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By: fishermick
Posted: 3/29/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/28/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Hit the water about 10am with my buddy and is wife. It was my friends birthday, so a perfect day to be on the water. Action was good. A lot of fish surfacing on the NW side of the lake. We tried diffe...
By: Fudly
Posted: 3/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/10/2013
Hot Spots: 3
WDFW stocked Lake Nahwatzel last week with about 5500 12 oz rainbows and it was time to get back out there. I've fished plenty during the winter but that was less fishing and more battling the weathe...
By: Fudly
Posted: 10/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/13/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Decided to quick fish at Nahwatzel on Saturday. Little did I know what I had in store. Started by trolling straight out from the launch and got a quick big bite on the line. Reeled it right to the ...
By: Fudly
Posted: 10/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
WDFW stocked Nahwatzel with 1100 2lb fish a week and a half ago and the word is out. There were a lot of fisherman out there on the docks and trolling around. My brother and I went out for the eveni...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
With high hopes made the 1 1/2 hour drive to Lake Nahwatzel. Terrible. The weather guesser said sunshine. Right!!! Found the lake shrowded in clouds and fog, along with a cold stiff wind. Never saw th...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't get to post this on Sat., been a hectic weekend with a clam dig on Monday(last one of the year, only day on north beaches) , beautiful weather, sunny and warm, easy digging with limits of big c...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got Melanie on that big one today, 4 lbs. +. Watched an osprey catch a trout only to have a pair of bald eagles jump him and make him drop it. As a wildlife photographer who specializes in raptors I w...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 9a.m., decided to use the electric motor instead of the outboard, set speed low and paddled to vary presentation speed. trolled the east side of lake with homemade wedding rings wit...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Melanie caught that large fish today, a little smaller then yesterday's but a nice fish!Rest of limit was good, total of 3 over 14, rest were from 10 t0 13.Nice to get 3 out of 4 for that only 2...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water, 68 degrees(!), a little breezy but a warm wind. We started out at the ocean digging two days worth of razors Sat, and Sunday, great size and easy digging!Came home, unloaded cl...
By: christophertroy
Posted: 3/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
here's the pics. it took me a minute to figuare out how to post them.
By: christophertroy
Posted: 3/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 3/8 and 3/9/2012 caught some nice fish, the biggest was 15 3/4 inches. Nice tasting trout.
By: Bob R
Posted: 2/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Onhly one fish today, it's been really slow with the cold winter, lake was at 43 degrees, nice fish, though. 13 inches.Getting REAL tired of cold weather.Trolling has been at least as slow as still fi...
By: Bob R
Posted: 1/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished both Sat. and Sunday, but report for Sunday is same as Sat.On Sat. it rained slightly, I didn't limit but my wife did. I caught large fish at 15 inches,, we had a visitor that day, really shook...
By: fishermick
Posted: 12/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decent day on Nahwatzel. 1st time on lake. 0 luck trolling(wind, rain and lots of bailing) between 2 people. Caught some fish from shore. Truly amazed @ what I found in the stomach of a 14" trout. 4 P...
By: fishin4 5
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a nice day on the lake with my nephew and boys. We fished for 4 hours and caught between 12 to 15 largemouth. Although the numbers were lowering than previous years the average size was better. ...
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Average day, took while to catch 7 fish, all still fishing although we tried trolling still fishing was the ticket, although I saw someone catch one of those 3lb. + trout we helped plant while trollin...
By: annie9330
Posted: 5/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my hubby dropped in about 1130 am I got a tug about 20 minutes in and pulled in the only fish of the day. It rained a bit. And about 3pm we pulled out. I used a full sinking type 3 line and...
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day, wife and I decided to catch some fish in the sun for a change, limited in about 4 hrs. Big fish was a rainbow of 3 lbs, 9 ozs. A brood stock cut was one of the biggest cuts I've ever caught,...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty good fishin. Caught five trout all good sized. Fished on the 30th as well with 12 fish kept between the 3 of us. 2 Really nice ones, both over 5lbs. I will say the people on the lake were pr...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 10 released 5 in 3hrs. Overall great day!
By: Art.newsome
Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Great day at Nahwatzel! My buddy landed one 18" and one 20" . Most of the fish caught on powerbait and a few off of worms. Tight lines..
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we went out to see if we could catch any of the fish we helped process from hatchery yesterday,we caught 3 but it's difficult to tell if they were from yesterday's plant or 3 or 4 weeks ago.The ...
By: tfguy
Posted: 4/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Nahwatzel early Saturday. The cold and pre-fish check by the game warden jinxed us, we did not get one bite! The three other boats also had the same story. Any tips for this lake when the weathe...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another cold morning, this nice 4lb 7 oz fish was one of two my wife,Melanie, caught, other was smaller hold over (12 inches )Melaie did a great job of keeping this fish from wrapping her line around ...