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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/1999
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Big Lake for the fourth time ever and caught monster bass. I have read in here that the fishing has suffered, yeah right! Even on the worst day, 2nd day I got three from 14.5" to 21" my large...
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: 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: Dan LaPoint
Posted: 2/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I have had a little cabin fever lately, so we drove down to the boat launch.By the way, last fall a new dock was installed as well as the launch re-done and a new restroom facility.We are ...
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...
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: brutus234
Posted: 10/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Big Lake last friday night to try and get some fish in the boat after several unsuccessful outings for silvers. Trolled two fly rods rigged with weighted line using flat fish with a worm trail...
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: HooksTackleBox
Posted: 11/6/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/4/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Hello hello!
This report will be three parts, my time there, the time of the people fishing next to me and a dude who came off the lake trolling in a kayak.
My part:
So i got there after stumbli...
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: 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: rseas
Posted: 8/28/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The boat got a new deep cycle battery and live well today so it was off to Big Lake for some testing. I chose Big Lake because it is over loaded with eager to bite perch and I figured they would be go...
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...
By: johnsonator
Posted: 3/11/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I had to check out Big Lake today to see see if the rising temps did anything to turn on the largemouth bite. Water temps ranged from 46 to 50 degrees from morning to afternoon. I threw everything at ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Couldn't buy a bite! Water temps in the 49-52* range. Fished from 1-12' and more techniques than I feel like typing right now...
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: 8theB8
Posted: 4/21/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
On the way home from Grandy I swung by Big Lake to check the wind conditions and found it to be very manageable so I stopped to fish for a bit. I worked several docks with jigs, worms and Senkos witho...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the boat about 2:00 pm and traveled to a small cove near the boat launch. The weather was kicking up with some whitecaps in the middle of the lake, so we kept close to shore. Targeting panfis...
By: Raider91
Posted: 6/26/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I have friends with a cabin on the SE end of the lake so I've fished this lake many, many times; mostly in the summer. During this time the lake does get a lot of recreational traffic so it's better t...
By: LMB
Posted: 10/20/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
4lb6oz on a watermelon seed swimming senko!
Great lake for LM bass. Gotta fish early if you have a small boat since the water skiers etc create alot of wake.
