Search

Rock Fishing Reports

By: tomconant
Posted: 12/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day to go fishing, no wind. On the water by 8 and off by 9:30. had a limit of rainbows and steelhead. fish getting pretty good sized 14- 16" going to have to get a bigger frying pan.
Full Report »
Posted: 12/21/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock Lake from apx. 1:45pm until 4pm. Testing a new perch-colored OG1 and pitting it against the tried-and-true colors that have been effective on Rock (fluorescent orange and fluorescent pink)...
Full Report »
Posted: 11/12/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The steelhead, that Washington Fish and Game planted in Rock Lake, are starting to put on some mass! We hit the lake yesterday to test a new color pattern (fluor. pink stripe with translucent body and...
Full Report »
Posted: 10/31/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/30/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Took out the johnboat to fish Rock Lake, as the larger motor boat has been winterized. Overcast but not raining. Winds were light, but there was still a bit of a chop on the main part of the lake. I...
Full Report »
By: brent338
Posted: 10/28/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Decided it was time to hit rock, wanted to let the steelhead get a lil more size to them than earlier this year... Despite the 5hp kicker deciding to take the day off(flooded beyond restart), i still...
Full Report »
Posted: 10/26/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We launched the drift boat around 10am yesterday on Rock. Beautiful fall day! By the end of the day, we had two limits (5 apiece). Of these 10 fish, 9 were steelhead plants. The other was a rainbow...
Full Report »
Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Ran a quick test of the three new freshwater colors that are featured on our Old Goat Lures blog . Since I'm fishing out of a drift-boat, with a small electric trolling motor, I limited my tests to th...
Full Report »
By: ChuckVH
Posted: 10/5/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went to Rock Lake to get some steelhead action. The report last week said they were in the 16 inch range and biting well. Now the question was, are they biting this week. So with th...
Full Report »
Posted: 9/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a decent morning testing the OG1 lure on Rock Lake (south of Cheney, Washington). We trolled several colors and sizes. The most consistent producers turned out to be the 2.8" and 3.9" with red...
Full Report »
By: rwl
Posted: 9/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Rock lake to see what was biting. The planted steelhead are definitely still around and running about 16 inches and fight hard for their size with some aerial displays. Also caught a couple of p...
Full Report »
Posted: 7/12/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I really wanted to go down and chase some sockeye, but with just me and my fairly new to fishing parents, I decided to go out to Rock instead. The forecast was for wind from 7-12 mph when I checked la...
Full Report »
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/24/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2016
Hot Spots: 3
As usual, the launch was difficult. Got on the water by 645 and headed to the south side that had a lot of hot spots from previous reports. Picked up a 13" rainbow on the way there. No action on the s...
Full Report »
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son out trout fishin. Perfect weather. Trolled around the lower end of the lake. He caught his first trout ever. Fun time.
Full Report »
Posted: 4/9/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to Rock this morning with my brother inlaw. What a beautiful day, no wind and mid seventies under clear skies. Ran up to the inlet end and the water was very dirty with lots of debris and f...
Full Report »
By: rwl
Posted: 1/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Probably a lot of people already know about this judging by the number of shore fishermen and boats. There are many planted steelhead that are very cooperative right now. Trolled south end of the lak...
Full Report »
By: tomconant
Posted: 1/10/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/10/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Great day to go to the lake, our son went with us. We must have caught and released forty fish. We finally started keeping them since they were all the same in size (13") and it was clear no monster ...
Full Report »
By: Fishrader
Posted: 1/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day on Rock Lake. Caught some nice holdover trout, a brown, and too many steelhead to count using a brown trout Rapala.
Full Report »
By: tomconant
Posted: 1/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I took a guy from work with me. We trolled along the east side had our limits in about an hour and a half all between 12-14"
Full Report »
By: tomconant
Posted: 1/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day fishing, had my limit in about an hours time. All around 13". Launch not as bad as I was expecting, icy but had enough dirt on it to get in and out.
Full Report »
By: BigT
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The browns were few and far inbetween. But the rainbows were everywhere and hitting everything didn't matter what we threw or what part of the lake we went to it was thick with the rainbows. Everyone...
Full Report »
Posted: 1/1/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Waiting on my 16 tab for the boat to show up in the mail prompted me to run over to rock lake. The air was cold and the bite was hot. We arrived around 1pm and fished from shore and caught 10 nice ste...
Full Report »
By: Phuffman
Posted: 12/6/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't heard a lot about Rock Lake this fall/winter, but wanted to give it a try since it's been so good this time of the year in past years. And boy did it not disappoint. Launched at 9:30 am an...
Full Report »
By: tomconant
Posted: 11/24/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Very nice day, figured I had better go torment some fish. Water level very low, had the trailblazer half in the lake in order to get the boat off. Fish started biting right off, had about seven right ...
Full Report »
Posted: 8/5/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Took my pontoon boat out on the mysterious Rock Lake! There is not a maintained boat ramp, meaning it's a good thing a buddy brought his four-wheel-drive pickup because my van would never have been ab...
Full Report »
Posted: 7/5/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad and I wanted to go fishing before the 2014 season ended and rock lake was the only lake we found that was open so we spent all day there fishing from shore so of course we weren't away from th...
Full Report »