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By: whorde
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
As I am a relentless machine, Episode 17 of Whorde Tries to Catch a Salmon, a Tale of Woe and Despair, continued last Friday.
The boss made me take an unpaid day off, so I called my father out on t...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The saga of Whorde Tries to Catch a Salmon continues last Thursday with Episode .... I've forgotten ... is it 16?
After reading reports of salmon being caught in Lake Washington, I readied my tru...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/2/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Super ugly second hand report out of Port Angeles. 2 lines in water for five hours, no bites, multiple other boats in area, no nets seen.
By: whorde
Posted: 9/29/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Whorde Tries to Catch a Salmon, Episode 15, takes a new and surprising twist. But the result doesn't change.
Another forum member, JonB, and myself, have an ongoing conversation about hiking up a ...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/29/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I felt I should update the ongoing tale of woe and despair, that being of course, Whorde Tries to Catch a Salmon.
Episode 9
Tuesday, September 23, after work and exercise I headed to the pier at...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/23/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I couldn't let a day go by without at least SOME effort to go fishing. So while making a run down toward south Bellevue, with it not yet being dark, I knew what I had to do.
I had line in water at...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/22/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So after 3 hours in the morning on the beach in Seattle, Episode 8 of Whorde Tries to Catch a Salmon continues .....
Finally got out and in the water in the neighborhood of 3:30
The wind was ......
By: whorde
Posted: 9/22/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
In the continuing saga of Whorde Tries to Catch a Salmon, we have episode 7.
I had a hard time getting going on Sunday morning, so I didn't get to Carkeek until about 7:30. Six guys fishing when ...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/20/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I only had a couple of hours this morning. I had randomly read in the Seattle times that you could catch crappie around the arboretum in Lake WA, so I decided to go on an adventure. Found the parkin...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/19/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After failing to catch any salmon in the morning, I got some errands done then hit Magnusson Park oh ... I'd say 3:30 or 4pm. I drug drop shot nightcrawlers around out in deeper water for a while, bu...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/19/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is actually a report for 3 visits.
On Tuesday I was there from 7-8 pm. I caught a sculpin. No other bites.
On Wednesday I was there from 7-8 pm. There were no bites.
So on Friday I wa...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sunday was a nightmare. Let me tell you about our 4 fish skunk. But really, it is far, far worse than even that outrageous comment.
Sunday actually started at Picnic Point in Lynnwood. I was the...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After Friday's debacle at Lake Cassidy, that night I decided I would drop a crawdad trap in Lake WA, then use a couple little ones for bait for bass the next morning.
Well, when I got to my trap at...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
As I had no work Friday afternoon, I decided to start my weekend at Lake Cassidy. As with my last trip there - big mistake.
People claim there are crappie in Lake Cassidy. Which I can confirm, as ...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/10/2014
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It's been 3 entire days, over 72 hours, since I was fishing. I was getting withdrawals. And I hadn't eaten dinner. Clearly, the solution was to go catch some fish, or not have any dinner if I didn'...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/7/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was planning to hit Magnussen Park shoreline in my raft on Saturday, and after Friday night's success I definitely did not change plans.
At 6:30am there were only two hardcore boaters launching i...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/7/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at base of Ediz Hook around 9:30 perhaps?
Went with my father. He hasn't bought anything new since 1998 probably. Including line. Got one rigged up and in the water, promptly lost it wi...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/5/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to try to trap some crawdads down by Magnussen Park tonight. So just for the hell of it, as long as I was out there and had 45 minutes of daylight to play with, I boated around (rubber raft...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/2/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I had 45 minutes to kill tonight so I drove down to Waverly Park just north of downtown Kirkland.
Little did I know I had an impending showdown with mother nature. So out on the dock I went.
My...
By: whorde
Posted: 9/2/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Magnussen in a gale. Well, that's an exaggeration. But enough wind to be highly annoying, and definitely prevent me from going out in my rubber raft. Apparently my failure to find the allege...
By: whorde
Posted: 8/31/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I'm going to have to break my own rule and give it a 5 star day due to new personal biggest bass, even though no trout.
Today I took my rubber raft out to Ballinger. I fished up north, I fished th...
By: whorde
Posted: 8/30/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After reading recently that you can catch fish from the boat ramp at Magnussen I tried it out tonight. First stopped at Matthews Beach, found no good looking spots. Then down to Magnussen, around 7p...
By: whorde
Posted: 8/30/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another day in the trout lake, another day with no trout. In fact, another day when no one caught a trout.
I was there from 6 am to 4pm, give or take. As is the usual, powerbait for trout went un...
By: whorde
Posted: 8/26/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Larsen early, still dark. Had set crayfish pot night before - ONE crayfish. By the way - the red crayfish in this lake are an invasive species, so if you find one up on the shore (I've seen o...
By: whorde
Posted: 8/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After Saturday's effort to catch a trout was a bust, I decided that Sunday I was going to catch a trout come hell or high water. This time I shamelessly copied the guy who caught the fish Saturday af...