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By: DannyHoey
Posted: 8/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Report is for 8-7-08. Took my little livingston out about 6:30 last night. Armed with a olive wooley bugger on my spinning rod i slow trolled straight out from the launch to the middle of the lake. ...
By: spoolguy
Posted: 8/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 9:30 with an electric blue wooley bugger and a bionic worm dropper. The weather was cooler and a bit breezy with limited sun. Hit my first fish in 10 or 15 minutes and fished until...
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 8/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I was on my way to Fish Lake this morning when I got a chance of heart while driving down the Cheney-Spokane Road. Instead I went on out to Amber Lake. It was a good decision.
The water was calm...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started at about 8am, kicked all the way to the far east end with a few tugs using a damsel nymph.Then it seemed like the fish woke up and it went nuts.Landed 10 nice 17-19" fish about one after anot...
By: No_Bad_Skunks
Posted: 10/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/1/2008
Hot Spots: 1
This report is actually for Tues, Sept. 30, 2008
Arrived at Amber at about 7:30 Whoa, it was windy when I got there! Tried trolling for a while with various flies and lures, but got no takers, s...
By: kutthroatkilla
Posted: 10/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2008
Hot Spots: 3
I went fishing at Amber for the first time, and when I launched my tube it was 21 bone-chilling degrees with fog coming off the water. When I finished at 3pm it was 54F. It was all good when I first g...
By: theperfectcast
Posted: 10/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took a trip out to Amber lake this morning to check out the fishing. I have never been there and from what Ive read its usually pretty good. I got in my float tube around 10 am, starting out trolling...
By: spoolguy
Posted: 11/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I gave my thanks today to a wonderful inland northwest fishery: amber lake. though i could offer photos of the fish i caught and rave on about my experience on this day of thanks at this wonderful gem...
Posted: 3/1/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to Amber a little later then we wanted. There were 3 other fisherman on the lake. There was about 9 inches of ice with water ontop of it and was just starting to giveway by the shore. My budd...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 3/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made my first Amber trip of the year after driving by Medical this A.M. and counting it out. Thankfully I took my gear and pontoon despite having heard no news about it's ice situation. I arrived to...
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Amber for about 3 hours from shore by the landing with my girlfriend and a couple friends saturday afternoon. Weather was beautiful and the fish were surfacing by that one rock. Tried spinners,...
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to Amber at about 7:00 am. There were several other fisherman loading in and about 12 or so on the water during the day.
Air Temp: 54°, Water Temp: 64° (surface), 52° (at 15). Calm most o...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake at 9:00 A.M. Set up my pontoon boat, which was still covered in snow and freezing rain (brrrrrrrr) from the previous night, then spent a half hour sitting in my truck lamenting th...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Amber again due to warmer temps and gentler winds, hoping to have another day like yesterday, but it was not to be so. Warmer today with low 50s but surface water temp still 42. Winds from...
By: flyguy1701
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fairly good morning at Amber, although I was not there long, maybe an hour and a half. Several nice fish caught on a large black chironomid suspended under an indicator about eight feet deep in 20' o...
By: flyguy1701
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wednesday and Thursday I had it dialed in, but today I couldn't buy a fish. Some people were having luck, and I naturally eavesdropped on their conversations about what was working and tried to match...
By: flyguy1701
Posted: 3/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Another rough day at Amber. Fished with my favorite chironomid patterns without a single strike. When the wind picked up, I switched to a Class IV sinking line and tried drifting a black Woolly Bugg...
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 4/19/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I took my maiden voyage at Amber lake for 2010 this morning.
Got on the water about 10:00 am. Light breeze from the East that turned to be downright windy by midday. Water temp was 55° at the s...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I were both on the water by 11:00. Immediately began getting strikes, bumps, taps and short strikes (hit and runs as I call them). Only about one of every three or four looks resulted...
By: dr cook
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day off with breakfast at the Swinging Doors and made it to the lake around 10am. Only about 5 other guys on the lake. Noted that the wind was from the East....not usually a good sign. B...
By: CDA Dave
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided I wanted to get away from all the 3 on 3, and Ironman activities this weekend and get a little fishing in. Arrived at the lake at 2pm, got the pontoon boat set up, and was fishing by 2:45. Ver...
By: dkelliott3
Posted: 11/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After an amazing day Friday at Dry Falls Lake, I hit Amber on Saturday in the "Portabote" with my 81 year old Dad.
In 3 hours we hooked 18 fish and landed 13.
Red/white Triple Teaser on mine, and D...
By: reelman
Posted: 3/23/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I caught 1 lost 1. Best day this year weather wise (sun burn). My compadre caught 7 and the biggest was 18". He lost 1 that he foul hooked that would have gone 20" at least. It was too big for the...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 5/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake around 11:00 a.m. and spent some time herding a couple of snakes off the launch so a couple with a child could relax and do some shoreline casting. They thought they were Rattlers...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 5/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about noon and went to the far NE end of the lake. Started fishing the south bank where I marked several fish near the bottom on the fish finder.
The wind intitially was from the NE...
