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By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/19/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I fished launched at Sammamish about 0845. Fished with Elijah Loves Fishing. We headed up to the weather buoy. Made just a single pass around the buoy. There were 2 other boats fishing from what I ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I've been wanting to hit Rattlesnake in the float tube for some time now. It seems like the reports have been showing larger fish in the past couple years.
I put the tube in the water about 10:30 AM....
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I had an opportunity to get away for a couple days, so I hooked up with "The Urban Angler" and got him out of the urban sprawl.
We launched at Lake Cle Elum on Sunday AM. As badly as I wanted anothe...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/30/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Meadowdale beach for the 1st time tonight with a coworker. If U go here, I highly recommend the short cut. The walk from parking lot is 1 mile. Shortcut is maybe 8 min.
Beautiful sunset night....
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a little time for a short outing on Saturday morning. Dropped into the Shilshole launch at 0700 with a friend met via washingtonlakes.com We headed out to troll in the general Carkeek Park area...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Tonight was what hot summer Pink fishing nights are made of...
My wife goes out the door to drop our son off some where. The sun is just going down over the Olympics, I feel like I can escape to the...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/15/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with first time caller, long time listener... NE 1 Fission from this website. We got to the launch about 0640. It was a beautiful blue sky day, water was very calm that early. Our intention ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This was a little bit of a disappointing evening, and with a strange ending....
I headed out with a work buddy, with the intention to fish what is called, "Evans" lake. It is located 10 miles up a f...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/18/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! Today was interesting. I had all these lakes that I could have have entertained, but I heard some cool Intel. on Wilderness for LMB!
So I broke out of my Urban LMB fishing cycle. I went ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to go into work late today, so i headed out to Bitter at 0600. Overcast, slight wind. Threw both 5" Senko, watermelon w/speckles, Wacky rigged. Also through a lot of a white spinner ba...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/19/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished on annual charter trip with forum fishing buddy, Urban Angler, and his buddy, Brian. "Excel Fishing Charters" Skipper Tom.
Excellent day of fishing for both black rockfish and lings. 4 l...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
doing this from dictaphone on a smartphone so not sure how it come out..fished the lake Cle Elum Mackinaw tourney on Saturday. blastoff was 8 o'clock.maybe 40 boats, Im not sure. My buddy and i fish...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/30/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well... this was a bummer. It's the nicest weekend weather of the year. I headed over to Redd's in the canyon for a guided float trip on the Yak. A friend from work had invited me, which even thou...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 2/24/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 2/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
OK.. so this is a little pond/lake in my local, which I can't give up the name. But that being said... today was a very nice time. This lake is the collection point of a bunch of the cities storm wa...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 2/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After a weak morning of fishing at Lake Cambell, we launched in Cavanaugh around 1:45. This lake is great for Kokanee when it warms up, but the water temp of course today was 37 deg.!! Saw the usual...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 2/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the launch at Lake Cambell with fishing partner,"MotoBoat", about 0830. It was calm, and not yet raining, overcast. There was one guy bait fishing at the launch. No fish for him that day. This...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 12/29/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Atlantic City launch, S. end of Lk. WA. Was overcast, fairly cold, no wind. Had a few sprinkles and a small rain shower along the way. Picked up the, "Urban Angler" along the way. ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 11/11/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It is looking like my favorite time of the year to fish Lake WA. i.e. Fall/Winter. Flat water, very few boats, cool temps.
I went with partner, "Motoboat" launched from Magnusson park. Started la...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So after not doing to well on the Cooper River above lake Cle Elum, I returned down to the places I knew better. I had caught a really nice wild 16" rainbow on the Lower Cle Elum about 2 weeks ago. ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
OK,, this is a few days over due. I've had my cornputer in the shop, etc.
I had a really fun day this past Sunday. I picked up my new 3wt fly rod from the fly shop in Cle Elum. Props to Tyler at t...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! today was such a great day. I was near Roslyn for the weekend. I was doing a family weekend and fishing was not really the focus.... but if you knew me, that means that the rod was stashed in ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the night over near Roslyn with a couple buddies. I showed them a few of my fishing holes on the upper Yak, and the lower Cle Elum river. Upper Yak, near Ensign ranch produced no results. We ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I just had to get myself on the board officially, as far as the Shilshole coho go.
My regular fishing partner, Mr. Pip, and I have been skunked in so many different situations lately that it f...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/23/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had a hall pass from the family, this evening. I was hoping to get over to Forbes lake in Kirkland for some largemouth, but the sun was getting low, so I went with Ballinger due to proximity. As I...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/27/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So, this was a banner day! About 5 days ago I dropped crab pots, usual place off from Carkeek. At the end, I could not find one pot. ( 2 anglers, 4 pots) I had written it off. Today I decided ...