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By: Joe Heater
Posted: 7/23/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 Hours to kill and decided to go fish for Largemouth Bass. Haven't done that on purpose since I was kid back in Iowa. Started at the ramp working my way towards HWY 20. First set of Trees down in the...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 7/12/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Haven't been to Cassidy in nearly 2 years fishing for Crappie. Nothings changed. As sure as the sun goes down; the crappie are thick. I got on the water about 8pm and fished til after 10pm or so. I ca...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 pretty good days of walleye fishing on Banks this weekend. A lot of boats struggled and a few caught limits. It was completely hit or miss, but if you found them you were on them. Friday night in 3 ...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/23/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks last week before the tournament. Caught 4 little guys in 4 hours on Thursday evening anywhere from 14 to 41 feet of water. Not exactly what you want to see but oh well.
Friday I took a f...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks lake this past weekend.
Friday night I tried for Crappies for an hour, not happening.
Gave Walleyes a shot for 2 1/2 hours and caught 2 keepers, 1 dink and lost one other.
Saturd...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time this year out on Banks. All the ice is gone and it felt great to be pulling bottom bouncers again. Didn't get on the water until 130pm today and when we finally found the fish we fished for...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 3/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got off early on Wednesday and fished Cambpell for some slime rockets. Caught one on a wedding ring and I kept it. Filleted the living tar out of it. Dont really like trout but oh well. Sorry hippies....
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 2/3/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Roesigner for 3 1/2 hours. 1/32 Gold jig head with a wax worm. Caught 7 between 9 - 10 inches and threw back another 5 that were smaller. They were out in 20 feet of water suspended between 10-11 ...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 1/18/2008
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had the day off but some honey dos to do so I managed to get out to Sunday Lake and try for some sunnies. Little cold at first but it warmed up. The weather, not the fishing. Tough fishing for them th...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 12/22/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
when jiggin perch this morning with my 6 year old daughter. 36 degrees out, windy and rainy. We found a school in 60 feet of water but couldn't hold position long. Caught 7 little perch all release. S...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 12/2/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Looking for a challenge so decided to give Lake Stevens another try on Crappie, Never seen one caught there, never heard of one caught there but the state says they are in there so I have to assume t...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 11/27/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Rufus from Friday to Sunday. Targeting Walleyes and that didn't work out so well. All day Friday we caught trips. All day Saturday we caught trips. Didn't really seem to matter how deep, what you...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 10/22/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
pics from the previous post on Lake Washington
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 10/21/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
WOW What a day! I mean me and Skillet just absolutely SLAMMED the Yellow Perch at Lake Washington. I was like a little kid on the lake. You couldn't put your pole down because the minute you did one o...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 10/20/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
2 day trip to Banks.
Thursday it was drizzling rain, 40's, windy, and fishing was as bad as I have seen it all year. It has been dynamite here for last few months but it was not so today. Used bott...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Me and another guy went to Lake Washington jigging for Perch. I have never been fishing there before. Good day. The guy I went with I think is a guide, but he didn't take me to the high paying custome...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 10/5/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got off work at lunch and the honey do list was short. So took the lab up to McMurray for some Crappie/Perch action. No crappies but did manage to catch a dozen or so perch. Only 2 were over 9 inches....
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 9/30/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Sat and Sun on Banks Lake. Walleye Fishing is still good there. It was 44 degrees and windy on Saturday, Sunday was about 50 and raining. We were bottom bouncing with crawlers. We caught 1 18 in...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 9/26/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Banks lake was absolutely unfishable due to wind so decided to head home early. Always drove past Entiat and always thought there were Walleyes in there and they don't get fished much. Beautiful morni...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Targeted Walleyes for 4 days. At least that was the plan.
Got there Friday at 5pm and trolled from Lincoln boat ramp to Sterling Point where we were camping. Tough trolling because there are so ma...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 8/27/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Outstanding trip to Banks Lake. Arrived late Friday night so didn't fish until Saturday morning. Well worth the wait. On the water around 8:45am and limited by 10:45am. I would have to rate that morni...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 8/23/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Had the morning to kill so decided to do some crank trolling at Lake Stevens for a few hours. Left the bay and trolled in 15 feet of water along docks and points. Caught two Smallies each weighing abo...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 7/2/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
That guy may have something there but honestly I have been fishing for Walleyes since I was 9 years old. I am almost 40 now and I have rarely come across a full moon where the Walleyes are not active....
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/15/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
McMurray is probably my favorite lake to fish. No speed boats but you can bring an outboard. Now all they need to do is get rid of the Largemouth and replace them with Smallmouth. WDFW was giving some...