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Monday, September 5th, 2005

  • Whatcom County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Whatcom. Started on Northern end pilings. Used silver and blue rattle-trap and green jig with white grub trailer. Had some sparatic luck. Moved down the lake (still in the northern section) on the east side to the last set of pilings before hitting the deep portion of the lake. There is a large rock that is visible heading towards the shoreline. In this area there is a rocky ledge. Caught quite a few large smallmouths starting in this area throwing chartuese 3/16 oz spinner bait with white grub trailer. One was about 5 pounds. Followed the pilings northward, casting towards docks and caught a few more smallies. Tried to keep the boat in water between 10 and 15 feet.

      Good luck
      City: Arlington

Monday, August 29th, 2005

  • Snohomish County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First off id like to say I know this lake inside and out ive pulled lots of 8lbs pound to 10lbs large mouth bass out of this lake since i was a kid the best time to fish there is towards the tail end of spring time using tub baits or or jigs its really important to use a slow jigging
      motion because the bass at this time are still kind of slow but they are very hungry so YOU HAVE TO BE PATIENT

      I was intrested in taking a more up close and personal look at the monster large mouths so i went and got my scubba diving license and this is no big fish story ive seen plenty of 10 12 pound plus monsters in this lake a buddy of mine didnt belive me and he is certified diver so i aked him to take a dive with me and he made excuse after excuse not to go diving with me it took me two months of bugging him two finally get him to go with me and the first dock we went to was my favorite hot spot to fish right of the bat we saw about 10 bass most bass under there was 3lbs to 7lbs but on the back side of the dock near the bottom of the pilling there was about a 9 to 10 pound bass and he looked and me and his eye balls got huge and i was trying to figure what he was freaking out about were down about 10 foot of water and he pointed up towards the surface and i looked towars his finger and at the back of the dock were the ladder was a monster bass the biggest bass i have ever seen in my life this bass had to been 15lbs it was amazing and my adrenaline was pumping we both swam to shore as fast as we could to run up to are houses to grab are poles and gear buy the time we ran back down there was some kids down there and they saw the bass and got excited they were making a lot of noise and scared the bass away i was so upset that the fish was gone i felt like crying my buddy from that point on was fishing every day that he could(lets just say he got hooked for life)
      City: stanwood

      Tips: (tips for june) use a pumpkin seed tub bait or a sparkling red and black color the red and black you can catch big small mouth
      (tips for july) use a rattel traps craw fish patterns or baby large mouth patterns and towards the dusk i like to use small black and shiney silver rapalas surface lures I use a zig zag jerkin pattern
      (Agust) I love to use the bill dance fat free shad I knock them dead all day with that lure if that slows down at all i like to use a buzz bait or a spinner bait with a split tail trailer usally I use a shartruse color for the spinner bait tipcal size spinner bait but for the buzz bait I like is a small sized buzz bait the color I use is all black

      sorry I forgot (may )tub baits and this may sound funny but fluffy featherd stlyed baits the more feathers the better colors use natural colors like a brownish orange mixed with black but my favorite feather style jig is all black its a steelhead lure but it workes awsome for spring fishing in lake goodwin salted jigs also do real well in lake goodwin remmember to change colors and patterns according to weather condition I hope you have a very productive fishing trip at lake goodwin GOOD LUCK

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

  • Whatcom County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: STRONGLY RECOMMEND GIVING LAKE WHATCOM A TRY FOR BASS AND PERCH. FOR SUCH A DECENT SIZED LAKE, THERE REALLY ISN'T VERY MUCH TRAFFIC OR WATER SKIING.
      Fished Lake Whatcom from 6:30am to 7:00pm. Lake was a little rough with alot of current due to wind. Fished southern most portion searching for bass.
      On the southern most portion next to the old railroad pilings, found lots of perch. Starting catching them on small green crappie jig with tiny real worm trailer.
      Didn't start catching bass until 3 or 4 p.m. Caught about 10, 1-2 lb largemouth on cliff drop off's in the southern most section on chartuese 3/16 oz spinner baits with white 4" grub trailer. All fish seemed to be holding between 10-20 feet deep. Just fish the shoreline starting at the still active railroad tressle and work the shoreline keeping the boat in about 30-40 feet of water.
      There is several grass beds in the southern most end in depths between 2-10 feet. Saw several bass there, but could not get them to bite.
      If anyone has any info on this lake, please let me know. Especially for smallmouth (locations and tactics).
      Thanks, and good luck to all.
      City: Arlington

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

  • King County
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      Water Temp: not really sure

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: just fishing off my dock experimenting with a small spinner, caught what seemed to be a trout and also a 3 pound smallie.
      City: redmond

      Tips: cast far out and stop and pull almost as if jigging

Friday, May 13th, 2005

  • King County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished lk.union and the cut, caught 3 over 5lbs 1 about 7 on drop offs from about 5to 12 feet they seemed to be on the edge light bite
      City: everett

      Tips: lightline texas rig/no drop shot!

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Gold 2" Kastmaster, no live bait for SM and LG. For Krappie use chartruse jigs and possible live bait.
      City: Nine Mile Falls, WA

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

  • Grant County
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      Water Temp: 39

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: North West Bass trnmt on saturday was won w/12+ lbs. most fish were caught in about 20' of water,
      we caught 10.8 lbs cranking steep walls in 20 to 30'.
      City: Kennewick

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: what happened to jerry? Not sure what the story is
      City: Red Bluff

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished west shoreline by islands. caught about four fish around 3 pounds. all fish were in about 3 feet of water with thick weeds and with a fast drop to about 8 to 10 feet of water. fished in the shade of the alder trees. fished dark jig-pig.
      City: montesano

      Tips: watch water temp. if it gets sunny flip under docks Other than that fish the weeds with wood.

