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By: Stansjoy
Posted: 6/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My first trip to Armstrong. Arrived at 5:30AM, inflated pontoon boat, set up my poles, loaded the boat and was on the water by 6:00AM. Water temp. at 10' was 64 degrees. Steady, light rain falling for...
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: leeman275
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the lake first time this year. There lots of people in the begining but at 3:00 people started to leave. Trolled for couple hours. Caught two 18-19'' trout and one 12-13''. Had a great day...
By: urbanangler
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...
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...
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
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: 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: 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: Lalo
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the lake at about 5:30. Lots of people fishing already and the sun was just starting to come up. Went to my favorite spot on the other side of the lake. I used only spinners and it took abo...
By: deerchser
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 2
We got on the lake around noon and fished until dark. Rainbows were on the hunt. We landed 10 total between 10" and 16". All were caught about 40' off the shore on the left side of the ramp at about t...
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: mitchard
Posted: 6/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Great day at Armstrong. Got out at about 6 am. Hooked into a couple small rainbows and a small LMB right away on the west side of the lake. Nothing after about 30 minutes on the east side, so I went a...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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: 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...
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.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
