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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/4/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2006
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Fished Meridian (first time ever) from daybreak to around 9:30 when I was driven off by the water-skiers. Fished the usual gear and found an abundance of willing small and largemouth bass. Unfortunate...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/29/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2006
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A well-deserved day off and fishing with my good fishing buddy Bob. We picked Thurston's Black lake as I had never fished it and it had been awhile for Bob. Started the day at 6am. We cut across from ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2006
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Another day on the water for those tasty sockeye. Fished from 6am to 10am with friends Tom and his wife Stephanie. We ran three rods off two riggers and an extra dodger off a ball to add more attracti...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/15/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/14/2006
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Day two of my Sockeye season I fished with friend Tom Jacobs. We launched at 6am from Atlantic park. Fished for an hour or so at the south tip of Mercer Island. Plenty of fishing being marked but no b...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/13/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2006
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I returned from vacation and thanks to Easy Limit's heads-up realized I still had a chance to catch some sockeye! So I took my son James for an over-nighter. Started at 6pm and at 7:30pm we caught a 4...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/16/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2006
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Fished from 6:30am to 9:30am with my son Matt - at his request! Target species: bass. Primary lure was WCCT western sticks. Dabbled with floating rapalas and surface frogs - nada. But the soft bait wo...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/9/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2006
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Fished from 6am to 10am in my trusty float tube. Target species - bass. I fished WCCT sticks, floating rapalas, and weedless frogs (in all the lilly pads). I got my first ever Joy lake bass at 6:40, a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/6/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2006
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Took my son James out for an evenign of bass fishing (no baseball practice -yeh!). Anyway, the bass fishing was good for the little guys which was fine with me. We don't get to fish as much as I'd lik...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/19/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2006
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Hit the water at 7am with my friend Chris. First thing I noticed right away was this is one weedy lake (which would later come to cost me). We quickly settled in on surface lures as the most effective...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/12/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2006
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Fished from 8am to 11am. Started out cloudy, calm, by end of the mornign got a few springles but I didn't melt. Water temp 64, species targeted - bass. I started on the far north shore, casting a floa...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/30/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2006
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Fished from 8:30am to 10:30am. A little tricky finding the trail down to the water, but once there this is a great looking lake. A bit bigger than I expected. It would take several hours to fish the e...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/24/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2006
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Got to fish with my good friend Bob Johansen after a long winter break. We decided to give St Clair a try. Launched at 7am and as we began fishing in fairly short order we each caught twin 9 1/2 inch ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/15/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2006
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Pine is still putting out good numbers of fish. I was there from 8:15am to 11:30am. Fished intermediate sinking, fast sinking, and floating line with strike indicator. All results the same - planters ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/9/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2006
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What a great morning to be on the water! Started fishing at 8am, water temp 53 degrees. The first 1 1/2 hrs I fiddled around with a gang troll which was a waste of time. Key word - fish deep! After wa...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/1/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2006
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Fished from 8:30am to 1:30pm with Bruce Middleton. I got lost finding the boat ramp, but that's another story in itself. Short and sweet report: we fished all types of lures, all depths, and had no fi...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/25/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2006
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Fished from 9am to 11:45. Water temp 56 degrees. Tried for both trout (flys) and bass. I managed one planter RB on a olive wooley bugger and had a few hits, not strong enough to hook set. All trout ac...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/17/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2006
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Well this report was going to be a "2". I started fishing at 9am and made my way from the boat launch through the middle lake and on up to the upper lake and back again. A nice morning's row. I caught...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/11/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2006
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I must have the smell of skunk real bad because my spring trout outings have been tough. Fished from 9:30 to noon today and nary a bite. Saw no one else having any better luck. Did some dragging of a ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/2/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2006
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It wasn't for lack of trying and the "1" rating doesn't reflect the company nor the day on the water. But the fishing at lower Hampton was poor today. Fished with my son James, John Kruse, and his son...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/28/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/27/2006
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It was a warm day and the recent reports from Beaver lake were good so I fished from 9am to 12:30. MOstly slowly rowed a green Carey Special. Landed two planter RBs and lost another. I watched a power...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/20/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2006
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Ouch. Dead slow morning and mid-day on Lone lake! My friend Brad and I fished from 9am to 2pm. Used chrinomids and Brad spent time working a black leach, then Carey Special. Nothing, no bites. Looking...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/13/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
First trip this late winter for trout. Lone is becoming an annual trip for me, all the better before the ferry rates go up. Anyway, water temp was 43 and the weather was sunny but a bit breezy. I only...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/17/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2005
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My friend Tom and I headed down south to meet and fish with David Newby, local lake expert. We met at daybreak and headed over to the west end of the lake to fish some shallow channels. We were fishin...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2005
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Bass fishing. Started at 8:30am working my way up the west side of the lake. Things were slow going for the first hour until I caught a couple small dinks on a floating rapala. Not long after that hit...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/6/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 10/6/2005
Hot Spots: 0
A strange morning of fishing. Started off planning on going to Meridian. Got there to discover that the repair work that was supposed to have been done by Sept 30th was still going on. Ramp closed. Pl...