Kalama River, WA (Steelhead/Jacks)

Brought my buddy Dalton out on the river today to see if we could spook up some more chrome. River was still in great shape so we gave it a go. Right in front of Prichards we plugged up to Jack Chinook. Had never caught one on the river before and was a little mistified that it actually happened. No steelhead on this trip.

Summary:
Location: Red Barn to Modrow on Kalama River
Time: 7am - 4pm
Rod: Bait caster and spinning rods
Tackle: You can see the pink and silver plug in the fishes mouth and accompanied with a blue pirate.
Fish: 2
Species: Jack Chinook
Biggest Fish: 12"
Smallest Fish: 12"
Rating: 6/10

Kalama River, WA (Steelhead)

Coming home to see family for Christmas the Kalama was in excellent shape. Thought there would be more fish but it was maybe a little too sunny. Plugged one fish up by the water fall. First time we had hooked one here.

Summary:
Location: Kalama River form Red Barn to Modrow
Time: 7am - 4pm
Rod: Spinning and Bait Caster
Tackle: Plugs, plugs, and more plugs
Fish: 1
Species: White Fish, Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 7# Steelhead
Smallest Fish: N/A
Rating: 6/10

Kalama River, WA (Chinook/Steelhead)

Came home for Thanksgiving and what else are you going to do but fish the Kalama? We like to put in at read barn and float all the way down to Modrow. Pulling a variation of plugs as we drift along and occasionally throwing a bobber and jig. The first hole we got into at red barn there we caught a decent late Chinook that really caught us off guard. But who wouldn't like to start their day off with a Chinook? Continuing down the river it was pretty slow until almost the end where we hooked the little steelhead.

Summary:
Location: Kalama River from Red Barn to Modrow
Time: 7am - 4pm
Rod: Bait caster and spinning rods
Tackle: Pink and purple steelhead jigs, Bubble Gum colored MagWart, Blue Pirate Kwikfish and wiggle Wart, Pink/Silver Kwikfish.
Fish: 2
Species: Chinook and Steelhead
Biggest Fish: 20# Chinook
Smallest Fish: 4# Steelhead
Rating: 6/10

Queets River, WA (Coho Salmon)

I'm going back in time for this blog and it says that we were fishing for Coho. Looking at the lure we had on I would believe that we actually were. I know that we didn't catch any salmon but my brother Mike did catch a nice cutthroat. The color was good and the air was crisp.

Summary:
Location: Queets lower launch to confluence
Time: 9am - 5pm
Rod: Spinning rods and plug rods
Tackle: Blue Fox Pixies on the spinners and coho colored Kwikfish plugs
Fish: 1
Species: Cutthroat
Biggest Fish: 16"
Smallest Fish:

Rating: 5/10

Satsop River (Coho/Chum Salmon)

We wanted to catch coho but ended up catching a chum. We put in at the mouth of the Middle Satsop river where you initially cant fish and then floated down the river to take out at Hwy 12. Pulling plugs that were greens, blues, and pinks where ever we could. Coming into a whole we knew should produce we got excited. One of the lines went slack and we thought it was a snag. Once John caught up to it we realize we had a nice fish on our hands that was charging up the river fortunately with the hook still in its grasp. After a good fight on a rod that was a little underweight we landed this nice chum. As you can see from Jon's smile this made for a hell of a trip.

Summary:
Location: Satsop River from mouth of Middle Fork to Hwy 12 bridge.
Time: 12pm - 6pm
Rod: Medium Bait Casting Rods
Tackle: Various Kwikfish Plugs
Fish:1
Species: Chum Salmon
Biggest Fish: 15lbs
Smallest Fish: N/A
Rating: 6/10

Skykomish River, WA (Pink Salmon)

I finally got a drift boat and this would be the maiden voyage. The plan was to put in at Ben Howard and float down to town but we made it only a few hundred yards. Not because anything went wrong but because everything went right. Right after pushing off into the water Paul hooked up onto the first fish that he broke off under the boat. We anchored up and fished there catching several fish. We would move down river maybe 50 yds at a time until we came to a nice tree and I lost count of how many fish we caught.

