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By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 8/16/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
With everyone's freezers now full of Sockeye and Kings interest in Kokanee usually subsides this time of year. Only one other boat on the lake on a Sunday morning. My first fish of the day was a toad ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/31/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The Kokanee at Alta Lake are making a comeback. There were a bumpy couple years where the fishing was lackluster but it appears with a diversity of age classes in the population things are looking muc...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/30/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The Kokanee fishing just keeps getting better. Do me a favor come on over and grab these fatties before they spawn so next year's fish have plenty of food and get bigger! Fish were hitting anything pi...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/27/2020
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2020
Hot Spots: 0
After playing bumper boats on the Brewster pool in 100 F heat I needed a change of pace so I headed up into the mountains for ultralight spin fishing on a small stream. It felt absolutely divine to we...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/23/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This past spring I ordered a new kayak and with Covid disruptions in work force and supply chain was cautioned it might take until the fall to receive my kayak. I am always willing to wait for good th...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/17/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Living in Brewster I always look forward to the summer salmon season on the upper Columbia. A cool June and a quality snowpack has kept the Okanogan running cooler and dirtier later into the summer. T...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/15/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hiked up to small lake in the north Cascades just as ice was coming off the lake. Was fortunate to find a 10 yard gap in the ice to do some fishing. Tried flies under a float but quickly discovered th...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/3/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to escape the insanity that is the 4th of July weekend by doing an overnight camping trip to Tiffany Lake. The road up to Tiffany Springs campground is absolutely gnarly in places especially t...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/1/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hiked into the backcountry of the Methow for my first alpine trout fishing trek of the year. It was a doozy of a trail without much shade due to fires but the reward was worth it. I was greeted with a...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/26/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First time hitting Spectacle this year. Found a consistent bite at between 20-30' deep. Several age classes of fish present including a few bigger 15"+ hanging around. Right down the middle of the lak...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/19/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Had to go back for some more monster Kokanee action. Water temps were in the mid-50's and air temps not much warmer. Such a strange Juneuary we are having. Fish were still feeding on the surface. Pink...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/17/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I always carve out a day to make a trip up to Fish Lake mid-June. Its my last chance at a pre-spawn/spawn bite which I completely missed out on this year in the lowlands due to Covid closures. As usua...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/13/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I had a few days of slow fishing before I finally stumbled on to the big Kokanee at Lake Roosevelt. The fish are feeding near the surface and I did best with silver moon jelly arrow flash dodgers with...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/10/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
For several years Alta was consistently producing Kokanee but the past few years it has been tough going. For reasons unknown the Kokanee planted by WDFW didn't take. I went back this year hoping for ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/5/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
With water temps climbing into the 60's it was time to start hitting the post-spawn Walleye bite at Banks Lake. The lake was very busy with 20+ boat fishing around Steamboat. I started off trolling in...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/27/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived just at sunrise to find no surface activity. Decided to start on the edge of the weedbeds and in the first couple minutes hooked. Action was consistent all morning on a blob flies and dropper ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/20/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I hadn't been out to Chelan since fishing reopened and as expected the fishing was fantastic. I focused in an area off Wapato Point and though it took me longer than normal to find a school once I did...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/10/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Always loved this lake. The scenery alone is hard to beat and the Kokanee fishing is always consistent. It didn't take long to locate many schools of Kokanee holding at around 35' deep. I did a little...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 3/20/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hiked the 3 miles into this beautiful little canyon country lake. Bank access was limited but we found an abundance of hungry Rainbow Trout. Our later arrival seemed timed well with afternoon bug hatc...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 3/18/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The ice is still nearly 2' thick on Bonaparte Lake. Decided to take advantage of the spring like weather to do some ice fishing for Kokanee. I headed straight out from the resort and drilled several t...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 2/19/2020
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/18/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Arrived mid-morning and drilled my first hole. It didn't take long to locate several nice schools of perch in 30' of water. Using an olive gil-getter jig tipped with nightcrawler I quickly got a consi...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 2/16/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The freeze thaw cycle has firmed up the ice on a number of small lakes in Okanogan county making walking on the ice much easier. Went out to Rat in search of Rainbow Trout sans a fishfinder. It took 1...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 2/13/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/7/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Took my wife out for some late winter Walleye. Air and water temps were in the mid-30's. The bite was consistent but far from red hot. Flows and water levels in Rufus Woods have been particularly erra...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 2/9/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/6/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The warm up and refreeze helped to solidify the slush on the area lakes making travel much easier. I decided to break out my Korean gyeonji sticks and target some Rainbows on this selective gear rules...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 1/14/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Winter finally arrived in north-central Washington! I decided to fish my home lake and found 4" of good quality ice. Since the state did away with the split season on this lake it hardly sees any fish...