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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/13/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/13/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great morning fishing on Spencer Lake. I trolled with 4" dodgers, green wedding ring or pink smile blades. Added a little nightcrawler piece to help. The rainbows were good size (probably a p...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling caught 4 and many got away!
By: Catch&Cook
Posted: 4/16/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Just another trip report about fishing for stocked Rainbow Trout from a kayak. Lots of bites. Easy fishing. Even caught 5 from the shore just with the Kastmaster before we even took the kayaks out ont...
By: anetrush
Posted: 12/29/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 11 to 4. Anchored in about 30 feet using worms and power bait. First location bite in first minute and then nothing for an hour.. time to move. Moved more to center of lake caugh...
By: bob johansen
Posted: 6/11/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing with my son, we launched his drift boat onto Spencer early in the AM. The parking lot was busy as we arrived - I think they were all trout anglers. June 10th was exactly 7 years since I fish...
By: mlasnier
Posted: 3/11/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/10/2020
Hot Spots: 1
I tried out Lake Spencer on my kayak yesterday. Fished from 1400 - 1845. Very windy, and I forgot my anchor, so had to troll the whole time. 2 other boats on the lake, one leaving as I arrived, the...
By: Gumbyinthehouse
Posted: 2/22/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing Spencer Lake for 40 years now. Notice in recent years alot of big fish in the lake. I finally caught the biggest rainbow trout in my life. Looks like a big male, dark red color and caught...
By: NWFlyguy
Posted: 10/31/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Spencer Lake from 10:00-2:00 and released 13 while fishing with two different colored flies. Both produced equally but at different times. Peacock early and bright yellow later. Fish were in th...
By: cubmaster
Posted: 9/19/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/14/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to not fight the large crowds on the local rivers (Pink Salmon fishing) and try one of the local lakes for rainbow trout. I wasn't sure that there would be any trout left since the lakes we...
By: flyguy
Posted: 4/19/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Incredible day fishing for stocker RB. Fish for 4 hours catching over 40 fish. I think the key was the clear intermediate sink fly line. Changing trolling speed, a black leech or bugger pattern ...
By: cubmaster
Posted: 10/8/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had never fished this lake before but had heard good things about it. The lake was recently stocked with some nice Rainbows. I liked the ramp and trailer parking area. It is not huge but very adequa...
By: grubowski
Posted: 9/2/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I was going to wait until later in the fall to try this one again, but it was cool and cloudy, so I figured it would be a good day for reduced ski boats. When I arrived I went to use the toilet and f...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/5/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/5/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Spencer, 0715.
1st time fishing the lake. I was concentrating mostly on 10-15’ water depths. Drop shotting and throwing a deep diving crankbait. The water has amazing clarity, with min...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/8/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I cannot honestly rate this report as I got the one I needed and left! However, I spent about two hours working pad areas looking for a topwater largemouth bite to no avail. Once I left that alone a...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 1/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Took the father-in-law to be out to Spencer Lake for an afternoon troll. Weather for this time of year was absolutely amazing and fished most the afternoon in a T-shirt. Wasn't red hot fishing for s...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 4/30/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Was the second rig at the lake at 5:50 am and fishing at 6 with the sunrise. Right off the bat the bite was on while i was laying out trolling gear. I was really out to test out some boat upgrades an...
By: Thegumby
Posted: 4/17/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Windy day on the lake. Moved around several times. Went to farside where it was calmer and started catching a few. Went back to the channel and hit it pretty good. Mostly planted ones. Took 4yr o...
By: Thegumby
Posted: 4/4/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got onto the lake by 10a, and was calm and sunny. No fish jumping. Wind picked up a bit in the channel, caught rainbow between 12-16" using power bait, and power balls. Went around corner in the mi...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 3/26/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at about 10 and started trolling at the end of the channel making cirlcles around the lake. Picked up the first fish after about an hour then we got one about every 20 min there after f...
By: chamjr
Posted: 6/11/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We launched at 0930, 3 of us, and motored up to west side of lake. Windy day and tried to troll but difficult to control direction and speed. Gave uo trolling and went to east side which was more sh...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 4/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Went to Spencer yesterday with my bro's. All I wanted to do was play with the new sonar but they wanted to actually fish for some reason. We started off at the south end near the ramp and off in the l...
By: nethead2532
Posted: 4/19/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
got to launch about 6 pm fished for an hour had 8 on lost 3 in the salad , alot of boats on the lake due to the good weather . it looked like opening day decent fish size 12 to 13 "
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 2/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the water by 9 am. Trolled most of the day with everything I had and not even a bite. Jigger and drifted, nothing. Talked to at least 8 other boats and not one even claimed a legitimate bite! T...
By: HereToFish
Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled for a couple hours Wednesday late in the afternoon. Tried several different lures and we ended up with five trout in the boat after losing a few of them and throwing back a couple small ones.
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/13/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
No hawgs on this adventure but the numbers game was fun for the kids and myself included. First time fishing Spencer. Spent 3 days at various times wetting a line on a brief vacation. Kept it very sim...
