on a 5' leader and green Gulp e...
By: northfork
Posted: 5/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My brother, his two sons and daughter went fishing at Jameson. The fishing was awesome!! Nice 16-20" Rainbows early in the morning. Had to give up bait and start tossing Rostertails and Mepp spinners ...
By: northfork
Posted: 5/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Late report.
Took a disabled friend fishing at Fish lake at the Cove Resort.
Rented a pontoon boat and headed out. Was pretty slow fishing even trolling the regular goto lures.
Ended up trolling We...
By: northfork
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launch at Everett 445 am. Outgoing tide, very little wind out of the NW, clear skies.
My brother and 12 year old son were using divers with 8" white flashers and pink mini hootchies 20" behind tied w...
By: northfork
Posted: 8/23/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the Everett ramp at 430. Wind was out of the NNW at 5-10 knots against an incoming tide.
Ran to the upper end of HH and got 1 line in the water. It was to windy and rough to use the kicke...
By: northfork
Posted: 8/18/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at 430 Sunday morning at the Everett ramp.
We stayed in Port Gardener looking for pinks until first light. The amount of boats screaming across the water in the dark heading south was unb...
By: northfork
Posted: 8/8/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Everett at 430am and ran down to south of Mukilteo and out in the shipping lanes.
White flasher with a pink mini squid 16" behind. Started trolling with the tide at 15' at daylight.
N...
By: northfork
Posted: 4/21/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not really a river report but we launched in Ebey Slough, ran out to Priest Point found the channel and anchored up to fish for Sturgeon.
The weather was beautiful when we launched at 8am.
The tide ...
By: northfork
Posted: 6/8/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sky the last 3 evenings. Water was pretty high and viz was about 18". Today the river cleared to about 3' viz.
First day threw Vibrax spinners asst colors, nothing. Second day tried to fig...
By: northfork
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Arrived at the lake at 0630.Conditions were flat calm overcast and air temp was 46 degrees.
Signed in for the trout derby my brother and I were fishing in ( 8 year old nephew was also with us) and h...
By: northfork
Posted: 4/22/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This lake is really in Okanogan county. Started the trip looking to catch Walleye but had trouble with the kicker so anchored up and threw lures and jigs. Friday fishing was fair by Rufus standards. M...
By: northfork
Posted: 2/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tough fishing at Rufus this trip.
Fished below the lower net pens. Not much currant this time. They hardly released any water from the dam all weekend.
Lots of small fish were being caught 12-16"
F...
By: northfork
Posted: 1/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Rufus Woods 1-11/12.
Arrived at Rufus around 11. Fished just below the net pens on the reservation.
There was a good bite going on when we arrived, lots of fish being caught and lots of fish...