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By: AJFishdude
Posted: 11/18/2019
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
It's been quite a long while since my last post, but my trip this past weekend is worth putting one up. Sorry, but I need to keep the location secret on this one. Since I don't really have any great C...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/5/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I had been wanting to get up to Trap Lake for a few years after reading about it and seeing pictures of the Westslope Cutthroat that live there. That day finally came this past Saturday as my wife and...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 4/3/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hiked the tube up into Smelling for the first time this past weekend for some C&R and had a pretty good two and a half hours of afternoon fishing on the lake. I'm continuing to work on my still water ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/20/2016
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This past weekend I hiked up into Royal Basin for some quality camping time with my dad and cousin and hopefully a few fish. After what I would consider to be a fairly difficult hike (especially with ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
A little bit late on the posting, but figured I would put out a report real quick. The family and I were camping at Mountain Lake, and naturally, I had my fishing gear along. One particular morning I ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/28/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I decided to hike up to Goat Lake on a rainy Memorial Day weekend Saturday, thanks being given to all who gave their lives in service of this country so that we can enjoy past times like ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/24/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Long time no report, however, this trip is certainly something worth breaking my silent streak. After having done a marathon fishing day of hitting two sub-alpine lakes earlier in the day and fishing ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 11/8/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
One of the things that I love about Washington is that there are so many places to fish. You can jump in your car and drive for an hour in just about any direction and find some sort of body of water,...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/15/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, this Coho season has so far turned out to be quite a nice one for me. Today I managed to get my first silver out of the Wallace, after having got my first silver out of the Stilly last week and ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report has been a long time coming, but I finally managed to exorcise another demon of mine today. This particular demon just happened to be chrome plated, complete with a set of fins and an insa...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/7/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed down to the river this morning, starting my fishing around 8am drifting eggs. Pretty quick I began getting hits on the eggs, however, I was again finding that they were incredibly light hits an...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/2/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was two seasons in the making, but I finally managed to catch my first north sound river Coho today. I've caught Coho in numerous other places, but the north sound rivers have proven to be mo...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 9/4/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for another night of Maribou twitching down at Thomas' Eddy. The fish are back in thick and they are bright too. Not to mention the fact that they also appear to have a bit better size to the...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/28/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Third time is the charm. Hit up the Snohomish to continue working on my Maribou twitching technique and I can say for certain that the pieces have started falling into place. After tying up some new p...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/25/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, there isn't a lot for me to say that Dj and Jonb didn't cover in their reports, so I'll keep it short. Fished the Snohomish Monday after work and was able to go 3/4 in that period on my hand tie...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/23/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out of Everett with my brother in law and two other guys to catch the morning bite on the incoming tide. After dropping some crab traps we headed down to what was probably about half way betwee...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/23/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the Snohomish on Friday after work for my second trip after the pinks in that river this year. Ended up meeting up with fellow members jonb and Djbutler on the river, unplanned, and fished ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/20/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Puyallup early this afternoon after work to meet up with a friend from Portland and get in on the flood of fish that are pushing through right now. Started at 3pm and fished until 7pm...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/17/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out of Mukilteo early Saturday morning with a coworker, my wife, and a cousin to get in on the craziness out at Humpy Hollow. Our initial plan was to just do your standard down rigger trolling,...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/9/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After getting skunked at Bench lake, my brothers in law and I headed over to Snow Lake to see if the lake contained fish and whether or not those fish were more willing to bite than those at Bench Lak...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I am going to be pretty sparse in the details on this report, as me and my two brothers in law only fished the lake for a bit over an hour and got skunked. That being said, there ARE fish in the lake,...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First off, this isn't a single day report. My family was camping at the Ohanapecosh camp ground for three nights and I took advantage of every morning and evening that I had free to head down to the r...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 7/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
There are some fishing trips that are terrible. There are some that are enjoyable, but not enough to be clearly remembered a year later. There are some that are good enough that the memories will like...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 7/11/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After seeing a recent report on some bull trout coming out of the Sultan, I decided to head back out to a stretch of river I had fished a few weeks before and done fairly well on for smaller trout. St...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After an excellent evening of fishing for Westslope Cutthroat in Valhalla Lake, my wife and I hiked over to Janus Lake the next morning for another afternoon, evening and morning of what I hoped would...