Search
Washington Fishing Reports
Change View:
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/25/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to purchase a new boat (to me) this past weekend, and I got it into Lake WA. for a shakedown and little bit of fishing.
Wound up with a 2016 Lund Fury 1600. 16’ side console, 40 HP Suz...
By: Cozmo4196
Posted: 3/18/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We had a banner day about this time last year, and I assumed with the warm weather that some fish would be active but I was wrong. We fished Moss Bay and the South End of MI without even a bump. Ran v...
By: G-Man
Posted: 3/17/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Short and sweet... The lake is still alive, but very cold. I fished deep and when I found bait is was around 60' or deeper. Pike Minnow hit right off the bottom in 110' of water. The two cutts came...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 3/2/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2019
Hot Spots: 1
First time out to the big lake for my dad and me this year. Launched out of Bellevue. Lines in at 1100 am fished several different spoons to start, tried a few hard lures and wedding ring dodger com...
By: FishForFood
Posted: 2/13/2019
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/13/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Just wasting some time on the pier at log boom park. Not surprisingly, no bites.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/28/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/27/2019
Hot Spots: 1
The weather forecast said "foggy/cloudy AM with light and variable winds clearing to partly cloudy in the afternoon"... ya, right!
I met up with fishing buddies Robbie and Randy R from NWFR at Newp...
By: aortbahn
Posted: 1/21/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
After reading Carey, and G-man’s reports from the prior weekend, decided to get out this weekend and see if I could duplicate their results. Got on the water Saturday afternoon, launching out of the ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/14/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/13/2019
Hot Spots: 2
Seeing the recent perch reports coming out of Lake Washington, and the amazing winter weather, I had to go check out the winter perch fishery on Lake Washington. My fishing buddy Robbie joined me and ...
By: G-Man
Posted: 1/14/2019
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/13/2019
Hot Spots: 0
If you are a fisherman, you could not have asked for a better winter's day than what mother nature provided today. Bluebird skies, wind non-existent and the mountains in the distance covered in a hea...
By: mrotskoff
Posted: 1/6/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled south of Mercer Island for a couple hours in the afternoon. Only managed to scare up one cutthroat.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/17/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes the best made plans still fall apart...
I set up a Saturday trip with Paul Lewis of Fast Action Guide Service, Randy R, and Robbie from the site. The plan was to spend the day fishing Lak...
By: aortbahn
Posted: 11/12/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After scrolling through a few other good perch reports for Lake Washington a buddy and I decided to take our “observed” Veterans Day and see if there was any good fishing on Washington. Not disappoin...
By: jdp53
Posted: 11/11/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Father-in-law was in town for a visit and it has been about a month since I have gotten out on the water, so we headed down to Lake Washington to get him into some fish. I knew heading in that dayligh...
By: G-Man
Posted: 11/11/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had a couple of hours on Saturday and decided to run to down to the lake and see if I could locate any perch schools a pick up a few for a meal. I spoke with a person at the launch who had fished ...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 11/10/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2018
Hot Spots: 2
After two straight skunks on the big lake I was beginning to wonder. Third time was a BOOYAH! The north end was like a desert. Hit all the regular spots and didnt even mark a fish two times in a row s...
By: odie11974
Posted: 10/23/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day, launched before sunrise in the fog which finally cleared up a bit by mid morning. Ended up with a 4.5 lb smallie and a three lb largemouth.
I really need to learn the winter fishing...
By: que
Posted: 10/16/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had an awesome day on the water fishing the Puyallup Hawg Hunters, Bob Milckelson open tournament. I had the pleasure of fishing with Nicholas Alther, one of my NMI team members . This was the first...
By: DjButler
Posted: 10/11/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fall Cutthroat fishing is in full swing on Lake Wa right now. The lake is starting to turn over, becoming a lot colder on the surface. It dropped about 4 degrees in just over a week.
Most fish are...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/3/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I hit Lake Washington for a shot at some coho. We launch at crack o dawn and ran across the lake to fish the Kirkland slot and off Yarrow Point. Not a lot of fish marks in the slot but Yarro...
By: DjButler
Posted: 9/29/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fall is finally setting in here in the PNW. No better time to Target Lake Washington’s giant Cutthroat Trout.
Started the morning targeting coho but couldn’t get any willing biters. Schools were m...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/24/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/23/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It's hard to give this report a fair rating as we only got to fish for a little over an hour.
JoAnn and I launched out of Magnusen Park and ran over to fish the Kirkland location. There were around...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/21/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After a lengthy debate between the little guys on each shoulder I intervened and decided to submit a report for the opening day of the 2018 Lake Washington coho season. The report is for the opener an...
By: Markin' Fish
Posted: 9/19/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I saw one good report on Lk. Wa. so I thought I would give it a try. In years past I have had better luck in late September/early October on this lake. The fish were scattered in small schools unlik...
By: danyole
Posted: 9/19/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a fun day on the lake. The trip was actually on 9.15, we were trying to find out if the bass started their early fall behaviors. We started a little too deep and wasted about 1 and half dangling o...
By: King me
Posted: 9/16/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
GREAT start to the 2018 Lake Washington Coho season. Fished the Kirkland (Moss Bay) area this morning and the fishing was lights out. Cut plug herring (by itself) and a dodger 16” in front of a char...