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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/1996
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/1996
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Spanaway Lake is an excellent lake to take kids. Many different kinds of fish can be caught here. The trout are taken by the the common methods but can be picky. Many trout are caught from the county ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/1/1996
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/1996
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Was out on Spanaway with a friend of mine in august and just mopped up on trout in the 8-10 inch class. Good lake if you know where to go. Use green (chaurtruse) Power Bait off the bottom. Sometime's ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/16/1997
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/16/1997
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My son and I fished near the boat launch for about 2 hours and got skunked. We used spinners and power bait. The water level was really high and VERY cold! Should be better (I hope!) after some warmer...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/1997
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/1997
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My Husband and I went fishing Monday the 26th of May at about 3 o'clock. Went trolling around the lake. After about 30-45 minutes I caught my first fish in 11 years. A rainbow trout about 6-7 inches. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/1998
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/21/1998
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I took two friends out to Spanaway Lake in Pierce County on March 20th We fished for 8 hours and only had two bites. When launched we were told by the dock attendant that all the small fish had been e...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/29/1998
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/29/1998
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Me and a buddy just bought our fishing license finding out its the the same price as last year. ( A good sign) So we broke our cabin fever and headed out to the lake to test out some new lures from th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/21/1998
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/1998
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Spanaway lake is a hard lake to fish. The best time to fish it is just
right before dark. I like using panther martin spinners, usually black and add a little fuzzy cotton around the hooks. Haven'...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/1998
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/16/1998
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I took the day off from work to take my wife fishing for bass at
Spanaway Lake. We fished for about two hours, one from the bank
and one in a rented row boat (3 bucks an hour). She fished with
a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/14/1998
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/1998
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I went to lake spanaway last sunday June 14. I thought I'd try it since I hadn't been there all winter. I got there at 6:00 am and I was fishing by 6:30. By 7:30 I had a limit.
The fish were on a fee...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/8/1998
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/1998
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Me and a friend went to spanaway lake yesterday and caught a few large mouth bass. I caught two that where about 2 pounds and a lot of dinks.
Caught a few small mouths also. We did not get started un...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/27/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 1/27/1999
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We took our new motor out to Spanaway to test it out, and wetted our lines just for the heck of it. Fished in the north end for awhile, and then anchored about 300' off the fishing pier. Soaked some P...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/28/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/1999
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FISHED THIS
MORNING AT THE NORTH END OF THE BRIDGE.FISHING WAS OK WITH 3 FISH BEING TAKEN
IN ABOUT 2 HOURS.ALL OF THEM WERE FROM 10 TO 12 INCHS.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/1999
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Fished sout of the Pier, Caught 3 small Trout, A Few big ones being taken.I hear they will stock the lake on the 16th of april...10:30AM Be there or be square..
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/17/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/1999
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Started at 10:30am and fished for "bows" about two hours with no luck. Then floated powerbait 8ft below the surface with a slight breeze allowing a slow drift. Caught my limit in 40 mins. Released ano...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/1999
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I ARRIVED TO THE LAKE AT 6:00am AND LANDED TWO RAINBOWS AND MISSED ONE BY 6:30. THE BITE WENT SLOW FOR THE NEXT HOUR. I FINALLY REACHED MY LIMIT BY 8:00am WITH THE SIZES RANGING FROM 8-11 INCHES. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/17/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/1999
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We arrived at the lake at 1 in the afternoon and fished till around 4. After using "rainbow" power bait, we switched to "fl. green", which both of them were lacking nibbles. The last half hour for a f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/1999
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I started fishing about 12pm. No wind Rock bass in one place to 1/2 lb!!! saw large mouth under docks but could not get a bite!!!
Did catch a 2lb smallmouth broke off another
and lost.Then the skier...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/1999
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They just stocked some big fish.
caught 4 rainbows from 3 to 10lbs.
Color of choice was green on green.
Had a nice bass on top water frog.
Catch and release! Have fun!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/1999
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Kenny & I started fishing around 6:00pm and the fish didn't stop biting. We were fishing from our friends dock at the South of the lake. Kenny always catches the big ones. But I must say that today I...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/14/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/1999
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WE DECIDED TO GO FOR THE NIGHT BITE TODAY
WE FISHED SAT. DIDN'T GET STARTED TILL 2-30
FIRST TIME ON THE LAKE.PRETTY LONG LINE AT THE BOAT LAUNCH.(IT COSTS 5 BUCKS TO USE).
MOST PEOPLE COMING IN ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/1999
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Well, I'll tell ya it's "really" slowed down since the weekend. Got out today about 6:45 in the P.M. and trolled to the honey hole (end of lake, left of dock). My brother Jeff nailed a good 2.5 bow th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/17/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/1999
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Got to the lake at 10am tried fishing for one of those monster trout.No such luck! Most of the big trout got sucked up by the herd of fisherman. So decided to fish for bass.
Threw out green crank ba...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/17/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/1999
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Did real good on small mouth bass today!
Threw out a green and white spinner bait and they liked that. Nothing over 2lbs. Great day to be told to go home by the boss!!!!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/1999
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Thanks to a coworker I gave this lake a try.
We started in the morning about 8:30 and by 11:00 we had caught eight trout. Mostly around 10 inches but landed one around 3 pounds. We caught them ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/1999
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The big brooders are almost gone! Started fishing at 4:30 a.m. First ones one the lake but that didn't help. Fished till 9:00 and the biggest fish was to small to keep(bummer)
Onward and upward to th...
