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By: JoshH
Posted: 5/22/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2021
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to try Lake Howard, a small lake local to me that I had never been to before. Met my brother at the launch with the Hobies at 7am and began fishing.
A pretty heavy marine layer made it a bi...
By: Chocolab8
Posted: 9/1/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This was my third trip to Lake Howard this year. I arrived approximately at 7:30 am.
For the first ½ hr I worked a broken-back minnow lure near the launch area. No success. Switched to a chatterbait...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/23/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't been to Howard for a few years so swung by since I still had the Jon Boat loaded from yesterday. Bites came immediately, especially if you could skip a Senko way up under overhangs and docks,...
By: DeanSmith
Posted: 5/28/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My first time at Lake Howard. Lots of fish at 35 ft. Didn't bring my downrigger. Darn. Next time. Fishing from FA10 kayak. I need to go fishing with someone who knows what they are doing. I'd l...
By: Tyler_C
Posted: 4/22/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 6:00 to 8:45am. Lost track of how many I caught, but 30 would be a safe bet. I was trolling an olive mini Woolly Bugger with a silver blade on it. Was able to hook up with a triploid...
By: ElginFishing
Posted: 5/11/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Howard and arrived about 1pm. Fished until 5pm and God blessed with 10 fish including the 21" holdover which the photo shows. Lost about another 8 fish as fish seemed to be biting rathe...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2014
Hot Spots: 2
My wife, Boni and I took our new toy, a 12' Lund out for it's shakedown cruise on Howard Lake. Took our time, got everything right... arrived at the lake a bit after 8:00 AM, in the water and fishing ...
By: hein19
Posted: 4/29/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day took my wife's cousin fishing off private dock. Caught 4 trips
Using rainbow power bait and green power eggs beautiful day and a great start to the season
Tight lines!!!!!
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/28/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took the little boat out today to scout Howard for bass a little bit, didn't even see one.
The trip took a turn for trout and they were more than willing. I caught and released a dozen and long lin...
By: jmutto
Posted: 6/15/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water. Friend and I put 4 in the boat, had six total, and missed a few other hits.
Caught them trolling worms behind wedding rings and gang trolls.
Water was around 68 degrees, ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 5/15/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to do some fly-fishing, so up at o'dark-thirty and headed north to Lake Howard. Got pontoon boat inflated, strung two fly-rods, one with floating double-taper, the other with med. density sink-...
By: dmallory
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Got out to Lake Howard about 6:15 for the opener. Had great luck paddling with an orange and brass wedding ring with a Berkley trout worm on the hook. Limited out in about 2 hours, and managed to get ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Got to lake about 5:30AM and on the water a little after 6:00AM. Was raining steadily, light, misty, soaking kind of rain. No other fishermen out. Surface temp. was 61 degrees, took reading at 45', wa...
By: mitchard
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Howard has been hot since opening. Some slow days, but this time around we limited our boat out pretty quick. Lots of little planters, with a couple nice sized ones coming out of here. I think the lar...
By: Bass Woody
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
ended up at Howard around 11am. sunny with light wind. only one boat on the water. wife started throwing a spinner as I worked a worm. black and blue spinner started catching dinks. worm no go as I we...
By: GeryG
Posted: 6/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled from 12:30 to 3:30. Caught my limit of stockers, nothing to write home about. All caught on top. All that rain cooled the top layer of water down. All fish around 11 inches.
By: Johnb
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
got to howard and, started fishing at 10:20ish. i started off with a f5 perch colored rapala, right off the bat i got a real solid hit, but it spit it . i trolled for about another 30 minutes before i...
By: Johnb
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
i started my walk out to howard lake at midnight, got there by 6:00am (23.1 miles) the boat launch was a complete zoo all day i got the raft in the water at 6:30. so there i was frame pack tackle bag,...
By: Jamesb
Posted: 9/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Howard Lake 1pm till dark. Got there only boat on the lake. Always like that. It was sunny and bit windy. I tried left side of lake first from boat launch and wasn't seeing any fish shal...
By: Jamesb
Posted: 8/4/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Howard Lake in Snohmish county Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Monday fished 1:30pm until dark 9:15pm. Caught 50 largemouth bass most were small but caught about 8 that were 9" plus and two...
By: Carter78
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was second Saturday in a row fishing Lake Howard and had only a few fellow fisherman to share the lake with. I dropped anchor about 6am and had my limit by 8:30am. The fish werent as big as last ...
By: kevinh425
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow got to the lake at 6 am was surprised there was already about 10 other boats on the water guess everyone heard about the triploids. Fishing was slow until about 9 am and the they started hitting i...
By: Countryguy26
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Howard Lake for the first time today! I think everyone else was there too! After waiting 10-15 min we finally launched and hit the water. We used power bait or salmon eggs with a marshmallow 2-...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Just an FYI here.... I had to install some new bunks on my trailer today, which obviously required getting the boat off the trailer, so I went up to the launch at Lake Howard knowing no one would be t...
By: Bass Woody
Posted: 8/29/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was mild but a bit breezy. We caught 14 between two of us. Caught mostly around structures and docks. They ranged between four and ten inches. We started fishing about noon and finished up...