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By: VMV1998
Posted: 12/29/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was going home after I bought some seafood in Ranch 99 Market. Passing Ballinger Lake, decided to stop and check it out. Fortunately I had my fishing poles in my car. It was 2:30 pm. when I started fi...
By: Gonefishing
Posted: 4/10/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers 4/7/2014 and 4/10/2014. First off Lake Ballinger is not my favorite lake in the county but it is one of the open all year lakes near my house and is within a stones trow or so of ...
By: Gonefishing
Posted: 4/14/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2014
Hot Spots: 3
I know I know I know..... knot er not my favorite lake but I went again. Friend calls says he can only go out for a couple hours and it is Off Day gotta Go Fishing Monday.
He arrives at Ballinger ...
By: i_tnt_1u_fishing
Posted: 4/18/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Went to lake Ballinger this morning ,got out on the water about 6:00 am
caught first fish within 5 min. and the bite was on. limited out by 7:15
the last 2 where a dbl got one and up to the boat th...
By: waltforce
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Put the canoe in Ballinger today to see if I could catch a few trout. Immediately realized the wind was a little much for my flat bottomed canoe. Paddled around for a while then decided to troll a sma...
By: timmlovitt
Posted: 5/16/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to Lake Ballinger this afternoon to try my hand at kayak fishing. I'm heading into my second season with the pole holder that I installed and I'm definitely ready to get some miles on it. I h...
By: timmlovitt
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I took the kayak back out to Ballinger this evening, after buying some flies (thanks for the tip godfather!). Tied a simple brown and tan fly on, added a power egg to it, trolled, and hooked into a sm...
By: timmlovitt
Posted: 5/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Seems like I've been hitting Ballinger quite a bit lately. Now that I've finished grad school and have avoided winter it seems that I'm putting out about 3 times per week (mostly Ballinger). It's hard...
By: lumpdog005
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I took my boys, 8 and 10, to the old boat launch on the Edmonds side yesterday from 7:30-9 PM. They landed one small trout and lost three others. The weight was hanging up in the weeds giving the fis...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hadn't been to Ballinger yet this year... last visit was Christmas Day past. Ballinger has long been a favorite of mine... met my friend Pete there three years ago! Met Pete a bit before 5:00 AM, line...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 1/14/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Report is late, as I have had technical difficulties beyond my control!!!
After last week's success at Ballinger, we decided to try it again. Pete and I arrived at the lake at 7:30 AM... were fishing...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Lake B has been good to us the past several weeks so friend Pete and I decided to give it another go. Met at the lake at 7:30 AM, fishing off the pier at 7:45. Air temp was 34 degrees upon arrival, sa...
By: Reel_Nut
Posted: 8/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Had a fantastic day fishing from the dock. We caught quite a few trout, 1 yellow perch and one small bass. Wished we would of been able to fish the lake all day as I believe we would of limited.
By: whorde
Posted: 8/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After the disastrous morning at Lake Boren, I decided to swing by Ballinger in hopes of improving my day a bit by maybe catching a trout.
I was there about 6 hours. No one had a bite, until some p...
By: whorde
Posted: 8/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After Saturday's effort to catch a trout was a bust, I decided that Sunday I was going to catch a trout come hell or high water. This time I shamelessly copied the guy who caught the fish Saturday af...
By: whorde
Posted: 8/30/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another day in the trout lake, another day with no trout. In fact, another day when no one caught a trout.
I was there from 6 am to 4pm, give or take. As is the usual, powerbait for trout went un...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Catching a trout in Lake Ballinger has eluded me all summer. But after my hike to Grieder on Saturday, which was successful due to who I was going to hike with but couldn't make it, forum member jonb...
By: fshnjon
Posted: 10/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Ballinger to get out for awhile , no bass biting today . Used rooster tail spinners in various colors as I have caught and released several small LM previously on aforementioned lures . Did me...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So tonight I was on the bus after work, about to go to the gym, and I thought to myself ... with both my knee and my arm hurting, shouldn't I take a day off? So I called an audible, raced home, and h...
By: whorde
Posted: 10/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So on Friday evening, hoping for a repeat of Tuesday, I skipped my workout and headed for Ballinger instead. Again, I had 1 hour of daylight give or take.
This time the wind was acting up again, o...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 11/22/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I genuinely love fishing... not just the "catching", but the whole experience of the time and environment. I go whenever I can. Needed a little change of scenery, a little more solitude, so headed for...
By: i_tnt_1u_fishing
Posted: 11/25/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got of work early yesterday decided to try lake Ballinger got out on water around 2:30
Fished the backside of the island was wet and cold but was a good afternoon.
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 4/14/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/13/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Headed out to nearby Lake Ballinger to check out the 1,700+ trout stocked in the lake about a month ago. Arrived at the lake about 6:30 AM, one fisherman already on the pier and two others fishing off...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/18/2016
Hot Spots: 1
With the forecast for temps in the 80's today, was able to convince my wife, Boni, (mostly a "fair-weather fisher-woman") to join me for a morning's fishing at Lake Ballinger. We arrived at about 5:45...
By: Heatherlyfish
Posted: 9/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I join a fishing buddy at Ballinger. It was my first time at this lake. The water was really green and scummy looking at the launch. My friend told me the last time she had been there is was not so. ...
