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By: cwbraue
Posted: 7/28/2024
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2024
Hot Spots: 0
So this isn't really secret, but it's not on the list. This is a pond in the middle fork Snoqualmie valley. It's quite difficult to fish because it requires a short hike, it's very brushy, very steep ...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 5/12/2024
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2024
Hot Spots: 0
I'm keeping this one secret due to the fact that these fish are wild and many are concentrated in one area that easy to access currently. Anyways, this is east of the Cascade crest. I caught several n...
By: TonyTrain
Posted: 7/22/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2023
Hot Spots: 0
caught a few nice trout recently. Anybody seen or caught a tagged fish from wdfw's trout derby? I'm starting to wonder if they're for real
By: cwbraue
Posted: 7/4/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2023
Hot Spots: 0
So I went hiking today to some lakes, but didn't have luck at the lake I fished. Then I fished a pond that was in the area and though it didn't have a lot of fish, they were pretty big and fought hard...
By: igotfishon
Posted: 6/10/2023
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2023
Hot Spots: 0
The next day we headed to another fishing spot where the bite picked up.
Check out video below:
By: igotfishon
Posted: 6/3/2023
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2023
Hot Spots: 0
I've been foraging for morel mushrooms lately and finally had a chance to go back to the Snake River for another round of crappie fishing. I want to taste both crappies and morels together it's the be...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 4/4/2022
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Not really a secret but couldn't find lake Tahoe in Placer or Eldorado county listings.
Flee down to California to meet up with two of my good friends. We headed to S. Shore in hopes of catching so...
By: mgrahamjo
Posted: 9/12/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for not disclosing the location, but this was my first kokanee limit, so I need to protect the lake! Launched at about 6:30am and started marking fish immediately. I started with a wedding ring ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 5/25/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Who said a fisherman had to go to the Columbia river to catch big Kokanee ? North Idaho has several big lakes with extensive Kokanee populations.
The scale says 5.4 lbs! My blue ruler is 24 inches l...
By: Shadow Caster
Posted: 4/30/2021
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
This was on Lake Marcel, no secret, just private-ish. No access unless you live there or have a key.
Caught 12 and my friend caught 3. Using plastics, jigs and cranks. Largest was about 2# but all ...
By: SovietSlayer
Posted: 4/16/2021
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out to chase some springers for the first time! Buddy took out his boat and we did alright! Went 2/3 for fishing all day in 76 degree clear sky days.
Made a quick clip of the first spring...
By: SovietSlayer
Posted: 1/18/2021
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hope everything chasing those metal heads have been getting into them!! If not no worries winter has just begun!! Conditions are prime all over the state
Reflecting back on all the adventures the p...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/6/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/6/2020
Hot Spots: 0
NOT A FISHING REPORT
I got a bonus hunting trip to Montana visiting my son and DIL in Billings. The plan was to hunt public land day 1 and on my DIL Veronica's dad's ranch the next two days. Matt ...
By: brianmonticello
Posted: 11/27/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
HUNDREDS of jumpers, super lucky to hook one, they were pretty lock-jawed, but had a great time! Check out the video below!
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/22/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2020
Hot Spots: 0
NOT A FISHING REPORT...
My fall/winter training Duke, my springer spaniel continues. The nice forecast allowed us to head over to Ellensburg to hunt Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning at Cooke C...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/25/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2020
Hot Spots: 0
“Not a fishing report”…
This is my springer spaniel Duke’s first fall hunting season. I recently decided to join Cooke Canyon Hunt Club in Ellensburg. It’s a close drive so we can do day trip hunts...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/13/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
All I will say is that this stream is in the Cascades and I don't think it gets fished much. Coming back from a hike I found this beautiful stretch of stream that looks like a picture in a tourist bro...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/8/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/6/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This is for Oxbow lake off the Snoqualmie river. My friend hikes here a lot so I decided to try fishing it. Access is tough and limited. I was able to catch several small bass and saw no signs of any ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/2/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This is not a secret lake. The lake is not listed within the Grant County lakes. Lake is ‘Hilltop’ lake, located off Silica road exit 143, near the Gorge Amphitheater.
This lake is a private lake ...
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: 7/1/2020
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: walleyemark
Posted: 6/2/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hit a local lake with my daughter. We fished a windy Monday afternoon and caught about a dozen largemouth. Most averaged about 3 lbs. with a couple in the 4 lb. range.
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 3/1/2020
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
With stabilizing weather patterns, Olympic National Park catch and release steelhead fishing has continued to improve over the last week or so. We are getting most of our bites on plastic worms and 1/...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 11/18/2019
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
It's been quite a long while since my last post, but my trip this past weekend is worth putting one up. Sorry, but I need to keep the location secret on this one. Since I don't really have any great C...
By: SovietSlayer
Posted: 11/9/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Great fishing two days in a row. Went two for two for steelhead. First one 35 inches (75lbs) second one 26 inches(4.8pbs), the old Man caught out too! He’s a year out of a quadruple bypass and we fina...