Summary:
Location: Skykomish River
Time: 9am - 1pm
Rod: Medium Spinning Rods
Tackle: Corky with Yarn and a weight 6 feet up to bounce the bottom, side drifting
Fish: 20+
Species: Pink Salmon
Biggest Fish: 6lbs
Smallest Fish: 3lbs
Rating: 10/10 

Christening the boat with a shotgun of a beer

Fish On

Methow River, WA

It was hot and the river was low. We put in at the park in town with the plan to take out at the parking lot by the Riverbed RV Park. I miss judged the timing a little bit and we got off the water after dark freaking Dalton out. This was his second day on a pontoon boat and first one in a river. It was a beautiful day but we didn't have much luck catching fish. The pontoons worked great because when the river got small they were easy to get out of and drag through the shallows.

Summary:
Location: Methow River from Town to River Bend RV Park
Time: 9am - 10pm
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating line, 5 wt w/ sinking tip
Tackle: 8 black stone nymph, 12 rainbow warrior, 14 zebra midge, 12 copper john hybrid, 10 Rogue Stone, 8 black and brown Pat's Stone, 10 Parachute Adams, 12 Elk Hair Caddis
Fish: 2
Species: White Fish, Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 12" whitfish
Smallest Fish: 8" rainbow
Rating: 7/10 

Couger Lake, WA

My buddy Dalton and I got the idea that we would float the Methow river in some pontoon boats as much of the upper river can be hard to access. The night before we decided to check out Cougar lake as we had heard there are some fish up there. Just stripped some line out and let it troll behing the pontoon as we explored our way around the lake. Fishing for an hour or two we hooked a couple fish but retired soon after to drink some beers by the camp fire before our trip the next day.

Summary:
Location: Cougar Lake near Winthrop,WA
Time: 4pm - 7pm
Rod: 5 wt w/ sinking tip
Tackle: Various wolly bugger patterns black/brown/olive
Fish: 3
Species: Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 13"
Smallest Fish: 12"
Rating: 7/10 

Point No Point, WA (Coho)

Wanted to try something new and had been told this was a good place to try to get a coho on the fly during the changing tides. Ventured up here with my friend Kelly. Saw some fish in the area but didnt get any to take. Good experience.

Summary:
Location: Point No Point
Time: 7am - 11am
Rod: 8wt w/ sinking tip
Tackle: Size 2 and 4 pink or green shrimp or bait fish patterns
Fish: 0
Species: Coho
Biggest Fish: N/A
Smallest Fish: N/A
Rating: 4/10

Grande Ron River, OR/WA

So my brothers and there friends do this annual float trip over the Forth of July weekend typically. This year however my other brother decided he should get married that weekend so we pushed the float to August. Big mistake! I think we walked our raft over rocks more than floated! This is traditionally a guys weekend so the goal of the trip is to float, relax, and drink a lot of beer. I got clever and brought my rod along to see what I couldn't shake up and I was impressed. Fishing here or there I caught a few trout and I think even a bass or two. The float started in Troy and ended at Heller's Bar.

Summary:
Location: Grand Ron River from Troy to Heller's Bar
Time: Off an on all day over the weekend
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating line
Tackle: Different variations of hoppers but had the most luck with a black crystal wolly bugger
Fish: 6
Species: Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 14"
Smallest Fish: 12"
Rating: 8/10

Upper Metolius River, OR

The last leg of my trip was to my stomping grounds and the upper Metolius River where I was joined by three of my good friends, Dalton, Sean, and Chris. Chris had never fly fished before in his life and yet he is another person to have caught his first trout on a fly rod on his first day fishing the Metolius. We fished all over the river but one of the more fun times on this trip was parking up at Blue Hole and wading the whole river all the way to camp at Smiling River. Everyone caught fish from in all shapes and sizes. There isn't many things bad I can say about this river.

Be sure too look through other blogs for tips on this river.

Summary:
Location: Metolius River, Camp Sherman, OR, located about 100 miles (2 hrs) east of Salem, and 20 min from Sisters, OR
Time: 9am - 7pm
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating line, 5 wt w/ sinking tip
Tackle: 8 black stone nymph, 18 rainbow warrior, 18 zebra midge, 18 copper john hybrid, 10 Clark Stone, 10 Rogue Stone, 8 black and brown Pat's Stone, 16 lighting bug, 18 rainbow warrior, etc.
Fish: 20+
Species: White Fish, Rainbow, Red-Band Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 14"
Smallest Fish: 4"
Rating: 9.5/10 (Didn't find a brown or a bull)

Dalton's Fish

One of my fish

Sean's fish on a golden stone

Chris Lee's fish on a small midge

Upper Deschutes, OR

The second leg of my trip was to the Upper Deschutes River. When I say upped I mean at the head waters. Locally know as the Blue Lagoon and Blue holes there are plenty of fish here ranging from a few inches to over 20". Here you can keep brook trout in hopes to protect the native rainbow, bull, and brown trout populations. I have fished here many times as a kid because you can put on any small dry fly and catch 50 fish in the 6-8" range. When you are 12 years old this is a kick in the pants. One of these trips I had conquered a 5lb brown that looked like it ate a coffee can in the lagoon when it at my stone fly I arrogantly threw. Anyways, spent some time up here trauting around looking for fish and had a lot of fun.

