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Cottage Lake Report
King County, WA

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10/09/2016
56° - 60°
Trolling
Rainbow Trout
Worms
Cloudy
Mack's Wedding Ring
Afternoon
10/10/2016
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Drove out to Cottage lake yesterday to fish for a few hours. The lake had a toxic algae warning and the water definitely showed signs of it. Water looked like a bowl of pea soup with clumps of algae floating in it. Since my husband and I drove all the way out there we decided to go ahead and do a little fishing anyways. Trolled for trout for awhile without any luck. Decided to try a little jigging. Caught a few perch and my husband caught a nice crappie. All were released to live another day.


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Heatherlyfish
10/12/2016 10:08:00 AM
What did you use? Yeah that lake has an algae bloom that turns toxic every year sadly..it is too bad cause the cutthroat are way fun to catch
herefishy
10/12/2016 8:08:00 PM
For trout - used a orange wedding ring with gold spinner tipped with worm. My husband used a orange wedding ring with silver spinner tipped with a maggot. In the past we have had a lot of success with this set-up on this lake. Trolled on the surface, below the surface, 5 - 15 feet deep. Also tried a wooly bugger in green/brown on the surface. No takers.

For perch/crappie - used a green/white jig tipped with a maggot and a clear yellow speckled jig tipped with a worm. Jigged slightly off the bottom.
Heatherlyfish
10/12/2016 9:05:00 PM
Strange you did not get any troat. I got all kinds of hits and fish on was 4 total for trout but only one got into the boat. The bit started kicking in when.the wind came up more intense. I was using a green kokanee style dodger the ones with littel fish eye and green in color that with a joes fly brown wolly bugger tipped with worm. One trout that snapped the line was on plain worm with a power egg. I also caught a crappie and slme perch. I used weight but all trout hits were on surface. Most hits right near noon ..which was moonrise I think or near it. I got a hole in my craft though so no going out for a bit
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