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Rattlesnake Lake Report
King County, WA

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06/12/2016
61° - 65°
Trolling With Fly
Rainbow Trout
Nymph
Green
Cloudy
Sinking Fly Line
Morning
61° - 65°
06/13/2016
3
1467

We hit the Water at 9 am and fished until 2 pm. Bite was pretty steady all day. We caught small steelhead - mostly 8 to 10 inchers. They hit good and fought hard even though they were small. We had 15 steel head and one nice Rainbow- fat 13 incher. We had a lot of Drive - by's so we had a lot of action. We found many schools of fish with fish finder. The hot fly was a green body nymph with a red bead head and red tail. By noon the lake was busy with kayakers and lots of picnics and hikers/walkers. Still there was plenty of room on the water for fishermen. We trolled all day but we did see a fair amount of surface activity- so a Dry fly might have worked too but we did not try it.


Comments

Scheindogg
6/14/2016 8:34:00 AM
Steelhead are Rainbows, they are same species. But Steelhead go to the sea and come back, like a salmon. So wouldn't those have all been rainbow? I'm guessing the bigger ones were holdovers from last years stock and the smaller ones this years stock? Not trying to be rude I just don't see how a steelhead could make it all the way to rattlesnake lake
Scheindogg
6/14/2016 8:34:00 AM
Steelhead are Rainbows, they are same species. But Steelhead go to the sea and come back, like a salmon. So wouldn't those have all been rainbow? I'm guessing the bigger ones were holdovers from last years stock and the smaller ones this years stock? Not trying to be rude I just don't see how a steelhead could make it all the way to rattlesnake lake
Ian Horning
6/14/2016 10:54:00 AM
These steelhead are in fact steelhead, just fish planted in lakes because the hatchery lawsuit prevented their planting in rivers.
Scheindogg
6/14/2016 12:39:00 PM
Ok thanks for info, sorry if I came off as a know it all I was just un informed ??
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Phone: (509) 687-0709