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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/1996
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/11/1996
Hot Spots: 0
We fished it two days The weather was very cold and water temp. was about 55. Got a few Eastern Brooks and Rainbows. All small plants.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/1996
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/11/1996
Hot Spots: 0
We fished it two days The weather was very cold and water temp. was about 55. Got a few Eastern Brooks and Rainbows. All small plants
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2000
Hot Spots: 0
No one thinks Patterson is good during the summer, but it's because they use the wrong stuff. my dad and I went fishing last summer and asked how fishing was and everyone said it was no good. We showe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Casey and I put the boat in on Saturday evening and trolled the lake. We tried dragging a fly, pop gear and wedding rings and nothing seemed to
work. We did have a fish finder and spotted lots of fis...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/6/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Patterson 3 different times over the 4th of July weekend. I think I
tied on almost every thing in my tackle box trying to get some action.
Finally... I through one of my rattling bass jigs in ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/16/2002
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Patterson in the early morning around 5-9am, lots of fish surfacing, feeding. Caught 1 rainbow 17", nice fish very healthy, lost another of equal size, this fish really did a top water dance, ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My family was heading up to Sun Mountain Lodge, which is on Patterson Lake Road, so I figured I'd throw in my pole. I had no idea what was in the lake, but it is a fairly high lake, so I figured cutt...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2006
Hot Spots: 0
the only way to fish this lake for good bows is to use a small egg hook, a 18 inch leader and a egg wieght, put a potskei egg on there, one or two works fine, drop it too the bottom, and reel up two t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Patterson for the first time last Saturday, needed a break from the chaos at Pearrygin. Between 5 anglers we caught 7 fish, all off the bottom using a variety of power bait colors.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with my nephews at Patterson. We had a fun time caught lots of little smallmouth bass. And I caught a nice 4lb largemouth bass on a plastic crawdad.
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Spent about 4 days over in Eastern Wa. I sent my wife up to Sun Mountain Lodge just up from Patterson lake for some lounging time, my son and I rented a simple row boat from the Patterson Lk. Cabins...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
On Sunday we got a late start but were in the water at Lake Patterson by 10:00. We started trolling at the point across the lake from the WDFG access. The first rig in was the lead-line, dodger and we...
By: Flashoverman
Posted: 8/26/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to visit Patterson lake while camping near Winthrop and boy is this lake a nice one! Very beautiful scenery, big fishery, and has a very nice lodge called "Sun Moutain Lodge". I cought 2 La...
By: Jordan
Posted: 3/13/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day with my buddy ice fishing Patterson.. didn't get there until around 3pm and fished until 7pm... but we nailed our 5 Kokanee each right away and then ended up catching a bunch more and ...
By: danm
Posted: 8/13/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Had a lot of fun fishing for perch with wife and daughters while camping at l. Perrigyn sate park. Yummy!
By: danm
Posted: 8/20/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 1
8 people on Johns boat fishing for perch. Hooked many fish, we didnt fish for kokanee, but we got a few while perching. Sonar showed kokanee al over the lake in 40 ' and deeper. Perch are yummy. Go ha...
By: kwcc
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was in the Methow Valley for a 5 day trip, and wanted to do some fishing. Me and my brothers first stop was at Patterson Lake. We tied on a couple size 0 Mepps inline spinnerbaits, and caught a good a...
By: LJBFISH-HUNT509
Posted: 8/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Me and two of my friends awoke at 5:00am and walked our inflatable raft to the lake. We launched on the south west corner of the lake and moved north staying clase to the west shore. It was my third c...
By: herefishy
Posted: 5/11/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few days camping at Pearrygin lake state park. The lake was very muddy due to the recent rain and run-off so decided to try Patterson instead. Fishing was slow for rainbow but the kokanee were...
By: Bscman
Posted: 6/21/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We slept in, so Lake arrival was not until 8:30am.
First Kokanee in the boat in minutes, with several more to follow. Fish were mostly 25-30ft deep schooling in the middle of the lake over 60-80ft...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 1/11/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/10/2018
Hot Spots: 1
There are few fish I love more than Kokanee. While I enjoyed great success targeting these fish on Lake Chelan into November conditions were simply too dangerous to kayak fish them in December. I've b...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 12/26/2018
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Ventured up to Patterson Lake from some Christmas eve ice fishing. The goal was to find some crappie thru the ice and the lake didn't disappoint. The crappie bite was consistent for the first few hour...
By: troutslayer_97
Posted: 6/3/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2020
Hot Spots: 0
went out for some trout however couldn't land any so I went to the shallows to do some sight fishing ang caught about 12 largies
By: clarkbre
Posted: 7/7/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2021
Hot Spots: 0
We camped in Winthrop, WA July 3-9 and brought the inflatable boats to do some fishing. July 5, 7 & 8, we visited Patterson Lake and were not disappointed!
Mostly trolling and some still fishing, ...
