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Posted: 10/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is a three day report for bitter lake. started Saturday my original plan was to fish Green lk in my aluminum boat. i spent a few hours Saturday morning building some wheels to strap on the back o...
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By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/27/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Trying out some new waters today. Met friend Pete at Bitter Lake at 7:00 AM, lines in the water at 7:20. Cloudy day, temp at the outset was 48 degrees, water temp at the shoreline was 58 degrees. Usin...
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By: pizzaman
Posted: 10/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Bitter lake for about an hour this morning after seeing they had put another 3000 fish in it yesterday. First 20 minutes nothing. Thinking to myself that's weird? Then I found the fish and...
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By: pizzaman
Posted: 5/5/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Bitter Lake again this morning. Fishing still great! C&R about a dozen trout and 4-5 bass. Trout on castmaster green and gold and bass along the docks with a sinking rapella. Pictures are from the...
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By: pizzaman
Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a look at the stocking report and saw Bitter was stocked a couple days ago so with a couple hours to kill before work threw the kayak on the truck and 15 minutes later had my first fish and limit...
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Posted: 1/30/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Sunday the 26th. After my success in catching a Largemouth the day before at beaver, my buddy and I decided to try our luck at bitter to see if we could locate some bass on the bot...
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By: Cascadian
Posted: 7/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Hit Bitter lake early morning (0600) with my dad. I was in my float tube and he brought his pontoon boat with an electric trolling motor. I latched on and we trolled spinners, rapalas, etc around th...
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Posted: 6/15/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Celebrated co-worker's b-day at Bitter Lake condo, yes, the one with the dock!! Got to the party @ 1730, by 1930 the itch was too great, had to go fishing!! Set 1 pole for trout,bottom fishing powerb...
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By: Stansjoy
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Met friend Pete at Bitter Lake at 5:30 AM for some "hot & heavy" Rainbow fishing. Pete had scouted out the lake earlier this week and had caught a couple of hold-over 'Bows of 15" and 18". This was to...
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By: pizzaman
Posted: 5/23/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got out for a couple hours this morning. Caught 3 trout and lost a couple more at the boat. Also caught my first bass of the year.
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Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to go into work late today, so i headed out to Bitter at 0600. Overcast, slight wind. Threw both 5" Senko, watermelon w/speckles, Wacky rigged. Also through a lot of a white spinner ba...
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By: pizzaman
Posted: 11/6/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Nice warm morning with out a lot of wind so I took the kyak out on the lake. Trolled a silver spoon in a loop around the edges of the lake, stopping to make casts occasionally. Caught one 15" or so tr...
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Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Couldn't sleep so I went fishing! Got onto the lake around 9 am and tried to position myself on the eastern shore about 30 yards out from the lily pads. Naturally, I forgot my anchor so the wind was...
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By: pizzaman
Posted: 9/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Well I was really targeting bass but mnaged to catch 2 rainbows. Was tossing a rainbow rapela just off the lily pads from a kayak. I also caught a couple 2 inch bass fry and saw tons of the little guy...
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Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit bitter just after 0600, in the tube. It was quite windy, and kind of unrealistic I thought, to fish. Worked my way down the N. shoreline. Started off with a white spinner bait. No luck there. ...
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Posted: 7/12/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Pika206 and I took advantage of our day off to hit up the old local favorite lake of ours once again before he and the Mrs. relocate to Portland, OR. Fishing conditions couldn't have been better. The ...
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Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I took the Dessert eagle out on Bitter today for some bassin. Upon arrival the north wind was constatant and gusting pretty hard. After about 15 minutes with no signs of life, I was reel...
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By: MotoBoat
Posted: 6/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started out driving to the lake on one of the perimeter roads. Window down while driving. A resident of lake is raking leaves or some outside activity. Anyway, I look at him and he yells "slow down"! ...
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Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I snuck in an hour on Bitter after work. Wife thought I was still working,lol. 3rd cast i picked up a 3.2 lb largie. I thought that was pretty cool, so early on. I always start off at the overhang...
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By: MotoBoat
Posted: 6/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was dry all morning with a forecast of rain holding off until much later in the day. Arrived at the lake around 0930. Set up to start fishing, when light rain started to fall. Decided to turn over thi...
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Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't hit bitter since about Feb. so I got a couple hours in between 1630-1900. Was fishing as usual from my float tube, targeting large mouth. Worked my way casting towards the lilly edge and d...
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Posted: 5/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day to fish today. Evening started out sunny but transitioned to overcast. The wind picked up to about 8mph blowing from the NW. That didn't calm the bite down much though. Started out targeting...
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Posted: 5/10/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Bitter Lake today with a friend and the canoe. Got on the water at about 6:15 and it was windy! The trolling motor helped to cut through that and it wasn't long before we had our first hook ...
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Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It was a warm night so I decided to make it my first night of bass fishing at my home lake for the season. I'd only been bassing once this year on lake Union. When I was in the parking lot fellow...
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Posted: 2/19/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My neighbor and I have been talking about fishing together in his Canoe and we finally put that into motion today. When we hit Bitter lake and it was a pretty nice afternoon. I didn't have high expect...
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