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Newman Fishing Reports

By: 502300
Posted: 8/22/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Newman lake on Tuesday. This time only a 20 minute drive from our vacation home in Spokane valley. Got on the water around 8am. Started with the dropshot. Started catching lots of little large...
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By: dwh4784
Posted: 8/25/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Only boated two fish today, but it's been awhile since I've been out and I managed to catch my first ever tiger muskie so that made it a good day. Too late I realized that the bass were busting sunfis...
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By: robholman
Posted: 7/30/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/15/2017
Hot Spots: 2
Getting caught up on a report from earlier this month. Craig Dowdy & Scott Imholt of YJ Guide Service got me and some friends our first Tiger Musky a couple weeks ago. The trip was donated by Cr...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 7/26/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I spent a little over 3 hours chasing tiger muskies at Newman with Mark K. We tossed several different baits at them but only found one fish. No other follows or bites. This 36"er took a gold double b...
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Posted: 6/10/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Eloika early by myself, ran out of my best plastic and the bite was meh, so I went home. Took a nap and my daughter wanted to go " catch a lot of little fish" do I buzzed over to Newman. Set her u...
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Posted: 5/22/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I loaded up the boat and headed to Spokane on Sunday, I was going to fish Silver Lake but there was a tournament taking place. I hit Newman for several hours in the late morning. Lots and lots of peop...
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By: buc
Posted: 4/15/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2017
Hot Spots: 1
one thousand casts, no doubt 1 fish 7 hrs. 31inches and skinny. caught on double cowgirl /orange n brass.
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By: Scotti509
Posted: 11/26/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We were initially fishing for bass and caught mostly little ones, but in 2 back to back casts I got a 46"/20lb Tiger and a 43"/15lb Tiger. A fluke if ever I saw one! Sorry so late posting, but I've ...
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By: dwh4784
Posted: 9/29/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I took a friend out today for his first attempt at kayak fishing. Unfortunately it was slow, slow slow. I missed a few bites, finally landed a pounder on a topwater mouse and then later my second bigg...
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By: dwh4784
Posted: 9/1/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This was my best day on the year so far, even after getting a late start. I went back to bed at 5 when I went to load up the kayak and the wind was already blowing hard, figured I'd forget it. Finally...
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Posted: 8/17/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Set out at approx 1845 aiming for some bass/crappie action on the shady side of the lake. Hadn't fished Sutton Bay in a long time, headed that direction right from the start. Arrived, set trolling m...
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Posted: 7/28/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Date night on the lake with my bride of 32+ years. After sunset, we starting catching some decent largemouth consistently with some of my "always works for me" 1/8 oz jigs and single tail bodies. Fi...
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Posted: 7/27/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I got on the water about 7 in the morning. We started working some shore lines across the lake from the boat launch. At about 9 A.M. I was working a top water chatter bait and she slammed i...
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Posted: 7/20/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
While fishing for largemouth along the west bank of the lke in the early evening shadows, I hooked into a real decent 5lb smallie. Cell phone battery died, sorry - no pics, but had three witnesses.
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Posted: 7/20/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Launched boat at public access and headed over to the West bank of the lake to fish areas arond the docks. I was fishing for largemouth and smalmouth bass. We caught a few (avg. 2lbs), flipping 1/4 ...
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Posted: 6/5/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Great day for fishing just not much success caught a couple of bass and a couple of crappie one really nice one
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Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Caught my personal best crappie. Fishing was semi-slow as the weather was sporadic. Decent day, nice sized fish.
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Posted: 5/6/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Newman for a couple hours after work on Wednesday fished the northwest shoreline with are shad colored crappie jigs and did really well
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Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went lookin for crappie but found none in the shallows yet. Used tube jigs on both north and south sides of the lake. Did manage this smallmouth though
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By: rboswell
Posted: 4/19/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This post is a little late, but we fished Newman in the afternoon last Saturday. Didn't find too many fish, but gave the day a 3 due to catching my first muskie. I caught it on a black and blue jig wh...
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Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Made a trip for Tiger Muskie fishing on Newman Lake. Water temp was 80 degrees and way to warm for this time of year. We fished deep water and the shore lines like normal. We ended up catching a 34" f...
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By: CCTMark
Posted: 6/22/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I took my friend Jay out to Newman; we launched at the crack of dawn on the first official day of summer. We motored across the lake and started to pitch a drop shot and unweighted senkos looking for ...
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Posted: 5/31/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a genuinely fine day.
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By: Chengy87
Posted: 4/11/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
With the weather warming up I have been wanting to wet some fishing line. Took my brother out Friday morning before work and did manage to catch a few. Biggest one came in right at 4lbs. Fish were ca...
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Posted: 4/8/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went to coeur d'alene for pike but didn't see any or have any bites so me and a friend decided to go to Newman in the afternoon. Didn't expect to catch anything but turned out to be not that bad of a ...
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