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By: Stansjoy
Posted: 4/12/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Friend Pete called Thursday nite to tell me that trips had been planted at Green Lake, so that was our target this week. Arrived at lake at 6:00 AM (southwest shoreline near crew house), Pete already ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Anxious to get out and try for some of the trips recently planted in Silver Lake, as friend Pete had knocked 'em dead earlier in the week, catching three of the "biggies" on Wednesday. Met Pete at 6:0...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 3/30/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I've been out of the country for a couple of weeks, just returned on Wednesday and was hankering to do some trout fishing, so gave Pete a call and we decided to hit Green Lake on Saturday morning. Met...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Friend Pete called earlier in the Saturday AM to let me know that Spring stocking had begun at ol' Green Lake... been so busy lately that I missed the report. Change of plans, and met Pete at 6:30 AM ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 3/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing the W. Wash. lowland lakes has been bleak the past month or so, but venturing out for a Saturday morning effort is better than watching the boob tube... or tackling the "hunny do" list, so Pet...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 2/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Picked up Pete at o'dark thirty and headed for Flowing Lake to try for some of that 5000+ bonanza of Rainbows planted in December. Got to the lake a bit after 7:00 AM, at the county park on the north ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 1/25/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Flipped our coin and we decided to fish Silver Lake on what was supposed to be a cloudy day. Met Pete at the Lake at 7:00 AM, chose a spot on the beach and had our lines in the water by 7:20. Air temp...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 1/19/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't been to Flowing Lake since I was about 10 years old, over fifty years ago, for a family picnic. Wanted to try some new waters, get familiar with the lake for future fishing expeditions. Fished...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 1/11/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't been able to get out fishing since 1/1/14, and getting a little "antsy"... rivers blown out, so targeted good ol' Green Lake. Got up at o'dark thirty and saw that the barometer was in freefall...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 1/1/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! What a great day of fishing and "catching" at Silver Lake. I am considering not fishing another day in the year 2014, 'cause it just don't get no better than this... JUST KIDDING!!!
Picked up Pe...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 12/25/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What an awesome, glorious Christmas morning at Lake Ballinger!
Very hectic work schedule with the holidays the past few weeks, then several family get-togethers with dozens of grandchildren and tons ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 12/15/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to try new (for me) waters this weekend, so picked up my friend Pete and headed for Silver Lake. Arrived at o'dark thirty (7:00 AM) and were set up and fishing by 7:30. A chilly 43 degrees at t...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 12/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Let friend Pete choose which area we would fish today... he chose the 65th St. dock. Arrived at 6:45, Pete and another fisherman (Eric) already on the dock... joined them and had lines in the water by...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 11/23/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A beautiful Fall day to be out fishing... got to the lake at about 7:00 AM, a very chilly 32 degrees upon arrival. Water temp at the shoreline was 51 degrees. Set up one rig with Power Eggs (fl. orang...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 11/17/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake B. to target some of the Fall and Winter Cutthroat that move into the lake from Lake Washington. Arrived at about 7:00 AM, lines in the water by 7:15. Temp at outset was a chilly 37 degre...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 11/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! Green Lake remains HOT for Rainbow Trout... well, maybe Orange, 'cause that's the color Power Eggs they were hitting today. Forecast of rain and heavy winds in the afternoon, plus a plummeting ba...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/26/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Green Lake continues to produce some hot, hot, hot fishing for big Rainbow Trout. Met friend Pete at the lake at 7:00 AM... temp a balmy 50 degrees, not a breeze. Water temp at the shoreline was 57 de...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/23/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got home from work a bit earlier than usual... couple of difficult days and needed to unwind... sooo, decided to head to Lake B. to see if the Cutthroat were interested in my offerings. Chilly, foggy/...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
If WDFW was interested in stirring up some Fall fishing activity by these Fall plants of new fish, they succeeded in spades!!! Met Pete at the lake at 7:00 AM, lines in the water at 7:15. Fellow WA La...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/12/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Rainbow Trout fishing at Green Lake remains RED HOT!! Met Pete at the lake at 7:00AM, had our lines in the water by 7:15. Temp at outset was a chilly 45 degrees with nary a breeze. Water temp was 57 ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/5/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! Trout fishing is back in Western Washington!!! Met my friend, Pete, at Green Lake to try to get our trout fishing mojo back. Been pretty bleak since early July. Met at 7:00 AM at the north end of...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/4/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My wife, Boni, had surgery earlier in the week, so I, being the almost perfect husband, was nursing her back to health... waiting on her "hand and foot", catering to her every whim... just being perfe...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 9/30/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Don't fish much on a Sunday, but my youngest son, Wes, and I had promised ourselves to get together this Fall. With full time college and a busy work schedule, Sunday was only day available. Caught th...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 9/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Picked up friend Pete and headed north to try some trout fishing. Been verrry slow in the westside lakes for a couple of months now... water temps have been running in high 60's and low 70's. Got to G...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 9/24/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hadn't fished the Green yet this year, but got home early from work and decided to take a trip south to give it a go. Arrived at about 3:00 PM, just about at low tide. Fished at Tukwila, under the I-5...