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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/15/2004
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Put my pontoon boat in at 7:15pm, had two chunky 14" rainbows in my lap by 8pm. Fished for another hour, landed two more, LDR'd two. Next time I'll go earlier as the bite slowed down after 8:30. Was t...
By: fishon
Posted: 3/16/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Friday after being skunked at Green lake. Landed two ten inch, one rainbow one cutthroat on the fly. My fishing buddy had no luck. Buddy met his friend there, friend stated after we left, at...
By: Roperguy
Posted: 5/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Reports for Lake Ballinger have been a bit slow lately so I thought I would go out and give it a try. It was about 5:30pm when I got my lines in the water and 5:50 when my rod went down. Nice rainbow ...
By: pizzaman
Posted: 5/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning mainly to test out the new set up on the kayak. Was given an old Sears and Roebucks trolling motor from the FIL so put together a way to attach it to the kayak. Went out to give ...
By: pizzaman
Posted: 5/16/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Caught about a dozen this morning. Lost at least that many too. Kept one for breakfast. Trolling the old silver spoon around. Fun morning
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. ...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 6/6/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I remember the first week fishing this lake I got skunked, eventually I found some useful methods to produce fish. Its been a while since I've fished one of my favorite lakes and it was hard work, th...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 6/8/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
If it wasn't for the endless winds I faced today, I would rate this trip 5star. Fished for 2 hours 9-11am, caught both the 10" during the first hour and landed the nice 17" 2.5lbs Cutty during the las...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 8/26/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I always enjoy fishing Lake Ballinger! Took out my Intex Mariner 3 and trolled the south end of the East and South parts of the lake. The first fish was caught trolling off the launch about 100 yards,...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/8/2002
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
first off catch and release fish!!! Started out about 9:30am sunny and about 52 deg. light wind from N. trolled a mepps 1/8 black fruy struck west side of island in channel.
went south end nothing!!...
By: justinc210
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a casual afternoon fishing trip close to home. The water was mostly calm with a slight wind coming out of the North. My girlfriend caught a keeper sized trout only after about 10 minutes ...
By: justinc210
Posted: 6/29/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got of work early and decided to get some casual relaxing fishing in before dinner time. Started fishing at about 2:30 and caught one on a Rapala right off the bat on the northern side of the island...
By: Dorado
Posted: 4/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After Saturdays adventure (see report for Washington) we decided to stay close to home and went to Ballinger to test out our new fish finder we never used the day before. There were a few people on t...
By: KingSalmon08
Posted: 2/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the last day of the Seattle Home Show with my dad and checked it out. it was interesting. Came back around 2:30 pm and had a few hours of daylight left so we decided to go fishing somewhere n...
By: justinc210
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the lake for a casual afternoon of fishing starting at 1:00 PM. My buddy and I quickly got into the fish and ended up catching a total of eleven in the next two hours. The fish were all on the sou...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Ballinger from 2:30 to 4:30pm, with the kid. More fish blood was spilled in the porta-bote. Took 30 minutes before we started hooking into them pretty good. One spot seemed to be hot, on the ea...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Nice morning on Ballinger, but a little slow for action, from 7:45am to 1pm. Released three 11-13 inch trout. Missed a couple more. Tried a green wedding ring for a while, behind some pop gear, but on...
