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Diablo Fishing Reports

By: Eddy N.
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went camping at the boat in campgrounds at diablo lake (buster brown) from 8/19 - 8/21 on kayaks with my brothers and my dad. Only trolled macks wedding rings for a little did get some bites but didn'...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Normally I would be eyeballing the salt right now watching to see if the Coho are starting to show..... so I have been having to find other fishing opportunities to occupy myself with. I've been to my...
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By: Bscman
Posted: 9/22/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Seattle light is currently drawing down the level of the lake, which will make using the boat launch pretty much impossible to use through mid November this year! That being said, we decided to ta...
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By: cwbraue
Posted: 7/5/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I was visiting my parents in Skagit country and did some fishing in several different locations. The first night we took my canoe to Diablo lake. I used to catch plenty of fish here, but in the last...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 3
My dad and I fished from the Highway 20 bridge on the upstream side and across from Colonial Creek campground for about two or so hours and caught 6 native rainbows. Most were between 10-12 inches but...
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Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed the weekend at Colonial Creek Campground, and fished all day on Saturday. I had no luck whatsoever. In the morning I tried the fishing pier, and tried to get my bait into the deep channels that...
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By: rseas
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We were out the door at 9:30 and in the water at Diablo around 11:30. Because of a persistent breeze we decided to fish the Thunder Creek arm. We started our adventure by setting a couple baited cra...
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Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First at Diablo this year. Caught 4 rainbows on wedding ring/pautzke gold label eggs combo from dock area near boat launch. Can't wait to go back. Love this lake, always catch decent fish.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/14/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Diablo Lake. It was cold. Snowed on me, a little. The Colonial Creek arm of the lake was my target, but there has been a good bit of flood damage (part of the Colonial Creek Camp Ground was w...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/13/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
went to diablo today. Perfect weather, lake was like glass all day. Didn't see another boat fishing only the city light boats. Wife and myself caught limits of nice 12 inch plus rainbows on our secret...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 3 evenings with only 1 on the line while trolling with flatfish, roostertails and Hot Shot. Did not see much other activity from the few others that were fishing. Lots of variation in lake dept...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/18/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for 3 days on 4 different occasions. Ended up with 3 fish less than 10", one of which was a Dolly. Nothing worth keeping! We tried everything; fishing in the evening and in the morning, red and...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I've heard this was a good lake to catch fish and i was right! I went camping at the local campground got in my boat and went fishing. On my first cast with just a worm on a bobber,BOOM! I pulled in a...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Diablo from the shore at around 1 pm for about an hour. Fished right under the highway 20 bridge. Caught a 3-4 pound dolly on a 1/8 oz black rooster tail. Buddy of mine caught a rainbow around ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/13/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/13/2005
Hot Spots: 0
We went to Diablo Lake today and fished the Thunder Arm section which goes under the HWY 20 bridge. We started at 8:30am and got done at 12:30pm. We netted 5 rainbows 11-14 inches and lost 1 right at ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/22/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Diablo on our return trip from Ross Lake Resort (wonderful place--will be better in July, once the lake and feeder streams opens for fishing). Started from near the dam and worked the shaded...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Just had to go back and stay at one of the boat in campsites, a great experience in itself. The water temperature was between 48 degrees and 50 degrees. They must have let some water out of the dam be...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/17/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2004
Hot Spots: 0
This was the first time I have ventured out to give this lake a try. We launched at Colonial Park Boat Ramp and proceeded towards the dam. After getting thru the first log boom area we started trollin...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/14/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/14/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for two days on this lake and didn't catch a thing. Fish are in there but they run deep. Nobody I talked too had much luck besides the occasional small rainbow. Water temp is 48-50 deg. Fis...
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