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By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/7/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2009
Hot Spots: 1
I met up with "Returnofthefish" (John) at Bitter lake.This lake is usually such a no-brainer for rock bass. We started of trolling and casting a 3" green grub that I like. John had a couple of hits...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again in search of some of the LMB I know are in bitter lake...all I got on my senko was some rock bass. I tried some drop shotting and got nothing, threy some spinner...nothing...trolled som...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started off the evening trying to get used to using a senko and drop shotting a plastic power bait worm. A largemouth about 10-12 inches got off. Almost got him to the boat but didnt set the hook beca...
By: bubba2
Posted: 7/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I drove by Bitter lake once before and decided to put my float tube in @ about 7pm. I started trolling several different lures around the lake for trout with no luck. Then I started throwing my spinn...
By: lando
Posted: 6/24/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to have a relaxing day of fishing, but it started out frustrating! The weather seemed to play a big part in it, first it was sunny 62 degress, later on rain and wind, and then at the end of th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/14/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Just heard about Bitter Lake, so I decided to do a quick trip there to check it out. There were three other groups of people there fishing already, so it was pretty crowded on the limited open space ...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/29/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for about an hour, from the shores of the park, until it got dark. Released 4 unlucky little largemouth bass.
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 2
Wow, tonight was a blast on Bitter lake. I launched the tube at about 6:45 pm. I usually go with small grub plastics trolled behind the tube. This time I went with 5" Senkos which I would cast over...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Bitter Lake from 08:00 to 13:00. Most of the time, I was the only angler in a boat. There we a few bank anglers. Glorious sunny, low wind morning to be out. Water temp went from 64 to 67.
St...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I had been on Martha lake, (Alderwood Manor) for about 3 hours with only some bites to speak of.... So, on the way home I stopped into Bitter lake for a quick once around in the tube.
It was windy...
By: Gonefishing
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The only thing I hate about recently planted trout is how small they are (at least in Bitter Lake). Fish ranged from 6 to 8 inches.
This was the 4th trip to Bitter Lake and I was already beyond bi...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/29/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Nice sunny day for a change, snow seems to have stopped, LOL. Went down to Bitter. As usual slowly trolled the perimeter of the lake, about 50' from shore. I do best here with a green plastic grub....
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/11/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Did my usual quick evening outing to Bitter. The rock bass fishing seems to have really died off right now. i trolled the whole lake,just off of the lillies, also i throw some crainkbaits for the oc...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 1
It's been a busy day, after a 3 hour return drive from fishing Patterson lake in Okanogan county, I found myself at Bitter lake looking for some more LMB. I think I've got this lake dialed in with ju...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 7/20/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go back out to Bitter lake since it's close, and I always re-read a guys report from last year with a size-able LMB.
So anyway, I left all my comfort baits at home, and brought nothing bu...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/21/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Fished bitter lake tonight from my float tube. This is lake is my go-to hitter for easy to catch simple rock bass. I put in at the park, and slow dragged a worm under a bobber along the entire shore...
By: anakpinoy4
Posted: 6/11/2008
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Bitter about 7ish. Water was dead calm with a very slight breeze coming from the south. I tried fishing trout in my normal spot on the SW end of the lake 35-40 yards off shore with a 2' leade...
By: anakpinoy4
Posted: 5/20/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2008
Hot Spots: 2
I finally found success with this lake landing a 14" trout using the 3' chandelier approach with 2 pink power eggs and a powerbait nugget shaped skinny kinda like a short and fat worm. I cast my lure...
By: anakpinoy4
Posted: 5/20/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the lake at 5:30 am and it was raining pretty good. I started out on the south shore of the lake near the swimming area with no luck. I used a 3 foot leader with Berkley Pink Power Eggs and...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Two of us started trolling on Bitter lake about 7:30 am. After about an hour, boated two planter trout using small roostertails: chartreuse as well as black. About 9:30 am, anchored and switched to bo...
By: JoeC.
Posted: 4/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great afternoon at Bitter Lake today. Fished the South shore, and caught 5 nice rainbows 10-11".
I was using a light spinning outfit, so I had a lot of fun.
I had most success with 1/...
By: Dorado
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of buddies and myself met at Bitter Lake for the late afternoon bite (which didn't exist). The weather was partly sunny with a pretty brisk wind blowing couldn't of been more than 44 degrees...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/26/2008
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Was fishing today again from 11am to 12pm.Did not see anybody else .Got my limit of 5 rainbows ,same size 10-11" and went to work.It was kind a cold but fishing was good and enjoyable again.Don't k...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/25/2008
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
If be honest I fished this lake for 1st time even I've lived in this truly great city of Emerald City Of Seattle for 13 years . I fished this lake on 03.23 -03.24 and today 03.25.2008.And it was just...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Bitter lake this afternoon from about 3:00-6:00 pm. I'll start off saying I didn't have a single bite. I put in at the public hand launch area, and as usual I work my way down and all a...