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Air is warm, about 50*, sunny. Deeper fishing is good with worm or corn. Red / yellow jigs. Water level is back up.
      City: Nine Mile Falls

      Tips: Dont fish from shore without any structure and/or shade.

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

  • King County
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      Water Temp: 44

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught one smallie about 1.2 lbs on a 4" power worm fishing at 35-45 ft. I fished for four hours and had no other bites.
      City: Lynnwood

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FIND THE ROCKS AND SUBMERGED STRUCTURE JUST OFF SHORE AND YOU'LL FIND LOTS OF SMALLMOUTH BASS.USE CRAWLER HALVES ON JIGS AND SOFT PLASTIC TUBE BAITS IN 20 FEET OF WATER AND YOU'LL NAIL THEM ALL DAY LONG.
      City: TACOMA

      Tips: BRING LOTS OF CRAWLERS

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished west canal w/my son chatreuse and white spinner bait over the weeds. caught abought 10 fish four over three pounds
      City: everett

      Tips: fish the points at each side canal

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

  • Whatcom County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Up on vacation@birth bay. This is a very nice lake with lots of vegatation ( hope they don't kill it all off by dropping the water levels). Wish I drove my bass boat up here ( maybe next Vacation).
      City: American Canyon, California

      Tips: Some good advice. if your a bass angler on this lake, try a snag proof frog, and you have to try the drop shot with an arron magic worm 4-6" , this time of the year. With all the vegatation and those great lily pads, this would be the ideal technics. let me know how you did.
      : )
      p.s. love to own some property around those parts.

Monday, May 3rd, 2004

  • King County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Lake Washington on Monday to do some field testing of my line of hand pours(West Coast Custom Tackle). Started out split shotting a reaper off of the south end of Mercer Island. Caught 1 about a pound, missed a couple(not sure if they were bass or perch). Decided to drop shot up the east channel and started hitting fish left and right. Most came on a drop shot worm and reaper and a couple came on a sculpin. Had a pretty good day with a few very nice smallies. Best five probably went 17 pounds or so. Can't wait to get out and hit it again. Tight Lines.
      D.J.
      West Coast Custom Tackle
      City: Enumclaw

Friday, April 30th, 2004

  • King County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit it now! The fish are still up under the docks around the beds. Throw grubs and tubes around the docks are you are sure to pick up a few 3+ pound fish. Get on it now before they head out deep for summer and before all the summer boat traffic.
      City: Bellevue

      Tips: swim a grub or flip a tube, maybe try draggin a lizard or sleech around the sunking forest on the south end of the lake.

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

  • King County
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      Water Temp: 44.3-44.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Five o us in three boats, the day was great but ishing was slow. Fished between 30 and 78 eet the two ish that were caught were in 44 and 71 eet o water both nice ish. Leadhead with a Yamamoto hula grub 176. They were sitting on or very near rock piles Did get a lot o hits but i think that was mostly perch we all caught a ew o them. I will keep up the reports as i go.
      City: Carnation

      Tips: ish deep and slow, rocks or some kind o vcariation in the bottom

Thursday, December 11th, 2003

  • Chelan County
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      Water Temp: 60??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a club tourney here. Great lake big fish and lots of water to fish. Super clear so it can be tough. Day one. 45 mph winds 4-5 foot swells. Fishing slow for all but Ron. 5 fish 14 lbs. I got one at 3. Next day decided to wait out wind. Didnt start untill 10. Weigh in at 12:30. Caught 3 fish in about 45 mins time. One on a drop shot sniper snub green and the other two on a Outlaw tube green. Slow movements. Try this lake out when you get the chance its worth it
      City: Manson

      Tips: Water is gin clear so fish tend to be alittle deeper than you would expect. Fish natural colors and light line. But be ready 8lb fish have been caught here.

Saturday, April 26th, 2003

  • Coconino County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well I drove 180 miles one way to ish Potholes today. It was kinda sunny riday evening, I didnt ish then though. Saturday morning it was cold, windy and not very good. I ished the dunes or bass, didn't get a bite. I only ished around 3 beaver huts. I saw a walleye in about 6 eet o water which suprised me. Water Clarity was really good. I ished along the rocks o Lind Coulee later in the morning. Only got a 6 inch smallmouth. Weather was just to cold this week and screwed up the bass. They had a tournament the previous week that had a lot o good results. There were bass boats out there ishing a tourny, but it looked like a smaller club tournament. I'll be back when its 90 degrees and topwater time :)
      City: Renton

      Tips: Wait or the temp to go up.

Saturday, June 8th, 2002

  • King County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a Federation tourney there this Saturday and Sunday. I did well on Saturday but I stunk it up on Sunday. Big bag was 20+ lbs. Mostly LM but 1 big SM. Some people did well and others struggled. Most people ishing docks. Some o the people that did well did not. Maybe I should have spent more time ishing oshore structure. HEY THIS IS A REQUEST TO YOU FELLOW WASHINGTON ANGLERS! USE THIS FORUM TO REPORT ON LAKES. IT COULD BE A GREAT TOOL!
      City: Olympia

      Tips: Don't loose conidence. It can make you crash and burn. Stick with what you know and ish it well.