Location: 1/2 mile south of Lave Lake Campground Access and up river from Mile Campground day use area
Time: All day
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating
Tackle:  14 tan/brown elk hair caddis, 16 parachute adams, & 12 stone-stimulator
Fish: 20+
Species: Rainbows & Brook Trout
Biggest Fish: 10" Brook
Smallest Fish: 3" Rainbow
Rating: 7/10

Crooked River, OR

This was going to be my first annual Central Oregon tour fishing the three rivers I love best. First on the list was the Crooked. Now I had heard some stories about fish kills and such but didn't want to believe it. This river when doing well should have hundreds of almost a thousand fish per river mile. So I arrived late Friday and found a place to camp. The next day I set out looking for good water. The truth is it was hard to tell because it is very colored and visibility seams to be only a couple feet. I tied up my rig and started to fish. Thinking my fly was stuck in the algae as it often picks some up on ever cast I lifted my rod to set it free. Low and behold there was a white fish on the line and I had caught my first fish. Working behind boulders and good looking riffles I got a second take on my dry this time. A dark shadow came out of nowhere. After a short battle the fish found its way off the hook. Later in the afternoon I rustled up the fish pictured below. Gotta love a colorful redband.

Summary:
Location: Crooked River near Dam
Time: All Day
Rod: 5wt with floating line
Fly: Pink Super Laddy (hopper) with an orange scud dropper
Fish: 2/3
Biggest Fish: 14" Whitefish
Smallest Fish: 12" Red Band Rainbow
Rating: 6/10

Yakima River, WA

Built a contraption for my pontoon to float with my dog down the Yakima River. Stayed at big pine camp ground and shuttled myself between their and Lmuma with my bike. Was a great day on the river and had some success.

Summary:
Location: Yakima River Canyon
Time: All Day
Rod: 5wt Floating Line
Fly: Chubbie for a dry with a nymph dropper and Pats Stone with a midge dropper
Fish: 2/4
Biggest Fish: 15"
Smallest Fish: 13"
Rating: 6/10

Pacific Ocean, Westport, WA (Charter Fishing)

If I haven't mentioned it, I work in Aberdeen, WA. Our company decided for a team building event that they would take everyone out with Westport Charters. If you want to catch fish this isn't a bad way to go. Just mind yourself if you get sea sick. The boats are big but the ocean can get to you. Note that I have never been sea sick in my life, I was out late the night before, and I got a little motion sickness. One time this seamed to help tremendously though because immediatly after I relieved my stomach over the rail I and several others began hooking up after a long cold streak. During this time of the year you are allowed two salmon of which one may be a chinook. You keep fishing even if you have your limit as to fill the boats limit. This works out great because if you are only catching coho and a friend gets two kings you can have a king to take home. This that said our boat limited short of the deck hands and eveyone took home two fish. The fishing was easy. You had a bait caster with a 5 oz weight and a herring. Let your line out about 40 feet and then real back up.

Summary:
Location: Pacific Ocean out of Westport, WA
Time: All Day
Rod: Bait Casters
Tackle: Herring
Fish: 3 (34 kept on the boat)
Species: Coho and Chinook
Biggest Fish: 26#
Smallest Fish: 11#
Rating: 8/10

Cleawox Lake, OR

On Friday my younger brother got married and I volunteered to be the DD that would chaperon grandma to and from the wedding. On the way home I stopped to see my buddy in Portland. So it was about 12:30am and my other buddy text me while I was at a bar in Portland, "You should come down to Huntington Beach." I was dead sober after having not even ordering a beer yet. My response, "On my way". Six hours later I had pulled up to their campground and was ready to have some fun with some buddies.
That day we went and rented a canoe. Drew, John and I piled in and we headed out on the water fishing the local lake. Keeping it simple we used the basic Carolina rig with a worm. The weather was great and the fishing was slow but we were able to catch a few. They keep this lake stocked fairly well. You just have to do some searching to find where the fish are at. We had the best luck in the finger towards the North East Corner.

