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By: downriggeral
Posted: 8/7/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I fished kokanee at Lake Roosevelt with Brian Scott. The weather was clouds off and on and the fishing was slow. Managed one that sure made a great dinner last night!
By: downriggeral
Posted: 7/10/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2021
Hot Spots: 0
First night fish trip to Loon this year. Arrived with my brother inlaw and anchored in 34 feet of water next to my nephew and his family.
Lights on, jigs and glow hooks changed up baited with maggot...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 11/15/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/14/2020
Hot Spots: 0
It was my birthday and I needed to go fishing! The day turned out sunny and the wind wasn't to bad so I called brother in-law to see if he wanted to go on a short trip. We launched from the Little S...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 10/29/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Roosevelt today with friend Brian. Arrived at the Ft Spokane launch about 7 and there was other rig in the lot. Ran up river and saw quite a few on the sonar in the top 25' of water but ther...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 8/3/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
What a change a week can make! We fished Loon the week before and it was "lights Out" fishing if you'll pardon the pun. My brother in-law and I got our limit by 10:30 PM in the usual spot and tackle...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/2/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the trip with Bryan peck to fish the early Shoot Out Derby at Lake Chelan. We arrived at Chelan State Park late Thursday PM and fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Friday we pre...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 7/3/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I had the privilege of taking Bob Schmidt, president of Mack's Lure and Justin Wolf from Angler West TV on a night fishing trip for kokanee at Loon Lake. The weather really cooperated with very litt...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 6/9/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day on the Spokane arm chasing walleye. Went with Captain Dave Grove and we had my cousin Ray and his friend Ernie along. We fished both ledges and flats with bottom bouncers baited wit...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/13/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Saturday with Captain Dave along with Rob and Hillary from NWFR. The goal was to catch some of the monster trout and capture it on film for a future episode on TV. Well....the fish only sort ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2019
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day to go fishing; 70 degrees and sunny with very little wind!
Got to fish with Captain Dave and his family, what a hoot. His four year old daughter is really into cranking fish. We ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 4/1/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
WOW spring has finally come after being locked in the icy grips of winter for the last couple of months. A warm sunny day with no wind fishing kokanee who could ask for more?
Friend Scott wanted t...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/9/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers our adventures for the spring kokanee derby at Lake Chelan. I purchased a new (to me) StarCraft Fish Master last fall and have proceeded to set it up the way I wanted for fishing. ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 1/6/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I fished with Brian (Brisco) on his new 21' Hewes Searunner with hardtop and diesel heater on the last day of 2018. What a great day to be out catching kokanee! We got started around 7:30 and my lea...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 11/4/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with long time friend Ron and only took a light load of tackle with me....two lead core poles and one bag with tackle. He couldn't believe it! We then met up with Ron's employee Daniel and Ro...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 11/1/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had the privilege of fishing with Bryan on his new Hewes Craft with enclosed cabin and diesel heater. WOW what a boat! It is equipped with all the "goodies" including the iTroll with Hunt; can you...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/16/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for our annual trip to fish the mouth of the Deschutes on the Columbia above The Dalles Dam. My brother in law Dan came along as my wife was ill and unable to join me for this trip. A...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 8/12/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Mike Carey and I have been trying to get together all summer for a fishing trip and it never seemed to quite work out. Mike was going to film a future TV episode with Lance and Christy of Washington ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 6/25/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Grabbed my brother in Law Dan and headed to the resort on Long lake (Lake Spokane) about 5:00PM to see if we could get the boat launched as it was a really nice day and lots of people were enjoying th...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 6/14/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Joined friends Gareld and Dell for three days of walleye fishing out of Kettle Falls on Roosevelt. The weather overall was pretty good and we only got sprinkled on once and there was not much wind to...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 6/10/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
MAYDEN VOYAGE DAY for Captain Dave Grove's new guide boat. Dave rounded up four of his friends to chase some walleye in his new boat along with putting some break in time on the new Yamaha VMax motor...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/27/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2018
Hot Spots: 0
My brother in law and I decided to give Loon a try for night fishing kokanee. This activity is usually reserved for the "warm/hot" months of July and August. I have been reading reports for the tro...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/25/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had the privilege to fish the walleye derby last weekend with Brad from Mark's marine on their new Lund walleye boat. It is equipped with all the "goodies" including the iTroll with Hunt for the k...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Brian (FishDawg), Katy (FishPrincess) and I met up at Chelan for our annual kokanee fishing camp out. We all arrived late Thursday night. I had a break down on the way over (just had the truck worke...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 4/16/2018
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We set out Saturday morning with Ron, Ed, and brother in law Dan to see if we could catch some of those channel cats we have seen reports on. We launched at the mouth of the Palouse on the Snake and r...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 1/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with friend Scott and Ron and went to Roosevelt in Ron's boat. We launched at Seven Bays around 8:30 and there were a couple of boats ahead of us. We ran down river and started fishing along ...