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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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 8/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This report is from last Sunday the 3rd. Hit the lake around noon, fished until 5:00 or so. It was without a doubt the best day this year on amber. One type of fly, one color and one fishing method. S...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bob, my father-in-law, and I went to Amber Lake for the evening. We arrived around 5pm and fished until dark. The weather has been cool the last 2-3 weeks, and we found that the fishing was still good...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 7/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Dennis and I met Mike at the lake around 9:00 a.m. and joined up on the water. The day was clear, high of 88 degrees with a light SW wind 5-10 mph. The surface temperature ranged from 70-74 degrees ...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 8 a.m. and headed to the north end of the lake. There was a moderate N.E. wind in the morning gusting to about 15 mph. Several fish were marked at about 25', just above the t...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
15 rainbows and a few cutthroat today for my partner and I while fishing from 9:00 to 2:00. Sun was high and bright, winds were calm, with temps in mid-80s. Surface water temp 70. Those caught were...
By: dbk
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the lake this morning around 9 with a buddy of mine- conditions were far from ideal: little to no wind, very calm/flat surface with no character, bright blue sky and a high sun. We both began t...
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to Amber about 7:30 am. The lake was calm and about 67° at the surface. Fish were rising just about everywhere.
I began with a brown dry pattern to match the hatch. This produced 4 fish, t...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 0930. Moved to deep water immediately across from the launch and anchored down. Started with a still water nymph fished vertically on type VI sinking line. Got a few bumps but no takes....
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 10:00 a.m. The water was clear with the surface temperature at 59 degrees. The air temperature was around 60 degrees, with a moderate wind from the south west. After a bit...
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 5/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took my business partner to Amber for his first try at fly fishing this morning.
We got on the water by 8:00am and began to get strikes immediately. We were using a variant of an Olive Willie ...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good day in many ways. Met several friends at the lake around 8:30 a.m. Lotech Joe and ruthven78 were there trying their new pontoon boats for the first time. The weather was warm, around ...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I hate giving this late a 2 but I only caught one fish the entire time I was on the lake so instead I'm giving it a 3 (see below). From what Marc was saying they were down deep and hitting slow green...
By: 509Fisher
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Amber around 10 a.m. The weather was excellent (mid 60's) with a slight overcast. My set up was a Type 3 sink line with a 12 foot furled leader and tippet(4X). The fly of choice was a si...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Partner and I linked up at Amber at 0945. Finally, my first day minus snow flurries, sleet, or heavy cold winds! Initially fished the south end shallows. Very few takes on chironomid pattern so I s...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I arrived at about 0945. Mostly sunny with winds from the south at 10-15 MPH. Surface water temp still very low, 41 degrees. We headed south and fished the flats. In five hours of f...
By: FISHWHENICAN
Posted: 3/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
great day at amber. very slow at first pulling around different buggers and nymphs. only caught one and had one other strike. started using a black sliver bead head midge size 16 and it turned on abo...
By: the_trout_bum
Posted: 3/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got there around two, and first cast had a 14" bow on. Second cast, another, but it rolled the hook on me. Wind was up for awhile and it got kinda slow, but once the sun started going down the bite...