Summary:
Location: Huntington Beach State Park near Florance, OR
Time: 12-2pm
Rod: Spinning Rods
Tackle: Carolina rig with worm
Fish: 3
Species: Rainbow trout
Biggest Fish: 14"
Smallest Fish: 12"
Rating: 7/10


This isn't fishing I know, but what my dog looks like after a day of fishing.

Nehalem Bay, OR (Crabbing)

For my Brother's Bachelor party we decided to go to Nehalem Bay for some dungenous crabbing. There is a few marina's down there if you don't have a boat or gear that out can rent from which we did. Getting two boats and four traps for each boat we set out to spend the afternoon on the water. The bait they gave us was sea bass but another boat gave us extra shad they had which the crabbed seam to prefer much more. It was early in the season and the bigger crab weren't in but it was still a great day on the water.

Summary:
Location: Nehalem Bay, OR
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Rod: N/A
Tackle:Crab Rings
Crabs:7 keepers
Species: Dungenous
Biggest crab: 6-1/2"
Smallest crab: not legal
Rating: 6.5/10

Taneum Creek/Yakima River, WA

My buddy and I had camped at this place last year later in the summer and thought that we should try an earlier trip this year. We loved the area, lots of space, and complete isolation. Traveling again a long ways up the creek we set up our camp at our same spot. This year was a little extra fun because we brought our mountain bikes and shotguns. Anyways fishing the north fork we had some pretty good success catching some smaller trout mid-day of Saturday. After a small nap and little exploration we went down the the bridge that crosses the river below where the two fork meet. Walking this stretch of river down to the campground we caught several more fish and managed one fish that was about 10".
Sunday on the way out brought some pretty misserable traffic and thus we decided to pull over at the Bullfrog put in on the Yakima river. Found some big water with lots of fish but only caught one.

See this blog as well for additional detail: Taneum Creek

Summary:
Location: Taneum River, near Thorpe, WA off I-90 west of Ellensburg.
Time: All day
Rod: 5 wt floating line
Tackle: Elk hair caddis, purple and traditional parachute adams, misquitos, and multiple other little duns and caddis'
Fish: 10+
Species: Rainbow and Cutt Throat
Biggest Fish:10"
Smallest Fish: 4"
Rating: 7.5/10

Summary:
Location: Upper Yakima River west of Cle Elum
Time: 4-6pm
Rod: 5 wt floating line
Tackle: 8 pat's stone brown and black, 12 skwala stone, 14 tan elk hair caddis, 8 tan body/black back Chernobyl, 16 belly bead copper john, 16 batman prince nymph, 16 tan elk hair caddis, stimulator stone
Fish:1
Species: White Fish
Biggest Fish: 13"
Smallest Fish: N/A
Rating: 7/10

Yakima River, WA

Saturday Evening:
Thinking about how the weather wasn't going to be stellar if I returned to Montesano and the fact that I was halfway there I decided I would head over to the Yakima to fish a little and maybe try to take hwy 12 home and fish the Tieton and the Naches river. I got to Cle Elum and first stopped at the Hanson Ponds and tried to fish the river there where I have had luck before from the bank. No such luck this time. I got back in my truck and moved to my trusted spot at the mouth of Teanaway River. Here I had a few bites, had a little guy chase my nymph getting ready for a role cast, and finally hooked way looked like a nice 15-16" rainbow-cutthroat. When I went to net the fish I bumped it and the little frenzy popped the hook so I couldn't get a picture. Proceeded down to Big Pine where I camped for the night.
Sunday:
Having not seen my buddy Dustin at The Evening Hatch in a long time I thought it would good to drop in and see how he was doing. (I don't plug for many places often but this shop knows it's river and I would recommend getting a guided trip from them, well worth it, just read on) Talking with him for a while he called a buddy who was going out and said if I would man the sticks for a little I could float the river. I didn't hesitate. We put in the boat at Ringer and began our float. Maybe a half a river mile down I hooked into the first fish and landed a nice 15" rainbow. Matt the other guy in the boat hooked two more and I too one more. Tyler got off the sticks just past Big Horn and hooked a nice 17" rainbow and a few other fish. Dustin got on the water at Umptanum and I jumped in his boat. For the first time in forever we got to fish one hole we usually don't get to due to it's typical inaccessibility of obstructing swimmers and landed probably six fish alone there. Allison called it a night on fishing and I went from sitting in the back of the boat to the front. In the next twenty minutes I hooked 5 fish. If it didn't look sizable I tried to shake it of so that I could cast again. I probably officially landed 8 fish and could have landed more if they were not "small", but lost just as many. It was a killer day and a hell of way to end the Spring.

