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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/17/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 1
My wife and I fished Yale in the afternoon after limiting at Merwin. Ran down to the dam face and immediate started catching small 6-8" fish at varying depths. Tried bigger gear and faster trolling sp...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/16/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Wow! My wife and I headed out on a much anticipated trip down to fish Merwin and Yale reservoirs, and we were not disappointed.
We got up at 3am Sunday and arrived, boat in the water and lines do...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/25/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Today’s day off was dedicated to catching some kokanee with my wife on Stevens. We had the boat in the water and gear down at 5:30am. Conditions for today were pretty good, partly cloudy/partly sunny,...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/19/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2012
Hot Spots: 1
The day started out drizzly and misty, so much for “rain south of Seattle and clearing” (although it did clear – at 12:30 when we got off the water, LOL).
My wife and I had the boat in the water and ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Brutal. One word sums it up. My wife and I hit the water at 5:15am with hopes high of a good morning bite. I think the low pressure front put the bite on "off" cause we had one fish brief on and that ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2012
Hot Spots: 2
My wife and I hit the water and lines down at 6:15am. We ran four rigs off two downriggers, staggering depth from 25-55 feet. Conditions were calm, very pleasant morning on the water. There were aroun...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Wow, what a great day on the water today!
My wife JoAnn and I got up at 3:30 and drove to lake Samish in search of kokanee. We arrived and had the boat in the water at 6:15. The parking lot was alr...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
OK, I am tired from a day of hardcore trolling, but it’s a good tired. Met Toni and Nate at 5am to troll for kokanee. Rseas and his wife Karen were there as well in the Lund to help us with filming an...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Work was pretty mellow so with plenty of pent up energy and a beautiful evening I decided to head up to Stevens to use my new kokanee gear and get my boat running smoothly.
I launched at the WDFW r...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Wow! An amazing day of fishing with Aaron and guide Craig Dowdy of YJ Guide Service (509) 999-0717). Craig took us out on Eiloka for a day of bass fishing, splitting the trip into an early morning cr...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Got to fish American today with Gringo Pescador and rseas. I was really looking forward to the trip after having a pretty hard weekend of work. My one day off so make the most of it!
We launched and ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Today I got to meet rseas from the site. He, Nate Treat, and I travel down to Riffe Lake. Recent reports were stellar and not to be passed up, especially as the weather held up with the forecast of a ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/17/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Sunday on Lake Chelan with Tyler Walker and Big Bass Dez, spring fishing for smallies. Dez had told me to be prepared for some good fishing and he was right, at least for part of the day.
Started ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Today was a no-pressure, easy day of limits with a bonus on Roses Lake. I fished with Aaron, Andrew, and Anton Jones of Darrell and Dad’s Family Guide Service. Anton guides on Roses lake – which is to...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I got to fished all day on the Skook with Nate. After hitting Cabelas for some gear, we arrived around 11ish with the plan to fish the afternoon into the evening. Nate took me hiking into some very co...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/27/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/26/2012
Hot Spots: 3
The Cowlitz was in good shape Monday, with river flows at 8,300 csf for the day. I met up with Gringo Pescador and Nate Treat for one last shot at the “B” run steelies. Conditions were upper 40s to lo...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/12/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Well, my personal slump for steeelhead continues, but at least one person in our group got a fish today. We hit Blue Creek and started fishing by 8am. Today's plan was to drift from BC down to Mission...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/27/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
OK, all my worries about rain were unneccesary. The river was in great shape, very fishable and perfect color. It was crisp to start the day (24 degrees) but warmed up as soon as the sun got above the...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/14/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/13/2012
Hot Spots: 1
It was convoy fishing with Gringo Pescador and Nate Treat today. We launched at the 7400 launch (what a muddy, mucky, tiny launch!) and drifted all the way to the White Bridge take out. Conditions wer...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 3
OK, last trip to the Cowlitz river for this winter steelhead season (I think!). natetreat and I hit the water with a ton of other anglers at 7:30am and started side drifting the upper blue creek drift...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/19/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/19/2011
Hot Spots: 1
wow,water is down, dropped from 6,400 to 5,030 cfs. Nate and I fished from 8am to 2:15pm, pounded the launch drift and also wandered down below Blue Creek and side-drifted and pulled plugs. We saw a f...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/12/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/12/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Gringo Pescador and I floated from High Bridge down to Sultan. The water flow was only 1,600 so there was some pretty dead water and it took the full day to get through. The water was low and clear - ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/5/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/5/2011
Hot Spots: 3
OK, so the morning started out a little rough as my boat collided with another boat that was pulling plugs. What can I say, I'm out of practise. My apologies and fortunately no damage done.
Nate an...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/28/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day with Nate checking out different locations on the Green. We started by the soccer fields in Auburn, but the water was pretty high and kinda off color, so moved farther up river. Soos cre...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/7/2011
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/7/2011
Hot Spots: 3
The chum are in big time at Hoodsport! Got to fish today with WL.com regular natetreat who is as big a fan of chum salmon as I am. It has been several years since I've been to Hoodsport and I was as e...