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By: Uncle Wes
Posted: 6/20/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 6:30am worked olive buggers and brown buggers both produced nice healthy 14-18 inch cutts. Having never worked this lake it took a little while to break it down, the North end seemed to be ...
By: JoshH
Posted: 11/4/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/4/2017
Hot Spots: 2
Thank you to Busterdog3 for the report on Big Lake. I haven't fished Big Lake since I was a teenager throwing a worm under a bobber off a friends dock.
Started a little late, about 8:45. Trolled no...
By: SteeleMan
Posted: 12/11/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/3/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I've actually fished Big Lake 3 times between November 18th and December 3rd and caught 3 nice keepers each trip.
Thanks for the posts Fishing Tenor, also Hooks Tackle Box for your reports, made me ...
By: Busterdog3!
Posted: 11/1/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
fished with the wife for about an hour used green sling blade and pink super squider on one rod and green dd dodger and pink super squider on the other rod tipped with worm on both setups in about 14 ...
By: FishingTenor
Posted: 11/8/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
11/6/17 Big Lake, Skagit County
I was long overdue for a day of fishing. Work has a way of taking this time away, but I saw an opportunity and blocked out some time in my schedule. The plan was to he...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Had A very active holiday weekend on Big Lake. Caught six inch perch all day , all weekend with wedding ring and worm setup. water temps were in the upper 70's. Only a few cuttys took the bait and a f...
By: Dan LaPoint
Posted: 2/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This was the first time this season out in the boat.The weather was sunny but very cold.The lake was flat as a mill pond with no wind at all.We started out trolling right from the start heading north ...
By: Dan LaPoint
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Our day started out slow, trolling wedding rings and worms like we did last year.one or two small hits, but no fish.Then I remember talking to a retired fellow a couple of weeks ago at the boat launc...
By: Dan LaPoint
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We were on the Lake by 10.00am, the weather was a little cloudy but the water calm. We kept the same tackle on as last weekend, Dick Nites.We trolled shallow and in no time we were netting some very n...
By: Dan LaPoint
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Wow!!!!! Another terrific day and plenty of sunshine today. Carbon Copy of yesterdays report. This time 7 that we kept and maybe a dozen released safely. I think the highlight was the 14.5 " beautiful...
By: Dan LaPoint
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This is a combined report for both Friday and Saturday.The weather report was so good for Friday that a vacation day was taken and we hit the lake in the morning around 8:30.We used the same thing as...
By: Stsb
Posted: 4/20/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishin today. Got up bright and early and was on the water at about 6:30. Drove down to the boat launch and checked out the bass derby.(talk about some nice boats) I fished for about 4 hours for...
By: Stsb
Posted: 4/21/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing after I got done with work today. Got my gear in the water at about 4:00. I only fished for about an hour and a half. I used a dick nite with a chartreuse tail behind a little dodger....
By: Stsb
Posted: 4/22/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 4:30-6:30. The fishing was pretty good. I caught 4 fish, lost 2, and had a few other bites. One of the fish was 14" while the others were about 12". I was just flat lining a small m...
By: Stsb
Posted: 9/13/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished big lake today for about 2.5 hours. Started fishing at the north end of the lake at about 4:00. I was trolling directly down the middle of the lake heading south. I finally bought some down r...
Posted: 5/13/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from our dock on east side of Big Lake and first cast with a spinner nailed a 4lb rainbow and within a half hour got another rainbow that went 2.3lbs. Boy what a day! The next hour was great ...
By: Dan LaPoint
Posted: 2/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had a couple of bites from shore which was enough to get my attention for a short time. The cold finally got to us and we home.Spring will be here soon!!
By: eschang1
Posted: 8/25/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/25/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I went out to Big Lake from about 12:30 to 4:00. I fished from a raft with dropshotted worms for perch and occasionally trying a jig with chartreuse Mr. Crappie shad to get crappie. Got a b...
By: bothellbassman
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Big Lake this morning to try the Large Mouth bite and to do some tuning on an old outboard I just rebuilt the carb on. Tough morning, no Largies but caught a few perch and one of them was probably...
By: moyer88
Posted: 6/13/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We loaded up the boat and hit the road to try our luck at Big Lake for the first time this season. We arrived at the launch about 30 min before sunrise.It didn't take long to get hooked up with our fi...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/16/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Only managed to boat two fish this trip, one on a t-rigged power worm, and my friend caught the other on a spinnerbait...
1.7lbs, and 3.2lbs respectively. Lots of grass, one fish came of a dock in ...
By: Flaybob
Posted: 9/26/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I usually hit the the lake once a week because I live 5 minutes from the launch. It has been slow lately but I had opportunity to go last Saturday afternoon when it was raining. I was the only one on...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/1/1999
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water by 5:30am.Target fish was bass.Fished docks and coves with topwater baits,had some success with the 1-2 pounders,switched over to spinnerbaits about 8:30am.Spinnerbaits were the ticke...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/10/2005
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2005
Hot Spots: 0
This was a test trip for me. Applying some of the fishing skills I learned from Bob Johansen, I decided to hit Big lake for some bass action. It was also a trip to do some boat work. With my new found...
By: ameluke
Posted: 4/22/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
So there we were.... Great start to a good story huh? Well here is my report. Tried big lake for the first time ever and it was everything but too exciting. Although the trout were jumping, the bass...
