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By: DjButler
Posted: 5/17/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What a fantastic morning on Lake Wa! I had 2 hours to fish before I had to teach a sports conditioning clinic so I popped my pontoon in the car and headed down the street to Kirkland water front. Star...
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Posted: 5/11/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Had a couple hours to kill after work today so I wanted to try out some modified lures I tied. Hit my usual spot and started working my way south around Seward park. After almost 40 minutes I finall...
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By: Byte Me
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to try my luck on the big lake for cuts. I live less than 7 miles from the lake, but had never pulled a line. So at 0600, hooked up the big boat and headed down to the storage lot to grab a c...
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Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Updated post with pics. Fished for cutthroat white wiggle hoochie tipped with earthworms 20' on the wire.
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Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Killed it today on lake Washington with a buddy of mine. We got there around 1 and stayed until 5. We started slow then we found a school of very large perch and it was nonstop for the rest of the tim...
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Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Only had a couple of hours to fish so I hit my usual spot on the west side of the lake at 3:30. Within 10 minutes I was in a nice school of kokanee but i lost two and the biggest one I managed to land...
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By: Khuong
Posted: 4/29/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled a silver UV dodger and a wiggle hootchie scented but no takes. Fish finder showed no large fish, school of small bait fish here and there around 30ft depth but could very well be algae??? They...
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By: swayner23
Posted: 4/24/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This is more of a general report for the last couple weeks fishing various spots around Seattle and what's been working. I've spent a lot of time around north lake Washington and south lake Union fis...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Finally a Saturday with winds below 20mph! So today we headed to the north side of Mercer Island to see if we could capture some cutts for the UW tagging program. I had an inkling that the weather p...
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Posted: 4/16/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to try LK. Washington for the first time in many years fished out by Magnuson park and toward the 520 bridge. Fished for about 3 hours and not a thing. Tried various lures and depths but ...
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By: esew
Posted: 4/5/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the south end of Mercer Island and went 1/1 in four hours. A nice 19.5" cutthroat. Trolled orange label herring behind a 1/2 and 1/2 flasher (8"). Another boat did about the same as us but lost...
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Posted: 3/31/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
spent 4+ hours on the water from the hydro pits past the park and across to the end of the island, around the Renton launch and the river back to the hydro pits via a long slow troll 65' on the wire d...
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Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Had the day off so I decided to knock the dust off my gear and take my boat out for the first time this year to try out some of my winter upgrades. One of which is little Scott downrigger that's a w...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Met my fishing partner at the Newport launch around 9:15, as the wind was really blowing out of the south, we decided to start fishing the east channel north of the I-90 high rise. I started off drag...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 3/27/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Late start today, got on the water around 10:45 and motored to the north side of Mercer Island. The lake is in full bloom and the surface temps were all between 52 and 53 degrees. I started off trol...
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Posted: 3/21/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Union Bay this morning. It was very windy which meant I had to mostly troll in my kayak. Caught two smallmouth. Fish one - Trolling a 4" Husky Jerk in Baby bass. Was real fighter. ...
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Posted: 3/18/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So I gave this a 3 not so much for the amount of fish caught but for the quality~ and the fact I actually got out on the water today with running motors!! So took my trolling motor up to All season...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 3/14/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to chance a trip to the Lake despite the forecast for high winds. When I launched the winds just started to pickup and the rain was nothing more than a heavy mist. I fished the lee side of...
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By: AJ
Posted: 3/13/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the day off with a couple of buddies thursday morning. We wanted to see if we could hunt down a few cutts. Day started slow and 2 hours quickly passed, somehow I managed to dumped my s...
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By: Reeldeal
Posted: 3/8/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day out on the water today, although I was an hour late to meet my brother at the launch. I assumed that my phone would adjust for daylight savings, it didn't. Launched at 8am headed to so...
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By: Lingking
Posted: 3/8/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Put in at Renton at @7:30. Ran my 12' smokercraft to the west side of Mercer Island. And started trolling red label herring at 15'. Nothing really happened for a whiile until we switched to Mack's dou...
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Posted: 3/5/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So I have a couple of fellow WA lakers that I have promised to take out on Lake WA soon so thought it was time to get the Tin Cup in the water and make sure everything was running good so we could mak...
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By: Adam B.
Posted: 3/3/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/3/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Not much for a report, but was out testing the Lowrance Elite 7 I just installed and decided to troll a while since I was there. I launched out of the Kirkland boat launch and just stayed on the east ...
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Posted: 3/2/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the afternoon for about 4 hours. Trolled around in 18-30 feet at 1.5-2 MPH in my kayak. Caught 4 nice smallmouth. 16, 18, 18.5 and 19". All very fat and piggish. All fish came on a s...
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By: Reeldeal
Posted: 2/24/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/24/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Had a great day out. Fished the south end of Mercer Island and the west bank from the mouth of the Cedar river and headed north about a mile. Strangely we picked up a Whitefish while trolling for Cutt...
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