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Ballinger Lake Report
Snohomish County, WA

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04/23/2009
Stationary Fly Fishing
Rainbow Trout
Green
Noon
04/23/2009
1
814

What a terrible day, I bought a new float tube and was all excited to use it. Pumped up the float tube and set out. Got about 15 feet off the shore and I sank because I didnt put enought air and tighten down the air hole enough... so I got soaking wet and didn't even get the pole in the water yet. So i got mad and decided just to fly fish with my chest waders on from the shore. Didn't even have a single bite. Met a nice guy on one of the benches (he seemed like a regular to that lake) and told me to go to the opposite end to fish with a fly because its really good over there, so i got in my car drove to the other side of the lake to try this spot out. When i got there, there was a 70year old guy with his pole, asked if he caught anything and he got a small 8 incher, didnt even look legal but he was keeping it (really makes me mad when people take that small of fish, let them grow!) and he caught the fish at 9am and it was now 1pm when i talked to him and he hadnt even had a nibble since 9am, so pretty bad day, this lake is cursed.


Comments

fishinoriginal
4/23/2009 7:39:00 PM
It's a planter trout. They're meant to keep...
Gonefishing
4/24/2009 10:03:00 AM
....this lake is cursed (I keep saying that everytime I go dere)
I saw a nice 16.5 inch caught off the shore 2 nights ago but nothing since. Not a nibble, not a surfacer, not a thing.
bluebullitt2003
4/24/2009 11:38:00 AM
ya i know thier planters, just wish people would let them get a little bigger. but anyways i think i need to hit up blackmans
Trout Master
4/24/2009 12:21:00 PM
I wouldnt keep a fish out of the lake, nasty bottom sludge thats is made out of poo. Thats why they stopped the water ski tourneys there, as it was stirring it up. Huge sewage spill there years ago. But the lake can be a great fly lake. Great chronie hatches after 7 pm it can fun.
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