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By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My good buddy Gordy has been at it again. He has taken the custom jig thing to a whole new level by using his own beautifully crafted jighead and scoring on some truely jumbo perch in Yakima County's ...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/8/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got an invite to fish with my buddy Craig Taylor of Sunnyside Bi Mart fame. W headed out to a series of ponds along the I 82 corridor to try for Largemouth Bass. Craig wanted to try some 4" Yama Sen...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/4/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Myron pond has some big panfish in it. The key to catching them is keying on thier natural forage and giving the fish a look at a lure presentation they don't usually see in a highly pressured, catch ...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/3/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Making lure sample packs for fellow Walakers has kept me pretty busy lately, so when I ran out of a couple of essential lure componenets, I hopped in the truck and headed to Yakima to stock up. I coul...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Man field testing My new lure designs is a blast! I hooked up with my mentor and fishing legend Joe Schmidt of Yakima, aka FishinChritian to put my new DamZel Nymph baits to the test. I was A little ...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Man what a day! I hooked up with My awesome buddy Roger Mineard aka Pacbassman fro Wa lakes and had another unbelievable day of Crappie and bass fishing in the Columbia Basin. We got out early this mo...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/27/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Thursday was an absoutely amazing day of fishing for huge black crappie on Banks lake! I Hooked up with A.J. Barnett of Moses Lake, Aka "Worm" to all you Walakes fishermen. We were bummed that the wet...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/24/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well guys, all things must end... for a while at least. The recent heat wave set off a flood of runoff water from the Yakima river over it's banks, and as I write this the I82 ponds-most notably the b...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/21/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This week has been some of the best crappie fishing in years for me. All told I believe that I a closing in on near some 400 crappie caught in the I 82 ponds since last Monday! Today, the action was f...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/19/2012
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Man it's been a numbers game this spring! I got a call from Yakima pro Guide David Childs a.k.a "Yakfish" because he wanted to get in on some of my recent hot panfish action on the I 82 ponds. So I me...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/18/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Lilac trees are about to bloom and you all know what that means? The Crappie are about to spawn!We hit a pond along the I82 corridor with my good buddy Craig Taylor A.K.A "Hillbilly" from the Sunn...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/15/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This...my brothers, IS the time I have been waiting for! I got a chance to fish with my bro Casey Evans today on an I 82 pond that don't get too much pressure. Normally, I'll forgo low Lunar Table rat...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got a chanch to hit Myron Lake with my buddy Roger a.k.a Paccbassman from Yakima. It was the perfect opportunity to try out my new Stone Dragun Nymph jigs for those Myron brood stock trout and jumbo...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/5/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
As it goes, I was due for a trip like today with my mentor an good friend Joe Schmidt A.K.A fishinChristian to walakers. We hitched up his 2 person rig and headed up to Banks to see if we could catch ...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/4/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Man...I love the springtime! I hooked up with my good buddy Travis Cullinan for some top notch bass fishing today. We hit a grassy slough off of Frenchmens Hills wasteway near the I road ponds this af...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/3/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well Guys, the Bass fishing has only gotten better during the recent warm weather. My good buddy Joe Cortez and I have been catching some pretty big bass so far this spring on the I82 ponds near Zilla...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 3/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, this spring is shaping up to be a hella great fishery here in the Lower Yakima Valley. I missed an opportunity to fish with my bro Jjball50 as he and I got crisscrossed on which pond was which. ...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 3/24/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I headed out today to fish The I 82 ponds with my good buddy Craig Taylor of Bi Mart fame in Sunnyside. Todays weather and lunar rating bode pretty well for crappie fishing. I was estatic to see that ...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 3/16/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to head up and fish the I 82 ponds today and caught my first big crappie of the year! The biggest were some pretty decent sized fish with the biggest almost 12". My hottest bait was a protot...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 3/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Man,what an awesome time to be on the water! I had an great weekend and monday of fishing with my friends Kavin Bolser, Adam Barnett and Roger Mineard. All told we caught 47 /carryover/Triploid/rainbo...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 3/3/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
well guys I must say that this years annual Quincy Lakes Trout Derby was one of the best in years. My partner Kavin Bolser and I ended up winning the Derby with a 5 fish weight of 14.8 lbs and a secon...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 12/3/2011
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got a chance to hit the water with a couple of my bros on the Naches river, drifting dropshot rigs, a single #14 whitefish fly, tipped with a maggot. My buddy Chris was nice enought to set m...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well it took me a bit to post this report because of login issues, but I have to say that last Thursday, October 6th was an insane day of steelhead fishing on the Snake River behind Ice Harbor Dam. Ch...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 10/2/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a while since I have posted a report on WaLakes because for a while I was legally blind from worsening cateracts and a glaucoma diagnosis. Undetered, I managed to make to the snake river wit...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 8/1/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well guys , Im coming off the mend pretty well after what seemed like weeks of dealing with a MRSA foot infection. I hooked up with my good buddy Rojer AKA pacbassman on this website. Rog is a good lu...