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Padden Lake Report
Whatcom County, WA

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06/06/2018
61° - 65°
Bottom Fishing From Shore
Cutthroat Trout
Worms
Mostly Sunny
Bait Only
Evening
06/07/2018
3
1086

I have been visiting Padden every week or so in the evening, and the bite from shore is slow but steady. I can't find any catfish yet this year, and there seem to be fewer perch and sunfish around, but the trout bite is always there. I was fishing one worm from a bobber and one inflated worm on about a 6 foot leader with a slip weight. The bobber got 1 rainbow, the other rig got 1 rainbow and a 14 inch cutthroat, which is one of my biggest cutts from this lake. It's belly was full of perch guts.


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Kisutch
6/8/2018 12:59:33 PM
Nice fish! But those all look like rainbow trout to me.
Jakefish
6/8/2018 1:46:24 PM
There is a faint slash under the throat of the big one - fainter than most I have caught there, but definitely not present on the rainbows. I was also going on mouth size/shape (and teeth), spotting, fin shape and color. It is a bad angle to see the head, but the maxillary does extend past the eyeball (this is a female with small eggs present, so her mouth is smaller). It is common to catch coastal cutthroat in this lake with this coloration - they are stocked as fingerlings in the fall and I have caught 4 inchers that look the same. One noticeable difference also - once the scales are removed (and they are smaller scales on the cutthroat) the skin had no resemblance to that of the rainbows - no red rainbow stripe.
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