Hit MA-13 for Ling....it was like ALL the fish had left the building. No hits, takedowns nothing, nada zip zero. I felt like I was on dead water

Cabo San Lucas on Thursday, April 29.

Went out with my friend, Joe, with whom my wife and I were visiting. Joe and I went out while our wives enjoyed the sun, poolside.

We trolled all day for striped marlin. Joe was first up and got one at about 10:40. It was a big one, estimated by the skipper to be in the 160 lb. range. It jumped 23 times and took 50 minutes to land. Released. What a beautiful fish! Hope the picutures turn out.

We worked over two other marlin after Joe landed his, but they were not hungry. The fishing is good for marlin. We saw no action from wahoo or dorado.

Back at work now, counting down the days until May 14, when a group of us are headed to Abaco Island, in the Bahamas, for a week to chase bonefish.

Tall Tails!

Tad: By comparison, our reports are a bit on the mundane side..

Since the steelhead fishing has ended, I had to go fish...somewhere this weekend. Did a quick bit of computer sleuthing and came up with...Toad Lake - Whatcom County

Nice little pond, big enough for non-motorized DB's (electric motors), but I fished the public dock. Fishing was slow, caught only one little planter rainbow (7"?). Did see quite a few caught by those in boats.

A lot of fun, but not near as exciting as the "big" fish. Still, spending a lazy afternoon drowning worms has its merits.

Mike

Did a little smelt jigging this weekend. Ended up w/ a couple of limits. Nice day of kickin back and being lazy.

Fished Eastern WA lakes Merry and Lenice. SLOW. Six fish over weekend. Very few hatches. Did catch my first tiger trout. Fun to be out fishing instead of working in the yard.

I was in Maui and asked the tour guide about fishing and snorkeling. He told me it depended on the captain wether he'd let me fish off the snorkeling boat. I decided to just go off on my own and ended up in a monstrous school of fish at the end(snorkeling). I was just about to give up and go in and ended up in the middle of them. Really cool. But what goes with big schools of fish?? Bigger things, sharks. Then, a huge thing came swimming towards me and I froze. But, it was a magnificent giant sea turtle. I swam with him and his friend for quite awhile until they ditched me. Really neat and I hope my underwater pics turn out. Next trip this month, I will try to find the nice captains and see if I can catch something. They are after the Ahi out there and I'd love to bring some home.

Fished the Potholes and surrounding lakes Fri, Sat and Sun. Fishing was slow . My 5 year old lieks to fish off the Mardon dock mostly to talk with everyone about fishing. In 4 trips I have yet to see any fish caught off the docks yet their web site is full of them. There was a Walleye tournament there this weekend. Interesting group of people. I have never seen more overweight ,sunburned people with a permanent beer in their hand as I did this weekend. Also never ever take a 5 year old and a 10 year old out in a 12' laker with an electric trolling motor when the walleye tournament is town. Because it seems the competition is more important than basic safety ,sportmanship or common sense even decency. I hope anyone that sees a small boat with kids in it or Old folks or folks in wheel chairs they slow down and crate no wake. It's the polite thing to do and what you would what done to you. I even doubt a rap in the mouth would teach those that are guilty anything.

Fished the wind today the wind blew all day it was like the ocean it has been like that about a week. Caught one 6 or 7 lb springer and saw about 35 others caught for about 150 boats .

John

I floated the Yakima again on Saturday. Real slow until 4pm when the Caddis flies started hitting the water. A lot of big fish coming up. Caught 4 over 16", lost one that was as big as a steelhead and another that ran me into my backing. Add to that sunshine, good friends, and sun, all in all a pretty good day.

I need to learn the Cowlitz. Can anyone tell me where I should launch the driftboat and take out for Springs and Steelhead this time of year?

Thanks!

Fished for Springers last monday the 26th Cathlamet Clifton Channel Not a bump in five hours.
Fished a local lake Friday with my wife. Wife limited for both of us in under two hours (I didn,t tell her the first strike I got shredded my fly so was dragging mostly a bare hook) She picked up a real nice carryover 2 pounder. Now that she has bragging rights it will not be hard to get her to go again. (am I a scheming little devil or what?)
Ramprat

Fished the Lewis today. Boated 11 springers and 3 summer steelhead. Busted my IMX 1141 on the hookset of a monster hen summer run. She spit the hook before we could land her.

It's a zoo on the Lewis now. Most boats were lucky to get a fish, let alone 2.