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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I got to try a new (for me) method of kokanee fishing with Toni of Wannafishalure today. She taught me the essentials of still fishing, anchored up in one location. Being a die-hard troller I will adm...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2015
Hot Spots: 2
This report/article is for Saturday to Monday.
Imagine a kokanee lake where you can consistently catch 13-15” beautiful fat, shiny kokanee and not have one single other trolling angler around you f...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
To say I was looking forward to today’s fishing trip on Lake Roosevelt was an understatement. It had been way too long since I last fished with Big Bass Dez or for bass. Bass fishing to me is one of t...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron, Rob, and I got to fish with Jordan Osborn of Upper Columbia Guide Service for a day of walleye fishing on Banks Lake. We met at 5:30am and hit the water running. It was a gorgeous day with ligh...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/18/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got to fish in Montana! After years of visiting my son at college, this year I loaded the pontoon on top of the truck and drove it out to Great Falls. We planned to fish the Missouri River, wh...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We could not have asked for better weather for this weekend’s fishing Get Together. Sunny skies, mild winds, and perfect temps in the 70s.
I got to fish on Friday late morning, Saturday, and Sunday...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/21/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
This fishing report is for Saturday to Monday.
I got to go fishing with my friends Robbie and Gringo Pescador for a long anticipated spring ling cod trip to Neah Bay. I can safely say this was one ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/6/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
JoAnn and I got to fish Chelan for a long Easter weekend, our first fishing/camping trip of the year. New for us this year is the addition of our dog, Diesel. Diesel is a “puggle” that JoAnn got at th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/8/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of our weekend fishing adventure. This time gringo and I fished with his friend Dan. Plan was the same, side drifting or bobber dogging the area around Mission Bar to downriver of Toledo. We l...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day with Gringo Pescador, his brother Gene, and friend Jim. We launched out of Toledo at 7am. I had to remind myself that this was Saturday as there were no rigs at the launch, unreal! As w...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish the beginnings of the Cowlitz “B” run with author Jason Brooks, and Gringo Pescador today. We were guests of Bruce Warren, FishingForFunGuideService.com. I could say it was a “guides day...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/27/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The word is getting out that kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan is a year round affair. Recent reports have been showing some nice catches. I hooked up with Jeff Witkowski of Darrell and Dad’s Family Guid...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/4/2015
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Off to the pier to go squiding with my new squid jigs. I had hit Ebay up for some very likely looking jigs, including some cool LED flashing ones. I met up with my friend Robbis at 5pm and we jigged u...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/23/2014
Species: Squid
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/21/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Got to take my son Matt and DIL Veronica out for her first time squiding. We were joined by my friend Robbie. We squided from 5pm to 8pm. Conditions were pretty good - calm winds, low 40s. Still cold ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/16/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 0
Fished: 12/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Not a LAKE it's a SECRET RIVER...
Today I had the pleasure of fishing with guide Ryan Hung of Reel Priorities. Like many of you I’ve enjoyed his positive, informative, and teaching fishing reports ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/2/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, after the recent high water the Satsop dropped down into fishing condition, a little high at 3,200 cfs. Water clarity was dirty but clearing in the main branch, and clear in the east fork. I went...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/24/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
If I’m rating this day for myself fishing success-wise it’s a one. Fortunately I had Gringo Pescador along to save the day and bump it to a three. Of course, for him it would have been a five.
The...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 0
Fished: 11/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is actually a Secret River Report:
Gringo Pescador and I got to fish with Ted Schuman of Winter Run Guide Service today as he taught us his highly successful technique of twitching for salmon ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/5/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2014
Hot Spots: 3
I got to go fishing on this great river the past couple days with Aaron and Rob Holman. We fished with guide Kyle Jones. The weather was pretty good both days; Tuesday was a bit wet but not bad. The C...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/27/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another day, another Big Skunk O. This is getting old...
Got to fish today with rseas. We launched out of Marblemount and motored down below the mouth of the Cascade to some very fishy holes. Ancho...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It pains me to say this but my "coho mojo" is done gone and left the building. I went fishing with my friend Robbie today. We launched at daybreak and worked our way up river from Cady. The river was ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2014
Hot Spots: 2
First, I’d like to thank DjButler and G-Man for providing some online motivation to get out and give the lake a try. And as luck would have it, the stars aligned right and I was able to get an open wi...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/30/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I got a low census day at work today. Normally I'm not thrilled about that, but in this case I got my river boat organized and hit the Snohomish.
I launched out of the Cady launch and spent the firs...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/29/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Having just read Rseas report I'm left scratching my head. JoAnn and I launched out of Edmonds and lines down at 7:15am. Trolled south with the tide and into the chop, wind was enough to make it mildl...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This was one of those "it doesn't matter if I catch something or not" trips.
My son James and I hiked from Alpental to Snow Lake. Our original plan was to explore Source Lake, which is a tiny pond ...