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By: Bob R
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
COLD morning, 31 degrees at the launch, still, Melanie pulled in two nice fish, larger being 4 lbs.I managed to not be skunked with a smaller (13 inch) trout, Change in weather put an end to the bite....
By: CCAdventurer
Posted: 1/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Checked out lake Nahwatzel, was kind of nice weather considering what we have been getting recentl, water temperature was 38 degreess F with lots of rain. I tried trolling had no luck with any of my ...
By: Bob R
Posted: 1/16/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and i thought we'd have a little window between raindrops for a much needed fishing trip, tough fishing, I was skunked but melanie caught two, this being the larger. 3.5 lbs. after bleeding, w...
By: thenextone
Posted: 8/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to hood canal to salmon fish in the morning, decided to stop at Nahwatzel caught the last 3 hours of sunlight and just slammed em. landed about 12 LMB, Best five over 20lbs caught most on d...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Nahwatzel with my cousin for his birthday and did well. We caught about 25 fish, most about a pound. My cousin had the hot rod and landed 2 fish over 3 lbs. one almost 4. Not bad considering i...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 3/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my roommate Josh hit the lake at 5 am, first ones on the water! Fished along the shore with a silver shad plug, Josh nailed a few, one nice 14 inch Cutt. Tried trolling a wedding ring for a l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled lake starting 6:20am till 1:45. Started with wedding ring and black woolybugger, dad used green most of day.. Picked up 3 within 5min on water.. Breese picked up found shelter. About 9am state...
By: Bob R
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to lake with wife about 7;15a.m., one hit trolling wedding ring but no hook-up, anchored up and limited in about 3 1/2 hours, nice fish, a couple of 14's, rest were about 12 inches, weather was ju...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bluster day rain then sun then rain. Two nice 13 ~14inch rainbows. One with nice pink meat. Must try to cast past or next to floats in front of lauch..Good day 2 relax, sorry no photos unless you woul...
By: grampasaurus
Posted: 3/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I hit the lake about 11am and trolled for 2 hours w/o a single strike. We tried wedding rings of various colors, small willow leaf gang trolls and a few other odds-n-ends with worms. At ...
By: CCAdventurer
Posted: 3/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had the fever to fish, though I can't say much for the weather that was cloudy, rainny, windy, with occasional calm spell moments on the water. I tried trolling with wedding rings and notice success...
By: Bob R
Posted: 2/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I went to our favorite winter lake, fishing was a little slow at times but we did manage to get 9 fish, the last one (mine, of course) was really hard , we had trolled before we settled do...
By: atlastfishing
Posted: 2/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with the wife for a couple of hours with no luck, tried trolling with wedding rings no luck, then still fishing with power bait again no luck. But we did have a good time on the water!
By: TBone
Posted: 1/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Never fished the lake we arrived there around 8:30, went straight out from the launch about 50 yds and had a bite, missed that one so we continued on close to shore and the other rod went of and he la...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake at about 3pm. I used blue/green powerbait with a 2.5 foot leader. Most of my bites occured within a minute of being casted. I ended up catching 3 14.5-15 inch rainbows and 2 12 inc...
By: BrettW
Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished both Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. Both days were very productive. Numerous fish including largemouth and pumpkinseed fish were caught. One guy I talked to caught a 24 inch rainbow e...
By: BrettW
Posted: 6/14/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Today, I just casted a half of a worm with a slow retrieve. In the 2 hours and 10 minutes that I fished, I ended up catching 10 small sized pumpkin seed fish( Lepomis gibbosus) and a good sized 12 inc...
By: CCAdventurer
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Showed up at the lake at around 3 PM. It was sunny and breezy and a little cool. Trolled from a 9 foot aluminum sled with a fishing buddy using wedding rings and worms. Caught a couple of fish but re...
By: BrettW
Posted: 3/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to the lake on Saturday. We got there pretty late. We fished for an hour and a half which ended at dusk. I caught two of the rainbow trout both about 14 inches. My dad caught a 13 to 13.5 i...
By: Bob R
Posted: 3/23/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day with my wife Melanie at 7:15, air temp. was 27, water temp 42. Caught 7 cuts and 3 rainbows, the state must have stocked some brood stock lately. After 7 hours of trolling we limited o...
By: BrettW
Posted: 3/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I caught my first cutthroat trout on Saturday. Because it was 37 degrees and a snow/rain mix, we only stayed for about an hour. We were using a half worm with rainbow powerbait combo with a four foot ...
By: BrettW
Posted: 3/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday I went to Lake Nawahtzel with a friend of mine. The fish would not stop biting. We both limited out in about 2 hours and 30 minutes. It was cloudy with rain showers. The smallest fish was ab...
By: Coastfishin
Posted: 2/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at about 9:30 A.M., The weather was partly cloudy turning to mostly sunny in the afternoon.
Water temp. was between 37 and 39 degrees.
We tried some senkos and jigs for bass but didn...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/9/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
On Sunday my dad and I went out to Lake Nawahtzel. Third time in the last month. I had 5 bites but no fish. I think it was because I was using such a small hook. I did however bring a fish in to the...
By: clark&lewis
Posted: 2/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
After seeing they planted fish at Nahwatzel, I decided to make a trip from Seattle. Never been to the lake so I left the house early to enjoy a day fishing and thinking I would get lost at least once....