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Padden Fishing Reports

Padden
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 5/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Padden with a friend from WWU. We fished from the bank with a bobber and worm and caught 6 fish and missed a dozen or more. Great relaxing evening out on Padden! I'll be back out there s...
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Padden
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Padden the other night again and just fished from shore with a bobber and worm. Ended up catching three, but only kept one for dinner. Tasted great, can't wait to get back out there!
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Padden
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a buddy went out to Padden this evening and had a blast. Got there around 7:30 and walked to the left where Ty Woods was fishing and the Russian family had bucket loads of fish. Anyways, deci...
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Padden
By: Ty Woods
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 530. When I got to the launch, I walked to the left down the trail and sat where I had seen guys catching fish on Saturday evening. Had several bites, but the fish just didn't...
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Padden
By: whatcomfinest
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Padden after fishing for bass in the morning at lake Terrell. We thought there would be more boats but to our surprise there were less than we expected. We headed straight to the tennis court ...
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Padden
By: noclothes1
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Padden with a buddy @ 5am. My friend had a rough go at it for starts. He missed a few and landed a couple. I messed around with a few new rigs I wanted to try. I ended up missing my first 3 b...
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Padden
By: SmokinAces
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Padden with some friends and ended up catching 7 trout between 9 and 13 inches. It was a beautiful day and weather couldn't have been better. We trolled around the lake with a red flatfi...
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Padden
By: Matt
Posted: 5/5/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I have been fishing lake Padden daily since the opener. I have a 12 foot aluminum boat, and motor guide motor and have been having great success trolling the shoreline between the tennis courts and t...
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Padden
By: noclothes1
Posted: 5/4/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Padden and caught one trout on Bubble Gum power bait from shore. There was occasional clouds, sun was directly in front of me. Cast about 25 yards and set 3-4 feet off bottom. Messed up my rig...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 5:00 p.m. day after opening day with my younger sister. Trolled the shore by the tennis courts with our lures of choice (barbless) and both limited out with 13-16 inchers by 10:...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 3 untill 8:30 on the dock with three other people two fish were landed between the four of us. It was very slow. And once you do catch a fish put it in a bucket or cooler don't leave it ...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Two of us fished with power pait for 2 hours and didn't even get a bit the fishing is really slow.
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first opening day on lake Padden. I got to the lake around 1:30 A.M. and fished for about 6 hours. I used flies most were leech patterns. I landed 94 fish in six hours. I had never see...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the lake from shore for about an hour using powerbait... fishing was slow, and all the fish caught were small around 12 inches.
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I finally made it to opening day in Whatcom County, and Lake Padden did not dissappoint. I fished from the shore and caught my limit (not counting several I lost trying to get in the net) in a few ho...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/15/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Had tried fishing this Lake earlier and had no luck but it was windy. Took a friend out just to relax and ended up hooking 5 rainbows and landing 4. Lost one at the dock because we didn't have a net...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2004
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I have a spot on this lake that I went to for my first time here and it is becoming a regular. The first time I was just trying to find a good lake and I got 2 rainbows in 45 minutes before the wife ...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today and fished Padden from one of the public docks. My girlfriend and I each caught two trout. These trout were the smallest trout I have ever seen pulled out of a lake. We were using wo...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I caught padden opening day. Looking for a few more good weeks there. Black rooster tails worked good. There was powerbait floating everywhere from the bank folks. The fish are sick of it and weren't...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I prefer this lake after the opener, when the newness has worn off and people seem to drift away. I've had great success in this lake using an Uncle Wes's worm troll with a black blade and green bead'...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I love fishing this lake on opening day! It has become a tradition for me and my best friend to get to the lake at 3 am on opening day! The lake is usually packed by about 3 am but we still usually ...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/28/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Padden is the best lake in the Whatcom County. On April 28, 2001 I went to Lake Padden and caught my limit of 5 trout in about a half an hour. All I was using was power bait with a split-shot s...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I've fished off shore at Padden only a few times, and I was surprised at having even mild success. I landed a few 9" and one good 12" 'bow (using various Castmasters and the like), though it took alm...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/26/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Put in despite the wind, but it soon died down. This September weather is keeping the fish lethargic, but managed to hook up with a few perch and a small cutt trolling a tuft of deer hair. Was dra...
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Padden
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/23/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/1999
Hot Spots: 0
The trout sure have slowed down--starting to hear the bait guys are getting all the action. Would have gotten skunked the other day if I hadn't flipped a flatfish along shoreline cover for perch....
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