Summary:
Location: Yakima River, near Cle Elum and Ellensburg, WA.
Time: 6-8pm Sat. & 1:30pm-9:30pm Sun
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating line
Tackle: 6 pat's stone brown and/or black with a 10 pat's stone brown and/or black dropper or silver bead-copper john (red killer) dropper, chartreuse and green streamer, & 8 tan body/black back Chernobyl
Fish: 20+
Species: Rainbow, Squaw, & White
Biggest Fish: 17"
Smallest Fish:10"
Rating: 10/10

 Wanted a go at the sticks

Lake Sammamish, WA (Perch)

Sitting at home at 4am I couldn't make up my mind if I wanted to go surf fishing, jetty fishing, shell fishing, or for steelhead. I decided I would get in my car and drive to Dalton's because he had mentioned going perch fishing on Lake Sammamish. I have never targeted perch before but Dalton has been out on this lake and caught some 20 perch in an afternoon and Paul was down for a perch fry. We went to our usual spot and caught a guppie size perch and a couple squaw. Moved a little, when Paul cast and before I think the bobber even settled hooked a nice rainbow. Moved again to the canal and caught some more squaw fish. Moved back about where we started and caught another small perch and a blue gill. Just wasn't our day for perch I guess. Also, Dalton always fished in the evening so maybe the mid-day sun had something to do with it.

Summary:
Location: Lake Sammamish
Time: 10am to 2pm
Rod: light weight spinners
Tackle: bobber and worm
Fish:10
Species: Rainbow, Squaw, Perch, & Blue Gill
Biggest Fish: 14"
Smallest Fish: 4"
Rating: 7/10

He had a fish on that got wrapped around the pile, had to get it off

Canyon Creek, WA

It's opening weekend for rivers in Washington so I called Jon up to see if he wanted to go try Canyon Creek out. He was excited to go and even brought a coworker along. As I said it was opening weekend and it turned out to be the second most crowded I have ever seen the river. I guess I'm to use to going after school when not many people are up there but the weather was nice too. It was jammed by any means but the three major holes next to the campground where taken by other fisherman. Not a big deal just wasn't expecting to bring any rout home for my mom anymore. Having good luck last year I took them up above the campground were we caught a couple fish, one that was almost 10" but nothing really to brag about. We decided to go to the washout where there was more river access and no people. Here we caught a bunch of fish, none with any real size but it was good practice for everyone on casting in the wind, across currents, under trees, and around rocks. Lots of fun and good company to enjoy the day.

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Summary:
Location: Canyon Creek, located 30 miles east of I-5 from Woodland near Chelatchie, WA
Time: 12pm to 5:30pm
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating line
Tackle: brown elk hair caddis and stimulator stonefly
Fish: 20+
Species: Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 10"
Smallest Fish: 4"
Rating: 7.5/10

 

Snake River/Palouse River, WA (Catfish)

Day 1:
This was a wild and fun weekend but where to begin. I took Friday off from work so that I could have a four day weekend. I get off work at 3:30am, so I went home, packed the car, drove to pick up my buddy Dalton and the new boat, and off we went to Lyon's Ferry. It was a nice change of pace to be driving in the daylight, opposite from all of our trips the year before leaving in the late evening. We got to the campground around lunch time, launched the boat set up camp, and headed out to the elevator to catch some bait. This can be just as fun as cat fishing because although you are catching garbage fish you are catching a lot of fish. Using a 1/4-1/2oz slip wait and the smallest piece of worm we would chuck our lines out in the river and wait for some action. We were getting bites but no few fish. I cannibalized a fly for a smaller hook and I instantly started hooking up way more often. We caught bass, peamouth, pikeminnow, and sucker fish all that make great bait. Not wanting to cut the bait up we brought it back to camp and left the dirty work for Paul while we got the boats ready to go cat fishing. Heading out around 5 we headed up to our spot near the mouth of the Tucannon River. Using a pinky to thumb size piece of bait we hucked our lines out and proceeded to wait for some cat fish. We also brought the grill along to cook some steaks and pass the time. Dalton caught a nice cat that we broke the stringer off of an lost and the other boat caught a two cats as well.
Day 2:
Having not the capability the past year to power up the river to far and now having a ski boat converted into a fishing boat we ventured up the river to a creek we wanted to scout for potential cat fishing and other sorts. Turned out to be a fun spot to catch some bass and bait fish but we were confident on the cat fishing. We went back to camp and ventured to the elevator for some bait fish again, this time with some smaller hooks and again hammered some bait. Knowing others had gone up the Palouse we went and scouted that as well. We weren't keen on taking the ski boat up it but Paul managed to take his little boat over the mud flats. They fished there while we fished for cat under the elevator for a while and again at the mouth. I got two cats this night and the other boys struck out. Although something did snap their line. We got off the water and I went over turkey hunting out of Clarkston.
Day 3:
Exhausted from not sleeping to go turkey hunting I slept through bait fishing and woke up to go out cat fishing that night. Thinking about wanting to catch a big cat and watching maybe a little too much river monster I had put on a full 6" bass the night before with no luck and tonight tried a full 7" peamouth. This time it worked. Stoked out of my mind I started to reel in but thought I had lost it. I hadn't and instead reeled up a small bull cat that wasn't hooked but for not wanting to give up the smaller fish it had just pretty much swallowed. Overall the cat fishing was slow, maybe because it was too early, maybe because the water was too cold, or maybe because that is just fishing.

