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By: The Trout Slayer
Posted: 6/19/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I arrived at the boat launch around 8:30am. We fished from shore. There was no one else on the water. Overcast sky, mild temp. There where three of us. We started with power bait, nothing. We swit...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
fished from the boat ramp at Armstrong yesterday. power bait on the bottom. 2 bites but no hook ups.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
finally got one off the ramp at Armstrong. 16 in on a worm and white marshmallow with a 4.5 ft leader. thunder lightning and rain closed out the day early for me. finally broke the ice -first trout i...
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...
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...
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...
By: Bass Woody
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...
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 ...
By: Bass Woody
Posted: 8/18/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
5pm. very calm day. fishing many depths for bass. hooked a couple 9 inchers. threw a little deeper when it felt like i hooked a flat piece of wood on the way it was dead wieighted. got close to boat a...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/16/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple hours to go "dink" around on Armstrong.
Used to be a great place to go and catch large quantities of fish up to 1.5 pounds on just about whatever you felt like throwing but unfortun...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/31/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This trip was a product of only having two hours to fish tonight. Also, since this lake closes for no reason tomorrow, I thought I would run a lap in the kayak. A bit of algae stain greeted me but ...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 7/2/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tried a new lake today. Pulled the boat up to Armstrong with my adult son and 8 yr. old grandson. WSDOT had the access road closed, but had set up flagmen who directed us down a 300' section of the Ce...
By: billsnwfr
Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Came to fish this lake after a no luck morning at Bosworth. Came here and launched and it was pretty much like our usual day here. Bass are small but numerous in this lake and we had our combined li...
By: billsnwfr
Posted: 7/17/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2015
Hot Spots: 3
went to the lake for some quick fishing this morning. started off at the large fallen tree right by the boat launch and pulled two bass from there, one keeper one really small one. the fish seems to...
By: billsnwfr
Posted: 7/17/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2015
Hot Spots: 3
This was a typical day at Armstrong, lots of fish caught, lots of smaller fish here but always a great time. Caught and released a lot of smaller fish, went fishing with my dad and took our usual lim...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/25/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had to hit this little lake before it closes and it was what I expected, maybe a little slower than what I expected. Caught fish on Senko's fairly predictably, missed two on a small floating Rapala. L...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Ran over to Armstrong for a couple hours to play with the dinks. Alternated between a 4" Senko and a floating Rapala and caught a bunch! Biggest maybe 1 1/4 - 1 1/2lbs. Saw a really good one for this ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/11/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Not alot to tell as I threw the Jon Boat in the truck, grabbed the oars, my jig rod and Senko rod and took off. Fished almost a full lap before dark and found very willing small bass up to roughly 14 ...
By: leecko
Posted: 6/5/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Spent a couple hours on the lake this morning. Used a combination of cranks, swims baits, and jigs fishing around the north end of the lake. Caught a decent looking Rainbow Trout and another small o...
By: deuely
Posted: 6/10/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Made it to the lake right around noon and stayed until around 8pm. It was a pretty slow day for me. Caught 3 dinks; all real close to shore and near cover at the southern end of the lake. It was a rea...
By: deuely
Posted: 6/14/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Got to the lake around noon, stayed till about 6:30. Was fairly slow apart from a 2-3 hour period where I caught all my fish from about 1 to 4 pm. Pretty much all dinks as far as I am concerned but I ...
By: mitchard
Posted: 6/21/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty mellow day out on Armstrong. Tried some spinners and cranks at the northeast end with no luck. After bottom fishing trout (we landed a couple) we switched over to the west side of the lake, jus...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2007
Species:
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...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2007
Species:
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...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/5/2004
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water by 9 AM, Was using black leeches until they got broke off by two trout. Those were the first two fish that I got bites from. Then I got a bite on a green wooley bugger. The drag...
