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Sprague Fishing Reports

By: Gisteppo
Posted: 11/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/9/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Feels like winter is around the corner.... The Thumb and I headed over to Sprague to have a look-see at this supposedly fantastic stocker fishery. Overall a good day, but read on, dear fisher-frien...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sprague about 10 AM - hoping that by that time it would have warmed up some. It was warm enough, but the wind was kicking up. I trolled out of the launch over the springs and missed the first hit...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2008
Hot Spots: 1
My son is home visiting so we decided to spend a day on Sprague Lake. The weather was nice, shirt sleeves and smooth water. But then any day without wind is nice on Sprague Lake. We left Spokane about...
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By: retsgt
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Limited on sprague today. Trolled the shoreline next to the railroad tracks. One 17'', other in the 12-15 range. Pulled rainbow minnow colored spoon. Guess they are hitting green power bait too. Qual...
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By: Skimo
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the public access on the way back to seattle for a few hours and caught some stockers right off the bat, and after a 1/2 hour we caught 4 of the 1.5 lb. triploids. Remember when fishing here ...
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By: BASSMAN1
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went camping at sprague last weekend got there Friday at about 7:00 pm didn't fish too much that night the next morning me and my step dad caught our limit of 2 lb+ rainbows all early in the morning i...
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By: BASSMAN1
Posted: 4/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sprague Friday evening about 5:30, stayed in a cabin until Sunday morning.. After we {me and step dad} unloaded the truck we trolled for a couple hours using rapalas, wedding rings, rooster tails ...
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By: Honkster
Posted: 4/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just checked the WDFW weekly planting reports for March. Looks like Sprague has received 50,000+ catchable size rainbows between March 18-26. So is the lake actually open to fishing now? Those ne...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/26/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sprague for a Duck/Pheasant shoot. Just wanted to let everyone know that it is apparent that the lake treatment did the job. Piles of dead fish all over the banks and in the bays. Lake was defi...
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By: Ty
Posted: 10/3/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Gave Sprague a final go for walleye. No luck, one nice smallie. Tried for channel cats for a couple hours with no luck there either. Colors don't matter cause the lakes probably dead now. Was really r...
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Posted: 9/9/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well, thought I would hit Sprague up some more before its dead. Started the day at around noon fishing the shoreline and a few little deeper spots for the bass. Only picked up a couple small largemou...
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By: Ty
Posted: 9/3/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sprague at about 630am till 3pm or so looking for walleye. Picked up 6 or so on 4" black power grubs and 4" pumpkin seed power grubs. Also hit several largemouth. Biggest around 4-5 lbs. The bigge...
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By: spadam98
Posted: 8/24/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
ok so i have been trying to make it down to sprague all summer to see how it is there i was there in 2000 and caught a few walleye out of a boat so today i got there around 2pm and fished till 6pm fir...
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By: papamike
Posted: 8/11/2007
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
we were on the water by 730 fished until midnight had one light bite. the chicken livers were fresh, slight breeze surface temp about 72 the sky was clear as a bell. we had the lake to our selves. o...
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Posted: 7/27/2007
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sprague last night from about 9:00pm until 3:00am. I was surprised to see 3 other boats on the water at night. 3 of us on my boat and we managed only 2 catfish in like 6 hours. I caught a 15lb ...
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Posted: 7/26/2007
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time out for catfish, a buddy and I got out there at about midnight. Put the boat in and headed a little west. After an hour or so my friend landed a 15lb fat bellied feline fish. Boy do they...
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By: Mossy
Posted: 5/12/2007
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
One of the very few times this lake was glass! Quite a bit of boats out, real warm and calm like I said. Carp are jumping but that's about it. I was hoping the catfish were spawning but no such luc...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Put in on south end of lake, lot of fish on the fish finder and I mean lots. Caught nothing. Checked with 5 other boats and one dock/bank fisherman, also nothing. Will return when weather warms up ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/7/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I have to agree with josh that sprague is a GREAT fishery and has no business being killed off. Every spring there is tons of articles on this lake, about how great the fishing is. The lake just doesn...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I agree with the Comment below. What makes Sprague an amazing lake is 1. That there are not an infestation of boats on the water, and two that there are some HUGE fish, as well as good Walleye. Whil...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/5/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I would just like to let everyone know of the state's proposal to kill off sprague lake this year. I am trying to find a way to voice my conerns(which I have written a letter to wdfw about). It soun...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2007
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fished for 5 hours trolled, jigged, casted crank baits never had a bite.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to sprague in the afternoon hoping to pick up some perch on the 1st.Friend and I ended up with just a few 6 inch perch.From what we saw most everyone else was bringing up small perch as well....
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Not much going on. Only fished for an hour wind was to much for my little boat. Tried for bass and walleye around an island. Threw every thing at em and trolled. no Bites so we took off.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/15/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Sprague is a great walleye lake! If all you do is pull worm harnesses or throw cranks you will do just ok. You really have to try every technique in the book before you throw in the towel. I have onl...
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