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Title: Wetside cats
Post by: TEX-X on January 11, 2010, 06:05:42 PM: i was wondering if my fellow Hunt-wa members could point me in the direction of some wetside (preferably north of seattle) Catfish... any help would be greatly appreciated! thank you
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Post by: Forrestrover on January 11, 2010, 06:08:33 PM: Well, I don't know about north of Seattle, but Greenlake IN Seattle has some.
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Post by: TEX-X on January 11, 2010, 06:12:36 PM: the fishing any good? thanks forrestrover! any others?
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Post by: Rick on January 11, 2010, 07:53:03 PM: There are Brown Bullheads in just about every lake in Washington. Gissberg Ponds near Smokey Point has Channel Cats.
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Post by: go4itlab on January 12, 2010, 12:18:52 AM: Fazon Lake in Whatcom County. Used to have not fished it in years
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Post by: Shootmoore on January 12, 2010, 12:41:30 AM: hmm going to have to find out where Gissberg pond is. I did not know there were anything but bullheads over here on the wetside. Catfish are ugly but they sure taste good.

Shootmoore
Title: Re: Wetside cats
Post by: TEX-X on January 12, 2010, 07:07:09 AM: most definately! nothing better than a catfish fry!
Title: Re: Wetside cats
Post by: Rick on January 12, 2010, 07:51:28 AM: Quote from: Shootmoore on January 12, 2010, 12:41:30 AM
hmm going to have to find out where Gissberg pond is. I did not know there were anything but bullheads over here on the wetside. Catfish are ugly but they sure taste good.

Shootmoore

Gissberg Ponds are about 50' off the west side of I-5 at Smokey Point.
Title: Re: Wetside cats
Post by: fishseeker on January 13, 2010, 09:35:19 AM: Try Lake Stevens, just south of the boat launch in down town. Used to be alot in the little cove there when I was a kid growing up there. Mid to late 60s. Here they a still there but have not tried for them since then!
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Post by: saylean on January 13, 2010, 09:36:45 AM: I caught one in Sammamish last summer...
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Post by: Dirty Mike on January 13, 2010, 10:04:52 AM: hearts lake in yelm is full them
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Post by: rasbo on January 14, 2010, 05:26:28 AM: Quote from: MasonCtyHitman on January 13, 2010, 10:04:52 AM
hearts lake in yelm is full them
dairy water there,have caught some nice channels but wouldnt eat anything outta there
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Post by: jnevs23 on January 14, 2010, 05:34:14 AM: Ive heard lake Terrell up north has good catfishin
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Post by: NRA4LIFE on January 14, 2010, 04:19:10 PM: I catch some kind of catfish/bullhead in Sammamish all the time. Biggest was probably 2-ish pounds. I don't care for them and throw them all back.
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Post by: pjb3 on January 17, 2010, 11:18:08 AM: Let me know if you wanna go for some cats? I know where the "twin lakes" R at smokey point
I guess Grissberg is "twin lakes"?
Title: Re: Wetside cats
Post by: pjb3 on January 17, 2010, 11:23:29 AM: I found this on a website:

Gissburg Ponds Reports

(15 acres): Also known as Twin Lakes, this set of ponds is interconnected by a small channel that allows fish to easily move between the two small bodies of water. Bank access is almost unlimited on both the north and south ponds and WDFW stocks them yearly with 6000+ trout. The ponds are open year round. Refer to the statewide freshwater rules for minimum size restrictions and daily limit.

WDFW used Gissberg Ponds as part of an experiment that was meant to determine whether or not it was feasible to stock Western WA lakes with channel catfish. While the experiment showed it wasn't feasible, there are still channel cats to be had here. Don't expect any great sizes or a continued catfish fishery here. There's no minimum size on catfish here, but there is a limit of two.

While the main draw to the lake is the number of trout planted, don't be shocked if you hook into a fair number of Blue Gill as well.

Due to the amount of bank access and the number of fish stocked each year this is an excellent place to take the kids for fishing.

Directions: Take I-5 north to Arlington. Take the Smokey Point exit. Turn left off the exit and cross over the freeway. Take your first left-hand turn. At the T, turn left. The road will curve south and you'll be running right alongside I-5. The ponds will be just a short way down on the right.
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Post by: jumpin on February 07, 2010, 07:15:50 PM: Cain Lake near lake whatcom or lake cassidy
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Post by: pjb3 on February 07, 2010, 07:18:27 PM: I thought about Cassidy, U go there yourself?
Any good ones there?
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Post by: Ripper on February 08, 2010, 08:12:11 PM: I've caught cat's up to 2 lbs. in Cassidy. I've never targeted them specifically, always caught them bass, or perch fishing fishing. I was surprised by the 2lber. didn't they got that big in Cassidy.
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Post by: pjb3 on February 08, 2010, 08:22:17 PM: Damn, I moved here from Tennessee and got spoiled. The average there was 25LBS. My biggest was 54lbs :IBCOOL: