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By: BentRod
Posted: 12/5/2010
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Rating: 1
Fished: 12/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from Fall City on up a ways from 7:30 to 10am. Tried a variety of jigs under a float in a few different areas. Tried tipping it with a little shrimp also, but no luck. Fought with my new bai...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 11/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Finally had a chance to go fishing for a few hours. Hit Beaver Lake from 1pm to 3:30. A few people fishing from shore and a few boats on the water. Not much reported caught. Trolled a variety of t...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 9/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Expected rain, but turned out to be a beautiful morning....of course I didn't bring my sunglasses. Fished from 7-10am. Water was 63 degrees. Threw senkos, creatures, grubs, and a plug. Picked up on...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 9/9/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What started out as a trip to Lake Sammamish for salmon turned into a trip to Pine for bass. Showed up at the Sammy launch at ten after six just to see the gates already open and a floodlight set up ...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 9/7/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Expecting lots rain in the morning, I fished the mouth of the Tolt from 6am-9am. No one else there and nothing happening on the water besides a few trout taking flies. Tried various colors of corkie...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 8/22/2010
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got a chance to go try for Kings on Sammamish. Got to the gate at 6:15 and got in line with a dozen other boats waiting for the gate to open. More people got in line behind me shortly after. ...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Quadfather for an evening of bass fishing. I got to the lake early, so drifted around fishing my normal fare of Senko, creature bait, and shadrap. Picked up three dinks in an hour plus, ...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Brother-in-law and I got on the lake about 5:30am. Started off with two hits on a perch shadrap, but then things really slowed down. We cycled through crankbait and soft plastics. Couldn't rais...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought the overcast forecast would mean decent fishing this morning. Guess I was wrong. Got on the water right at 5:30am. Ambient temp was 56 degrees and water temp was 70. Slight breeze. Starte...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the week with my folks in the Tri-Cities, so my dad and I took a morning to go up the Yakima to where he grew up by Horn Rapids Dam (now called Wanawish). Started they day by running across a n...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 7/7/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was too nice to pass up. Fished Beaver from 6a-9a this morning. Very calm and peaceful. Couple of guys fishing from the park, but no other boats on the water the whole time. Had not pr...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took a four day camping trip to Ike Kinswa State Park. Couldn't haul the boat too, so fished from shore. Spent a considerable amount of time teaching my four-year-old daughter to cast, but tossed ou...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got the "go ahead" for Father's Day, so, despite the wet conditions, I paddled up to Beaver for a few hours. Started at 1pm. It rained most of the time, but there were some periods of dryness. Three...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Monday off to take my dad fishing. I've been itching to go bass fishing, so we opted to try for SMB on Pine. Got to the lake at 10:30a. No boats on the water and only a couple people fishing f...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got a rare oportunity to take my wife fishing on Sunday. Only had a few hours, so hit pine for some trout. Started at 11am. Weather was a mix of sun and clouds with an inconsistent breeze that made ...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 3/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After giving up on bass fishing, I started trolling for trout. Had done up some homemade pop gear, so wanted to test it's action. Water temp was somewhere between 43-49 degrees....I'll guess on the h...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 3/7/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 7:30am. A brisk 32 degrees. Fished the north shore on weedless T-rigged senkos and grubs on jigheads. Thought I had one brief pickup on a watermelon senko, but didn't stick. ...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 2/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to take my dad fishing. Hit Beaver around 11am. The weather was great and the water smooth. Surface temp was 42 degrees. Tried for some bass for about 30 minutes before giving up and ...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 2/6/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Beaver this morning from 8 to noon. Started throwing soft plastics carolina rigged on the north shore. The wind soon got strong enough to make that no fun, so moved to trolling for trout usin...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 1/24/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Third time's the charm, right? No. Third trip to the Snoqualmie in as many weekends and nothing to show for it except for some scenic pictures. Got to the Tokul hole right before 7am. 34 degrees...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 1/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Almost didn't bother to post this, but figured "why not?" Needed to get my 3yo out of the house on Monday, so took the boat up to Beaver for an hour. Beautiful day. One boat coming in as we were go...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 1/17/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tried it again this morning. Although the river was up all week, it dropped considerably yesterday and was about where it was last Sunday when I fished it then. The weather was nice. A little wind ...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 1/10/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First steelhead fishing excursion of the season for me. Went to fish the Snoqualmie just up river from Fall City. Started fishing at 6:45a and quit at noon. The wind was pretty strong coming down th...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 9/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to go try for some salmon, but only had a couple hours today to wet a line, so took the boat up to Pine. Beautiful day and no one on the water when I launched. A couple of people fishing fro...
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By: BentRod
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with jens, Knox, and Tommytitan08 in the rain. They showed me how to fish and what to use as I'd never fished here before. I was throwing a peach/orange corkie with light peach colored yarn. ...
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