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By: natenez
Posted: 1/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for all the times I hit Beaver Lake from after the fall plant until the end of November.
For whatever reason the state planted Beaver Lake with the broodstock a few weeks earlier t...
By: natenez
Posted: 12/6/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I've hit Beaver lake with a variety of friends at least once a week since they planted the jumbos. Mostly we've been trolling flies, although occasionally a Dick Nite would find its way into the mix....
By: natenez
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Stevens with a friend, trolling our typical bead spinner setup behind a dodger.
The fog was heavy on the lake at first, but burned off leaving us with a sunny day.
The law of averages...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Rattlesnake lake for the first time as part of an outing with my fly fishing club. I liked the scenery, very pretty.
My friend and I trolled flies around the lake. Wooly bugger and le...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/25/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The catching at Stevens isn't as good as last year, but the size of the fish is making up for that. I believe that something caused the population of the kokanee to significantly decrease (compared t...
By: natenez
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't been to storm for a while, so I hit it this morning in the rain w/ a friend. We started trolling some flatfish, along w/ a wooly bugger on one line. The WB was getting all the hits, so event...
By: natenez
Posted: 1/31/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sammamish the other day with some friends. We tried all our usual spots. Not a single cutt, but we did get a number of kokanee (all released, of course).
My guess is the cutts are mostly in t...
By: natenez
Posted: 1/1/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a friend for those cutts. Got a few, but lots of Kokanee (released of course). We tried up sizing the lures to focus on the cutts, but even caught kokes on large flatfish. Silly fish ...
By: natenez
Posted: 12/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Beaver again and trolled around for those big fish recently planted. It was nice having fewer people on the lake - combined with the fog made me think I was totally alone.
Anyway managed t...
By: natenez
Posted: 8/2/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Stevens w/ a couple of friends.
We got within 2 blocks of the city launch when we found the road was closed. Turns out Lk Stevens was having thier Aqua Velva festival and the launch was ...
By: natenez
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Stevens for the 5th or 6th time w/ some friends.
It seemed slow when we were on the water, but afterwards counting up the number of fish we had on we did as well as usual.
We had 12+ hoo...
By: natenez
Posted: 7/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple of Boy Scouts to Lk Maraget to help them earn thier fishing merit badge.
We caught a mix of rainbows and cutthroats, mostly on wedding rings.
One of the boys caught his first fish ...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The guys I work with have been interested in my fishing stories and wanted to try it out. So my whole team got permission to do a team fishing event.
We met at Maraget @ 6am, and got out on the wa...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son out for a morning of fishing. The rain was comming down the whole time, so we called it quits after 2 hours while we were only mostly soaked.
The fish were pushing 12". Caught in the ...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/10/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got there at sunrise and stopped fishing at 8:30. My buds and I landed 8 fish, not bad for our 3rd time targeting kokanee.
We use wedding ring type spinners behind a 4/0 dodger and corn. We got m...
By: natenez
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of weeks ago me and some friends went with John T. to learn how to catch kokanee. it was a blast and we learned the basics. John is a nice guy & did a great job teaching us & answering ques...
By: natenez
Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Maraget has been hot lately and so I've been there a few times the last week or 2.
Water temp is 52 and the fish generally near the surface. Lots of rises & jumps all around the lake.
We've bee...
By: natenez
Posted: 5/7/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 2 days down at Draino fishing with a couple of friends. We went out with Todd Daniels of Tall Tails Guide Service.
Fishing on Thursday was good. The early morning bite was great, but it w...
By: natenez
Posted: 4/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had the best day, in terms of quanity, I've ever had at Beaver. I lost count around 8 - I'm guessing the total was 12ish - all released. Most 8-10" fresh planted fish, but couple were 12" and had so...
By: natenez
Posted: 4/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning at Beaver, the lake I love to hate. The water is warming up ~47 degs.
The action wasn't hot, but I got a few. Most were the dinky recent plants, but I did land a nice 20" fish. ...
By: natenez
Posted: 2/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got in the water about 2:30 and started trolling.
We tried a few different things, but finally got a strike on a needlefish spoon near the N end of the lake. As I was reeling it in my friend jumpe...
By: natenez
Posted: 11/10/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got there early - what a zoo. By 8am there must have been 40 boats and at least that many guys on shore.
One boat with 3 guys were doing well. But weren't obeying the limit (2 each over 15"). At...
By: natenez
Posted: 11/10/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I hooked 5. Lost 2 due to a tangle with the anchor line & due to my friend cranking down the drag on his reel really tight.
By: natenez
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Met a friend a the lake this morning. We trolled around, mostly pulling flies.
We had a great day. We lost count of how many fish, but it was at least 20 (all released). About 60% were rainbows ...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/23/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Storm for the first time this morning.
The action started off pretty good, but died down around 7:30. Tried a variety of lures and depths. The winner was a flatfish about 5-8' down.
We ...