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By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/22/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Gort (Byron) and headed out of Shilshole about 0715. Dropped 4 pots off of the Carkeek park area, in mostly 80' ish of water. Seems the pot line gets farther N. from Shilshole every yea...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit bitter just after 0600, in the tube. It was quite windy, and kind of unrealistic I thought, to fish. Worked my way down the N. shoreline. Started off with a white spinner bait. No luck there. ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I snuck in an hour on Bitter after work. Wife thought I was still working,lol. 3rd cast i picked up a 3.2 lb largie. I thought that was pretty cool, so early on. I always start off at the overhang...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I have a cool lake that I bushwack to. It is up near Cassidy lake in Snohomish County. Anyway, old report from a couple months ago. Nothing special to report, sorry.. I basicly just got my SD card...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Echo lake (in Shoreline behind Costco) this evening. In the water by 6:00 pm, out by 9:00pm. Started in my tube at the beach area, worked my way SLOWLY counterclockwise. Took me 3 hours to cir...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't hit bitter since about Feb. so I got a couple hours in between 1630-1900. Was fishing as usual from my float tube, targeting large mouth. Worked my way casting towards the lilly edge and d...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Geez, I almost hate to stick another 1 star report on here. Shannon doesn't get that many reports so I guess I'll throw mine in.
Got to the launch about 10:00 am. We wanted to fish the N. end of th...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 1
This is a report for my fishing experience in the 3rd Annual Mackinaw tourney on lake Cle Elum recently. This was a very fun day for us. The check in the am was at 0700. They told me "Blast off" wa...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 3
HIt Forbes lake over in Kirkland near Costco this morning. I was in my float tube. The lilly pads are already quite heavy on this lake, kind of strange. Lake has LOTS of cover. At least one beaver ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Disregard the Benton county listing on this report. The Yakima river flows through a handfull of counties, and the website only lists it under Benton county.
Anyways, not much to report... Spent so...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It was a warm night so I decided to make it my first night of bass fishing at my home lake for the season. I'd only been bassing once this year on lake Union.
When I was in the parking lot fellow...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/18/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with fishing buddy, "Motoboat" launched at that launch located just S. of Seward Park, I forget the name. FYI... they've gone up to 10 bucks.
We almost didn't leave the house, due to a lot o...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/29/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had unexpected day off from work on the 26th, so I called up another forum member here,"Centershock", i.e. Thomas, and headed to lake Samammish to troll for cutthroat.
We launched about 0915. The...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/11/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had an unexpected day off from work so I decided to head over the the lower Cle Elum river. We had recently purchased some property of there, and I found some beautiful stretches of river that I wa...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
"Motoboat" i.e. Wayne, and I hit Lake WA. via the Mercer Island launch this morning at about 0900. I have grown to like this launch as it allows me to be fairly close to a variety of areas I like to ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
met up with Gort and The Urban Anlger at the 65th street dock, Green lake. Arrived a little after 0700. Beautiful sunrise, water was like glass with a little fog on top. Not really any fish rising ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/23/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out trolling for Cutts. on the big lake with "Gort" from the website. We launched at Mercer Island's launch so that we could spend a little time trolling I-90, before heading to the South end o...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fish are very bright. Caught one on my second cast. Squid jigs, heavier jig head the better. Picked up a second fish b4 leaving. Not the fastest fishing this afternoon, but still a good time. To...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Last fling of the summer. I have always wanted to fish the Spada lake/reservoir. I took my son and Motoboat, (fellow WA LAKER) up to the Sultan Basin Rec. area to get on Spada. We got a late start,...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/20/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a fellow wa. lake member and friend to the Snohomish to see how things are setting up with the Pinks. Got there around 11:00 am. I think the tide was just about at slack tide. First 35 min. o...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/15/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is Forbes lake, located in the Totem lake/Kirkland area. If you Google map it, you will find it about 3 blocks directly N. of the Costco in Kirkland on 85th street.
The lake has only two a...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/10/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Painful day in area 10.... all day, 10 hours.
Launched about 0630. We spent the whole day going back and forth outside of the cans in front of Shilshole marina. There was a fair amount of boats all ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/31/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out of Shilshole marina this morning to get some time with a new fishfinder. I wanted to get used to it before doing a salmon fishing day with another friend next week.
We launched about 0645. ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out in area 10 for my first time this year on the crab. i dropped 4 pots the night before. ( 2 me,, and 2 for a friend) My friend and I pulled pots Sunday. The first two pots were underwater,...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! what an awesome night on Bitter. I am going to break the report (star rules) and give this a 4 star report. (only 1 fish to the tube actually)
I got on the lake later than I wish, about 8:3...