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By: lutsk929
Posted: 2/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I am finally fully equipped with a boating package and decided to visit my hometown lake of Ballinger. The time of day was ill-advised to actually catch fish (3pm), but my girlfriend and I had a late ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/21/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the lake at 7am, following my trailer jumping off the hitch and nearly penetrating my tail gate (knew I shouldn't have fabricated my own). I trolled awhile with a pink/silver dicknite to n...
By: czech_mate
Posted: 3/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing to report..... Saw one person leave with about a 16" rainbow that was caught before I got there. Spent a few hours there with no bites. I can say, that it was really cold as soon as the sun we...
Posted: 4/11/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Good Day....Went out to Ol' Lake Ballinger yesterday and trolled a green f-2 flatfish till it died and then put on a maggot or two and got a few feeder trout south of the launch off the old dock. I ...
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 4/23/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
What a terrible day, I bought a new float tube and was all excited to use it. Pumped up the float tube and set out. Got about 15 feet off the shore and I sank because I didnt put enought air and tight...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day, went out for a few hours and got 1 and had a few bites. Can't ask for better than that this time of year.
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
After fishing Pine in the morning, the missus asked me to take the kid fishing -- poor me. Decided to go out to Ballinger for the afternoon. Fished from 3 to 5pm. Not long after leaving the shore, the...
Posted: 5/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Only had 4 strikes but two made it to the net. Caught the bigger one first and decided to keep the smaller one as well since I was going to be cleaning a fish anyway.
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 6/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
LAKE BALLINGER :
started off the day trolling with a black and silver rooster tail ( my favorite). I had a few hits before i even made it about halfway around the area I troll but didnt land anythi...
By: phatdak
Posted: 7/19/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out on the lake at 8:00AM, hooked into the first rainbow with in the first 30 min. After that averaged one about an hour. Came in at 1:30pm with four total and really nice sunburn. All four wer...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 8/3/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 6:15 had my first 2 hits just getting about 100 feet away from the launch. It was a great day like always at ballinger. It was wierd because the island was still smoking due to ...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good time ended up with 3 trout the one in the picture being the biggest. Lost 2 other trout when I got them to the boat. not bad for like 3 hours of fishing.
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day at ballinger. Only fished for like 2 hours and ended up with 3 nice trout. Great day out on the lake like always.
By: mohamed_ameen
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2009
Hot Spots: 1
I was in the lake today at 12:30 I was fishing for bass, when a rainbow trout got intrested in my bait and took it :).. my wife had some biets and finaly she got a 7" yellow perch.
By: mohamed_ameen
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got one 12" rainbow, and one perch
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
well i went to reiter to fish steelhead the otherday and hooked a ton of trout with this corky jig i made up, so today i thought i would give that corky jig a try on lake ballinger. I got to the lake ...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 2/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would go out because it was a nice day with a friend who has never been fishing before. Got skunked took us 2 hours to find any fish on the fish finder and once we did in about 4-6 feet of w...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 2/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would go out again with my friend and try some worms and just bottom fish some docks and other areas of the lake. Rarely did we see any fish on the fish finder. We didnt have any hits today ...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Another trip to Ballinger and me and my friend got skunked again. The conditions are improving a little bit surface temp was 48.5 and we did see a few fish out feeding on small schools of bait fish. T...
By: fishingandy
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Out with my boy 7 years old after seeing they had just stocked the lake. One other fisherman that had been out on the dock for an hour before we had. He was using worms and power eggs, but reported ...
By: tootired
Posted: 3/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Rumor had it that the fish and game truck was too show up that afternoon. Arrived at 11:15 am. Started casting and retriving off the dock. About 10 casts per lure and if nothing happened I would sw...
By: fishingandy
Posted: 4/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 2-5pm in the rain and wind... silly me I tried using a float and ended up fighting to get myself back to shore. After being blow all over the lake for and hour I fished from shore for two...
By: tomm454
Posted: 4/23/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8:00am-1:30PM got 5 total 8"-16" good day on the lake
By: Snoop
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Read Toms report, went to Anglers Choice picked up a super dooper and hit the lake. Real windy and rainy. Consitently saw fish follow it in to the dock, caught 3 kept 2, lost 3, missed many strikes. ...
By: CaffOMHW
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the dock at 6:00. Tried power eggs for an hour with no luck. In that time another fisher hooked 3 with a spoon, so I switched to hardware too.
I caught 6 (released 3) lost two more at the dock ...
