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By: RipOffington
Posted: 7/23/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Silver lake is always a good day of fishin'. give yourself a good 3-4 foot lead and some floating powerbait will do the trick. Worms work too. real easy to limit out here. lots of shorefishin' spots. ...
By: JoshH
Posted: 7/14/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My first time ever to fish Silver lake. The lake did not disappoint!
Launched from the WDFW launch on the north end of the lake about 7am. Late start for me, but trout aren't quite as picky as kok...
By: RipOffington
Posted: 7/16/2018
Species: Catfish
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I caught my first fish, a brown bullhead catfish!. just a lil 5 incher, but hey it was my first! Silver lake is only good after the swimmers and boaters are gone. they start thinning out around 6pm. ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/22/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
To start my vacation I wanted to fish a lake I had never fished before. I have been eyeballing Silver for a couple years hoping it would be a lake similar to McMurray only farther north. It may be b...
By: yotaking84
Posted: 6/12/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the launch about noon and headed to my usual spot. Someone was there so I hit the backup spot and got on the fish immediately all dinks . Moved spots and caught a couple small ones right off th...
By: russellb
Posted: 7/24/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Just want to alert everyone that there seems to be a problem with the Trout in the lake.There all covered in ulcer type sores.Caught a few today but tossed them back after seeing this.
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Back to Silver Lake for my Friday morning outing. Gave the green wooley bugger with a silver flash smiley blade a try with a dry line that put the fly about a foot under the surface, minimal action. ...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Warm windy morning on the lake, have not had much luck with wooley buggers this year, but then I have not been messing around with depth to much either. I have been rigged behind lead line with 2 - ...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 4/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 1
As always waited to the week after opening day to drop the boat in the water. Had my usual game plan for blue collar fly fishing with a green wooley bugger rigged behind a smiley blade. Well the tro...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started the lake season with an outing to Silver Lake. My usual approach is a green wooley bugger rigged behind a silver flash smile blade. Past seasons this would slay the fish, not today. Red wed...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/31/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Back in Whatcom county after a fishing trip to the sunny dry east side. Landed a 20" 3 lbs. Rainbow at Sprague Lake. Oops, sorry this is about Silver Lake. Things are slowing down to the regular ear...
By: gfjohn77
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was a cold rainy day fishing for the WDFW public fishing area on the north end of the lake. We saw a few fish jumping about 7 to 10 feet off shore but no bites. We were using large night crawlers and ...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The last couple of Friday's have been very productive, but then from opening day until early summer I've always had good luck on Silver Lake. As I posted previously, the fine tuning of the blue colla...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2014
Hot Spots: 2
What a great start to a new lake fishing season. The fish were hitting like crazy on the green wooley buggers with a silver scale smile blade. Had a limit in about an hour and a half. This year I'm...
By: russellb
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started out about 8 A.M. and within 2 hours I had 9 Smallmouth Bass. Not that large maybe 8 to 10 oz. Has to be some big ones because no one fishes for the Bass. Any shallow crank-bait worked fine. I ...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 7/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My son Grant was home for a visit from Los Angeles and really wanted to go fish at Silver Lake. It looks like he is learning the same leasson that many young men before him have. Whatcom County isn't...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
As the season unfolds the fishing takes a little more time. Its a good thing that I have a comfy seat in my boat. Like last week the the fish seemed to hit on a sinking tip line more than any other ...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/14/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 9:30 am from the boy scouts end with a few other boats on the water. I found last week that a green woolly bugger tied with a Matquasdurg Quasar Dubbing (It looks lite oliver with a gold f...
By: americanmcss
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a reasonably successful day up at Silver on Saturday. Made it out on the lake by about 2:30pm. Started trolling to begin with off the north shore boat launch. Three poles in the water. I was u...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from the boys scouts end of the lake with a 2nd part of a little experiment in mind. Some history for the reader, I usually use power bait, floating off the bottom. I tie up on the Western m...
By: fishslayer123
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at silver lake Saturday with my sons and we caught 14 trout!!! It is red hot on fire up there.
By: chaosfisherman
Posted: 5/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with friends to a long time to catch the fish but it was fun. i used power eggs and a size 6 hook with a 3 ft leiter was good but fishing picked up around 7 pm fun day wish i catch more f...
By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 10/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finished off the fishing season up at Silver Lake positively and got the boats out of the water for the winter. 5 people fishing 2 hours Saturday evening and Sunday mid-day and we all caught one apiec...
By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water around 830, right before the sun hit the lake and there was a nice fog on the surface. Anchored up in 28 feet of water @ my favorite spot and fished off the bottom with pink/orange (sher...
By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 8/20/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the lake at around 830 AM with my brother and girlfriend. We trolled all kinds of things, a fly on top, pop gear with a spoon or needlefish, flatfish and rooster tails. My brother just caught a ti...