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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/4/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2000
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Hit the water at daybreak to fish for coho. Per an excellent post over at NWFishing.com from Steelhead Slayer, I came prepared to either jig or troll plugs. I decided to start out with plugs and watch...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/1/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2000
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The kids fished midday. More of the same- lots of fish jumping but few biting. Saw some nice trout caught but no salmon. I know they can be caught, it's just a matter of being there when they are in t...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/27/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 9/27/2000
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The WDFW has planted DeCoursey today with 500 hatchery coho. I took my two boys out to try to catch a few of these fish. The limit is 5 coho, no size restrictions. DeCoursey is a juvenal only pond. No...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/17/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 9/17/2000
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My mom visited from Wisconsin and I took her out fishing lake Samm from 7:30am to 11am. We hit three of my favorite spots, trolling for rainbow trout. We tried everything in my tackle box (well, a lot...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/10/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2000
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My friend Brad and I fished West Point from 6 to 8:30am. Saw a few caught, but since it was slow we ran over to Jeff Head. We caught a nice 6 lb bright hen at 9am. Caught a few small shaker blackmou...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/5/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2000
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About ten years ago, minus one wife and two kids, I used to do a fare amount of hiking. I had a job which gave me weekdays off, working every weekend. So I got to see a lot of country. One lake that...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/16/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2000
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Thanks to as favored owed by a co-worker, I managed one more trip for sockeye. My kids and I hit the water at 5:30am and had our gear down. Matt is getting quite good at running downriggers. Makes lif...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/13/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2000
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I begged borrowed and bribed my co-workers to cover for me so I could get Friday off since I can't go fishing this weekend when the sockeye season closes. On Thursday I took out my friend Brad, his da...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/12/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2000
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Hit the water at 5:30 with my sons and friend Manuel. We fished three lines at 60, 70, and 80 feet. Used both red and black hooks today. We fished south of 520 on the east side. Saw a few caught but i...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/9/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2000
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Fishing can be such a frustrating sport at times. We started a bit earlier today. The line went down at 05:35 to 70 feet on the downrigger and within 2 minutes we had our first fish in the boat, a nic...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/8/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2000
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Fishing seemed to slow down a bit today. After 30 minutes in line to launch the boat (and thanks to my wife for driving my rig away and picking us up at the end of the day) we started fishing at 6:30....
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/5/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2000
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Got to the Atlantic Park launch at 5:20 am, the parking lot had just filled up. We started fishing at 5:30. Pretty slow at first- a fish here, a double there. At 7 am we began to hit fish. Three by 7:...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/25/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2000
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A beautiful day should start with fishing, so I got up and drove to the lake. Started fishing at 0605 and had my first fish at 0610. A nice 14" rainbow that hit a green/silver spoon at 25 feet on the ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/18/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/18/2000
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Drove over to Banks on Sunday, set up camp and let the kids swim all afternoon. The water sure felt cold to me! We went out in the evening to the ledge on the south point of Steamboat and started fish...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/27/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2000
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My boys and I spent three days in search of the lunker lake trout and Chinook that reside in this huge lake. I had to set up my boat to fish deep, rigging up my electric downrigger and swapping out my...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/26/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2000
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Our long awaited 4 day weekend finally came. The boys and I hit the road and arrived Friday afternoon. In the evening we did a once around the lake. The north end has a lot of algae growth in the w...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/17/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2000
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Went out Wednesday morning to a cloudy, drizzly day. Trolled the usual assortment of thin blade spoons and had one massive splash behind the boat where my lure was. Otherwise it was a quiet morning. N...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/28/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2000
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I took my two boys and a friend's son fishing at Pine for Opening Day. The place was jammed with good-natured fishers and any type of boats dotted the lake. We started fishing power bait off the botto...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/12/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2000
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After months of hibernation posting other people's fishing stories, I finally managed to get out with my two boys to go fishing. Decided to try a new lake, St. Clair. The topo map looked so sweet with...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/20/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 10/20/1999
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I took my and 6 and 8 year old boys to try for the planted coho. We saw several spashes and finning fish, but could not get them to hit spinners or eggs. Then we went over to one of the fishing piers ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/13/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/1999
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Took my parents out on their annual fishing trip (they are visiting from Wisconsin). We had a beauty of a day. Sunny, warm, and a light breeze. Launched at the sling in Edmonds and ran up to Humpy ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/4/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Took my boys out to try for Humpies again. We hit the water about 7am and had a double to start the day off. We were trolling Humpy rigs (white dodgers and pink hoochies/spoons)from 40 to 75 feet dee...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/18/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/18/1999
Hot Spots: 0
My two sons and I fished from the boat launch at Mukilteo down to the shipwreck. We used the usual humpy rigs (white flashers/dodgers and pink hoochies/spoons) and fished from 35-60 feet deep. Starte...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/13/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 5 year old out for some father-son fishing. We tried the north side of 520 trolling the usual spinners and rapalas. Worked our way along the northeast shoreline trolling 25-35 feet deep. Anoth...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/25/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/1999
Hot Spots: 0
My long anticipated trip to Banks Lake was great. After leaving rainy Seattle behind, my sons and I arrived to mild (70's) sunny weather. We set camp and hit the water in search of walleye and bass. W...