Northwest Fishing Reports

Check out Bennett's fish shack. Great chowder and fish n chips!

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If fly fishing is what you and your dad are into they are the best on the OP

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I thought you had to be a certain distance away from a roadway. like 50 feet? hard to do from a bridge. practically had to be standing on the white line

During elk season this year i heard they were filming some around Pacific county. I guess some hunter shot an elk from a nearby bridge (Niawakum river bridge) right off hwy 101! I guess they determined it to be a legal shot!? how could that be legal? :scratch: .... Hopefully it makes the show for an...

spoonman wrote:Ive tried braid, but find i cracker off fish because of my aggressive hook set. I try to tone it down but its just muscle memory at this point. I use high vis izorline on my float setup

The bass master hookset is a tough habit to break.. lol

The rivers that still have the later run coho are typically larger in size too!

The difference in color between the 2 coho and steelie fillets is more than i would have thought! nice fish!

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It the boys from hooked on toys singing a sad sad song...

I might be opening a can of worms but I wouldn't mind seeing hatchery steelhead spawn. Eventually they become wild steelhead. Eventually their genes will strengthen I guess that's true...I would guess most rivers with hatchery fish in them have some sort of interbreeding with wilds going on.. Remov...

Steelhead are competitive with each other over spawning ground. By removing some of the hatchery fish it gives more room for the wilds to do their thing..

PETA?? People for the Eating of Tasty Animals???

I love my pair of Smith's with copper polarized lenses for fishing but they are more expensive. I payed $100 for them but that was discounted %50 for being on snow patrol.

Damn good story, definitely well worth the read. thanks for sharing!

Mike Carey wrote:Dave Graybill's latest article reported good fishing. It's in the articles link tile.

The "Fishin Magician" is a good source for this area, however he rarely ever gives a negative report. I'm curious if anyone else had similar luck with what he described.

Has anyone fished lake Wetsnatchee since the opener last week? just curious how the fishing was and the shape of the fish.

As stated before, nice and red......

and slimy...

I fished Lake Wenatchee for the first time last year and caught this fish, which was a good sized one for this lake. The fish don't have much farther to go to spawn so they are colored up pretty good. The meat was surprisingly still very red and tasted great out of the smoker. I'll be making another...