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By: epatton
Posted: 8/21/2022
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Flapjack Lakes (the upper lake)
The bite was on early morning (till 9 am) and then tapered off to almost nothing in the afternoon and evening (I fished for 3 days). The bookies took green woolly bugg...
By: epatton
Posted: 7/25/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/24/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the mouth of Noisy Creek just under the Baker Lake trail bridge. I thought I'd be rewarded for the 5 mi hike but no luck. I tried black wholly bugger, dry caddis, shrimp flies, dry caddis and v...
By: epatton
Posted: 7/18/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/16/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Mason Lake trailhead (Ira Spring Trailhead) at 7 am and the lot was 95% full. Started fishing at 9 am. Overcast.
No risers. Tried black woolly bugger, dry cadis and wedding ring. No bites...
By: epatton
Posted: 6/2/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Black Wholly Buggers with small amounts of shiny dark green where the ticket to catching trout today. Trolled slow with lines 30 ft behind boat. Caught one on a shrimp imitation fly. Caught 10 and kep...
By: epatton
Posted: 5/26/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boys out fishing at 10:00. Caught 7 in 2 hrs on black wholly buggers with a green tint. The olive wholly bugger got one hit and no hits on the red fly. Trolled lines about 30+ ft behind boat...
By: epatton
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Hiked up to beautiful lake Minotaur but not only did I get skunked, but the mosquitoes ate me alive. I've got at least 50 bites on my hands even though they were covered with deet. I tried black and g...
By: epatton
Posted: 9/14/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Ann - Mt Baker
We planned to backpack into Chain Lakes to fish but the folks at the Ranger station recommended Lake Ann. They said there were only 8 campsites at Chain Lakes and that we'd have t...
By: epatton
Posted: 7/23/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
After a brutal hike up and over the North Lake saddle from Independence Lake, I finally got my son and mine rods fishing the North Lake. He didn't catch anything on a olive woolly bugger, but I caug...
By: epatton
Posted: 6/11/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
6/10/17
I thought I'd take my friend and his son (14 yr old) out fishing on the free fishing day since they'd never fished before. Started at 10 am trolling 3 rods at 10 to 15 ft deep with flies and ...
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: epatton
Posted: 9/29/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Got the boat in the water by 11:00. Fished Douglas Bar with black/purple and black/crimson hoochies, blue and red fox, and 50/50 dick nights. No luck. Gave up at 5:00. My son's friend caught a pink on...