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By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/22/2025
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/22/2025
Hot Spots: 0
Skunked again at the west medical boat launch. People said nobody had gotten bites before I got there, nobody had bites while I was there. Got there around 10am and left around noon. Bottom fishing ...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/22/2025
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/22/2025
Hot Spots: 0
Skunked! Bottom fishing from shore with powerbait. I got my line the water around 6:30am and it was 49 degrees with a low variable wind. I started at the far South east end and moved closer to the f...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/16/2025
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2025
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing from shore at the launch. There was a "father and son" there when I arrived. I set up at one of the big rocks a bit east of them. I caught two 7 inchers. They caught a few, one decent sized....
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/16/2025
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/25/2025
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at 6am, water was pretty murky. Fishing from shore at the northern end of the launch area. Slow fishing but did catch two decent sized one, both about the same size. Was using yellow (corn) p...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/16/2025
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/15/2025
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the launch at 4:15am. Was a beautiful morning with a light mist still over most of the lake. A few fish topped, a couple not too far from shore. I was using powerbait on a size 12 gold treb...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/16/2025
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/15/2025
Hot Spots: 0
After getting skunked at the West Medical boat launch, tried the rocky bank (east side) of Fish Lake. I talked with some of the people there while walking the bank and hardly anyone had caught anythin...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/16/2025
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2025
Hot Spots: 0
Tried night fishing at the Johnson Swimming Hole west of Tum Tum. Didnt get a single bite and got snagged on the bottom or weeds a lot. Broke our line a lot.
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/16/2025
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2025
Hot Spots: 0
Secret lake that was once private but now the state owns all the land around it. Some know of it but not many. Hike in lake with no launch, about maybe 10 acres. Beautiful area. Was fishing for trout ...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 7/12/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Ive been having really bad luck bank fishing at the boat launch. Water has been up above the cement sidewalk so have been fishing the north end of the launch area. Ive used just about every powerbai...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Tree 11, where else? Tried using a powerbait color that worked well a couple years back (last time I was there) but nothing, then an elderly cuple motored up and was knocking them dead. All I could ...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 1
a HUGE thank you to papamike for stearing me in the right direction on this lake. I took my 6yr son again promising better fishing than last time. We had rented a boat again from Klink's but this ti...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 1
I took my 6yr old to Williams as he hadnt been in a boat fishing since he was 3. I should have looked at the topo map before leaving home. My son was using a gold & perch patterned kastmaster and I ...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/25/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 2
I got my pontoon in the water about 8:30am, nobody was on the north end of the lake. It wasnt very far when I caught my first rainbow on a damsel fly but was only about 8" so released it and I knew f...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 7/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well got to the lake about 7pm and it was pretty warm out. There was a family already there with the husband who had just launched his float tube, three kids at the bank, and the wife watching over t...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 7/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I was "low censused" at work meaning not enough work to have all of us there and I was the unfortunate one asked to stay home....in a way though I get an extra day off.....in another, my paycheck is a...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
something woke me up at 4:30am and I decided it would be a great time to go hit a lake. It came down to Horseshoe or Williams but I didn't feel like the long drive so I went to Horseshoe...I should h...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Because I worked evening shift the night before, I got a late start since I had to pack everything up. I left Deer Park about 11:30 and got to the lake around 12:30. I would have made it there soone...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Took my son up to the lake to try to actually be able to catch something decent. Spent about 4 hours total starting about 12:30p. We only ended up catching a couple 12" tench on worms and marshmallo...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I picked up my son from pre-school, took him to Salty Dogs in Deer Park for dinner, then we headed to Bear Lake after we stopped to get some worms. BTW I guess they are charging now....with the offic...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son to West Medical. First tried from shore at the public launch but not even the blue gill would bite. So I spent the $4.00 and took him over to the dock. There was a guy with this grandau...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I hate giving this late a 2 but I only caught one fish the entire time I was on the lake so instead I'm giving it a 3 (see below). From what Marc was saying they were down deep and hitting slow green...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 5/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Was up in Metaline with my wife and son visiting my mom for mother's day and took my son down to the city boat lunch for an hour or so. It had been raining pretty good all morning and pretty windy bu...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Since I missed opening weekend due to attending a respiratory care conference in Seattle....I thought I would try to get in some fishing prior to working night shift. It was sunny and warm when I lef...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 3yr old to Bear Lake today. The water was up about 6 inches, enough to make you have to wade up above your shoes to get on the dock so we fished from shore instead. We got a couple strong bi...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 4/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 3yr old son to the Pend Oreille River at the Metaline City boat launch. Last summer I was hitting smallies really well here with just a worm on the bottom but today it was dead. The water wa...