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By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
A high pressure system moved into to the NW and has brought with it very warm weather and clear skies. Today it reached 88 degrees with a light NE wind. The last week has been warm and the surface ...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/9/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 11:30. The surface water temperature has gone down 4 degrees in the last week with the cooler weather. Around noon the wind was light and from the s.w. with very little fishin...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake around 8:30 a.m. and started getting strikes immediately. The surface temperature was 75 degrees with some algae in the water. Very little surface action and fish were at all lev...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 10:00 a.m., clear skies with a light s.w. breeze. Daytime high was 84 degrees. The surface temperature was 70 degrees.
The day was productive overall, however it was an on/o...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 5/28/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 11:00 AM. Partly cloudy, 70 degrees and a moderate south wind at 12mph. As the day progressed, the wind increased to gusts to 30mph. The water temperature was 63 degrees with...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 10/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The weather and water temperatures have changed dramatically in the last couple of weeks. Fall is definitely here. Today the water temperature on the surface was 55 degrees, down 4 degrees in the la...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 10/27/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Four days until Halloween and the frost is definitely on the pumpkin. It was 26 degrees this morning at 6:30. After it warmed up a bit, I met Dave and Mike on the lake around noon. With clear skies...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 1:00 pm and headed to the other end of the lake. The air temperature was 78º with a slight south wind at 5 mph under overcast skies. The surface temperature was 67º with a sl...
