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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/28/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
So much for hot fishing, at least for some. The bite definitely has slowed from Tuesday, although guides and some private boats did well. My friend Tom and I hit the gate at 05:30 and lines in the wat...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/26/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
At the risk of starting a stamede, here's the latest scoop on lake SAmm chinook. In a word - they are in! My son James and I went out Monday night and fished 4:30 to 8pm. We saw about a dozen caught a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Got to fish with Bill Green for the elusive Tiger Muskie today. We launched at 6:30am and immediately hit a couple smallmouth while trolling jointed plugs 45 ft behind the boat in 25 ft deep water. No...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Two fishing trips in one day, what luck! Took my son James out for a planned trip to Sammamish. I had high hopes of getting him into some of those nice smallies I caught last week, but it was not to b...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Thank goodness for understanding fishing buddies. I met Bob at 7am and we fished until 10:30, I had to leave early due to honey-do items.
Spanaway has a ton of fishy looking spots and we worked th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/21/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Wow just about sums it up. After seeing how well the picnic anglers did on lake Samm I knew I had to give it a try on my day off. I started fishing on a gorgeous morning at 7:45am. I worked the east s...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/11/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Moved to Haven after Bob J and I got skunked at Wooten. Unfortunately, this lake fished the same way with the same results. Nothing to show for our effort but a sore back. None-the-less, it was a grea...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/11/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Finally! A day off and time to fish with fishing buddy Bob Johansen. We had a plan, we had great weather, and we had lock-jaw bass. The two of us tried just about every method known and couldn't get m...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well it was nice to get out on the cool lake this evening after another hot day, but the fishing was pretty poor. Tossed jigs, plugs, and senkos and came up short. Son James got a perch on a plug to a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I finally got to try out my new pontoon boat (8 ft one person) and definitely wanted to hit lake Joy. After some fine tuning I was off and casting. I had three rods set up with floating rapala, black ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Got in some fishing in between ballgames. Saturday evening I fished the rock shoreline just south of the Best Western at the I-90 bridge. Using a 5" black/silver rapalla I caught a nice 18" walleye. U...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Fished with KuttTK from 9am to 2pm. The morning bite was very good indeed. Caught around nine and missed many more. Hot flies were a purple wooley bugger and a Montana nymph. Fish in all water levels,...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Second lake fished, from 10:15 to 12:15. Surprised by how stained and limited visibility this lake has.
I trolled a variety of hardware, settled on a gang troll with wedding ring and red power bai...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2008
Hot Spots: 3
It's been a few years since I fished Clear lake and I was excited to get out there, fish, and shoot some video. First, remember, the launch is on the NORTH side. :-)
Good fishing, immediately hooke...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Well after Kutt's report I had to search out this lake, especially since it's fairly close to me. Nice lake, small launch area. Fished a couple hours out of my pontoon boat using sinking line, floatin...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish for a few hours wth Eastside Video Editor Marc Martyn. We had a great morning on the water/ice fishing for Medical's trout. I wll confess I'm not much of an early season trout guy and the ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/19/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started my day at the Reformatory Hole on the Sky but to my surprise the owner had put up a fence. I could have easily walked around it but decided to ask permission first - no one home. Water was kin...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/5/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from Sultan and on the water fishing at 8am with my friend Brad. We fished a variety of rigs - Dick Nites, jigs with prawns, plugged. There were fish around - as seen by the jumping - but no ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/29/2007
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Heard the chum were in at John's Creek which made a good excuse to go fishing with fishin' buddy Bob Johansen. We drove over to Shelton and launched my boat at 8:00am and were anchored up around John'...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/27/2007
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Friend Tom and I found time to fish today at Jeff Head for blackmouth. LT 6:30am, HT 12:30. Conditions: partly sunny, "crisp" (40-50 degrees), breezy (whitecaps). We had our gear in the water at 7:30a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the town of Snohomish downstream, started 8:45am. Decided to troll plugs. Felt good to have my boat rigged and ready for river fishing. Lots of fish on the fishfinder - until I took it out...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/8/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The weather decided to wait a day before dumping on us so I headed out for some late season bass fishing. First time on McMurray so I was looking forward to it. Put the boat in the water and made my f...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/1/2007
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Another nice day at the Hollow, fishing with Tom Jacobs and daughters Elizabeth and Maggie. We had the lines down at 6:30am, usual pink rigs. In addition, I was casting a buzz bomb (shades of pink) of...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/28/2007
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
After yesterday's incredible fishing naturally we had to try again. This time we wanted to play some with the pinks so we decided to buzz bomb them. Using pink and mother of pearl buzz bombs, we start...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/27/2007
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! The fishing has turned on red-hot at the Hollow! I fished with my brother Chris (visiting from Wisconsin) and my son James. We had lines in the water by 6:45am, a bit of a late start. LT today wa...
