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Posted: 10/9/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out a little later than the last few trips. Started fishing around 4pm. Started with a couple perch crank baits (again) along the lily pads in deeper water (16-40). Weeds are thick. Hard to ...
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Posted: 10/8/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2022
Hot Spots: 0
It's been 3 weeks since fishing due to covid. Not the most pleasant experience. Figured the bite must have turned on by now in sportsmans bay. I was wrong. Fished about 1.5 hrs. Started with trolling ...
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Posted: 9/17/2022
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out at the best time of day to fish, 1230pm. Ah, just kidding. Haven't fished the lake for a month. It was dead trolling for Walleye, perch, crappie, etc in mid August. I figured the lake must...
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Posted: 7/21/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Went solo to Long Lake. On the water by sunrise and started trolling spinners near weedbeds. Caught six on the first pass and should have just turned around and gone through the same area but wanted t...
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Posted: 7/6/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2022
Hot Spots: 0
This report is actually for July 3rd through July 5th. It was a multiple day trip. Girlfriend was out of town for a few weeks and we have been so busy with our move that I haven't been able to fish ...
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Posted: 7/1/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Took Mike with me out to Long for some walleye fishing. We started trolling smile blades just after sunrise. I was keeping my boat in 18 to 22 FOW and we soon started to get bit. Over the next several...
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Posted: 6/5/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2022
Hot Spots: 0
It's been awhile since I put up a report. Been busy with a move, 2 major rockhounding trips and a seminar series I am doing on Foraging in the Inland Northwest. This report is for the upper sectio...
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Posted: 6/1/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I saw the weather report for the weekend and decided to hit Long Lake for a couple of hours. I have apparently been walleye fishing too much and have forgotten how to get a good hook set when using a ...
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Posted: 11/5/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a friend to the 291 boat launch and fished the Bouy line down to the little Spokane confluence. For those of you that haven't fished this area you should know that even when the current...
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Posted: 6/22/2021
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2021
Hot Spots: 1
I wasn't expecting to post a report so soon. However sometimes really good fishing comes when you're not expecting it. Went to 9 mile rec area, hoping to find pike and LMB in those lillypads. After ...
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Posted: 5/24/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2021
Hot Spots: 0
The spawn is still going on but not expected to last more than another week or so. 2 reasons 1. Flow has slowed to 8350 CFS 2. Volumes of larger fish are going down as 12 to 28 inches are now pop...
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Posted: 5/21/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
The 291 boat launch doesn't let you down. The water has been too slow got planer boards so I have just been casting thundersticks. Each night produces a 5lber or more. Spawn is still going on with ...
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Posted: 11/20/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Today was absolutely fantastic, we caught five limit of rainbows in less then 1 hour. We started fishing at 8:00 am and had our first fish on in seconds and it never slowed down, as fast as we could ...
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Posted: 11/20/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Trout fishing on Long Lake is absolutely fabulous, there’s no pressure and the fish are very eager to bite. I’ve been fishing long lake for years and this is the best I’ve ever seen, it doesn’t seem t...
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Posted: 11/15/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/14/2020
Hot Spots: 0
It was my birthday and I needed to go fishing! The day turned out sunny and the wind wasn't to bad so I called brother in-law to see if he wanted to go on a short trip. We launched from the Little S...
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Posted: 9/21/2020
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A total of about 6 hours of fishing. Total count kept was 15 perch, 2 smallmouth, 3 rainbows and one walleye. Released 7 walleye between 12-14", 3 or 4...
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Posted: 9/18/2020
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Left the dock a little after 5pm and back by 630pm. I hit my go to trolling spot in sportsmans bay and the fish were hungry. Trolled two worm rigs, one with copper blade and the other a green/red. Cop...
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Posted: 9/13/2020
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Braved the smoke yesterday. Left around 1030am and back at 330pm. Smoke density really increased as I was fishing (the forecast and timing was pretty spot on). Wore one of my semi-used N95's I still p...
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Posted: 7/26/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has been tough the last few weeks. Every trip I catch something but not many. Had about 5 trips in the last week and a half. Most were short leaving house around 730 or 8pm. This sunday mornin...
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Posted: 7/22/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a nice limit of walleyes trolling spinners down near the Long Lake dam. We caught a bonus of about 15 perch as well.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/28/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Caught over 30 walleye in 3 hrs near the Islands. Just followed the weed edge in about 15ft of water trolling a silver/blue hologram crankbait. Best day i could have asked for. Morning fishing was ho...
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Posted: 6/24/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Long late Monday afternoon in search of some smallies. I worked some docks and emerging weed beds near Tum Tum flipping a jig and was rewarded with about 15 smallies. Most averaged about 2 3/4 lbs...
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Posted: 6/21/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished between 3-5pm in Sportsmans bay. I'm trolling worm rigs at about 2.0 mph. My kicker is awaiting parts so I'm backtrolling with a 225hp. Last night caught 1 14" walleye, a couple nice perch a...
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By: BigT
Posted: 6/21/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
What an amazing day on the lake! We got into a slew of small mouth bass. Ended up catching around 30ish smallmouth bass with senkos and in the process of bass fishing i got a chance to fling some arro...
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By: kjhfisher
Posted: 6/14/2020
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went out looking for some crappie despite the iffy weather. After some fish finder issues we landed a few nice ones. Also pulled in a couple smallies and one nice rainbow. Using mostly a 1/8 oz ji...
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