Available Guide

Available Fishing Guide:
Website: Darrell & Dads Family Guide Service

Phone: (509) 687-0709

Quick Links

Ballinger Lake Report
Snohomish County, WA

Details

08/13/2014
Bottom Fishing From Shore
Other
Worms
Hook & Bait
Evening
08/14/2014
4
1458

My second experience with Ballinger was much different. This time rather than casting, I decided to go with the herd and fish on the bottom. But I refuse to use powerbait. I have no interest in hatchery trout. I used nightcrawlers.

Well, for a trout lake, I'm not sure what went on last night. Between 8:15 and 9:15 I caught a sculpin, a perch, a pumpkinseed, and a bullhead. Zero trout. Sculpin maybe 3 inches, perch probably 5-6 inches, pumpkinseed even smaller than the sculpin, I have no idea how it got the hook in it's mouth, and the bullhead about 5-6 inches also.

I am the king of catching minnows.

I talked to a guy who said his kid had been out with a bobber and worm in recent times, also off the dock, and caught a similar zoo ... including small mouth bass and bluegill and crappie.

So apparently, this trout lake has all manner of stuff in it, as long as you fish with a worm.

The guy I was talking to was casting a big plastic grub into the lily pads. As with my last trip when I was casting, he got no bites.

Perhaps this weekend I will get my rubber raft out and see what can be found, other than trout, somewhere other than the dock.


Comments

jonb
8/14/2014 7:40:00 PM
try using a corky to float it off the bottom/ ad color to your presentation, i find cutthroats to be quite receptive to this technique. 1/2oz casting sinker free sliding, peg a red or green bead (or swivel if you have no bead) with 3'-5' of line, and tie on a size 6 or 8 octopus or baitholder hook thread 1/2 worm through the hook and up the line to make the worm have a natural appearance in the water. the corky will float your bait as much off the bottom as your leader is long. similar presentation to powerbait, but one can use natural baits like worms, shrimp or salmon eggs in a plunking set up, and often works very well. also will keep fish like sculpins and perch at bay if you are more than 5' off the bottom(sometimes). also try bobber and worm.
Leave a Comment:

Available Guide

Available Fishing Guide:
Website: Darrell & Dads Family Guide Service

Phone: (509) 687-0709