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Ward Lake Report
Thurston County, WA

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05/28/2017
Cutthroat Trout
Noon
05/28/2017
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I wasn't planning on taking the boat out today, but my friend Todd text me that he was fishing at Ward lake and having no luck. I gave him my thoughts to improve his luck, and I told him I would head down with my boat to see how he was doing. I called my friend J.R. to see if he wanted to join me. He said sure and we meet at the lake around Noon. The water temp at the surface was in the 70's so a big change from last week. I decided to fish a little deeper fishing rods between 24-34 feet. We hooked up pretty quick and it was a smaller sized rainbow at 29 feet, then hit another one at 27. Todd started catching fish as well using a pink hootchie. J.R. and I were using a pink Nerka bug and a chrome lucky craft, as well as a chrome and blue. Next think you know J.R. hooked into a nice one about a 16 inch cutty on the chrome crankbait. We hit another one at 30 ft on the pink Nerka bug, then we nailed 4 more cutthroat on the crankbaits. We ended up hooking 14 fish. We finished our day with 9 in the box and the other fish being released. Todd came by in his boat earlier and told me he his two Kokanee a 20 feet on the hootchies they were 13-14 inch. I still seem to miss the kokanee. It was a beautiful day on the water though. I captured a cooler clip showing the cutthroat, but for some reason my sd card was having issues, and the go pro did not capture any of the fish being reeled in.
https://youtu.be/XYTkkxp_sLg


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marka77
5/28/2017 9:28:08 PM
Hi, Nice fish!!!
I noticed you put in that you fished at Clear lake in Thurston county. I was confused, I've never seen a cutthroat or a silver taken from that lake ever. But when I looked at your pictures, I could tell that you were at Ward lake. No big deal, but wanted to let you know..
nerka nailer
5/28/2017 10:58:56 PM
Yeah it was ward lake for the cutthroat
Toni
5/29/2017 9:14:15 AM
I emailed someone to see if they would put this report under Ward. They are on vacation so it may be a while. Cutthroat are great fish to catch. I like them too.
you can put your video in your report by using the embedded share
nerka nailer
5/29/2017 9:41:16 AM
Thanks Toni
Cokanee
5/29/2017 4:35:18 PM
Glad to see someone can catch Kokanee in Ward. I thought they might have died from our last Two hot summers or the state forget to plant and said they did
nerka nailer
5/29/2017 7:02:10 PM
Todd was a lucky guy, I still cant seem to catch one. lol
lethergo
5/30/2017 7:35:36 AM
Thanks for the detailed report. Glad y'all had some luck. I usually kayak fish for bass there and sometimes grab a rainbow trolling.
nerka nailer
5/30/2017 7:52:20 AM
Any good size on the bass out there?
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