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By: DLYork
Posted: 5/9/2021
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Downs Lake has been a bit of a mystery to me despite fishing it a few times. This day was no exception. I was trolling for Rainbows yet caught 3 large Crappie using an Old Goat OG1 in green and pink. ...
By: john-kruse
Posted: 7/26/2019
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I enjoyed a great day of kayak fishing at Downs Lake. Sunny skies and gentle breezes on a quiet lake with only two other anglers made for a great setting. Bird life was abundant to include two resi...
By: jechicdr
Posted: 7/22/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Went out in search of crappie and perch but ended up chasing mostly bass. Started the day casting small jigs trying to find a crappie or perch without any luck. Happened on nice largemouth as larger ...
By: DLYork
Posted: 6/18/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers 6/16 - 6/18. There isn't much of an evening bite on the lake. I hit rainbows on Saturday and Monday. Sunday was too windy to have my kayak on the water. Saturday's catch was a 15" T...
By: DLYork
Posted: 6/2/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a long while since I was last at Downs Lake. This trip made up for getting skunked the first time. Total count was lost 3 (1 LMB, 2 Crappie), landed 2 (1 LMB, 1 Rainbow Trout), kept 1 (the t...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 3/4/2017
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Figured I would try my hand at downs lake this morning. Water around the edges, gained access to the ice via the docks at the resort. Ice was 3-6" depending how close to the edge you got. Drilled...
By: quantumcloud509
Posted: 6/20/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished 7am-1:30pm off the dock. Landed two 4-5" LMB with worm/ crappie nibble combo from under the docks - both released. Also two rainbows; one 10", one 12" on orange/ chartreuse wedding rings and fu...
By: Anglinarcher
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I am rating this as a 2, but it is not really quite fair. I did fish this during the middle of the day and not during the best times of early or late.
I caught of couple of bass and missed a few...
By: Fishin509
Posted: 5/14/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The wife decided she wanted to fish for Mother's Day so we decided to finally check out Downs lake. Not too much of a drive from Spokane, and lots of biodiversity according to WDFW.
Got on the wat...
By: Anglinarcher
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a grandson to take out fishing today, and a granddaughter to introduce to fishing. I am told that I have created demons. LOL Of course, I could not go out without my son, their dad.
Keep in ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Perch are finally hitting at Downs, been here for a couple days and have about 50 Perch. Several were 10 to 11 with 2 close to 12. Friends got 75 with a 14 inch Crappie.
By: julbright
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 2
We fished all over the lake from 7am to 730pm. Hit the shoreline, deep structure, lillies, etc. Saw/heard bass moving around in a few spots, but no takers. Used primarily x-raps, suspending minnows, s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/14/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Downs lake for a few hours and had a great time, caught around 20 Largemouth all around 1-3 lbs. The lily pads are just starting to get up and the fishing should just be getting better! No big ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Perch,Perch, and more Perch. Sat. we had 6 nice perch in the livewell about 11:30 when we pull into a new spot and dropped anchor, for the next three hours it was one perch after another. At 3:15 we w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/12/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The perch are back at Downs!!! It has been about five years since you could get all the large perch that you want to cleain about three hours, but that was the case last weekend. We sat in one hole Su...
Posted: 5/7/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well the wind blew and blew.....then the rain....then no wind.......and then it blew and blew and wow did it rain.... Surprise the water is still to cold for the crappie bite....ended up with on dink ...
By: Nik
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
More of an information report. Water temp was 47-49F. Pads are maybe 25% out of the water, with 75% still yet to break the surface. Fished about 2.5 hours and boated the year's first bass, a solid ...
By: Thrasher
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
got another chance to fish downs again , water temps dropped back to 46 and the fishing got cold as well . only caught one , had two more on but you know what happens . . . . i did see another fisher...
By: Thrasher
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
another 1st report for downs . i am starting to feel obligated to break the ice and kick off the years reports . got on the water at 7 and got three in the boat by noon . 2 of the 3 were in less than...
By: Ron & Darla
Posted: 9/14/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
With only a couple weeks left of the fishing season for Downs...just wanted to let all the perch and crappie anglers know.....that we caught perch (8) biggest one, 12" and crappie (8) biggest one 13 1...
By: Kris K.
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
June 5th was my 11 th day at Downs lake fishing. This trip the weather was a mayor factor in the fishing. Those of you in the Spokane area certainally remember the rain and wind and more rain and ...
By: Ron & Darla
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yes, the weather was beautiful. We arrived early afternoon, and I fished from dock awhile and caught crappie, 1 keeper and the rest too small. We set out on the boat looking for perch, went out to o...
By: FishTank
Posted: 5/19/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Downs this past weekend. Absolutely beautiful weather and couldn't have asked for a better day to be out there. I took a couple of friends with me. Like others, we'd heard the crappie repo...
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished downs from 11-6 with limited success targeting crappie and perch. Ended up catching 1 perch and 6 crappie between the two of us. The 5 we kept were around 10-13 inches. Was able to catch almo...
By: Black Plague
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
well we went out to Downs after hearing all about the awesome crappie fishing with people hauling in the big crappies...well three of us went out in my buddies boat and it was our first time on this l...