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By: DavidA
Posted: 9/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 2
After a less than stellar Friday at Potholes, Thom and I drove to Deep Lake, Saturday morning. Neither of us had ever been there before or had ever even fished for Kokanee before, so this was quite th...
By: DavidA
Posted: 9/28/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally the date for our first fall fishing weekend arrived. Down to only 4 of us (3 boats) from an initial 6 or 7 from Kitsap County, Thom and I headed to Potholes Reservoir, while Tony and Linda hea...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report follows the previous day's report for Potholes. I spent the earlier part of this morning trying to repair the manual starter unit for my older 15 hp motor. Though I thought I was putting a...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This was my 3rd trip to Central Washington this spring, from west of Seattle. For the past 2-3 years I have been organizing a group of 4-6 friends with 4 boats, to spend a couple long weekends fishing...
By: DavidA
Posted: 10/21/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I got an opportunity to fish Potholes again, just for an afternoon, and wasn't going to pass that up. After a long drive I got there just before noon and the lake was socked in with a dense fog....
By: DavidA
Posted: 1/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing has been very slow this winter and today was no exception. Last year winter fishing was hot, so maybe word got out and the lake was fished heavily, earlier. I went across the lake from th...
By: DavidA
Posted: 9/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Let me start by saying, I have 3 daughters, and the 2 oldest have never really shown any interest in fishing. My youngest has been out twice, both 3+ years ago and has never felt a bite. For some reas...
By: DavidA
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This was only my second trip to American, it being over an hour away from where I live, but when I was there last, I was really impressed. I only got a bunch of small rock bass, and the wind was blowi...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Somehow I forgot to charge my battery, so we didn't leave the house until 12:30 pm. Another neighbor boy (14 yo) was chomping at the bit so I let him choose from among a few lakes. Panther was it. He ...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/19/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took out 10 year old neighbor Alex again today. The weather forecast said cloud and rain all day but it was almost 50% blue sky with only the occasional sprinkle. We decided on Wildcat lake because he...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/14/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Right after work yesterday, I headed to Buck Lake for the 1st time in a couple of years. The weather was great with just a little breeze. The last time I was here I caught a couple of trout but was mo...
By: DavidA
Posted: 2/25/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well the Friday afternoon weather was predicted to be nice, but no such luck! We got to the lake around 1:30 and motored up the east side about a third of the way. From there we started trolling the l...
By: DavidA
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got to Tiger around 11 am, but as I am inclined to do, while setting up my inflatable, I got to talking, and didn't launch until close to noon. I have only fished Tiger once prior, in a friend's boa...
By: DavidA
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I first fished Wildcat maybe a month ago, with a friend, in his boat. We trolled and weren't particularly successful, catching roughly 4 trout between us.
This Sunday, I arrived at 9 am, and there ...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/31/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This day was hard to define by a single number. It was pouring rain. And I mean really pouring! My son-in-law Chris has Mondays and Tuesdays off now, so we haven't gotten to fish much in a while, but ...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/29/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well Saturday I finally got to take the 3rd of 3 kids in the neighborhood who wanted to go fishing with me. The weather, though initially forecast to be quite nice, ended up being cloudy with occasion...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
For the past couple of years, I have taken one or two of the next door neighbor boys, now 13 & 15, out fishing with me in the spring, shortly after the opener. This year when discussing it with them, ...
By: DavidA
Posted: 4/29/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The intent was to fish Lake Devereaux, but the wind was too bad, so we headed up to Haven Lake, where we faced the same issue. We took one last chance and hit Sandy Shore, which has been a good go-to ...
By: DavidA
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/20/2013
Hot Spots: 1
This is my favorite local lake and we have been having a lot of success fishing there almost weekly since early February, but Saturday was not one of those days. I decided to take a 14 year old neigh...
By: DavidA
Posted: 4/15/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
With the weather Sunday looking to be only marginally better than the forcast for Saturday, 3 of us went out Sunday, in 2 boats. Since I was in an inflatable and arrived 15 minutes later, my friends g...
By: DavidA
Posted: 3/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A friend ended up starting out earlier and left catching (and releasing) nearly a dozen nice sized rainbows. He was using the go-to gear all winter, trolling a Rapala. His battery was starting to fade...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The weather couldn't be better and the occasional wind was never very strong. Everyone we spoke to said it was slow fishing, and that was our experience. Trolling with wedding rings and a worm got us ...
By: DavidA
Posted: 5/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 2
The weather was great, and the wind was only a little bit of a problem. Based on last week's opener here, I didn't try trolling and from what I saw of others fishing here, that wasn't highly successfu...
By: DavidA
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Not the day that I'd hoped for all week long. The wind on the water was bad, with frequent periods of rolling waves and for much of the time, the cloud was thick enough to require a sweatshirt. A shal...
By: DavidA
Posted: 4/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
No fish yet again for this lake this year, and by the sound of it, that was the norm. I fished deep, also using Colorado spinners and a small ball of chartreuse Power Bait, but not a bite.
After a ...
