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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/20/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is both a fishing report, and a report of great sadness.
Tragedy struck today in Seiku as a fire engulfed and destroyed the FV Phoenix, flagship of NWFR Sponsor Seiku Charters. Thankfully, no ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2016
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I decided after the long drive last week to Montana to skip our overnight Baker Lake weekend. But the fishing bug was still biting me so on Sunday we took the dogs and drove up lake Samish f...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/10/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Location: Tiber Reservoir (Lake Elwell)
Another day of fishing in Big Sky Country. Matt and I decided to try a large reservoir. Tiber, north of Great Falls. Over 33,000 acres, 27 miles long, and sa...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/9/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
This report is for Lower Holter Lake
I got to fish with my son Matt this weekend. Hooked up my 15 foot Klamath so we could try a couple lakes this year. We decided to fish lower Holter lake (actu...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My final day of vacation. It's been a great ten days off. One last fishing outing, this time with Randy (rseas), Gringo Pescador (Mark), and my friend Dan (who repaired a ding in my brand new boat).
...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/25/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Today was our last and final day of fishing out of the B.C. town of Zeballos with Reel Obsession Sportfishing. Our host, Adrian O’Connor, had taken us to some of the prime fishing locations offshore. ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/24/2016
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
“And now for something completely different”. That’s what came to my mind when Adrian O’Connor, owner of Reel Obsession Sportfishing, informed us that for today he was going to take us to some locatio...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/23/2016
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Our long anticipated trip to Zeballos, B.C. had final arrived! I was fishing with Aaron Borg and Rob Holman from NWFR. We stayed at Reel Obsession Sporting lodge. 1-888-855-7335 Owner Adrian O’Connor ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Our Day Two Conconully Adventure took us to the Upper Lake. Once again, JoAnn slept in while I awoke with the birds and ran down to the lake. Yes, all of two miles or so and I had my boat launched and...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn, myself, and our dogs Diesel and Rudy got out to our much anticipated Conconully fishing trip. We were staying at the Liar's Cove Resort, one of the sponsors of this site.
I put the boat in ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My springer plans had fallen through for the Cowlitz, but the fishing bug was burning inside me and I had to go fishing! I contacted Randy (rseas) and we decided to hit Lake Samish for kokanee.
I’...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/15/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish with Toni of Wannafishalure. We decided to try Alder Lake and see how the springtime kokanee fishing was going.
We met at 7am and had lines running shortly after that. The day was nic...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/15/2016
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Ah, halibut fishing! It had been probably ten years since I last ventured out for them. I don’t know why I stopped, I guess other things got in the way. Anyway, not this year. This year I planned a fo...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/15/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 2
I got to fish on Friday and Sunday with my friends rseas and Robbie. I first fished Sutherland last year and we had some excellent success so I was excited to give it another try.
On Friday we fish...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a fishing report for the long weekend of the Chelan Get-together. I fished Friday afternoon solo, Saturday morning (until 9:30am) with my friend Rob and his daughters, and Sunday until early a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After struggling with the wind and poor fishing on Merwin, we decided to check out Yale Reservoir. Yale has huge numbers of kokanee, albeit smaller than Merwin. Last year I noted the fish had gotten i...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day fishing with Luke Hatfield, NWFR Moderator on our Facebook Fishing Group. We also had his son Carter along helping to run the boat. Myself, Gringo Pescador, and Robbie were guests on Luk...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Myself, Gringo Pescador, and Robbie got to join Luke Hatfield and his friend James on his boat to fish Merwin for some kokanee. Luke is one of our Facebook Fishing Group moderators and was gracious en...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Yaaa! Spring has sprung. The nice weather forecast had me unpacking and cleaning my boat from it’s winter slumber. Checked all the gear and electronics, everything is working, sweet. I decided to hit ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/3/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 3/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report is actually for a Secret River on the Olympic Peninsula.
Monday I got to fish for the day with outdoor writer Jason Brooks and guide Ted Schuman of Winter Run Guide Service. Ted took us...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I recently had received an invitation from Lonnie on NWFR to take me out for some big walleyes and was excited at the prospect of trying out this fishery. Add to that, the opportunity to stay at one o...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/24/2015
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish today with my friends Robbie and Rseas and as a bonus we got to try out one of the Life Proof Boats , the 21 foot run about model. Well, by “try out” I should say we got to go along as p...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/1/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
REPORT ALERT! This is NOT a fishing report…
That said, it was a cool weekend for myself as my wife and I visited our son and DIL in Great Falls, Montana. My pontoon was left there in the spring and...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/28/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day Two of our Wells Pool steelheading adventure with Shane Magnusen of Upper Columbia Guide Service. After a relaxing stay at the Lake Pateros Motor Lodge we loaded up and met Shane for a leisurely m...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/26/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
As the memories of chinook fishing fade away it’s time to change gears and with winter approaching that means steelheading time. Shane Magnusen of Upper Columbia Guide Service invited Aaron and I to g...