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By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
River was WAY TO HIGH today. Runnin at 9350 CFS I was told. Lost my Keys in the water.. then found em. Lucky I have like 15 keys on my set. Threw everything I had at em....... Just not fun, when you t...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a night of celebrating my B-day with my 86 year old dad, I was able to hit up the lake, sometime after noon. It was wise to wait (read: slept in with hangover), as the clouds stopped dumping and...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got to the cowlitz around 4:45 and fished it till 9:30. Only one take down all morning. The best part was I tied the jig myself. First time, one of my jigs worked :) Fish hit just before 6am, a nice 2...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Go the itch on sunday while cleaning the boat to get it dirty again. Called up my buddy Tom and we decided to take the kids out. Hit the lake about 11:00am and fished till 5. The reports were not good...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day was not the worst this year. All got our limits in about 5 hours of fishing. anchored on the west side of the lake for the daybreak bite and only landed one in the boat. About 9:30 decided...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/10/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my little one hit up Bonney lake with me this afternoon since the cowlitz was off limits to me..... had a great time on the water, a bit windy but managed to catch trout trolling a jointed rain...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up the area above blue creek and came home with Two Stealheads. My first of 2010 and first using bobber and jig. Used the nightmare jig. Caught a 9.1# and a 6.5#. Also caught 4 12"'ers :). had a g...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday, me and buddy Brian hit up the YaKima River for a little fly trip. The water was about 4-5 ft of visiblilty and a bit chilly. Sun was out in full force, but that damn wind bothered us all da...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day today. Hit Barrier with Jens, and Kinghunter for the morning bite. Drifted eggs and jigs under a bobber. Only saw 1 or 2 stealhead landed. No springers on the shore. Surprisingly mellow mood...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 2/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tuff day today. Not a thing trolling or still fishing. Water temp was 37-39°. I only see none surface. Painful.. Especailly when I knew I should have went down to Blue Creek. Lots of dock fishermen w...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 2/8/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Blue Creek area up with a few of the WL masters... Nothing to be had today. What a great day to fish though. Sun was out and so where all the boats. Used Bobber and jig, eggs, pink worms, cork...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/31/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Green this morning and had no luck saw a few boot chums at the Hwy18 hole and decided to head up to Flaming Geyser. Drifted that for a while and didn't see a fish.
Cold water that was clear a...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/30/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the river this afternoon and didn't get a bite. I did see a nice Dolly C/R'd. Yesterday was a bit more productive with a few chum being hooked and landed. Didn't see that Steelhead the last fe...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/27/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the 115th hole for about 7 hours on Saturday. It was a slow morning but had good company throughout the day. Ran into FISHNROB and we tossed some lead together for about an hour. I hooked...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/20/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Carbon in the morning where I was greeted by a wild cow....... kinda scary when your walking in the dark and come upon a large heffer.... sounds like a joke I'd tell my buddies, so I'll spare ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/13/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was cold today, but I didn't need the gloves as much because we were up into the high20's to low 30's. I was drifting a few flies and also threw corkies and yarn with no luck. Saw a few beat up Chu...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/10/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Guess what? It is fricking cold out there! Iced eyelets and chunks of ice is all I seen..... Ok, I did hook into two fish that threw my hook(chum, I think). I think the next time I glow ball, I'm goin...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 12/6/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked 6 today... landed 1 boot. Started about 10am and ran into Jens, Kinghunter and postal in the morning where GP was showing off his stellar spotting ability from above. Indians were gettting the ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/28/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not a very enjoyable trip to Minter Creek. The place was crowded and the fish are starting to look pretty bad. Landed 7 and took these three home..... shouldn't have, but did. I seen one chromer all d...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/22/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
had to give one more shout out report. I don't care who you are. This is a big trout!
Good job Dan.
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/22/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we did it. made the big trek over to RW on Friday night after work. I took Trout Magnet, my brother and our very GOOD friend Dug.
Hit the second set of net pens first off from Seton Grove Bo...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/16/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I didn't see any new fish come through, but I did catch my limit within an hour. Two tail hooked and released and two in the mouth. After that.. Not one fish was landed by me or trout mag. The fish th...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/14/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Minter in the morning. I had everyone bag on me, so I went solo. Got there at 7am and did not see any fish. Water was clear, but I had an idea where they were hiding. After walking up and down ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/13/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Green up again after work. In about an hour had three fish on. The first was this nice bright silver. Landed and headed back out. Hooked into two more fish and lost em on my long walk to the s...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/10/2009
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the green on the way home.... OK, I took off early and made it a long ride home.
Caught this nice 6lb chum by the three bridges in the honey hole. Seen one other silver caught that was nice and b...
