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By: Rocketvet
Posted: 7/19/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and I headed to the panhandle this last weekend to drop her grandmother's ashes in Lake Coeur d'Alene on Saturday. I trailed behind 2 pontoon boats full of family members for a brief but swee...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 7/11/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Summit Lake Wednesday and had poles in the water by 7 am. Kokanee bites were spotty but came away with 5 after about 3.5 hrs. Took a friend and she kept hooking rainbows that were in th...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 7/11/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and I took the dogs to Hood Canal Sunday to try for some evening crabbing on Hood Canal. Soaked twice for an hour each time. Pots had dungeness and no red rocks. Caught 15 with 14 being fem...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 6/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Read about some recent jumbo rainbows put into Sylvia and thought I'd give a new lake a try. Weather was cloudy with periods of heavy rain. Small lake with a small and steep ramp so I busted out the...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 6/19/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Landed 7 Kokanee from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Fished 40-45 ft deep in 80-100 f.o.w. Wedding rings with smile blades behind dodgers in various colors. Melissa's homemade "fruit loops" rainbow colored l...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 6/17/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and I put the top up and fished in the rain Saturday. We limited out in 2 hrs trolling her homemade wedding rings tipped with earthworms behind dodgers. Trolled 1.3-1.4 mph. 80 to 100 ft ba...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 6/17/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had intentions to go to Alder Lake for the first time this year but found a turn signal out on the trailer and decided to stay closer to home. Loaded up the oldest of our 3 dogs for some 1 on 1 time ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 6/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 5 Kokes and 1 jumbo rainbow trolling Summit from 7 am to 11:30 am. Lost 4 others and had another jumbo rainbow snap Melissa's favorite homemade purple wedding ring. Bite was slower than Wedne...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 6/2/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start around 11am and fished till about 2pm. Landed 7 Kokanee most in the 13-14 in range with 1 11 in. Wedding ring combos and wiggle hoochie behind Macks Dodgers. Orange was hot early t...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Chelan for the holiday weekend and camped nearby at Alta Lake. Targeted Macks on the lower basin for the morning with little success. Hooked one decent cutthroat and no macks.
Headed ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 5/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Headed to Hicks Lake to redeem myself after being skunked at Lake Stevens Wednesday. Trout were biting well from shore and from boat. I trolled my wiggle fin tube fly with an added smile blade tippe...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 5/6/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Lake Stevens for the first time ever Wednesday. Fished hard all day from 8 am to 5 pm with only 2 bites that didn't hook up and no fish! Talked to 2 other boats that were also not having l...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 4/28/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start on Merwin with the girlfriend. Fishing was tough. Talked to 3 other boats with blank numbers. Hooked and landed 1 12 in Kokanee and at least 12 Pikeminnow. Sometimes hard to tell ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 4/20/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Lake Chelan for the Something Catchy Kokanee derby. We did ok putting Kokanee in the boat early but the bite for us really dropped off after 10 am. Probably should have started earlier giv...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 4/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took my friend's kids out for a sunny afternoon trip to Lake Kokanee and netted 12 nice fish in the 13-17 in range. Trolled flies behind wiggle fin disks and a smile blade about 20 ft down at 1.4 mph...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/31/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 2 fish over 14 in in just under 2 hrs (16 and 17 in) so called it a day. Trolled wiggle fin tube flies with a smile blade about 8 in up. Fish caught were likely about 10-15 ft deep. Lots of ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/31/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Busted out the Kokanee gear and drove down to Merwin to enjoy the beautiful day. Dropped in at Speelyai Bay and the reservoir is a murky torquoise shade with a lot of floating wood debris, some quite...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the opening season trout derby Saturday at Burke Lake put on by Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce. Fishing was slow! Derby started at sunrise and ended at 12:45. My girlfriend and I troll...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 2/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the water by 9 am. Trolled most of the day with everything I had and not even a bite. Jigger and drifted, nothing. Talked to at least 8 other boats and not one even claimed a legitimate bite! T...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After taking a week off from work to look into some heart arrhythmias I've been having, I couldn't resist heading out for a few hours on such a beautiful day. If I'm going to have a heart attack I mi...