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By: rwl
Posted: 12/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 2-4 pm. trolled from the launch and up along the SE shoreline about 1-1.5 mph. The first hour was very steady landed 5 rainbow, 1 brown. 2 of the rainbows were in the 17 inch range. Used ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 4/9/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to Rock this morning with my brother inlaw. What a beautiful day, no wind and mid seventies under clear skies. Ran up to the inlet end and the water was very dirty with lots of debris and f...
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/8/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2018
Hot Spots: 3
Noah and I spent the afternoon looking for Brown Trout, but didn't see a single one. The Rainbows on the other hand... we couldn't keep them off the hooks. We put the bait away early on and they didn'...
By: Aaron
Posted: 7/10/2022
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2022
Hot Spots: 1
First trip to Rock this year and it was a perfect day to go. The wind showed up here and there, but nothing too bad. The temps were great, and the fish were biting. We picked up just short of 2 limits...
By: apostolicman
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son out trout fishin. Perfect weather. Trolled around the lower end of the lake. He caught his first trout ever. Fun time.
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/24/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2016
Hot Spots: 3
As usual, the launch was difficult. Got on the water by 645 and headed to the south side that had a lot of hot spots from previous reports. Picked up a 13" rainbow on the way there. No action on the s...
By: CoyoteCrazy
Posted: 7/12/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I really wanted to go down and chase some sockeye, but with just me and my fairly new to fishing parents, I decided to go out to Rock instead. The forecast was for wind from 7-12 mph when I checked la...
By: rwl
Posted: 9/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Rock lake to see what was biting. The planted steelhead are definitely still around and running about 16 inches and fight hard for their size with some aerial displays. Also caught a couple of p...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 9/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a decent morning testing the OG1 lure on Rock Lake (south of Cheney, Washington).
We trolled several colors and sizes. The most consistent producers turned out to be the 2.8" and 3.9" with red...
By: ChuckVH
Posted: 10/5/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went to Rock Lake to get some steelhead action. The report last week said they were in the 16 inch range and biting well. Now the question was, are they biting this week.
So with th...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Ran a quick test of the three new freshwater colors that are featured on our Old Goat Lures blog . Since I'm fishing out of a drift-boat, with a small electric trolling motor, I limited my tests to th...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 10/26/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We launched the drift boat around 10am yesterday on Rock. Beautiful fall day!
By the end of the day, we had two limits (5 apiece). Of these 10 fish, 9 were steelhead plants. The other was a rainbow...
By: brent338
Posted: 10/28/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Decided it was time to hit rock, wanted to let the steelhead get a lil more size to them than earlier this year... Despite the 5hp kicker deciding to take the day off(flooded beyond restart), i still...
By: SharkFisher
Posted: 8/5/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Took my pontoon boat out on the mysterious Rock Lake! There is not a maintained boat ramp, meaning it's a good thing a buddy brought his four-wheel-drive pickup because my van would never have been ab...
By: tomconant
Posted: 11/24/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Very nice day, figured I had better go torment some fish. Water level very low, had the trailblazer half in the lake in order to get the boat off. Fish started biting right off, had about seven right ...
By: Phuffman
Posted: 12/6/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't heard a lot about Rock Lake this fall/winter, but wanted to give it a try since it's been so good this time of the year in past years. And boy did it not disappoint.
Launched at 9:30 am an...
By: tomconant
Posted: 1/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day fishing, had my limit in about an hours time. All around 13". Launch not as bad as I was expecting, icy but had enough dirt on it to get in and out.
By: tomconant
Posted: 1/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I took a guy from work with me. We trolled along the east side had our limits in about an hour and a half all between 12-14"
By: tomconant
Posted: 1/10/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/10/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Great day to go to the lake, our son went with us. We must have caught and released forty fish.
We finally started keeping them since they were all the same in size (13") and it was clear no monster
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By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 11/12/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The steelhead, that Washington Fish and Game planted in Rock Lake, are starting to put on some mass! We hit the lake yesterday to test a new color pattern (fluor. pink stripe with translucent body and...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 12/21/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock Lake from apx. 1:45pm until 4pm. Testing a new perch-colored OG1 and pitting it against the tried-and-true colors that have been effective on Rock (fluorescent orange and fluorescent pink)...
By: tomconant
Posted: 12/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day to go fishing, no wind. On the water by 8 and off by 9:30.
had a limit of rainbows and steelhead. fish getting pretty good sized 14- 16"
going to have to get a bigger frying pan.
Posted: 3/28/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Just like every other body of water in the northwest this spring Rock Lake is blown out. The good news is that the water level had dropped a good foot from the previous weekend so I expect fishing to ...
By: DatCrazyMongoose
Posted: 4/17/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Finally some nice weather, so decided to try my luck at Rock Lake before opening weekend at my favorite hole. Trolled along the northern edge using green perch, brown trout, and silver spinners. Wife ...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 4/20/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock Lake for several hours yesterday. The silt content in the water is still higher than I can recall seeing in years past during the month of April. But, that said, fish are being caught. Man...
