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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Monday, August 18
“I can’t believe you didn’t bring raingear,” I said. “If you don’t bring rain gear, it automatically will rain. That’s Murphy’s Law.” The first day of our fishing trip feels mo...
By: MackPrince
Posted: 8/23/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a good end to my summer fishing season. I had a good time meeting Kokonuts on the water and managed to catch some kokes before heading home around 11:00. The fish were spread out between 35-...
By: MackPrince
Posted: 8/12/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was great today. Got my limit between 7-10:15. No sonar, started at 3 colors, ended around 6. Something big struck hard around 8:00 and snapped my 6lb. leader even with a snubber, maybe it w...
By: MackPrince
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Merwin 1, me 0 today. Early on I lost a fish and had some strikes, but by 10:00 the action seemed to slow down and other boats were heading in for a break. One boat fishing nearby seemed to have a fis...
By: MackPrince
Posted: 7/31/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took my three year old daughter and wife out today and we had a blast. Between 11:45-1:15 we boated kokanee 13-15-16" long and lost two others. The action was enough to keep both the ladies having f...
By: MackPrince
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The fog lifted to reveal a placid Merwin today. Despite some lingering motor difficulties I managed to boat 2 kokes (11 and 13") between 9-10:00 a.m. I had a few other strikes earlier in the morning ...
By: Ski
Posted: 7/10/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late post, but had a great day fishing for tigers with Mark Wells. I managed to get these two in the boat with the great skills of my net man Mark. We also had a few follows and the la...
By: MackPrince
Posted: 7/10/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Merwin was a windy beast today. As my fishin' buddy and I launched the boat around 7:00 another boat was already packing up to go home and they warned us about the waves. Several boats were trolling n...
By: Don Wittenberger
Posted: 6/5/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tony Welch and I spent Monday and Tuesday searching for tiger muskies in cool and rainy weather but located only 1 lethargic juvenile (under 30 inches). Water temp was only 55 degrees and the muskie...
By: FISHKILLER
Posted: 5/24/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 people fished for 4 hours and ended up with 9 1lb kokes. Most of the fish were caught in a 1 hour window. Then it slowed down and then died off. Lots of boats and not many fish caught. Water was...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/5/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled Merwin noon to 3:30 April 5, caught two Kokanee, 12 and 13 inches, lost one. Water 45 degrees, so action was slow. About ten other fishermen, all with little or no catch. Snow was on hillsi...
By: muskyhunter28
Posted: 10/13/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
So, The weather was nice Today but the Fishing was BAD!
I think I am done for the year!
I think I might have seen one, but not sure.
I really believe they are all DEAD!
Stay away from this lake. I...
By: muskyhunter28
Posted: 10/8/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went Musky fishing in Merwin....... I think there all dead.
By: Don Wittenberger
Posted: 7/28/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
"No greater love hath a friend," Tony said as he handed me his rod, claiming a tiger muskie was on the other end. I reeled in a 16-inch squawfish. "It's the thought that counts," I replied gaily. T...
By: Viking 6
Posted: 7/11/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake by 8:30 am, trolling by 8:45. Trolled using a silver cowbell (flasher), a red wedding ring and two pieces of white corn on the hook. Four people in the boat and we had our limit by 1:3...
By: Lyndon
Posted: 7/3/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing with my dad and his friend George and we went to Merwin to catch kokanee. It was a great day to fish I caught my limit and my dad and George almost did. We ended up with 13 kokanee and ...
By: cryptic4u2
Posted: 6/25/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went Kokanee fishing on Saturday, Caught 10 fish between two people. trolling 1 mph or so, 4 oz at 60 pulls. using ford fenders with a little silver dick nite type spoon with red on one end white corn...
By: dlt074
Posted: 6/5/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
wow! what a difference a week makes. spent all day trying to see a tiger musky and we only saw one! it was hot(80's) and sunny, the water temp was slightly above really cold. there was a little chop d...
By: Dillpepsi123
Posted: 5/31/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was at Lacamas tryin for some bass. I wasn't set up for it because all I had for um was a jig. I was fishing in the side pond next to round lake, I saw plenty of good size bass maybe 1-2 pounds. The...
By: dlt074
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
So muskyhunter28 and I went back to see if we could duplicate Saturdays success. Long story short, nope. It was sunny and warm in the 80's. the wind was blowing pretty hard and the water was choppy an...
By: dlt074
Posted: 5/27/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
we went out the after noon (2pm on the water) of may 26th, not expecting to see any musky yet, let alone catch any. about 30mins later muskyhunter28 had his 41" hooked up with a small black and red bu...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 930 in the morning. Caught some Kokes right off slow trolling about 1 ounce of weight and 6 pulls of the line. By noon the fish had moved deeper and I added another ounce to 2 ounces o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee fishing was great, We used 2 oz. sinkers, Ford Finders type A with a Rim Rock spinner, we tipped the hook with a maggot
The fish were biting at 20 feet. Boat speed 1.2 MPH
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Merwin for about six hours on Sat. morning, we tried a new spot for about an hour and caught nothin'. Moved around and ended up with 16 kokes kept, one little guy released and lost around six at ...
By: Rick Buck
Posted: 4/30/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I caught my limit of Kokenee at Merwin today. The water is really clear so use only 1 ounce of lead, or none at all infront of a Ford Fender. Be sure to use a rubber snubber before your Wedding Ring L...