#36428 - 10/13/06 12:05 PM
Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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Spawner
Registered: 08/22/06
Posts: 637
Loc: La La Land
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Looking to go out for some lake fishing, hopefully looking to get into to some muskie or tigers? are there any northern pike up this way? also any good lake for big trout or bass?
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#36431 - 10/13/06 02:11 PM
Re: Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 08/24/06
Posts: 213
Loc: Marysville
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Your killing me with your new profile pic.
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#36432 - 10/13/06 02:22 PM
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 08/12/05
Posts: 210
Loc: The Boardwalk, on the way to S...
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I believe there ARE some Northern Pike in Washington State, probably in Eastern Washington. Also there are a couple lakes over near C'oeur d'Alene, Idaho that are really GOOD for Pike at certain times of year...don't remember their names for sure, Hauser Lake maybe?
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#36434 - 10/13/06 05:20 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 08/26/02
Posts: 4709
Loc: Sequim
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You don't want pike in any waters where they will impact salmonid populations. We have enough management problems as it is with imported cool/warm water species. I'd just as soon see them gone from west coast waters.
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#36435 - 10/15/06 11:41 AM
Re: Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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Registered: 04/05/01
Posts: 1424
Loc: Redmond
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Tapps lake in Pierce is turning into a premier hybred tiger muskie lake. Mayfield, farther south, Green, Curlew, Merwin (Cowlitz)... I know I'm missing a few. You can read specific reports and view pictures over at www.WashingtonLakes.com. No pike I know of except as mentioned in eastern Washington - I believe there are pike in the Pend O'Reille river system. These tiger muskies don't reproduce so please consider catch and release. I would mention (bass) but it seems everytime someone says (bass) guys get all mocking and stuff. But I have come to enjoy the quiet solitude of electirc motoring between peoples docks and catching them (the bass, that is). No competition to speak of (certainly nothing like steelheading or salmon fishing rivers). Plus, the thirst for new lures is never-ending.
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#36436 - 10/15/06 02:55 PM
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Fish Fear Me
Registered: 10/12/05
Posts: 3376
Loc: Port Angeles
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There are actually freshwater fish other than salmon and steelhead that exist?
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#36437 - 10/15/06 04:56 PM
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Spawner
Registered: 03/17/06
Posts: 946
Loc: Olympia
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Sturgeon, Bass, Trout, Sunfish, Bullhead, Pikeminnow, Carp...
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#36439 - 10/16/06 01:30 AM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/07/06
Posts: 2561
Loc: WA
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Washingtonlakes.com It will give you a great start to lake fishing. Has some saltwater stuff but very limited. No Rivers. Pretty much lakes only. Would be in your best interest to figure out a few lakes and research them before you hit them up.
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#1027203 - 03/29/20 07:20 PM
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Dah Rivah Stinkah Pink Mastah
Registered: 08/23/06
Posts: 6868
Loc: zipper
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This will be our future if WDFW keeps shi##ing the bed
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#1027272 - 03/30/20 07:35 PM
Re: Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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Parr
Registered: 04/09/14
Posts: 43
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Hey, I published a very interesting carp article a little while ago. Carp fishing is very respectable in England. It was a big thrill for me as a boy to go catch carp in a local pond. Some of my fondest memories... Too soon for many here to wrap our heads around that. Brits have the advantage of having destroyed most of their salmon centuries ago, hence the carp esteem.
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#1027283 - 03/30/20 09:47 PM
Re: Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
Posts: 12767
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Brits have the advantage of having destroyed most of their salmon centuries ago, hence the carp esteem.
Whew! OUTTA the ball park!
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#1027296 - 03/31/20 07:44 AM
Re: Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7428
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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The Brits still have salmon, but in Private Waters. The public gets the course fish like carp.
I have seen a few articles on flyfishing for carp in the Columbia (East side). Apparently stalking them in the shallows is a pretty technical task. And they are bigger than most coho and many black mouth......
BTW, there is a big effort to get Northerns out of Lake Roosevelt. Don't know if it has been successful. The Rumor Mill has a few joining the Lake Washington Walleye.
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#1027303 - 03/31/20 08:47 AM
Re: Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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They have a bounty on Northern Pike in Roosevelt...there are bags and deposit freezers at the gas stations in Kettle Falls. My old man just bought 20 acres and built a house on the lake up there, his new Hewescraft is done, just needs the rigging done, but that is on hold now, unfortunately.
He grew up pike fishing, he's excited to go catch a bunch.
I'm supposed to go over there to take him turkey hunting in three weeks, but they just canceled the April 5th youth turkey opener, not feeling too optimistic about the general season that opens on the 15th.
Fish on...
Todd
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#1027332 - 03/31/20 01:56 PM
Re: Other freshwatewr fish beside the almighty Salmon or Steelhead
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/07/05
Posts: 1882
Loc: Spokane WA
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From the shore of Lake Roosevelt.
Turkeys, I chase them out of my yard every day, they only run about 15-20 yards then watch you go back in the house. My dogs won’t chase them, and the turkeys don’t leave if they do.
They were destroying a rock wall by excavating it.
I catch lots of trout and walleye with a few others species thrown in. Big trout too.
As for people fishing, right after businesses were shutting down the number of boats headed out of Spokane to the lake was amazing, it seemed like every other vehicle was pulling a boat.
That, and the confirmed cases of C19 in my county are from people coming from the west side, people trying to escape King County and going to their lake house.
Look, I don’t blame them, but it spreads the virus.
I could go out front and fish from the beach, but I’m not going to.
I fully understand why they needed to shut it down.
I fished for very large carp in lake Washington back in the 60s, they’re bigger and harder to catch than you think.
Also fished for them in other locations, even lake Powell.
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