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Cranberry Fishing Reports

By: spokey9
Posted: 4/23/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kiddo to deception pass to play at the beach yesterday without planning on doing much or any fishing to be honest, but i tossed a rod in the truck and some hooks, split shot & power eggs in m...
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Posted: 2/10/2018
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I have wanted to hit Cranberry for many years. We used to camp there as kids in the '70's. I spent a lot of years on those big rocks as a 10 y/o fishing into the night, etc. I piled the ge...
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Posted: 12/28/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished Cranberry Lake about 830 am along side the road. I started out with orange power bait and he tried a worm with a marshmallow above it. It was a cold and sunny day the beavers wer...
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By: garys
Posted: 5/11/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 11:30 wanted to see if my home made down rigger worked. Dropped the down rigger weight down to about 7 or 8 feet and had a fish on with in 5 minutes. I was using a sling blade rai...
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By: garys
Posted: 5/3/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boat out Sunday. Trolled a chrome dodger with a chrome Dick Nite behind it, no extra weight on the line. Once I flipped the bale back I had a hook up. The action wasn't constant due to th...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 4/10/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/9/2017
Hot Spots: 1
My goal today was to see if I could get any browns interested. The answer was no, but I did get a lot of interest from recently stocked rainbows. I also went to Cranberry specifically because I did no...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 2/11/2017
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I have yet to be able to really figure out my local lakes during January and February once the water has hit 40 degrees and lower. Thought today with the decent weather I would hit Cranberry out at De...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 6/19/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Went out to Cranberry Lake at Deception Pass today. The fishing was good, the actual catching could have been a little bit better. I just could not get that last fish for a limit to the net today. Had...
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By: herefishy
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My husband asked me what I wanted to do for Mother's day. My response, "Go fishing of course". We got on the lake about 6:30 am. It was overcast with a mild breeze. We were trolling a Mack's Wedding r...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 3/19/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Not the day I was holing for. Started fishing at about 8am. Started 1 lines with a wedding ring tipped with a gulp worm, fhe other line ran a gold/orange needlefish. By the time my day was done, I had...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 5/31/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Cranberry again this morning. Lines in the water at about 6:30. First bite was about 8am, no hook-up. 2nd bite about 5 minutes later. Real hard bite, and the fish instantly bolted to the surface...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 4/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I have hit Cranberry 4 times since January, always thinking the bite should start. After putting in over 5 hours this morning without even a nibble, it hasn't yet. I have the ibobber fish finder and a...
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By: zack9999
Posted: 7/23/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/21/2014
Hot Spots: 3
On Monday my Dad and I decided to make a small trip up to Cranberry lake to try our luck on some Largemouth Bass. In the morning it was very slow with only 2 very small Largemouth Bass. The res...
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By: srvinme61
Posted: 8/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a 18 1/2 inch rainbow at Cranberry lake. 8/6/2013. 7:30 A.M. Power bait. Rainbow with sparkles. Used a treble hook and a slip sinker on a 14 inch leader. Get there early before the swimmers sho...
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By: garys
Posted: 6/24/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My son, myself and my buddy went to Cranberry Sunday morning to do some trout fishing from the dock. All three of us limited out in 3 1/2 hours. We used powerbait to entice the fish to bite. When w...
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Posted: 5/30/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 9 am fished for a couple of hours. Weather was not so great rain off and on. But stilled managed to land a couple of nice trout!!
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Posted: 3/27/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
nother typical day at cranberry. fished from 8:30 till 13:00 throwing spinners and managed to hook about 15 landing 5. real slow day but still a great outing. kinda tough fishing but oh well. tight li...
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Posted: 3/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2013
Hot Spots: 1
After hearing that the lake was stocked, I went fishing for an hour and a half at Cranberry Lake. The trout bite was incredible! I caught around twenty and released 16. I was using a single barbless h...
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By: Tady45
Posted: 2/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After getting the idea that this lake was mainly a bait fishing lake I decided to prove that theory wrong. Short Story: Theory stands! Detailed Report: Got to the lake at 0815 and lines in the wa...
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Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at the lake. Everyone was catching them but me. Ended up with one 14 inch stocked rainbow and hooked perch.
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Posted: 9/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We fished a couple hrs on Saturday from the rocks on NW side of the lake. I tried a few different things from top water to plastics with only one bite at a buzz bait. My son used a pumpkin colored ...
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Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a Mariners/Red Sox game to go to in the evening so Joey and I decided to try Cranberry Lake for something new and close to home. Had our lines in the water at 7:30 on this cool, foggy morning and...
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Posted: 7/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
fished cranberry with powerbait caught 5 fish total in a 6 day period. Also fished pass lake fly fishing of course 10 fish total in five days
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Posted: 6/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got a chance to head up to Coupeville to see my Mom and Family. While I was there on Whidbey Island I dropped by Cranberry lake just to the South of Deception Pass. After finishing a "Shrimp...
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By: clam man
Posted: 2/3/2010
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Great evening on lake. First cast had a brown streak behind my spoon...I twitched it back to the boat and wham! nice trout on the line...got it close to boat and it threw hook. I was pretty shocked...
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