Northwest Fishing Reports

I have no idea where I'll be fishing. I'm thinking somewhere near the WA/OR state line. My brother in law lives in Portland and I'll most likely be meeting up with him.

The wife and I are thinking about making a trip to the Columbia River at the Washington/Oregon border to meet up with her brother that lives in Portland. I hear the word river and I think fishing. We were watching "River Monsters" last night, a show about huuge (and I mean gigantic) freshwater fish,...

Thompson Creek is down near Yelm on the Fort Lewis reservation. It's just before you hit the Casino headed south on Yelm Highway/501(?). You go down some backroad and it's a little hole in the wall on your right. I went down there and threw out a Mepps Spoon and hooked into one, but it took off unde...

Thanks for your response nate. Pretty much everything you said in your first post is what I do. I normally have the reg book in my car and I always have the one I downloaded to my laptop.

I'm in Olympia.

Looked in the regs and the WDFW website. Evidently this place doesn't exist. But it's on a map. Does anybody know if it's legal to fish there?

Looked in the regs and the WDFW website. Evidently this place doesn't exist. But it's on a map. Does anybody know if it's legal to fish there?

If anybody enjoys "tag-a-longs" (i.e. a young married couple that loves to fish) when they go fishing, please contact me someway somehow. We are very eager to learn new fishing techniques. We are new to the trout/salmon game and have a little experience as far as bass go. We are expert catfishermen ...

Thanks guys for the replies. I hate to seem like such a moron on this subject, it's just that rules and regs concerning fishing are something completely new to me. Also new to me is lakes being SURROUNDED homes and public shore fisherman have very limited room to fish. Back home you drive down a dir...

Title kinda sums it up. What rivers can I fish in now? All I hear is hearsay that they're closed. Where does it state that they are closed? Really confused.

Okay, so I'm guessing tomorrow (April 24th) is the opening of "fishing season". I've never heard that term before, in Kansas we fish whenever we want, where we want, but that's neither here nor there. Anyhow, I was looking at the WDFW site, searching for a nice lake to go to tomorrow in celebration ...

As a pretty seasoned Channel Catfisherman, I'd be more than happy to share some secrets and tips if ya'll would just be willing to share some good locations!

This thread is a little over a month old, but I have to ask: Are there channel cats in Washington? From all that I've been told there aren't. I just moved up to Olympia from Kansas and that's pretty much all the wife and I used to fish for (Channel Cats).

Hello everyone! My family and I just moved up to Olympia from Topeka, KS and we're pretty avid fishing fans! The problem is we're used to catfishing, and from what I'm told the catfishing isn't too hot up here. We'd really like to get together with a local fisherman and learn the in's and out's of f...