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By: Primate04
Posted: 7/9/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake with my float tube using my usual Topwater f3 rapala black. Caught a small bass a few bluegill and a pumpkinseed but everything was small. So from the launch I went left about 100 yds the...
By: eddieg1
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to get up early and hit Benson this morning. When I arrived at 0645 there were about 10 people fishing from the shore. I bought a bunch of new bass lures I wanted to try out. I hit the docks...
By: Todd Middaugh
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fisrt one at the lake and started fishing at 6am. Hooked up with 2 nice bass right away and one
rainbow. Turned out to be a great day on the water.
By: bob johansen
Posted: 8/6/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Benson Lake fairly early - overcast and a little breezy as I launched. Met up with nice guy, talented bass angler and WL.com member TM (Todd). We had a nice chat and caught a lot of fish during ...
By: Todd Middaugh
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Dad at 1pm after fishing Spencer lake in the morning. Fished till 3:30pm. Only caught 1, measured 17 inch. Lots of swimmers, rafters and people on docks enjoying the sunshine.
By: Todd Middaugh
Posted: 7/3/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First one to the launch, 5:25am, worked my way around to favorite reeds and laydowns.
Caught 4 bass,missed one, largest only 15". Went to Anderson lk. in Allyn (private) caught
5 there all small. N...
By: eddieg1
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After reading a report from Bob Johanson me and my gf decided to give Benson a try. We got there about noonish and as we were lauching we bumped into Todd. He had a nice 3lb bass and took a picture of...
By: Todd Middaugh
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at 6am,the water clarity is fairly clear.Can see your lure from a good distance.
There was a bug hatch right next to shore between two docks and I could see fish jumping for bugs. So ...
By: bob johansen
Posted: 6/21/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Up early (for an old dude) and on the lake fishing by a little after 6:00 AM. Mine was the first rig to pull into the public access but soon after another rig pulled in and a shoreline angler got out...
By: Todd Middaugh
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Benson lake 5:30 am, started casting floating rapala to reeds at north end,
caught 3 nice largemouth,released fish.Thanks to Bob Johansen for reports.Look foward to
meeting Bob at B...
By: bob johansen
Posted: 5/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather man finally predicted another dry day -- and some sun. Well it was a dry day and finally a little sun did came out. Anyway, I hitched up the small boat and headed for Benson Lake. Three...
By: bob johansen
Posted: 9/30/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The weather man promised a nice warm, sunny day and he was right. After all the bad news chest X-rays and CT-scans, it was time for a nice relaxing day on the water. My neighbor, Mike L. and I heade...
By: eddieg1
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and the girlfriend took the pond prowler to Benson Lake today. This was only the second time fishing this lake from a boat. We arrived to the lake about 1430 and started fishing in a counter clockw...
By: Rippasher06
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Well got to the lake on our way home from Vancouver and saw rises everywhere on the lake. Had only one rig left from the river and rigged up for trout. First cast caught the fishin the pic. Next cast...
By: scott080379
Posted: 6/28/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
So I decided to hit up lake Benson for hte first time...............No luck.............Hook one, fell off right whe nI got it to shore. Looked to be about 14 inches. Got a couple other bites but no...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 6/3/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 5am before work, cast out some sunrise power eggs in power row dip and hooked up to the first fish before the bail was set. Pulled in a 1 lb rainbow. Then caught some small rainbows ...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 5/19/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Windy stormy day, my three year old and I headed out during a sun break and tossed off the bank at around 5pm. Using 2 ft leaders with floating sunrise power eggs. I caught an 8 inch stocker and he ...
By: FlyFish4ever
Posted: 6/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Benson this morning, lot of wind but was able to hook into four stocked Rainbows ranging from 8-10 inches. Worked mostly the west end of the lake but had to fight the wind.
Used an interme...
By: scottj
Posted: 5/17/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the lake...clear and warm, but the fish didn't feel hungry. Two incidental trout is all, both released. At the boat launch as I was leavin' I spotted dozens of bass fry. Ahhh...explains wh...
By: bob johansen
Posted: 5/8/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
May 7, 2007 - Beautiful warm, sunny day. Neighbor Mike L. and I headed for Benson Lake for a bass try. We had no strikes and saw no bass in this clear water lake. I did, however, see one school of ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/26/2006
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2006
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I saw a big bass sitting on a gravel bed (not nest) in about 8 feet of water next to a log, and we threw at her for about ten minutes. No luck. Then I tossed a Senko at her and "nibble nibb...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2006
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2006
Hot Spots: 0
well , HI fisher poeple .what a good lake to fish.we had alot fun fishing here .we got about 8 trout ( 10 to 15 inch ) and it was hot to about 80 s and suning nice for bass fish to ......lots of siwmm...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2006
Hot Spots: 0
it was a nice day in june for some trout fishing ..we got there about 4 pm and one fish in a 10 min we there it was trout about 11 ich and them a 22 ich was on my line it pay off for go all way from ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Jon and I went for the evening bite. The fish were hitting olive green nymphs. Jon caught quite a few and kept a limit. I lucked into the two biggest of the evening about 16" each. I got my limit ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2006
Hot Spots: 0
It was Friday, May 5, 2006. The weather man had promised a sunny day with little
or no wind. It seemed a good time to explore Mason County’s Benson Lake for America’s favorite game fish, the large...