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By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 5/9/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went out early to the closest lake to my home and was able to limit out from shore in 90 minutes with red and rainbow power bait three feet off the bottom. Beautiful weather at dawn and a great day to...
By: Snowky64
Posted: 4/27/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Great day at cottage lake. Caught 5 over 18 inches and 30 total today in 2.5 hours with my better half. All catch and release.
By: Snowky64
Posted: 4/27/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Good first day on cottage for myself and better half. Started at 11am and fished until 1. Caught 30 and 5 over 18 inches. Catch and release
By: Heatherlyfish
Posted: 10/1/2018
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well the fishing was hot. I would have caught more had not I been hit with a serious of unfortunate events.
I arrived at the lake at 820 am. with my son with me. He was more excited about eating ...
By: alxtm
Posted: 6/23/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/23/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Cottage to practice fly fishing (it is a lot harder than it look!!) and ended up catching a few trolling and bottom fishing.
I caught 5, but all of them had scars again, same as i found the p...
By: alxtm
Posted: 6/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I usually do well on Cottage, but today was hard. Saw fish jump all around me but my lures and spoons were not attracting much. Had a few bumps and 2 hooked fish. The main issue is that i caught a rel...
By: ultrapipe
Posted: 6/15/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 7:30 AM and dropped in. Caught a tagged derby fish in the first 30 minutes, had other nibbles but didn't land anymore. The gentleman next to me on the dock limited out in about ...
By: alxtm
Posted: 5/5/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After a stressful day at work, i just had to relax and decided to do some late afternoon fishing with my son.
We went to Cottage because it is the closest to our home and started fishing at about 5...
By: pnutbutterpirate
Posted: 4/29/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Was in a float tube, tried trolling with a red/silver dick nite and fly fishing with an orange stimulator. Both got strikes but I couldn't land a single fish! Actually hooked a couple on the dick nite...
By: jchengj
Posted: 4/29/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Back to my favorite lake for the first time this year, I waited a day hoping it will be less crowded but I was wrong :D
There are boats, kayaks and tubes everywhere, but it was nothing compared to th...
By: alxtm
Posted: 10/30/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Cottage for the last time this year before it closes. It has been a good lake for myself and my little one there and this weekend was pretty good.
We went there at around 8:30 am and there wa...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 10/26/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Have been focusing on Snohomish Co. lakes for Fall fishing, but decided to hit the King Co. Cottage Lake this week. Am indebted to Heatherlyfish for her great reports about her experiences at this lak...
By: Heatherlyfish
Posted: 10/13/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
They still have toxic algae sign up but it looks clearer than it was in the water. This is the 3rd time I have stopped at this late this Oct. The Oct fishing is spot on so far. Each time I have come I...
By: Segachtek
Posted: 7/21/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Noticed that it was cooler than normal and overcast, so I headed over to Cottage lake around 10am, later than I normally would bother. A few other people on the dock, not many fish coming up (a small ...
By: nwflycaster
Posted: 6/6/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This was my third trip to Cottage lake in as many weeks. The first two trips I would have given a 5 to both days with about 12 - 15 fish per hour catch rate staying a couple of hours each trip. This t...
By: cohokiller666
Posted: 5/6/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
started at about 9:30 am and went till 10:45 am. Got my limit of 5 fish on powerbait pink, and fluorescent yellow. good day want to go again!
By: jchengj
Posted: 4/26/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at around 10:30am, trolling hot shot 70 on my pontoon boat near the fishing dock.
Action was nonstop for 40 minutes, and all of a sudden it just stopped. I packed up at around noon an...
By: franzjmartin
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was clearing up so I loaded up the boat and gear and headed to Cottage Lake Park. The Dock was full and I could see fish being caught. I launched and noticed a half a dozen boats also on the...
By: herefishy
Posted: 10/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Drove out to Cottage lake yesterday to fish for a few hours. The lake had a toxic algae warning and the water definitely showed signs of it. Water looked like a bowl of pea soup with clumps of algae f...
By: Heatherlyfish
Posted: 10/8/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Got on the water about 8 a.m.The rain was only drizzle and soon stopped. Water mostly calm. I decided to target the crappie I know are in there. I went straight out from the front of the dock. Almost ...
By: Heatherlyfish
Posted: 9/17/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to go to cottage lake. It was raining at first so I start out on the dock. Without a single nibble I started getting my boay inflated. I decided I did not care if I got rained on or not. The...
By: Heatherlyfish
Posted: 8/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the water about 8 a.m. Right away I noticed the sign about them having recent treated the water for the invasive species plants found there( Aug 2nd). It seemed like people were mostly catching...
By: epatton
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I took my friend's son out for his first fishing trip and it was a success. We floated powerbait off the bottom (the type didn't seem to matter). Caught 6 and let two go. It started drizzling right af...
By: ncobble
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out after finally getting done with jury duty...what a drag that was but since I had the afternoon off I decided to take advantage of it and head up to the dock at cottage lake. Came home with f...
By: franzjmartin
Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 1
On such a warm day I'm not sure I went to the lake to fish or to just be in the sun. When I arrived the wind was up so I didn't think using my inflatable kayak was a good idea so I headed to the dock...