Summary:
Location: Snake River, near Lyon's Ferry State Park WA
Time: daytime (bait) 5pm-12am (Cat Fish)
Rod: light weight spinner (bait), medium-light spinner and medium baitcaster (Cats)
Tackle: Bait - Worms, Cats - Whatever bait you caught
Fish: 20+
Species: Sucker, Bass, Peamouth, Pikeminnow, Channel Cat, Flathead Cat, Bull Head Cat, Carp
Biggest Fish: 6# Cat
Smallest Fish: 7" peamouth
Rating: 7/10

Lake Aberdeen

Co-worker asked me to tag along to come fish the lake. We had no luck. A boat came out with a full stringer. Didn't see anyone else on the bank catching much, if at all. Oh, we did catch two orange belly newts!

Summary:
Location: Lake Aberdeen, 2 miles east of Aberdeen, WA
Time: 11am-1pm
Rod: Spinning Rod
Tackle: Worms and bobber or slip line weighted power bait
Fish: 0
Species: N/A
Biggest Fish: N/A
Smallest Fish: N/A
Rating: 4/10

Metolious River, OR (Upper)

I know I have said it before but this is really the greatest place you can every fish. Feeling the itch, I left from work at 11pm on a Saturday night and headed down. Arriving in the area at before sunrise, I quickly hiked up Black Butte to catch the sunrise. I then proceeded to drive to the Camp Sherman store where I grabbed 20 minutes of Z's waiting for it to open so that I could buy a license. This time of year the river is closed above Allingham bridge but there is still plenty of good river to fish. The great part about this river is the flow and clarity never really changes. Worst ever was instead of 50' of clarity the was 40' of clarity. I don't actually know that because I don't know where it is 50' deep on the upper river but its gin clear. Anyways fishing my typical holes it started slow. I landed 1 of 7 fish in Granddad's hole, 4 of 5 in the hole below pine rest, and finally the beautiful red band below.


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Summary:
Location: Metolius River, Camp Sherman, OR, located about 100 miles (2 hrs) east of Salem, and 20 min from Sisters, OR
Time: 9am - 7pm
Rod: 5 wt w/ floating line, 5 wt w/ sinking tip
Tackle: 8 black stone nymph, 8 pat's stone, 18 rainbow warrior, 18 zebra midge, 18 copper john hybrid, 10 Clark Stone
Fish: 6
Species: White Fish & Red Band Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 18"
Smallest Fish: 11"
Rating: 9.5/10

F8 Lake, WA

Yesterday was my birthday and for the last five years I had gone to Kidney Lake down south but this year we thought we should switch it up and go back to the walleye lake we fished last year. Last year the only luck I had was the first morning I hooked up on a walleye but it broke off. This year I decided to borrow my firends aluminum pontoon boat with a good trolling motor to even the odds it didn't help. This year would be worst, for me. I caught a fish, a little bull head. However, my buddy Dalton who was also skunked last year caught two real nice crappie. Our two buddies hooked a couple crappie and walleye themselves as well. They even lost a huge bass, broke the line.

Summary:
Location: Somewhere near Franklin, WA
Time: All Day
Rod: Spinning Rods
Tackle: Slip Bobber with worm & jigs
Fish: 2
Species: Crappie, Bass, & Walley
Biggest Fish: 14"
Smallest Fish: 12"
Rating: 7/10