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By: whorde
Posted: 11/30/2014
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So it is Sunday. Neither Mr. B, nor the force of nature, nor my new hiking buddy AJ are available. I have a car which cannot handle 1/8th inch of snow. And worse, I'm currently stuck on a spare tir...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/30/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So on Saturday, neither the force of nature nor Mr. B were available. I did, however, meet a friend of Mr. B's so I will add him to my cast of characters. We will call him AJ.
We had intended to ...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/30/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So it was Thanksgiving. I had no obligations, and Mr. B was free until 1pm, so you know what that means! We were going to take a stab at some of those awesome cutthroat in Lake Chitwood!
It had b...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/23/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We thought we'd take a break from our normal weekend hike circus and do something easy and straightforward .....
Hahahahaha.
This lake actually proved rather elusive. The normal approach is to ...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/23/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 11/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I really dont like to do Secret Lake posts. If I could trust that all forum members were ethical, I wouldn't. But having seen a forum member blatantly snagging coho, and then still snagging when he ...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/16/2014
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 11/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fresh off last week's AWESOME trip to this lake, I decided I was going again this week. See, after about 1 day I forget about the brutal hikes and the hours of rain and just remember gorgeous brook t...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/15/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After my miserable time freezing my butt off and not getting a bite at Beaver Lake this morning, I went to my favorite bakery in Capitol Hill. Feeling much better, I went to visit a friend, and then ...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/15/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I didn't have anyone to hike with today, so rather than cleaning house, I decided to go jumbo hunting.
The day dawned clear as an alpine lake. The temperature ... 22 degrees.
I didn't know wher...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/12/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
If you hike to Lakes Julia, Smelling, Chitwood, or Hanson, do not park in the turn around area by the gate with the no parking signs. We have bumped into the local land...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/12/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
If you hike to Lakes Julia, Smelling, Chitwood, or Hanson, do not park in the turn around area by the gate with the no parking signs. We have bumped into the local land...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/12/2014
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 0
Fished: 11/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Our weekend started Saturday - you can read posts from Lakes Julia and Smelling. So on Sunday, beat up and tired already from the day before and minus the force of nature to help carry things, Mr. B ...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted a dry day to patch the hole in my raft. And, of course, go fishing!
Well, that was not meant to be. Somehow I snuck past Ma Nature yesterday and didn't get wet, but today was back to nor...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
If you hike to Hanson/Chitwood or Smelling/Julia, you will park at the gate on ... Scotty Road I think it's called. DO NOT park in the turn around where the 8 No Parkin...
By: whorde
Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
If you hike to Hanson/Chitwood or Smelling/Julia, you will park at the gate on ... Scotty Road I think it's called. DO NOT park in the turn around where the 8 No Parki...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/31/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So on Wednesday and Thursday I went to Ballinger after work for about 1 hour each. I got 1 bite between the two trips. I was really feeling skunky.
Today my boss made me take yet another unpaid d...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Who is scared of hypothermia? Not us, that's for sure!
One day after nearly being rained to death, JonB and I head back to Bosworth. This is the last weekend it's open, after all.
We're not go...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday was a weird day. And this will be a long post.
I had talked to JonB, who I am fishing with more and more as we're willing to be crazy together ... more on that shortly .... and we met up ...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So on Friday evening, hoping for a repeat of Tuesday, I skipped my workout and headed for Ballinger instead. Again, I had 1 hour of daylight give or take.
This time the wind was acting up again, o...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So tonight I was on the bus after work, about to go to the gym, and I thought to myself ... with both my knee and my arm hurting, shouldn't I take a day off? So I called an audible, raced home, and h...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/19/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So after yesterday's success, today JonB was going back to the river, and I said hell with that. I went straight to Lake Bosworth to practice what I'd learned the day before. I was embarrassingly la...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/19/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wallace River on Saturday morning with fellow member JonB, met some other forum members there .... in fact, it was 4 for 4 at the parking lot. So we all trudge down to the river and spread ou...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/13/2014
Species: Golden Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Since I couldn't find a seat on a boat in Lake Washington, I called the force of nature and laced up the hiking boots. Well, actually my sneakers. But let's not get lost in technicalities.
Basic...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/12/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, saturday started with me taking my 2 man rubber raft out in the ocean to drop a crab pot. Was hoping to get some red rock crab. Left the pot in 15, maybe at most 20 feet of water at high tide....
By: whorde
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Catching a trout in Lake Ballinger has eluded me all summer. But after my hike to Grieder on Saturday, which was successful due to who I was going to hike with but couldn't make it, forum member jonb...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Golden Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing this lake is not for the faint of heart. Or those with heart conditions, haha.
So fresh off Friday's salmon success, Saturday is hike up a mountain to chase unicorns day. My hiking partne...