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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/7/2002
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day about 1:00pm,fished the shallows with a crankbait, on my 4th cast I hooked a 2lb 8 oz smallmouth the biggest I've caught on this lake. 3hrs later I failed to produce a single hit. Fish...
By: Keith
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to spanaway to do some largemouth and smallmouth fishing first couple hours nothing but those stupid sunfish. Then went back in a cove and caught this 3 to 4 pound smallie .
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Thank goodness for understanding fishing buddies. I met Bob at 7am and we fished until 10:30, I had to leave early due to honey-do items.
Spanaway has a ton of fishy looking spots and we worked th...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I've been having an excellent season, so far. My wife had to study for her state RN's license exam and was working. I have been trying to get her out to enjoy some of the nice fish that I have ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 3/14/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
With the new boat, I thought it was time to hit spanaway finally. Unfortunatley, I couldn't catch a bass. I tried the d-shot tubes, grubs, swim baits, deep, shallow, hopping, and dragging. I had o...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 5/10/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2013
Hot Spots: 2
went out this even with the boy for a couple of hours of fishing... Saw some fish on beds finally... I hooked a 3.1 lb smallie... and the boy got a 21/4lb smallie... still not the number of beds that...
By: the piranha
Posted: 2/21/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I bought a pass for Spanaway last month. I have been there a few times now, but I haven't caught any fish. I wasn't expecting to. I am mostly learning the lake and playing with the fish finders. ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 3/16/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Met my buddy at about 1. I caught my first one of the year after about 30 minutes on a jerkbait! It weighted 2lb 14oz. A little while later I missed one that almost took my pole out of my hand. The...
By: the piranha
Posted: 6/12/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Really late report. I fished from 10 to 3. It was windy and cool. Caught one small mouth on a zara spook that was 2lb 9oz in about 7ft of water over the grass. Caught about ten more dinks up shallow...
By: my87
Posted: 7/13/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2014
Hot Spots: 1
fished off the dock,got 5 trout.best part was watching people launch their boats.guy in picture is the tow truck guy
By: 502300
Posted: 4/2/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Took advantage of the good weather to go to Spanaway. We started off the day searching for warm water, to see if we could get any bass to bite. The warmest water we found was 51°, no bass and no bites...
By: boyscoutman
Posted: 4/9/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the boat and caught 10 kept 5. Hooked into 5, was using a red and green wedding ring with one average sized split shot.
By: 502300
Posted: 4/11/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Great time out on the water with boyscoutman. Landed limits, hooked into many more we lost. Released all but 3 ( hooked too badly to be released). The bite is on fire people were catching them all ove...
By: brownshagger69
Posted: 6/2/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launch boat at 1530 caught my limit by 1730
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 3/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Guys on the dock and shore were doing OK. Bud at the boathouse said about 20,000 farmbows have been planted. Trolled for 2.5 hours and hooked up on a brown trout but lost it after it jumped 2 feet out...
By: tmrst
Posted: 4/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Started at noon, was off the water by 3:30. Trolled the east side with ford fender, red wedding ring tipped with worm. Found south east corner of lake best for bites and caught fish. Had 5 bites that ...
Posted: 3/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
tried bobber and worm, power eggs off the bottom ,mepps,kastmasters gold ,nothing
By: brownshagger69
Posted: 4/8/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at 10 am trolled till 2pm there was two of us on the boat we caught our limit fast spend rest of day catching and releasing.
By: rtk
Posted: 4/11/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/11/2017
Hot Spots: 3
My wife and I took out Wellcraft to Spanaway lake to shake it down for the fishing season. We decided to take our trout gear. We were glad we did! We limited in about an hour trolling black wooley bug...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 4/11/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Well I decided to take a shot at Spanaway this afternoon and try and hook into some of those stocked trout. I fished for a little over an hour using a variety of Power Bait but had no luck. I did how...
By: 502300
Posted: 4/17/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took advantage of the sun, and hit spanaway in the kayak. Started off trolling a wedding ring within 10 minutes 1st fish little 9 incher caught and released ended up catching 5 fish totally landed hoo...
By: lbcatcher
Posted: 4/27/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2017
Hot Spots: 1
It was a good day. I did catch trout; it's in a pan now. Caught drifting in a boat 50' offshore two houses down from park. Lots of activity on the fish finder. I was using Orange power bait to catch...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 5/5/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Ok - So I live in Parkland and I have to admit that I've never caught a trout out of Spanaway lake. It's not for lack of trying I don't think so I gave it another shot this morning. I setup on the co...
By: escapehatch
Posted: 5/15/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We sat in one spot and hooked trout all day. They liked power bait - color didn't seem to matter too much. Green, pink and orange all worked. Worms too. Hatchery trout is likely why they are fond ...
By: runway12
Posted: 11/11/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/3/2018
Hot Spots: 3
After seeing a recent plant of the lake, I spent the afternoon trolling on Spanaway Lake. Gear used was a UV red / chrome Wedding Ring Spinner tipped with a night-crawler and a couple split shots to...
