Search
Mike Carey's Reports
Change View:
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/4/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30am to around 11am on the highway side of Reiter. Conditions were less than optimal - rain (and getting heavier as the morning progressed) and a rising river. Despite that, Nate managed...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Gringo Pescador and I drifted the Sky from Sultan to Monroe. With the river flow at 6,500 CFS starting the day it was a fast drift, done by 2pm.
We did find some fishy looking water and Gringo had ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Gringo Pescador today in search of steelhead. Gringo took me on a tour of some of his favorite holes from Reiter down. Our gear of choice was float rods and either jigs, or in my cas...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/19/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
After finding the Humptulips river a bit too high to fish, Nate Treat took me into the backwoods of the O.P. to one of his favorite secret locations.
The salmon river area that he took me to is de...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/18/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Went fishing with Nate Treat for two days to the O.P., destination, the Humptulips river for fall salmon. The big rain had arrived over the weekend and I watched the gauges go from a trickle of 100 cf...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2012
Hot Spots: 1
The hike to this Alpine lake features a lot of cool views. It's not "too" bad - 12.8 miles round trip, 2,000 ft of elevation gain. The first half is a 1,025 ft climb to a ridge which has the Stevens P...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/8/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Gringo Pescador for a shot at river coho. Seemed like ideal conditions - nice, sunny day, HT at 12:30 so we could fish the incoming flow of fish.
The morning we tossed spinners and spo...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/2/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2012
Hot Spots: 1
What a difference a day makes. First, I have to give a big shout out to WL.com member “Berchu” who posted a comment on bbordeau’s Area 9 report of 9-30. His comment gave me enough motivation to decide...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/1/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/1/2012
Hot Spots: 1
You know things are going to start tough when you ask your wife “do you have your license?” and she says “no” and is not joking. Next time I’ll remember to ask that question before we leave home, not ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/26/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with Aaron and Mike Gibney as part of Ed Iman's Fish Camp 2012. We tossed plastics and plugs along shore to some of Mike's prime locations. The fishing was very steady all day. We probably caug...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/25/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/25/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Wow, if bites and lost fish counted toward the rating this would be a “5”. My wife and I launched at Edmonds Sling and hit the slack tide change (7:30am) and it was on FIRE! All action was just north ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/25/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron and I got to fish with "Walleye Willie" while at fish camp. Target was of course - walleye. We trolled bottom bouncers in 16-25 ft of water over various humps Willie fishes. It was a tough bite ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/11/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/11/2012
Hot Spots: 2
OK, three days of fishing hard and I admit, I’m tired!
Today I met Nate Treat and Gringo Pescador and we launched out of Edmonds at 06:15 in search of ocean coho.
Conditions today were a bit bre...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/10/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2012
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn surprised the heck out of me this morning when she came into my office at 9am and said “let’s go fishing”. At 6am she had said no because it was raining, but the weather changed and so did her m...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I got to fish with Lou Smith from the site today. I was pretty pumped up about catching tons of kokanee as I had heard the lake holds a lot of them, although on the smaller size. Figured we ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/4/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2012
Hot Spots: 1
My son James and I decided to do an end-of-summer Alpine lake hike. I looked over some places to go and settled on Valhalla lake. Guide book said 11 miles round trip – NOT! My gps (and legs) registere...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 2
OK, I know the kings and coho are running strong in Puget Sound, and I really should be out there after them, but when WDFW upped the Merwin Lake limit to 10 a day I couldn’t pass up another trip. Plu...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/14/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Today we wrapped up our 2012 season on Baker Lake. JoAnn and I fished with my son Matt and his GF Veronica. They are visiting from Montana where they go to school there.
We got up at 2:30am and arr...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/13/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Baker lake is winding down, at least from an angler pressure point of view. No doubt the fact that you can fish the Straight and the Sound for big kings has something to do with it. That, and the fact...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Our Sunday fishing began at 5am with lines in the water. JoAnn and I resolved to do a better job catching and stop losing the early morning fish we got up so early to catch.
This time I decided to ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 1
JoAnn and I left the house at 9:30pm with the plan to launch when we arrived and slowly motor to our anchorage, and be up at the crack o dawn for the sockeye. The plan went without a hitch, and motori...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/31/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a better day for JoAnn and me. Not red-hot, but decent. Definitely did better after making a couple small adjustments. First, I dropped my troll speed from 1.2-1.1 down to 0.8-1.0. Second, I...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/31/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Ouch, talk about bad fishing. JoAnn and I pounded the lake from 5am to noon and again for a couple hours in the evening. Four rods, and not a bite the entire day. We did see fish caught, which made th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/26/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Expectations can cloud one’s perception of success or failure. I found this to be the case for me after a three day fishing trip my wife and I took to Baker lake.
After last’s year’s trip with JoA...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2012
Hot Spots: 2
We decided to hold off going to Baker lake a day to let the weather get a bit better, and instead heded to near-by Stevens for some kokanee action.
Arrived at crack-o-dawn and had the gear down and...