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By: ddraszt
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
fished from 8am-11am.lower 60's and light rain. mostly trying for a few bows for lunch but no luck. tried trolling pop gear with wedding ring and worm and roostertail with green power bait. not a bite...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was 'take your boat to work day' , ok just me i guess... as soon as i got off work i headed out to give Armstrong a try. Got on the lake about 6pm, still blazing hot out. I headed straight for ...
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Posted: 7/25/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
came to this lake after visiting the nasty waters of lake ketchum. worked are way around the lake and caught 30 bass between the two of use, all averaging around 8 inches. turned a bad fishing trip in...
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Posted: 5/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First time at Armstrong. Nice little lake. Not many strikes but managed to land these two using a Black Hare's Ear w/brass bead on the East side of the lake.
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By: joek25
Posted: 5/14/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy don and I went to lake armstrong and both limited in less than two hours, floating power eggs about three feet from shore under trees.
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By: joekacker
Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to launch out today, before the rain hit. Not sure of the temp But I would guess 57-61, We had a nice variable direction breeze. It was strange it kept blowing in form diffrent directions, qui...
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By: joek25
Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to lake armstrong for the first time ever WOW, what a nice lake.I launched the boat at about 2 pm started trolling kastmasters needless to say we took eight home and released five more
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By: joekacker
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I launched the livy out at around 6:00 am or so . There was only a few people there, usally its crazy. We went just a little left of the boat launch and started out with power bait Hatche...
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By: Lalo
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Casted off at 6:15AM. Many people at the lake but not as busy as most years. Once I got to my spot I had non stop action. I switched the type of spinner I was using frequently as the action dictated. ...
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By: steve
Posted: 5/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I was first guy out on Armstrong sat. AM in my tube. Had a couple of takes, nothing landed. Saw a few fish jumping early, but that quit as soon as the sun hit the water. Lot's of floating debris, w...
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By: dave g
Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went to armstrong for the first time this year. dropped the canoe in the water and was fishing by 1730. we were kinda disappointed when we didn't get a fish within the first 15 minutes or so, lol. we...
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Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:45 to 12:15. Very slow day -- caught only one rainbow trout, after I had given up on them and was spincasting from the boat for bass. Caught him on a large black and silver roostertail c...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Put the boat on Armstrong about 7:30AM. I went to my usual spot and had non-stop action until 12:30PM when the fishing slowed down quite a bit, but still caught a few after 12:30. Used only different ...
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By: dave g
Posted: 8/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
after spending a relatively unproductive morning fishing Lk. Mcmurray, we got in the water here at about 1115. it was a nice sunny morning with almost no wind, and there were 4 other boats on the lake...
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By: joekacker
Posted: 7/25/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my buddy hit Lake Armstrong around 9:30 A/M. We had just stopped by Lake Cassidy to do some fishing but that North wind made it very difficult because we fish in rubber rafts, and it just so h...
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By: goonfish
Posted: 6/8/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was wondering why that white plastic chair was hanging on the sign. I had talked to that guy earlier, and he had almost fallen off his boat then. As for the lake condition, the majority of the color...
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By: dave g
Posted: 5/31/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We put in the water at 1630. We hung around the south end of the lake for awhile, waiting for our friend and his wife and son to launch their new raft. We didn't get any action there as we trolled ar...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was the "other boat" on the lake. Water was 74 degrees, really stained and nasty. Worked the edges with Damsel flies and spinnerbaits for bass with no luck. Decided to troll a Rapala, nailed 16" Bow...
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By: dave g
Posted: 5/26/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
we put in the lake at 1400. we had our doubts about fishing here today as when we pulled up and looked at the water, it was a dark greenish-brown. after getting on the water we could tell that it wa...
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By: dave g
Posted: 5/11/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bubba and I put in the water about 1430. We also took along 'ratman' for his maiden fishing voyage. He got a little froggy with the golden retriever that likes to hang out at the ramp, but other than...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake around 7:00 P.M. Within the first 5 minutes had our first fish, using a wedding ring with nightcrawler. The fishing was great for the first hours but then slowed down. I limited out b...
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By: dave g
Posted: 5/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bubba and I put the leakin lizard in the water at 1200. He landed the first fish within 5 min and we spent the next 1/2 hr trolling without any more luck, so we headed to the honey hole where we spent...
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By: joekacker
Posted: 5/2/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Armstrong today about 3:00 or so in a rubber raft, Got 3 fish in about 30 mins. Fish were very close to shore less then 12 feet away/ All in all we landed 10 trout most of them about 12 in...
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By: dave g
Posted: 4/30/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
bubba and i put in about 0930. this was our 'opening day', as we didn't feel like battling the thundering herd on saturday. we started out trolling our familiar patterns without any luck, so we headed...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Son caught a 13.5" from shore with powerbait but the locals are rude and foul mouths. You hear less swearing on the navy docks in Everett. Eight fishing on shore - we were three. Five boats on the ...
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