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By: Stansjoy
Posted: 6/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at lake about 5:30AM. One fisherman on pier (Joe), several on shoreline. Very windy and quite chilly. Had first strike and landed first fish about 6:00, just as friend Pete arrived. Figured to...
By: TroutSnipr
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Got there about 9AM. The guy leaving my spot (park benches area) had a limit. the other 3 guys had 5 fish between them. It didn't seem like the pier was hitting either(saw I think maybe 2 fish on @ ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my friend Adam went out early on this Saturday morning, we picked Ballinger because they had recently stocked the lake with 3000 trout; May 21, 2012. We got out onto the lake at about 7:45, it ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the lake about 6:45am. Within a half an hour I had three rainbow trout. It took two hours before I got another hit. My friend Calvin came and he got his limit also. By 11am I got my limit ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at lake at 6:30PM, just a bit of late fishing after Church and a great Father's Day dinner with family. Brought my ultra-light tackle and tied on a silver and red SuperDuper. Was raining stead...
By: cardinalorange
Posted: 6/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I, as I tend to do, forgot to read whether gas motors were allowed on the lake so we had to oar it around as I didn't bring my electric motor. We trolled for a couple hours using everything from a bi...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 6/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! What an amazing day on B. Lake...amazingly BAD! Arrived at 5:30AM...had a premonition things were going to be slow. Started with regular PowerBait presentation. Lake was very placid early on, alm...
By: oneshot
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 1
long time viewer, little time reporter.. so here we go.. :)
We finally got a break in the rain this weekend and a chance to get out and test out the new to our family, Boat. So my son and i headed t...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 7/4/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at lake at 5:30AM. Took water temp. at 10', 65 degrees. Alone on pier. Lake was absolutely flat, with lots of fish rising. Amazing how many big fish were splashing on the surface, but nothing ...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This report gets one star for each fish + 1 for wildlife viewed. Started out around 8:00am. 5 or 6 truck trailer rigs parked in the lot. With 3 or 4 fishing the City park dock. No fish caught by them....
By: Hank
Posted: 7/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took the Kayaks out for a an evening troll around the lake, saw a couple jumpers, but caught none. Still a nice evening spent on the water with my wife.
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a glorious, awesome day on Lake Ballinger! Arrived at 5:30AM, first on the pier. Lake was absolutely placid, few fish rising, with wispy fog coming off the water. Water temp. at 10' was 71 d...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 7/25/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I am on vacation this week and my youngest son, Wesly, came up to spend some time fishing with me. We were on the North Fork of the Snoqualmie yesterday, and Wes had to head home in the early afternoo...
By: Hank
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fish from the kayaks from 6:30 AM till 8:30 AM. Tried chartreuse and white power eggs with no luck. It was still a good morning to paddle around the lake.
By: tre809299
Posted: 8/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We set out for a great day fishing, after getting off of Martha (South) with only 2 small perch (throw backs) around 11am, we decided to head for old trusty Ballinger Lake. Within 10 minutes of leavi...
By: lumpdog005
Posted: 4/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was fishin another lake with my son and dropped by Ballinger on the way home. I learned they planted 3500 7 - 8" trout. This apperantly is the only stocking for the year. Just passing this on to al...
By: Gonefishing
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Lake Ballinger mid morning for maybe a half hour but couldn't buy a bite if it had been up for sale. Went home and received an email from somebody here telling me that birdies were telling ...
Posted: 4/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A couple more firsts for me today!
First Fish of 2011 on my Pen Rod!
First Rainbow Trout out of Ballinger!
I'm gonna be up front and say it out loud for everyone to hear.
You might call me crazy...
By: Gonefishing
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Ballinger this afternoon to participate in the Sunday circus. Six rods and no fish on the dock when I first arrive. Only a few regulars were at the lake this time around. Had 2 hits in the ...
By: Gonefishing
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Ballinger around 3:45 or so. 1 regular was at the lake showing off some applet on his Iphone that predicts the best time to fish. I don't have an Iphone.... but it was interesting to see. T...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! Can't beat this weather. Was on the water from about 3:30 to 5:30 and it was nice out. I didn't hook aything, but I got a bite about every 45 minutes, when I first got there I had several bites i...
By: eatworms
Posted: 4/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Such a gorgeous day, had to hit the lake after coming home from digging razor clams. Got there about 12:30pm. 4 guys fishing from the dock and one coming in from his boat. The guy coming in from tr...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the weather was great today for the hour I made it to the lake. I had a lot of stuff to do, but I wanted to sit outside for a bit while I took some calls. I told them I was "in my other office",...
By: outfishin7
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a horrible day, except for the weather. Ever take a 5 year old fishing someplace where noone is catching a thing? 1 boat came in with 3 dink fish. We fished 3 1/2 hours without so much as...
By: fishingboy
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So woke up late for the lingcod opener so decided to hit Ballinger on the way to Ed's surplus! got there about 7 AM. Was there for only an hour or so. Only caught a 4-5 inch Cutthroat trout on a blue/...
