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Sprague Fishing Reports

By: T-Bone
Posted: 3/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
On the positive: sunny, virtually no wind, beautiful day with lots of waterfowl viewing; on the negative: NO BITES and NO FISH. On reflection, early Spring, Sprague Lake bank fishing can be a bit SLOW...
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By: rwl
Posted: 11/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Sprague has been pretty good these last few weeks. Largest today was 3 pounds 13 oz and 21 inches. Trolling small crankbaits at 1.6 to 2.0 mph on mono about 150 feet out. Fish have seemed to be concen...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 10/22/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I'm making this a 5+ day; not on quantity, quality. Beautiful, beautiful "Indian Summer" day with virtually no wind. My wife and I were by ourselves for the majority of the time. Still fishing was slo...
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Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to fish Sprague one more time this summer, later in the afternoon and into the night. I had both the LED green floating lights and the white floating lights with me, as well as a high power ...
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Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I took a new partner out for a night of experimentation on Sprague. We got there in time to do a little bass fishing and set a crawfish trap on one of my old super spots. About 8:30 PM I got a 15....
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By: swb69
Posted: 8/4/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2013
Hot Spots: 3
I hit the lake at about 10 am. The day started off clear and sunny, temp was about 75. The water temp was 77 - 79 all day. I put in at the public access and went north to a little island with a cov...
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By: apl26
Posted: 6/20/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the east end of the lake for bass from 9am to 1pm using fly rods and traditional gear. We only caught 1 LMB on a Football Head jig/Hula Grub set up, it was 3 pounds. In the afternoon we he...
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By: Cruzer
Posted: 5/26/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a bit windy with some dark clouds started fishing early morning from the dock @Four Season Resort and landed a nice rainbow after about two hours of nothing switched to a smaller leader and in ...
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Posted: 5/17/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched about 9am and had the first fish in the boat at 10 when my buddy hooked up with a nice 2lb carryover on a Muddler Minnow tipped with Berkley Gulp maggots. I caught several planters on a plug,...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Working in retail, I prefer to get away from the public on my days off. My wife and I were blessed today to have only waterfowl and birds as our only company. OOPS...I almost forgot, BUGS!!! Thank goo...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
COLD start to the day, but near ZERO wind and then some sunshine, made the day actually better than average. Some improvement over my previous trips, I was actually able to catch a couple small trout ...
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Posted: 4/22/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out fishing Saturday morning. Not much wind but it steadily picked up all morning long and in a short time as well. The lake water conditions were terrible. Water was really churned up I think du...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 3/31/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
To be honest, I am puzzled by my lack of recent success at Sprague Lake. Although my wife and I are mere bank anglers, we usually catch a fish or two or at least, we get our share of bites. For the th...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 3/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Cold, cloudy and then windy with no bites and no fish. One fisherman reported catching a 5 pounder last week and another reported losing two fish just down the bank from us due to old line and no net....
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Posted: 2/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to spraque hoping to get some big trout like I used to, we tried everything, powerbait, wax worms, meal worms, spikes, glow jigs and the like, we were on the southern shore east of the end of...
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By: Southpaw
Posted: 12/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
we thought we could squeeze in one more sprague trip before ice over, mother nature said sorry and froze up the lake at the boat ramp and made it unuseable so I guess we wait for thick ice or next spr...
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By: P-FITZ98
Posted: 12/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Cold day, got on the water around 9am, no wind dead calm 35 degree water. Was able to fool 4 of the 18-19"ers and lost a few, one being the bigger 5+lbrs right at the side of the boat on a poor net jo...
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Posted: 12/2/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I took my son and two grandsons fishing on Sprague Lake the day after Thanksgiving. It was overcast, a little windy and spitting rain part of the time. The water was 41.5 degrees....brr...... I had ...
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Posted: 10/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Fished Sprague sunday, hammered them. Water temp 53.4 am 59.2 at 300 pm when I quit. As usual fish wanted something totally different. Last outing hammered fish on #7 orange jointed rapala and orange...
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Posted: 7/27/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Good day of fishing, and another youngster hooked as well. Took out a friend with his son and a grandson: make room on the lake for another one. LOL We fished for just two hours to catch our limi...
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By: murph
Posted: 6/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Sprague two weeks ago and got skunked. Well, I don't like to get skunked. So I did some research and talked to some people and figured to it was time to try again. We hit the water about 7...
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Posted: 6/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I didn't want people to think I was not fishing Sprague at all, due to my report on bass. When we arrived I was told that the trout had been hitting pretty well early in the day. They were trollin...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/22/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Are there really Bass, Bluegill, and Crappie in Sprague? I suspect that the bucket biologist could have had more success in starting these species then the State of Washington did. LOL This is th...
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By: wwolter
Posted: 6/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Not a bad day on the lake, landed a few nice ones and a few shakers, 2@18" and 1@21"..was a bit windy and cold.....
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I took my wife out to Sprague Lake to break in her new fishing rod and WOW, did she ever give it a workout on a 24", 4lb.+ fighting rainbow! The fish jumped at least twice and attempted to spool her t...
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