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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/21/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 2
A slice of Paradise that hardly anyone is fishing…
I know, it’s salmon time and everyone is jamming the rivers, fishing the salt, looking for chrome. Gringo Pescador, his brother Gene, and myself i...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/19/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I returned late last night from Ed Iman’s Fish Camp 2014, our annual event of guides, outdoor product reps, and media-type people (that would be me, LOL). As always, Ed and Pam Iman put on a great ev...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/10/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I got to finally fish this urban fishery with Gringo Pescador and my friend Robbie from work. I’ve been reading reports for several years, but just have never got out here. The fish are in and the net...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/8/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My son James and I enjoyed a nice overnight hike to little Pete lake. The place was jammed with hikers and campers so we ended up finding a small little camping spot on the east end of the lake, by th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/8/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, I would never have expected today's fishing outcome. JoAnn and I launched at 7am out of Edmonds. Since it was an outgoing tide I decided to start us down at the oil docks and run north with the t...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/7/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Checked the calendar, checked My Reports for previous years posts, yup it’s Puget Sound Coho Time!
First trip out I was joined by Gringo Pescador and my friend Scott from work (his first time ever ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/26/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Our last overnight boat camping trip of the year, and JoAnn wanted to go back to Lake Merwin. I can’t blame her. It’s pretty lake and as summer ends and school starts back up the crowds thin out a bit...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/19/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/19/2014
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I fished Monday and Tuesday on our much anticipated “Return To Lake Wenatchee” trip. When last there, a few weeks back, we brought back 20 sockeye. With reports coming in that the lake was s...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/4/2014
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing with friends rseas and Rob at Brewster today, and later in the day for a bit at Wells. We were hoping to get into more sockeye but our boat just didn't have the fish love today. We got several...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2014
Hot Spots: 3
I just got back from two days of fishing Lake Wenatchee with my wife JoAnn. I will admit, after our outstanding trip to Baker Lake last week I was a bit ambivalent about fishing Lake Wentachee. There ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/21/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I had the day off and my original idea was to run over to Lake Wenatchee to get in on the sockeye fishery, but Hwy 2 is still closed so Back to Baker We Go (it’s a nice back-up plan…)
We ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/15/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2014
Hot Spots: 2
One of the great things about fishing is that it brings friends and family together year after year in traditions that start and continue on. For my wife JoAnn and I, Baker lake has been a destination...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/30/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/28/2014
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I made our annual trip down to Merwin to target the kokanee this weekend. We fished from Saturday to Monday morning. The weather started out rainy on Saturday , improved on Sunday, and was ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/23/2014
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
OK, so lot’s of times people wonder, why post a “1” report? For myself, it’s to keep track of all my fishing trips, but also, it’s to help the members know what’s going on.
What’s going on with the...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Day ½(late) through Day 3:
After fishing Cle Elum with Mark we drove to our next destination, Banks Lake. Target Species: Walleye. We met up with Aaron and fished Saturday evening in the Punchbowl....
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I had a great three day weekend of fishing. Day ½ (LOL) was spent on Cle Elum with Mark, AKA Gringo Pescador. We arrived and had gear running at 6:30am. Our target was macks and kokanee. We knew there...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
With one more day off before having to do ten days in a row, I saw the nice weather reports and talked my wife into getting up at 4am to go fish Lake Stevens. I figured a couple days after the Derby t...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/12/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Today I got to fish with “The JigMiester”, David Gerhauser for some crappie action. For those of you that don’t know him, David pours some incredibly life-like soft plastics for jig fishing crappie, w...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My body is telling me I’m still on the water but I am, alas, back home. Four days of fishing Lake Chelan and our Kokanee Get Together. What a great weekend it was!
JoAnn and I arrived Friday mornin...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I got to fish this morning with Zack of Northwest Sportfishing on Lake Stevens for kokanee. We started at crack’o’dawn (6am ish anyway) and the bite was on from the git-go. Since I was running the cam...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I’ve driven by this lake so many times going back and forth to visiting my son in Montana, always wondering how the fishing was. So when the opportunity came up to fish with the Club Chairman for the ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/14/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/13/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I had an itching to fish this lake again and as my day got free I asked JoAnn if she wanted to fish and she said "yes". So off we went, me with thoughts of the last time I fished the lake and did real...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 2
After a few trailer and downrigger and boat water/fuel filter issues (always remember to fill the new filter with gas…) JoAnn and I final got to fish two days, Sunday and Monday on Lake Chelan.
Las...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/29/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron and I got to go fishing with Craig Dowdy of YJ Guide Service. Our target was burbot. It was a cold morning but the roads were clear. We launched out of Porcupine Bay and headed up the branch to ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/1/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Day off to go fishing and a dang cold and wet front moved in. We had already made plans to run a three boat convoy to fish the lower Stilliguamish as it opened for steelhead December 1. Gringo Pescado...