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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2002
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I caught 6 small rainbows averaging 8" between 6:30 pm and 7:45 pm
using a size 8 six pack fly on floating line. I hooked four in the
southeast corner and two in the north end near the inlet creek....
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: 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: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/1/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my boat out on Lake Ballinger tonight for it's maiden voyage. Had a blast of a time... compared to my previous Bayliner Capri, this 14 ft. Lund was a breeze in and out of the water. The M...
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: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 10/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got home from work and the rain has stopped for awhile, so I took the dogs and ran over to Ballinger for awhile. Tried different colors of PB from the bottom and nothing was interested, so I switched...
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: 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: Art of the Mix
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the dock. They were jumping all around and even following my lures, but could not manage to land one. No luck for the other folks on the dock either, who were bottom fishing and sending ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to Ballinger about 1400 and fished off the dock, little windy so I grabbed my pole setup for lures. Met another man fishing using lures and had the same train of thought due to the winds. He...
By: CaffOMHW
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I arrived at the lake a little before noon. Went out to the dock were there were already 2 people fishing. The water was calm, very little wind and overcast. I stayed till 3:00. I caught 1 and had 2 o...
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: CaffOMHW
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at 4:00. It was slow going at first but there was a good bite today between 5:30-6:30. I landed 3 and others on the dock were caching 1 or 2 themselves. Seems that using a white powere...
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...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I attempted to go out on Lk. Wa. for some smallies, but when I got the boat loaded I saw I had a failed tailight... so I packed the float tube out to lk. Ballinger. I put in and headed straight out t...
By: trenika
Posted: 7/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
slow day out on lake ballinger.
caught one about 10 inches with yellow power egg.
By: IEnjoiBreak
Posted: 7/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My cousin, brother and I hit the lake around 6:30 and stayed until about 9:30. There were already a few people at the dock we were gonna fish at but no one had gotten anything so far. The second i w...
By: Malferan
Posted: 7/21/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well still getting a fish a day out of ballinger off the dock,the stinkin things are getting big about 14-16 inches and about a pound per fish
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Ballinger.. (have you ever tried "check spelling" for ballinger?) Funny! ...for the afternoon and early evening bite with the dock boys. The fishing wasn't real hot but everyone caught fish ...
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 9/22/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just dont get it, I have been here for 4 months and have not caught a single fish. This place is just total luck, I will have my pole in for 4 hours, and some guy with come along with the exact same...
Posted: 9/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished for 3 hours with chartreuse power eggs, rainbow PB, Worms and Marshmallows starting at 9:30. I caught 3 trout about 11 to 13 in. They had some little red marks on their bellies so they went ...
By: fishingboy
Posted: 9/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/27/2008
Hot Spots: 1
went out to ballinger all day from 8:30ish to 615: p.m. had no luck only caught was a perch, and several bites from perch and a bite hella far. 80 yards out possibly!
Posted: 10/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I figured that due to the weather I would check out Lake Ballinger from my little boat. After having problems getting the boat off the trailer due to it sticking to the runners and actually goin...
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 1/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went to ballinger when i had a break from classes down at the U to kill some time. I just got a fly rod and figured I would practice my cast and put on a fly and see if anything happens. It was sunny ...
