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By: Aaron
Posted: 5/23/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 3
We got the lake around 4 and started looking for the Macks and Burbot on our sonar. We could only consistently find schools of Kokanee so we switched gears and targeted them instead. After removing th...
By: josh
Posted: 1/13/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Ice was around 5 inches thick everywhere we drilled. The middle of the lake (starting at the power lines) going north was open water. Only two other people on the lake.
By: Mitchell Smith
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I decided to head up to bead this morning to try some Mack and kokaane fishing. Neither of us have ever been out on the lake. I knew the boat launch had a six car limit. The launch has a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/28/2012
Species: Burbot
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took the guys out to Bead last night from 8 -12 in search of some Burbot. Thanks to Officer Erickson we didn't have to drive all the way from Spokane in hopes that the ice was thick enough. I left a...
By: troutheart
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Burbot
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out around noon to check the ice at the boat launch. It's between 4 to 6 inches depending which direction you go. I only walked out about 75 yards because there were no tracks on the ice and no...
By: HewesRanger66/67
Posted: 7/31/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent from about 8:00A.M-11:00A.M on the lake mainly fishing off/along the point directly opposite the boat launch. I was trolling 50/50 Dick Nite, gold w/red head needle fish, and a couple other lur...
By: G-Man
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Bead, and we were after some macks. The lake is way up and there is a no wake speed limit on the entire lake. We had out three rods for macks and one for kokes and ended up bringing ho...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Does anyone know how thick the ice is on Bead lake right now? I hear it's an excellent winter night fishery for burbot but I don't want to make the drive if it's not thick enough.
By: rhodes
Posted: 7/27/2009
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The bite was spread out and cought me by surprise. All together I had 11 hits before midnight.
The fish were in the 20inch catagory. Burbot. This is exciting as ive had success with 10# pluss
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By: Ghoti
Posted: 7/1/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First time trip to beautiful Bead lake. Bro and I were anticipating jigging up some macks, but they'd have none of it on that day. Nice public launch but very limited. Capacity about 6 rigs only, I...
By: clyde152
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Gosh dang it i have been skunked three times this week by good old bead lake. i have had dreams of pulling up a nice ling out of there but now my dreams have lowerd there standards to geting a bite. i...
By: eustace
Posted: 2/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Bead again this afternoon until dark with one fish on at about 4:00pm. This fish slammed my jig about 10' to 15' off the bottom as I was bringing it up to move to another spot. After a short pow...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/18/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
fished a couple hours cought 1 burbot but was fun ice was 18+ inches thick saw some guy pull up a burbot and he already had a lake trout from earlier.
By: eustace
Posted: 2/14/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got on Bead at 11:00 am this morning with my twin nephews as we got there two guys leaving had 8 Burbot, some pretty nice ones at that. They had started their fishing at 6:00 am and caught their last ...
By: parrydog
Posted: 2/9/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Bead again, with no luck again. Headed out and started fishing about 8 AM by the power lines tried jigging with a green glow jig, with a white jig and white grub, and with a white jig and 6" mi...
By: parrydog
Posted: 2/4/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Bead bright and early with neon green glow jigs in the 1oz size with a night crawler for added appeal trying for a burbot or mack or even a squawfish, didn't really care just wanted to feel a tug ...
By: eustace
Posted: 1/31/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 3:00 pm till 9:00 pm on this unique, deep lake a few miles north of Newport for the second time in a week. We started targeting Macks with a 1 oz white glow jig tipped with a 3'' black gul...
By: parrydog
Posted: 8/25/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Bead lake with the NEW boat, well new to me. The mutts and I hit the water about 8:30 AM, buzzed out to the middle of the lake and dropped a large jig baited with worms to the bottom for some lak...
By: Palmer
Posted: 5/28/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the North finger of the lake opposite the launch. In our first pass we caught a small 4# Mack. Then we decided to check out some other parts of the Lake. In the Eastern finger we saw lots...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/11/2007
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
ice fished for burbot 3 weekends in a row
didn't catch anything nor did anyone else that i talked to
suspect burbot aren't so abundant as i have read they are
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2004
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2004
Hot Spots: 0
My Father and I fished Bead Lake from 7 - 12 am. We saw fish on the fish finder but couldn't get them to bite. In Newport at the sporting goods store, the owner caught a 19 lb. Lake trout last weeke...