Weekly Holy Moly Report

The warm weather has begun the kokanee craze here on the west side of Washington State.  Each year, early season kokanee are some of the most fun and easy fish to catch on our local lakes.  They stay high in the water column, and targeting them can be done without downriggers.  To me watching a top lined rod double over is absolutely awesome.  This trip was a great example of it.  I was testing the recently acquired trolling motor (works like a dream) and running two top lined rods off the side of the boat and one on the down...

Spring is here!  Weather is warming up, days are getting longer and the Bass are starting to get into Pre-spawn mode.  For me this is a whole new ball game.  I haven't done a lot of Bass specific fishing in my lifetime, but it has always been something I wanted to do more of.  This year, I made a choice to learn more and do more of it.  What an awesome adventure this trip was!  I met my good buddy Matt at a new lake (a more shallow productive body of water from what we read up on) and we...

  Took the first bass trip of 2016 with my buddy Matt as we headed off to Flowing Lake.  With the recent few days of warming weather we thought we might find a few fish coming into shallow/deep transition areas ripe for the catching.  We got to the lake about 9am and all the conditions were lining up for a good day.  All but one, water temp.  The hopes for a warming trend unfortunately still had the lake at about 46-48 degrees.  Not enough to get the bass out of their winter mode.  But we still figured to give it...

What a busy week!  So excited to share this last weekend's trip.  I was finally able to get out on the water with my dad, and what a better place to travel to than Lake Chelan.  We packed up the sled for it's first trip for 2016 and first with all the new gear installed.  Big time excitement.  We got to the launch as the sun was peeking through the clouds.  I had to stop to just take it all in: The beauty of the scenery, being with my dad, new boat, and the thrill of chasing kokanee.   We...

We finally pressed into the month of March and the rains are continuing to find us here this spring.  Rivers are fishable one day and not the next.  When you find a fishable river, you will find your fish.  Unfortunately for me, I have had a bad streak of guide trip rain outs this year.  The beauty of our great sport is however that even though a day or trip gets rained out, there are things one can do to be ready for when the weather breaks in our favor.   One great way to get yourself prepared is to...