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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: GCRocketman on March 21, 2014, 11:06:56 AM

Title: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: GCRocketman on March 21, 2014, 11:06:56 AM: So I live in Graham, got spots picked out here to fish for bass this year, and already have my trout and salmon rivers here on the West Side that I've been fishing the last couple years (Puyallup, Carbon, Snoqualmie, Cedar, Green).

I would never ask for a honey hole, but anyone got spots on the East side to try? I know Moses Lake. Yakima river. Anywhere else? Near Spokane? Cheney? (Only area's I'm familiar with from the last deer/elk season)

I do spin and fly fishing, and don't own a boat.

Any help, info or anything else is greatly appreciated!

Rocketman
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: Alchase on March 21, 2014, 11:48:44 AM: Blue lake, Loon Lake, and the best, Lake Curlew!
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: Alchase on March 21, 2014, 11:50:04 AM: Do not forget, you have some great Kokanee fishing just south of you at Clear and Alder!
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: Brad Harshman on March 21, 2014, 11:58:35 AM: Quote from: GCRocketman on March 21, 2014, 11:06:56 AM
So I live in Graham, got spots picked out here to fish for bass this year, and already have my trout and salmon rivers here on the West Side that I've been fishing the last couple years (Puyallup, Carbon, Snoqualmie, Cedar, Green).

I would never ask for a honey hole, but anyone got spots on the East side to try? I know Moses Lake. Yakima river. Anywhere else? Near Spokane? Cheney? (Only area's I'm familiar with from the last deer/elk season)

I do spin and fly fishing, and don't own a boat.

Any help, info or anything else is greatly appreciated!

Rocketman

Potholes holds a ton of fish and open year round. Lots of people have success just fishing from the Mardon Resort docks. Call Mardon Resort ahead of time and if the fish are biting. They're very helpful.

Best of luck!
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: GCRocketman on March 21, 2014, 12:39:54 PM: Sweet!!!!

Thanks y'all!
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: BigGoonTuna on March 21, 2014, 01:41:59 PM: the quincy lakes and potholes seep lakes have lots of bank access and most of them have pretty good fishing. i need to make a trip over there soon.
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: KopperBuck on March 21, 2014, 02:11:21 PM: Some not named: There's some decent smallmouth fishing with bank access on Long Lake. Used to catch some good size tiger trout in Fish Lake outside of Cheney. Spokane River and Roosevelt have good access.
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: Dhoey07 on March 21, 2014, 04:54:59 PM: Quote from: KopperBuck on March 21, 2014, 02:11:21 PM
Some not named: There's some decent smallmouth fishing with bank access on Long Lake. Used to catch some good size tiger trout in Fish Lake outside of Cheney. Spokane River and Roosevelt have good access.

They killed off fish lake two years ago, not sure what they've put back in. It was one of my favorite lakes :bash:
Roosevelt, Amber, badger, loon lake for kokes, waitts lake for the browns, sprague for the 20" rainbows
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: AlpineMuley on March 21, 2014, 05:31:58 PM: Try fish lake in Leavenworth
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: splitshot on March 21, 2014, 11:00:21 PM: wow, you will have to fish 24\7 to do all the suggestions given on this site. good luck;. if you want to go long , go to cow lake, Sprague, omak, bonnie, and others. mike w
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: hunt_fish on March 24, 2014, 08:58:38 AM: I'm pretty much shore bound most of the time and do well for a mix of diff species at the I-82 ponds, Moses Lake, Potholes, some of the seep lakes, and sloughs off the Columbia. It's fun because you never know what you'll catch at those spots. Like someone else said at the Mardon dock you can catch fish at, but it does cost like 7 dollars a person if you aren't staying there. There's other spots in the area you can try. I think right now they're pretty much a trout show right now, but they're huge trout. In a couple months you can catch your limit of 9-12 inch perch off the dock, that lake is smothered with perch ever since they put those artificial reefs in and lower the water later in the year than what they used to.
Title: Re: Fishing on the East Side
Post by: KopperBuck on March 24, 2014, 10:41:43 AM: Quote from: fckfords07 on March 21, 2014, 04:54:59 PM
Quote from: KopperBuck on March 21, 2014, 02:11:21 PM
Some not named: There's some decent smallmouth fishing with bank access on Long Lake. Used to catch some good size tiger trout in Fish Lake outside of Cheney. Spokane River and Roosevelt have good access.

They killed off fish lake two years ago, not sure what they've put back in. It was one of my favorite lakes :bash:
Roosevelt, Amber, badger, loon lake for kokes, waitts lake for the browns, sprague for the 20" rainbows

No kidding? That sucks. It's been a couple years since I lived up there. Always did well there.