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By: ford68gt500
Posted: 4/30/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/30/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Went out opening day and the following weekend. Weather was in the 60's both times . We fished from shore opening weekend and not a single bite & not may others were catching anything from shore or in...
By: wmiller.1980
Posted: 6/16/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
A week late, but took my 8 yr old out fishing for the 1st time. Moved a couple time because the birds were overwellming, hitting lines, perching on rods... finally found a good spot and about 45 min i...
By: BigT
Posted: 6/3/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fun day on the lake. I was trolling around using worm and the old get er done wedding rings. Had lots of hits and missed lots of them. The fish were short striking. I did manage to land a couple just ...
By: DatCrazyMongoose
Posted: 5/11/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Let me start by saying that I was shocked that there weren't more anglers out on the water on what was basically the first weekend it was open. Quite a few on the shore, but I only counted 6 boats tot...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/13/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2019
Hot Spots: 0
On a whim, I decided to bank fish W. Medical Lake. Nice weather at first, but the wind and some "Yak, yak, with belly laugh" (non-stop) anglers by the boat launch caused me to "pull the plug". I caugh...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/2/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The day started out COLD and windy with ZERO bites. Very few people fishing, too. Then things began to get better with my friend catching the first fish followed my me with a couple and then my friend...
By: DatCrazyMongoose
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Typical day at West Medical. Brought a buddy and his kids who've been hounding me to take them fishing. Launched at 7:30. Trolled around fruitlessly for about an hour before settling at my favorite sp...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 7/12/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Ive been having really bad luck bank fishing at the boat launch. Water has been up above the cement sidewalk so have been fishing the north end of the launch area. Ive used just about every powerbai...
By: pastorben
Posted: 7/4/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Was a fairly windy morning, which wasn't great on our float tubes! But, had fun with my son any way. Caught 5, including on 20 inch trout! All things considered, it was a fun morning.
By: bmc02
Posted: 5/31/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time reporter, hope to have lots in the future! Took wife and kids out Sat morning. Caught a dozen or so stockers, lost about the same. trolling wedding rings tipped with worms mostly on north s...
By: bodin9151
Posted: 5/17/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
hooked up 3 got 1 in the boat. lost a huge brown at the boat, rod was bent over like a horseshoe. pretty calm today and just mainly out learning new 20 foot hewescraft.
By: justinspotanske
Posted: 5/1/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Not giving out all the secrets but fished this morning with my new ipilot minn kota and did awesome . Speed was 1.5 mph with 17lb leadcore. Bait is a secret . Was about 12 feet deep fishing in 30 fow...
By: DatCrazyMongoose
Posted: 4/25/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 1
What a crowded opening day! I started right from the boat launch trolling along the west bank with a couple spinners. No luck. Had quite a time fighting the wind and dodging other boats. No problem th...
By: Elkhntr2683
Posted: 6/5/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Limited out Friday night in about an hour sorry no pictures but it was a blast using worm with a corky off the bottom north end of the lake
By: Elkhntr2683
Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Limited out today quickly using sliding weight with a glow corky and a worm had an awesome day.
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful morning with near ZERO wind and the fish were biting too. A limit of 11"-13" rainbows; nothing huge, but the planters are getting chunky. The green flake is beginning to show in about a 1-2 ...
By: Claybuster
Posted: 4/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling around 7:00 am. Had our first brood stock rainbow at 7:02 on a black & yellow F5 flatfish. Saturday was great in the morning. Very slow in the afternoon. Sunday was very slow all ...
By: LiquidChimera
Posted: 4/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hit West Medical for trout opener and had a great time! The wife and I just moved up from Southern CA, so this was our first WA fishing experience. Got to the lake around 5AM and paid our dock fishi...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 6/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Heat Wave with emerging "Green Goo" have now put an end to the early Summer trout fishery at West Medical Lake. After several early morning limits the past few days, I got the Wife up EARLY to giv...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 6/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well the fishing at W. Medical Lake is very good with my second limit in two days. The water quality is surprisingly good; no "Green Goo" and even a Western pond turtle or two to talk to. All fish hav...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 6/5/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Due to the warming weather with the usual "Green Goo" hatch a usual result, I almost didn't try West Medical Lake. However, I was in for pleasant surprise. With the somewhat windy conditions this morn...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/21/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I would have given this day 5 Stars except that I spent the first 20 minutes picking up garbage around my chosen fishing area…Line, cans, plastic beverage bottles, and other assorted trash. Personally...
By: FlamDragger
Posted: 5/7/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again around 9AM with a buddy. Trolled Rapalas and caught a few planters, and one 14 1/2". We anchored and completed our limits using PB (pink). They were biting light, so a tight line was ...
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
put in to west medical at 3:30 had a sad start did not get a bite till 4:00 then a lot of short strikes
but we finely got some nice rainbows in the boat
trolling a blue fox spinner plug thing ...
By: FlamDragger
Posted: 4/28/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I got to the resort and rented a boat at 9 AM. We trolled down the lake, and started getting strikes almost immediately. We both settled on in-line spinners with roostertails, after a f...
