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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to steilacoom lake did some floattube and caught 5 trout and one steelhead pansize 12incs.Just using a orange spoon reeling in slow.
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Posted: 8/16/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
caught 30+ rock bass by the bridge on a boat. non-stop action, got a bite evry 30-40 seconds. ranging from 4-8 inches. did manage to catch 1 dinky small mouth bass
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By: Andy
Posted: 8/17/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Out to Steli. Pretty nice out, light wind, Wa. Temp 73.5. Vis. 5'-6'. Started out catching a few 6"-8" and ten a 2 lb. 3 oz Largemouth. Then a few more dinks. Lots of minnows in the water, they kept ...
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By: Andy
Posted: 11/2/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty tough day, only caught two fish. 1 bass and 1 trout both on crankbaits. Water Vis. about 6'-7' with light winds. Water temp. 52*-54* which is about 10* colder than 2 weeks ago. S/B perfect for ...
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By: Andy
Posted: 5/3/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 10:30am-3:00pm at a WINDY Steilacoom. Water temp 56*, Visibility 3'-4'. Calm to 12-14 mph. Seemed like we only caught fish when the wind was blowing. 2nd cast with a 4" Swimbait and a nice...
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By: Andy
Posted: 10/8/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Steli. with Mike from 9:30-2:00 Really calm Sunny day. Started out shallow in a couple of spots getting a lot of hits from small fish using crankbaits and plastics. Caught 3 shorts 6"-7". After...
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By: skimpy
Posted: 6/16/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I hit up Steilacoom this morning. First hour nothing but those damn rock bass. Then we started to get some luck first my buddy caught a nice fat rainbow then about 20 minutes later I ho...
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By: y2says
Posted: 3/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Som and I went to Steilacoom for the first time and I caught my first fish of the year...a trout on a dropshot. The water temp was around 48-50. No bites from bass. It's a nice lake that shallow an...
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By: VERSEONEJ
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
WATER 45 TO 46 NO FISH AT ALL. NONE ON FISH FINDER OR ON FISH CAM. THIS HAD TO BE THE WORST DAY OF FISHING I HAVE EVER HAD. ONLY ONE OTHER BOAT SEEN. WILL TRY AFTER THEY PLANT AND WATER WARMS UP.
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By: Andy
Posted: 10/25/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day on Steily, only caught one and lost a big one. The one I caught was only 10"-11" but had to weigh at least a pound. Really fat fish. Missed one about 10 feet away from the one I caught that ...
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By: Andy
Posted: 8/10/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Lake about 8:00 am. only one there, YEAH. Needed to do some mapping so I spent a lot of time doing that. Did manage to catch 8 smallies and 4 rock bass all on Senko's. Wa. temp. 72-73. Fish...
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By: huevos22
Posted: 8/23/2011
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the boat at about 1:00 and came back at 2:00 caught 7 rock bass and2 yellow perch. The rock bass were really aggresive, after releasing one i put my hook in the water so i could reach for ...
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By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
good day on the water. got there around 5ish and stayed till dusk. all the action came at dusk. trolling seemed to be the best method that i experienced. steep boat ramp, but nothing near as how sket...
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By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
beautiful day on the lake. caught a few decent size perch and some other little things trolling around. you can find a few decent spots without all the pleasure boats but first thing out into the open...
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Posted: 5/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Great day out there, and I eat my words. on the last report I told someone there was no kokanee in the lake its only 20' deep! I thought. Well help me out here guys, chinook or koke? its has farely bl...
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By: glowball
Posted: 5/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out Wensday and Thursday mornings..Had company Thursday...Caught some decent fish...Tripaloids and looks like koke's..land locked Chinook?Somebody knows where they came from...Share some info...L...
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By: glowball
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this evening..Mothers Day...Made a few passes on the south end of the lake..Ended up with these guys..Lost another at the boat..good times.
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By: glowball
Posted: 5/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning for a few hours..Got there at 8 am...Left at 11;00 with ths guy..18"..They really smoke up great..See ya on the water
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By: nickbell
Posted: 11/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished on the bridge for a few hours today, just to kill time. Had a few bites but nothing hooked. One person caught a very nice rainbow on power bait. Other than that the fishing was very slow.
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By: spokey9
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the bridge to hit the evening bite. It was really slow, saw a couple average sized trout that others had caught and lots of dinks swimming around. Got one fish tonight, wasn't bad, around...
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By: nickbell
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from the bridge again. I am so mad because everybody caught at least 3 trout, and i didnt get a single one. I nearly had one but it fell off of the hook before i could get it up on the dock...
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By: RoyHarmes
Posted: 7/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My brother-in-law and I went out at 5:45am. Not another boat on the water. Water was warmer than usual. We saw lots of fish feeding off the top but we trolled wedding rings with a bit of worm. Ora...
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By: RoyHarmes
Posted: 7/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got out to the lake today about 5:00pm. Water was super choppy dues to all the boats pulling kids in tubes. Made trolling very difficult. Some people have no common sense when it comes to boating...
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Posted: 4/30/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Mike and I hit Steilacoom lake for the opener. All the fish came in between 105 feet and 120 feet on lead core line. The most successful presentation was a mag lips 2.0 in orange and s trigger spoo...
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Posted: 5/27/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 0745 and started out day speed trolling. We trolled at 3 mph with lead core line set ups. Took one within 10 minutes on a bait fish Kastmaster 1.5 colors deep. Slowed down to 2.2 ...
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