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By: shmn
Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived just before 6AM and found a nice spot on the bank. Beautiful sunrise and morning. Caught a small one right away (about 8"). Had a couple of strikes over the next hour but lost them fairly q...
By: noclothes1
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Padden on the opener. I took my wife, daughter and buddy out. My wife caught her first trout but wasn't able to boat it. I caught one on a black and yellow dot dressed Panther Martin that I end...
By: kunsterr
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day! Time to bring out the light tackle trout gear. Got to the lake after 12. My brother and I had a blast. Between the two of us we caught and release over a hundred stocker, not to menti...
By: rustnhere
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I trolled around the lake with a spinner bait for about an hour until I overheard someone in another boat say that they had good success using a Rapala. I put a Rapala on and couldn't keep the fish of...
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 5/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Padden with a friend from WWU. We fished from the bank with a bobber and worm and caught 6 fish and missed a dozen or more. Great relaxing evening out on Padden! I'll be back out there s...
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Padden the other night again and just fished from shore with a bobber and worm. Ended up catching three, but only kept one for dinner. Tasted great, can't wait to get back out there!
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a buddy went out to Padden this evening and had a blast. Got there around 7:30 and walked to the left where Ty Woods was fishing and the Russian family had bucket loads of fish. Anyways, deci...
By: Ty Woods
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 530. When I got to the launch, I walked to the left down the trail and sat where I had seen guys catching fish on Saturday evening. Had several bites, but the fish just didn't...
By: whatcomfinest
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Padden after fishing for bass in the morning at lake Terrell. We thought there would be more boats but to our surprise there were less than we expected. We headed straight to the tennis court ...
By: noclothes1
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Padden with a buddy @ 5am. My friend had a rough go at it for starts. He missed a few and landed a couple. I messed around with a few new rigs I wanted to try. I ended up missing my first 3 b...
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Padden with some friends and ended up catching 7 trout between 9 and 13 inches. It was a beautiful day and weather couldn't have been better. We trolled around the lake with a red flatfi...
By: Matt
Posted: 5/5/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I have been fishing lake Padden daily since the opener. I have a 12 foot aluminum boat, and motor guide motor and have been having great success trolling the shoreline between the tennis courts and t...
By: noclothes1
Posted: 5/4/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Padden and caught one trout on Bubble Gum power bait from shore. There was occasional clouds, sun was directly in front of me. Cast about 25 yards and set 3-4 feet off bottom. Messed up my rig...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 5:00 p.m. day after opening day with my younger sister. Trolled the shore by the tennis courts with our lures of choice (barbless) and both limited out with 13-16 inchers by 10:...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 3 untill 8:30 on the dock with three other people two fish were landed between the four of us. It was very slow. And once you do catch a fish put it in a bucket or cooler don't leave it ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Two of us fished with power pait for 2 hours and didn't even get a bit the fishing is really slow.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first opening day on lake Padden. I got to the lake around 1:30 A.M. and fished for about 6 hours. I used flies most were leech patterns. I landed 94 fish in six hours. I had never see...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the lake from shore for about an hour using powerbait... fishing was slow, and all the fish caught were small around 12 inches.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I finally made it to opening day in Whatcom County, and Lake Padden did not dissappoint. I fished from the shore and caught my limit (not counting several I lost trying to get in the net) in a few ho...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/15/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Had tried fishing this Lake earlier and had no luck but it was windy. Took a friend out just to relax and ended up hooking 5 rainbows and landing 4. Lost one at the dock because we didn't have a net...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2004
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I have a spot on this lake that I went to for my first time here and it is becoming a regular. The first time I was just trying to find a good lake and I got 2 rainbows in 45 minutes before the wife ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today and fished Padden from one of the public docks. My girlfriend and I each caught two trout. These trout were the smallest trout I have ever seen pulled out of a lake. We were using wo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I caught padden opening day. Looking for a few more good weeks there.
Black rooster tails worked good. There was powerbait floating everywhere from the bank folks. The fish are sick of it and weren't...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I prefer this lake after the opener, when the newness has worn off and people seem to drift away. I've had great success in this lake using an Uncle Wes's worm troll with a black blade and green bead'...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I love fishing this lake on opening day! It has become a tradition for me and my best friend to get to the lake at 3 am on opening day! The lake is usually packed by about 3 am but we still usually ...
