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Cranberry Lake Report
Island County, WA

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05/19/2008
Top Fishing From Shore
Rainbow Trout
Power Eggs
Other
Hook & Bait
Evening
05/19/2008
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Took my 3 year old son out for a evening fishing trip and wow, with in the first 2 minutes of casting out from the dock he got his first one nice 16" rainbow. we were there for about 2 hours and he landed 7 equal size fish with 2 missed hits. All fish were returned safely as I am trying to teach him that when you release they will be even bigger next year. surprisingly for a 3 year old he actually caught on to the lesson. over all great day!! lots of fun for my little guy. btw we were using sunburst power eggs on 18" leader with a 3/4 oz weight lofted as far out as we could go. gonna head back out in the morning by myself to play around with the fly rod a little bit.
good luck out there guys! hope this helps somebody a little bit.

monkey


Comments

Demonknight
5/20/2008 4:30:00 PM
Sounds nice..might have to hit it myself.. tomorrows one of my days off so no plans as of yet.
Dave
5/22/2008 2:02:00 PM
Wow, I've been fishing this lake for 30 years (including a trip there this morning 05-22-08) and have never heard of someone catching 7 - 16 inch carryovers at one time there. What's your secret? I'm also impressed that you were able to release all 7 of these large fish using bait which almost always results in the fish swallowing the hook. I'm surprised you didn't encounter any of the 7,052 - 9 to 10 inch 1/4 pound plants that were released in this lake on April 1st. Except for one 16 inch fish I caught this morning, all of the fish I encountered (10 total) were plants. Sounds like you must have found the honey hole. I've never had much luck near that public dock. I know the lake is very shallow there, 10 feet tops till you get out towards the center of the lake near the entrance to the camp ground or if you are fishing along the road where it is between 20 and 24 feet deep. Interesting report. Thanks for the info.
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