Northwest Fishing Reports

Got my 5th fish of the year over 20 lbs last nite. A super fat 39 3/4" by 23" monster that hammered a 5 of diamonds Yooooohnson spoon with one of my amazing Kick-N-Fool trailers. It put up a great battle and I was lucky to net it as It got wrapped up in the trolling motor and I only had a small net ...

Got my 100th pike of the year last friday, another little guy but still happy to get into triple digits. Only got to fish a little while and had trolling motor issues and had to quit.

Got out to my pike hole a few days ago with tony and got 4 more fish to put me at 99 on the year Just need 1 more to crack the triple digits. The bit was odd at best , for the first 2 hours it was dead not a hint of a fish, Then finally Tony had a small Pike fallow his spinnerbait but didn't bite. A...

I got 6 more pike since my last post. 3 a few days ago when I took the kid out and he got his first ever topwater pike. I also got a pike topwater and we both got a nice smallie on the Whopper ploppers as well. My biggest of the nite was a 10ish lb fish. I also got 3 more tonite after work. It was a...

Got 2 more since i posted, one fair size at 32" and my first river fish of the year a 28" er, I got while i was fishing a jerkbait for smallies on 12 lb. test fluoro. The last picture is of a fish I got a week or so ago that was my first Topwater fish in quite a few years that I forgot to show. Got ...

Went out Pike fishing 2 nites ago. Ended up going by myself and had a ruff nite with all kinds of problems. The only thing that did go right was the fish were biting. In the first 10 mins. I hooked into a really good fish. There was a bunch of people camped near where I was fishing and I didn't want...

Getting behind on my posting I have had some great nights fishing here lately. I got 11 pike to-nite including this 41" toad and I got 8 last Sunday as well as 6 more a few days before that. My count is up to 64 now, with 3 fish over 20 lbs.and a bunch over 10. pike 6-27-19.jpg denton 15lb pike 6-24...

A friend of mine caught and released a 47" pike today, but was fishing alone and didn't get any good pixs of it.

Some of you (some more than others) LOL may find my latest article a interesting read, It's all about my pursuit of a trophy 4 ft plus pike for a new State Catch and Release record. http://www.northwestfishingreports.com/Articles/Details/871 Hey Mark I think you made a typo here, " My biggest Saturd...

Added 1 more 9 lb. pike to my list today which was no big deal, but my fishing buddy got this beast today 44.5" something near 30 lb.
For the year
Pike so far; 32
# of fish over 10 lbs; 5
# of fish over 20 lbs; 2

Hey Chucky it's time. :) I have been out piking a bit, but not posting much. Had a couple really good days this year so far. One trip over to Wash. a few weeks ago and got 13 pike in a afternoon from 25 to 28.5 in. and today I got 5 pike from about 13 lbs up to 23 lb. The smaller fish were 35 to 37"...

Well finally got out fishing again, but only managed 2 more small pike so far this spring. A Blue chrome HJ14 was the bait of the day.

Rick, The lakes you say they have not mentioned are mentioned. You have to go a little deeper in the information. It the main body of the writeup, click on the highlighted "CoeurDalene Lake" spot. They are referring to the CoeurDalene Lake drainage. When you click on it, it will go deeper and show ...

According to this website below there are Pike in Lake Washington and Banks lake in Wash. state, and Pike in the Clearwater river in Idaho? Which is news to me and if so why is the game dept's not up in arms about it as they are in the P.O. and Columbia rivers. I think they have their facts wrong bu...

Sad to say I have not been able to get out and do any pike fishing in the last couple weeks. This weather has all my normal winter Pike waters froze solid!!! Even the P.O. river below Newport is froze from shore to shore and that I have NEVER seen before in my 25 years of fishing it. It is also froz...

I would have highly recommended Rich Lindsey of www.TheIdahoFisherman.com for a guide. He really knows his stuff on Priest. I defiantly know all the hot spots on the river and creeks in the area, but I don't really want to blow up my spots so Email me at rick@fnflures.com and I can let you in on som...

Aaron wrote:I was just poking around for spammers and saw this post and it caught my eye.. read down until i saw the post from Marc Martin and thought WHAT?????? then saw the date and came to my senses.

Yes, we all know he's a spammer. LOL

Are you looking for info to ice fish this time of year or for next spring? Priest has good lake trout if that's what your after and there is a nice campground at Indian Creek State park on the east side of the lake. It has a good boat launch and some good mack spots within a mile or the launch.

harleypiker wrote:Mark, you can save a lot of wear and tear on your arms by just ice fishing for pike.
You buy a can of peas. You drill a hole in the ice. You place a ring of peas around the hole.,
When the big pike comes up to take a pea.....YOU GRAB HIM!

I always thought that's how you catch Elephants?

harleypiker wrote:My goodness, Rick, who needs muskies when we could have an equal self-sustaining fishery of monster pike!!!!
Canada can't produce fat pike like that.

I agree the future of pike fishing here in the N.W. is looking bright if the game dept. doesn't go and screw it up