Northwest Fishing Reports

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 [email protected] 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

"An invasive species may not be possessed, imported, purchased, sold, propagated, transported, or released into state waters except as provided in RCW 77.15.253." It does say 'released'. Whether it is from a truck, bucket or caught. Means you are not supposed to put it back. I don't have a dog in t...

From CDA press; Designating pike a prohibited species requires that anglers kill pike as soon as they are caught, and it makes transporting live pike illegal. This is more out and out lies that F&G dish out. Nowhere does it say in the laws that you have to kill pike that are legally caught and rele...

AJ wrote; I guess I could interject a little theory on this one myself. What makes a species indigenous to a certain area? How does a fish species naturally increase it’s indigenous area? How did any pike ever get to their original indigenous location. They had to start somewhere. Right or wrong. I...

Genetic research shows Idaho’s pike population mostly remains in Idaho’s portion of the Pend Oreille River downstream from Sandpoint. This statement is total BS as until this year there was NO Pike population in the river below Sandpoint. The only Pike you could find were up in the Clark Fork Delta...

Genetic analysis should be an exact science, yah? Sure looks like they did an awful lot of sampling to back up their claimed origins. They sure are quick to point the finger at bucket biologists though.... (as usual). Well they are right about that, It was bucket bios at work but not who you would ...

Got my season off to a good start today with 2 nice pike boated, we got 5 pike total in the boat all between 23" to 27 " on jerkbaits. My adopted kid got this one the day before New years 43 3/4" His PB. and only his 25th pike ever.

I got out pikin yesterday and managed a few more fish. I had 6 hits from pike had 5 of them on , and landed 3. No big ones biggest was about 6lbs. With this 3 that puts me at 82 on the year.

harleypiker wrote:Mark,
finally got a little tutoring for posting pics with paint and attached my personal best pike mentioned last July. I have muskies up to 27lbs but can't crack the 20lb pike yet.

Nice fish Chuck!! I see it was one of the deformed tail ones like i got this year.

So I have added 8 more Pike since my last post, Including 2 today! No big ones just a couple ok ones. I also got this monster Perch on a jerkbait. That puts me at 73 on the year

Added 9 more pike that I got mainly by accident while fishing for smallmouth, none of them were big mostly 22 to 28" Puts me at 65 on the year.

a few more

Been to busy to post much, here are some of the bigger ones I have got so far this year. I found a new spot that it putting out some monsters. My biggest of the year was 26lbs and one 22, a 20 and a 19lb. I'm at 56 on the year, but I'm switching over to mainly just bass fishing so probably wont get ...

Tnx, that's kind of what I figured that it was BS, I really want to catch one as it's one of the main fish on my "Bucket list". It's a long drive to the delta to catch one, but I think I'm going to do it this year.

Looking at a map of Striped bass native and planted range, I see a section of the Columbia river shaded in. I didn't know there were any stripers in that area. Is this true or B.S. If true how good is the fishing for them?