Northwest Fishing Reports

As far as lures, I stick to either a dropshot with a 3-4 inch bait or a grub/sculpin/crawdad on a football type jighead about 1/4 - 1/2 oz. A small chunk of crawler always helps too.

This is basically my home lake although panfish are usually my preferred species. There are plenty of lunker smallies in there that can be had this time of year. Some other foods to consider are sculpin and crawdads and those are stickleback minnows fyi. I would focus on the ends of main lake points...

I used to fish that lake quite a bit and have had some truly epic days fishing this time of year. Back when there was a little resort with dock I would fish from the dock using micro jigs 1/80 oz. in standard red/white, yellow white etc. and a fixed bobber set pretty deep 6-8 ft or near bottom. The ...

Another possible reason to the mushy effect is how they are cooked. Seems simple enough but if your frying whole rather than fillets you must cook the crappie a bit longer. I prefer mine filleted but also enjoy crunching some fins too. Fried right a headed and gutted crappie can be quite firm.

i guess this one is for Mike S. the fisheries biologist. Crocker lake in Jefferson county. I remember it being good then suddenly shut down. The rumors i heard were northern pike were found in the lake.Any truth to that and any chance of it re-opening?

i concur. There are slab crappie all over western washington. My two personal best washington crappie (14'') came from jefferson county.

that is too bad. Sprague was definately one of the best walleye lakes in the state and awesome panfish to boot. Arent there enough trout lakes already.

dont overlook lake washington. Gene coulon park on south end has massive dock. Also five mile lake in fed way used to have a dock (not sure now), Cassidy lake snohomish county has small dock on east side. There are times you can do well at sammamish right off boatlaunch docks.

What is up with sprague lake? Last i heard the wdfw was going to replant with walleye after the other species were established.Wasnt the original restocking like six or seven years ago? Ive seen reports of the panfishing being almost non existent. What happened? This used to be my favorite mixed bag...