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I made my second trip to Baker this past weekend arriving Thursday night with my sometimes fishing buddy Chris. I had been up there two weeks before and it was a zoo trying to find a place to camp on that Thursday. We found a choice spot on the lake about a mile past Shannon creek campground without issue. We set up camp and returned to Shannon to launch the boat.
We were on the water buy 7:00 am each morning as I had heard that the bite was coming in the later morning hours. Friday produced no fish; Saturday produced one fish to boat and one good bite. Sunday we had a dead trolling motor battery after we charged it on my generator/battery charger set up. This was a real bummer as we must have seen at least 10 people hook up with fish in a matter of minutes, and we could not troll! We only saw maybe five fish caught in the two previous days of fishing.
But not to despair as I would rate a five star trip for the great weather and the one fish that I finally got to the boat from this fishery. This was my fourth trip in the past two years. Last year I had one on and my leader was broken when the fish exploded on the surface; I only had 12 LB leader.
My thanks to the folks shared their tactics, setups and experience on this lake.
The fish that was landed was on a set up pictured in the blog “wardens of Baker lake” by fishnfreak, trolling speeds from rseas and fishnfreak helped me to finally land a fish at Baker, and the purchase of a GPS unit to track my speed and mark fish.
Thanks again to all that contribute to this website. I hope to meet more of you out there as I continue my fishing endeavors in the pacific NW.

bryanpeck

8/14/2012 10:01:00 PM

Beautiful photo of the lake Strider! Thanks for sharing!!

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