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I decided to go out regardless of weather to a secret lake. I had bushwacked into this lake b4 once, but never fished it. I met up with fellow WALAKES angler, Nomad. We carried in float tube, multiple rods, way more gear than we could use, but of course that is how it always goes.
We were targeting bass mostly. Within a couple of casts I caught a 12" lmb, a few minutes later, an 8" lmb. This was throwing a 4" Watermelon and Chartruese senko type worm. the largies were caught pretty close to the shoreline, in maybe 6" of water. I also through some crank baits, and some rapalas, but no luck with those. I also did a little fly fishing, with a floating line and wooly bugger.Caught a few dink largies with that. My partner caught a couple of black crappie using a crappie jig under a slip bobber. I put on a little different crappie jig about 4' below a bobber. I tipped it with a Gulp maggot. After about 2 min. in the water the bobber went down hard. I could tell the fish was heavier than previous fish, but there wasn't as much fight as i would have thought. Suddenly this fish came in sight from the tube. It was the fattest trout I've caught in quite some time. I had forgot my dip net, so I lipped him like a bass, lol. Trout weighed 3.0 lbs 19.5" was about 4-5" from belly to spine. Great time.
The lake was a gem. of course noboby else was on it, it's a PIA to get to. Have to return in the middle of warmer water times.

BentRod

5/16/2011 2:13:00 PM

Quad, that's a nice trout...looks like he's been king of the jungle for a while. I'm guessing the lake is not a WDFW stocked one? Great report. Thanks.

BentRod

5/16/2011 2:14:00 PM

Quad, that's a nice trout...looks like he's been king of the jungle for a while. I'm guessing the lake is not a WDFW stocked one? Great report. Thanks.

Lord Of The Fly

5/16/2011 2:56:00 PM

Sweet! Is that trout safe to eat? It looks like a giant mutant rainbow!

Nomad

5/16/2011 3:32:00 PM

Did the pics I took of the trout on the water not turn out? If not....sorry. I'll do better next time.

The Quadfather

5/16/2011 3:41:00 PM

Nomad, Yeah, they came out great. I should have posted one, but I wanted to get your crappie pic. in there. The pic.on the cutting board was just such an in your face photo, that I went with that. I have had a few conversations with folks regarding the dark colors, i.e. possible spawned rainbow? Not sure if this will be the best tasting fish. Also, I have never seen a spawned rainbow... if I realized this I probably would have released it. (the fish was not nearly as aggressive as I would have thought...dark color, etc. makes me wonder about being spawned out)

Nomad

5/16/2011 3:49:00 PM

Did the pics I took of the trout on the water not turn out? If not....sorry. I'll do better next time.

Nomad

5/16/2011 3:53:00 PM

Uh-oh...the 'refresh' glitch got me. The kipe is probably also an indicator that it is a spawned male. No sperm sacs inside?

Matt

5/16/2011 4:11:00 PM

Definitely looks like a kelt. Probably a repeat spawner for several years. The meat quality on those fish is very sub par, best to let them swim another day (and reproduce with genes like that!). Thanks for the report, looks like a nice little secret spot!

BMGW

5/16/2011 8:29:00 PM

Nice color on that Crappie too! You werent on sauare lake were you??

kevinb

5/16/2011 11:35:00 PM

Take me to your lake NOW! LOL, great report,that crappie is dark. Not a bad thing,I've just never caught one that had so much black/dark colors. Well done!

zen leecher aka Bill W

5/17/2011 2:35:00 PM

Two thumbs up!!

returnofthefish

5/17/2011 5:11:00 PM

nice looking crappie. I hope to catch one too. Nice secret lake you have with wild rainbows

Elijah.Loves.Fishin

5/19/2011 1:54:00 AM

great report! sounds like an awesome lake to fish! :D that's one fat trout!

zen leecher aka Bill W

5/19/2011 12:10:00 PM

I'll rat out the lake name if given enough money.

joekacker

5/21/2011 9:19:00 AM

nice blood on the jacket,.. and that rainbow looks like a koakanee rainbow .. hahha it has a hump lol

zamguy

5/23/2011 2:12:00 AM

i never thought about posting a secret report, i had extreme luck at my secret lake the other day. Me and 2 friends pulled 4 2=lbs trout out all back to back. Biggest one was 20 1/2" long anf a massive 3.7lbs!! it was the best day ive had in years and we caught other trout as well all average 12". That trout of your has one fat belly on her! nice catch man!

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