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By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 1
This report covers both Saturday 4/30 and Sunday 5/1. Sixth annual trek to Wapato lake for its trout opener. It was a good year. Would have been nice to catch more fish on Sunday, but others in my bo...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Since the forecasted rain was not much this morning, I walked to the lake again to spin cast. Got started at 06:30, stopped at 10:30. At my first casting spot, at about 06:45, I hooked a stout 13" bro...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Walked down to Green Lake yet again to spin cast from shore. First cast was about 05:50, from the paddle boat dock. Started working clockwise down the east shore. Made it all of the way to the south e...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Walked to Green Lake again for a little exercise and fishin. Started about 07:45, ending about 11:00. Started at the paddle boat dock and worked around clockwise. Visited several other anglers, who re...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 3/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Succesful first boating/fishing trip of the season. Got started about 7:30, fimished about 1:30. Got a whole lota nothing until about 11:00 when I stopped trolling to spin cast near shore in front of ...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a stroll down to the fishin hole for some urban angling action. Fished from 11:30 to 1:30. Mainly stayed just north of the paddle boat rental dock, spin casting a little silver/pink/blue bluefox ...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 9/4/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Quad took me out in his boat to chase cutts off of SE Mercer Is.. Got started when it was just getting light out. Trolled little mini hoochies behind little flashers on downriggers. After a couple hou...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Lake Washington and Lake Union in my portabote. Launched at the UW waterfront activity center. It was a little rainy at first, but the sun did make it out finally. Caught several small b...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 1
Floated the portabote on Lake Stevens for the first time. Started about 6:45. Took a while, but my partner eventually hooked what appeared to be a kokanee, our target fish. But I was slow with getting...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Floated the portabote in little Haller for the first time, and this was only the second time fishing this urban lake. It has VERY little public shore access. I squeezed my bote pass some bushes and bi...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 7/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went after smallies from the shores of Magnuson Park, starting about 6:15am. After about 30 mins of no signs of life, I hook into one of the biggest smallies I have ever felt tugging on my line. I tri...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Quad and I started fishing at Green Lake. But after 3 hours of nothing going after our powerbait or worms, we decided to go after some bass in the ship canal, west of the Fremont bridge. The rain star...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First time fishing at this lake. Two of us got started about 6:15am in the portabote. Got pretty consistent strikes right away and throughout most of the morning. Many strikes with no hookup or someti...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Up early as usual, hanging out on the computer, when I noticed some decent weather out the window. So I decided to take a walk down to the lake for a little exercise, and to see if I could play tug-o-...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished good ol green lake from docks, from 05:45 to 09:45. As soon as I arrived at the dock, I saw fish surfacing all over the waveless lake. So instead of still fishing, I casted spinners. In the fir...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go after the planters at Cottage Lake -- first time in a boat there. Got a late start at 09:30, fished till 13:30. After trying a few lures, the money lure was a custom spinner. About 10:00...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening weekend at Wapato Lake, report 3 of 3. Very little wind on the third day, mostly sunny and pretty warm. Started out with the green then black roostertail that had worked in the previous two da...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening weekend at Wapato Lake, report 1 of 3. Was less windy on the second day, not too cold, and mostly sunny. Did not have much luck this day, but did manage to boat one fish on a black roosterstai...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day at Wapato Lake, report 1 of 3. Was quite windy on the first day, but not too cold otherwise, and mostly sunny. Started out trolling a #2 pink-blue-silver vibrax blue fox. I was getting str...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Walked to the lake with a little tackle box full of lures and a pole. Proceeded to circumnavigate the lake, casting several times at many locations all around the lake, starting at the northeastern co...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 3/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 9am to 2:30pm in the portabote. Fished the first two hours alone, got one srtike, no hookups on wedding ring and worm. After talking with a successful angler on the lake, switched to...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Quad and I fished from about 0800 to 1430 in my portabote. For the first 3 hours we did not catch anything on kastmasters, roostertails, flatfish, rapalas, mepps. Just a few nibbles. Then we switched ...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the dock early again today. Had to wait until it got a little light out to fish. Started out with power eggs/bait off the bottom, but got no action off of that. We saw some fish surfacing so I...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was happy to wake up to no rain this morning, so I setup on the t-dock on the east shore at NE 64th street. Had my power egg/bait combo in the water at 5:45am. Got first nibbles at 6:10, no hook up. T...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 7/11/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Quadfather and I hit up Serene for bass in my portabote. Fished from 6am to about 3pm. Caught and released many baby largemouth bass around the lilypads and docks. Except Quad caught one keeper footlo...
