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By: G-Man
Posted: 6/17/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Well another Lake Washington Cutthroat derby is in the books. I fished the morning hours and knocked off around 10:00 run in and help setup the reception and weigh-in at Coulon Park. The morning bit...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Having purchased a new tow vehicle, I decided to give it a mountain pass trial and make it a day at Lake Kachess. The plan was to launch at the Forest Service park and run down south towards the dam ...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 7/6/2018
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take advantage of the favorable midday tide and drop my pots in the sound for the first time this summer. Traffic was light and I rolled into Shilshole at around 10:00am and was able launc...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 6/20/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for my early morning outing during the Lake Washington trout derby put on the Renton chapter of Puget sound Anglers. I hadn't planned to fish the derby, my intention was to help out af...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 6/3/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
In keeping with my plan to target deeper water this weekend, I headed north from the Newport launch and set up for a troll near Dabney point on out towards the weather station. Half an hour later I w...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 5/29/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake again to scout the waters in preparation for the upcoming derby. I decided to stay in the south end of the lake and target waters between 40' and 70' deep. The lure I used today was a g...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 5/20/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a while since I last had the boat out on the lake and decided it was time for my annual spring scouting expedition to check the conditions and see where the fish have staged themselves. Fir...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 10/14/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to give the Lake coho fishery one last try before bagging it for the season. The lake is definitely down to its normal “low pool” level for the winter months and the surface temps have droppe...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 6/24/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Was able to get out on an off Friday and wanted to check the new 520 bridge area for left over submerged buoys/anchor lines after the construction clean-up. It would appear they did a pretty good job...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 1/6/2017
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
With the weather being so nice, I could not stay off the water. Had a late start after spending some time with a new member to the site and his new boat. He was working on his "backing the trailer s...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 12/30/2016
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/30/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Had a starter issue with the main motor so we decided to stay close to the launch and headed down the East Channel, using the kicker, looking for marks on the sonar. Found some straight across from P...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 11/28/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Aided by a belly full of food from the previous day's festivities, I slept in long enough to have the sunlight wake me up in the morning. A cold morning to be sure but clear as a bell and not a hint ...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 11/14/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Been a couple of weeks since I last hit the lake and it wasn't looking good with high winds and rain forecast to move in this weekend. This morning a quick check of the WSDOT 520 bridge conditions sh...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 6/14/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well this excursion almost didn’t happen. I was taking a hard look at running down to Beacon Rock as it was just opened upstream to the dam to boat fishing. Had Sockeye been opened at the same time,...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 5/30/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After taking my wife to the airport this morning, I decided to hit the lake early before picking up my fishing partner from Luther Burbank Park. The wind was fairly stiff at and out of the southwest ...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 5/29/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The lake has been hit or miss lately and today was a pretty good hit. Fished for about three hours in the late morning and brought a handful of fish to the boat and lost a few more. We targeted the ...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Finally a Saturday with winds below 20mph! So today we headed to the north side of Mercer Island to see if we could capture some cutts for the UW tagging program. I had an inkling that the weather p...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Met my fishing partner at the Newport launch around 9:15, as the wind was really blowing out of the south, we decided to start fishing the east channel north of the I-90 high rise. I started off drag...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 3/27/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Late start today, got on the water around 10:45 and motored to the north side of Mercer Island. The lake is in full bloom and the surface temps were all between 52 and 53 degrees. I started off trol...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 3/14/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to chance a trip to the Lake despite the forecast for high winds. When I launched the winds just started to pickup and the rain was nothing more than a heavy mist. I fished the lee side of...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 2/16/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If I didn't know any better I'd swear it was May. The surface temps on the lake have just about broken the 50 degree mark and just wearing a rain jacket over my long sleeve shirt was too much to bear...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 12/13/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It had been a while since I last fished the lake, or wet a line for that matter. Finally with some good weather forecast and the remnants of my lingering cold all but gone, I headed out this morning ...
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