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By: bmastro
Posted: 1/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to ballinger this morning around 11am, fished til 3. Used worms, and power bait with a weight about 2ft above. Had no luck...not even a bite. Maybe too early still? Not sure, first time fishi...
By: Gonefishing
Posted: 10/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today I felt like Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey. A friend of mine whom I will call Circe or his new indian name "he whom rarely gives good advice" gave me some advice to go fishing rather than sit ar...
By: Splitshot
Posted: 8/29/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
In about an hour and a half, we went around almost half the lake and the island. All the shoreline I fished was sloped gently and pretty shallow, 3-4'. As structure goes, there were lily pads and wee...
By: Bass_Assassin
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around five this morning. Good action on top water stuff, several descent strikes and landed a 2 or 2.5 lb large mouth. Lots of little guys on rubbers, not a big day but a bad day of fis...
By: fishingboy
Posted: 6/23/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hooked and landed one missed one on a bobber with pink power egg and nightcrawler missed one also!
By: fishingboy
Posted: 6/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to ballinger a few folks there.... had no hits no fish so i deicded to go to scriber lake
By: KDiddy
Posted: 6/8/2010
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Friend and I went to Ballinger yesterday. Spent about 6 hours and caught 6 trout. We had the lake to basically to ourselves, all in all a fun day.
By: wulbar
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 10:30 am to 5:00pm ended up with 4 10 to 12 in. rainbows. Had a great timeand will definately go back!
By: Snoop
Posted: 5/31/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the lake about 6pm. First cast caught a nice fat 13 incher on chartreuse power eggs before the weight had even hit bottom. Everyone around me had atleast one fish, but after mine there was no ...
By: shane425
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Ballinger today. It was raining early with a little wind. I fished off the dock. I used power bait and worms. I also tryed some lures. Not even a bite !!!! Well I picked this place becaus...
By: CaffOMHW
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After last night I went home to check the fishing stuff I have there, I was sure I had a smaller krocodile, sure enough it was there in a bag of stuff I had bought when GI Joes went out of buisness, I...
By: Snoop
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the dock for another eveneing of fishing. The bait users werent catching fish, and those casting spinners and super doopers were consistent. In all I kept 5 released 5 and missed many strikes....
By: CaffOMHW
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the dock at 6:00. Tried power eggs for an hour with no luck. In that time another fisher hooked 3 with a spoon, so I switched to hardware too.
I caught 6 (released 3) lost two more at the dock ...
By: Snoop
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Read Toms report, went to Anglers Choice picked up a super dooper and hit the lake. Real windy and rainy. Consitently saw fish follow it in to the dock, caught 3 kept 2, lost 3, missed many strikes. ...
By: tomm454
Posted: 4/23/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8:00am-1:30PM got 5 total 8"-16" good day on the lake
By: fishingandy
Posted: 4/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 2-5pm in the rain and wind... silly me I tried using a float and ended up fighting to get myself back to shore. After being blow all over the lake for and hour I fished from shore for two...
By: tootired
Posted: 3/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Rumor had it that the fish and game truck was too show up that afternoon. Arrived at 11:15 am. Started casting and retriving off the dock. About 10 casts per lure and if nothing happened I would sw...
By: fishingandy
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Out with my boy 7 years old after seeing they had just stocked the lake. One other fisherman that had been out on the dock for an hour before we had. He was using worms and power eggs, but reported ...
By: guitarfisher
Posted: 2/28/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Float tubed Ballinger from ~10-2 with nothing to show, but - hey - it was a beautiful day. Its all about the journey! Water temp was 49 degrees - a bit cool still. I threw plastics in mostly shallow ...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Another trip to Ballinger and me and my friend got skunked again. The conditions are improving a little bit surface temp was 48.5 and we did see a few fish out feeding on small schools of bait fish. T...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 2/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would go out again with my friend and try some worms and just bottom fish some docks and other areas of the lake. Rarely did we see any fish on the fish finder. We didnt have any hits today ...
By: serveandcollect
Posted: 2/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would go out because it was a nice day with a friend who has never been fishing before. Got skunked took us 2 hours to find any fish on the fish finder and once we did in about 4-6 feet of w...
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
well i went to reiter to fish steelhead the otherday and hooked a ton of trout with this corky jig i made up, so today i thought i would give that corky jig a try on lake ballinger. I got to the lake ...
By: mohamed_ameen
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got one 12" rainbow, and one perch
By: mohamed_ameen
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2009
Hot Spots: 1
I was in the lake today at 12:30 I was fishing for bass, when a rainbow trout got intrested in my bait and took it :).. my wife had some biets and finaly she got a 7" yellow perch.