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By: KGood
Posted: 3/5/2018
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Rock Lake for the first time last Saturday. After reading reports about the dangers the lie below, coupled with cold water, I decided I was going to just troll around to explore the lake t...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 2/20/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We decided a couple of days ago to try Rock Lake for the first time and began hearing about basalt columns just under the surface in multiple locations throughout the lake. We checked out all the sour...
By: BigT
Posted: 2/19/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the lake! It was cold and a little windy to start but fish were biting all the time we were out.
Posted: 2/11/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Water is high and turbid which means the down riggers are useless for now. Fish were keyed into artificials trolled in the top few feet of the water column, specifically a 3" silver rapala. mostly fi...
By: cdadave
Posted: 1/30/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Water was up enough to put in an 18ft alum boat. Fished repelas and flies with the perch flies seeing the most action. 2 out of the 3 of us limited out by 1 pm. Very windy and a biting wind chill. ...
By: BigT
Posted: 12/3/2017
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Best day fishing in a long time! Slayed fish all morning. Got two fish over 20". Largest was a 22".
By: Fishrader
Posted: 12/2/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/1/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the launch ramp @8 am started trolling down left side with my homemade planer board and small gang troll and wedding ring in green @40ft back .two nice bows to start the day around 2...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 10/28/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Rock Lake yesterday. Initially headed to the north end; but, as was reported earlier this week, that area is full of small planted 'bows. So, we decided to work the eastern shoreline about a...
Posted: 10/25/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
As usual at launch time wind was 13-14mph from the N, complete with foam and whitecaps - made going to the north end
cool in an open boat. All the recent plants have migrated to the north end around ...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 5/29/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Rock Lake last Friday morning. It wasn't lights-out fishing; but, we did ok. Nice 17" steelhead, a 16" bow, and then four rainbows in the 12-13" range. We returned a couple of smaller bows and ...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 4/20/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock Lake for several hours yesterday. The silt content in the water is still higher than I can recall seeing in years past during the month of April. But, that said, fish are being caught. Man...
By: DatCrazyMongoose
Posted: 4/17/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Finally some nice weather, so decided to try my luck at Rock Lake before opening weekend at my favorite hole. Trolled along the northern edge using green perch, brown trout, and silver spinners. Wife ...
Posted: 3/28/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Just like every other body of water in the northwest this spring Rock Lake is blown out. The good news is that the water level had dropped a good foot from the previous weekend so I expect fishing to ...
By: DemiBaggins
Posted: 3/20/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 9 a.m. It was incredibly busy already. Although I am not familiar with this lake, my companion and others we chatted with said that this is the highest the water has ever been...
By: rwl
Posted: 2/17/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had to take advantage of the nice weather for the first fishing since November. Starter battery was dead so used the trolling motor and trolled up about 1/3 then back to the launch, in at about noo...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 2/15/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Rock Lake yesterday a little after 9am. The water is higher than I can remember seeing it for some time (which makes it easier to launch your boat). However, the downside is that there's qu...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 1/24/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Guide Dave Grove, who focuses on Lake Roosevelt, had requested an OG1 lure in a perch color. I'd made a couple for him and continued to refine the pattern. Yesterday, good friend Stan Miller and I put...
By: tomconant
Posted: 12/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day to go fishing, no wind. On the water by 8 and off by 9:30.
had a limit of rainbows and steelhead. fish getting pretty good sized 14- 16"
going to have to get a bigger frying pan.
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 12/21/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock Lake from apx. 1:45pm until 4pm. Testing a new perch-colored OG1 and pitting it against the tried-and-true colors that have been effective on Rock (fluorescent orange and fluorescent pink)...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 11/12/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The steelhead, that Washington Fish and Game planted in Rock Lake, are starting to put on some mass! We hit the lake yesterday to test a new color pattern (fluor. pink stripe with translucent body and...
By: fishinPA2016
Posted: 10/31/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/30/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Took out the johnboat to fish Rock Lake, as the larger motor boat has been winterized. Overcast but not raining. Winds were light, but there was still a bit of a chop on the main part of the lake. I...
By: brent338
Posted: 10/28/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Decided it was time to hit rock, wanted to let the steelhead get a lil more size to them than earlier this year... Despite the 5hp kicker deciding to take the day off(flooded beyond restart), i still...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 10/26/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We launched the drift boat around 10am yesterday on Rock. Beautiful fall day!
By the end of the day, we had two limits (5 apiece). Of these 10 fish, 9 were steelhead plants. The other was a rainbow...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Ran a quick test of the three new freshwater colors that are featured on our Old Goat Lures blog . Since I'm fishing out of a drift-boat, with a small electric trolling motor, I limited my tests to th...
By: ChuckVH
Posted: 10/5/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went to Rock Lake to get some steelhead action. The report last week said they were in the 16 inch range and biting well. Now the question was, are they biting this week.
So with th...