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By: deltadawg
Posted: 1/16/2021
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Small skiff of dust snow on the lake this morning 1/17. Ice is between 5"-8" depending on your location. Its cold so dress in layers...a shelter would be recommended for early hours. The entire la...
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By: deltadawg
Posted: 1/24/2021
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/24/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the north end of the lake this morning on a few spots that looked good on the depth maps. Ice was 8.5" average and the lake is still making good ice and weeks to come look like good ice making...
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Posted: 12/25/2021
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/25/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Curlew Lake yesterday with my gf. This is my first ice fishing trip in 25 years. Knowing all the dangers of ice fishing, I was happy that I came well prepared. We came up after hearing ...
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Posted: 1/9/2022
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/9/2022
Hot Spots: 0
This report is actually for Saturday and Sunday. The girlfriend and I headed up to Lake Curlew late Saturday morning arriving at the State Park around 10:30 a.m. There were at least 40 people out on...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/22/2022
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/22/2022
Hot Spots: 0
We fished yesterday morning from about 9 to 4:30 and the bite was great from about 11-1ish then died off. It also picked up about 4 in the afternoon but we didn't want to stay to late because we had a...
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Posted: 1/16/2023
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day at 7am with my gf at the public launch south of the island in 40 ftow Ice was 12 inches. We had a steady bite all day. The key to fishing curlew is tiny movements. Keep your rod ti...
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By: Sideburns
Posted: 8/5/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Continued from my last report... We eventually got bored of catching trout and decided to find some Perch. Mostly because of the awsome fried perch that a friend fed our 30 person group. The bass...
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Posted: 1/8/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Packed up the truck today with the ice fishing gear and went up to Curlew Lake in Ferry County. At 8:30 am, I a found a spot about 300 yards from the Curlew State Park boat landing. Bite was slow a...
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Posted: 1/18/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Made it back out on Curlew lake yesterday chasing perch through the ice. Arrived out on Curlew lake about 9 am and fished until 3 pm. Plenty of good ice out on Curlew lake and many perch to be caught...
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Posted: 2/3/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/2/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Fantastic day on the ice with family. We fished till around noon and put 100 jumbo perch on the ice. Went back out after lunch and added another 100 to the pile. Fishing was non stop action. We had cl...
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Posted: 2/8/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/7/2019
Hot Spots: 0
After those glowing reports of hundred + fish days at Curlew my nephew and I decided to brave the cold and give the ice fishing a try at Curlew. Arrived at the State Park as three guys were leaving t...
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By: E-10
Posted: 2/24/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/23/2019
Hot Spots: 1
We left Spokane at 5:00am, the pass was snow packed but generally in really good shape, the sand trucks were out in force. We arrived at the resort by 7:30, we tried to check-in at the store/office...
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By: Lambojac
Posted: 12/30/2017
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to brave the winter weather advisory and head over Sherman Pass to see if we could break in our ice fishing gear. My friend had purchased a sweet sled to tow our stuff in along with an ice aug...
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Posted: 1/3/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
In the early 2010's Yellow Perch were first detected in Curlew Lake. Since then their population has exploded. Unlike a number of our other perch fisheries these fish maintain a large average size and...
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By: grignech
Posted: 2/9/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2018
Hot Spots: 1
After getting inspiration from Split Milt Production youtube videos on perch ice fishing we decided to go to Curlew lake. We picked out a good day where it wasn't snowing so the road could be clear fr...
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By: carlakane
Posted: 5/2/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Still pretty cold for around there. The lake was really high and a lot of houses, cabins and docks were getting flooded. The trout were jumping and active between 7 and 9 a.m. We caught 3 using rainbo...
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Posted: 7/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fishing report for the week of 7/1-7/5. I fished every morning around Blacks Beach resort from a pontoon for LMB & Tigers catching atleast 10 LMB with each outing, the largest I caught was on Frida...
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Posted: 7/21/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Curlew for a week of sun & fishing. It's been my favorite lake for more than 30 years now. We caught tons of bass & perch, a few trout, and even had a good size muskie break my line just a...
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Posted: 9/10/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake late at night and tried fishing off the dock at the Sate Park to no avial. Next day I started jigging my 4" black curly-tail worm from the same dock and was met with success. Then my p...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The annual fishing vacation finally rolled around. Normally we go to Minnesota, but thought the finances would be better if we stayed in state. So the first week September 19-26 we stayed in a vacat...
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Posted: 7/22/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Curlew Lake targeting the bass this time in my canoe. I was able to get into some shallow coves and throw some spinnerbaits. Hooked up just about every cast, however nothing with any size to...
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Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got up on Saturday with bass on my brain. Put together my pontoon and hit the water around Black's Beach where I was staying. Did very well at both ends of Black's beach, but fingerlings all in betw...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
had a great two days of fishing at tiffanys resort caught tons of bass and trout several bass were over 2 pounds could,nt keep them off the hook they love white no muskies caught but had a couple foll...
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Posted: 9/11/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Curlew for 3 days starting on the 8th. Started out in Roberta lake at the south end, moved to the north end past the trestle and worked shoreline everywhere in between. Caught plenty of large...
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By: Teal101
Posted: 7/8/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome lake. Arrived Friday afternoon July 3rd and got the boat in the water at Tiffanys resort. After getting everything situated my dad and I ran the boat north of the resort to a small bay we se...
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