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Palmer Fishing Reports

Posted: 5/6/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy and I made the 106 mile (one way) trip to Palmer this morning. Left Chelan just as it was cracking daybreak. Got on the water 8:00 ish with upper 40s air temp and light breeze. We trolled 4 rods...
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Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day at Palmer Lake with Nice Limits of Kokanee... We started trolling the North end of the lake but found out right away that the the Koks had moved from my previous tript to Mid lake an...
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Posted: 4/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy and I made our second trip to Palmer. We wanted to check out the cluster of fish arches we marked last trip. After fishing the upper end with no luck, we worked down the shoreline. We used wedd...
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Posted: 4/2/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
WOW What a day on the water. After seeing my Kokes from the Thursday trip to Palmer Lake in Okanogan county With Joe from Lake Chelan Adventures, Cindy was ready to tackle a road trip to get in on the...
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Posted: 3/31/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well I changed things up today with fishing a lake I have not fished in years..We tackled Palmer Lake for the Kokanee..I had been hearing of the Large kokanee up there this year so I couldn't resist t...
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By: Ganno
Posted: 3/31/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to fish Palmer for some Silvers since I did not fair to well at Ruffus the day before, One Rainbow all day fishing and had to resort to bait to catch it. Started the day early as there was hig...
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By: RC
Posted: 6/30/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Palmer Lake on Friday and Saturday Morning. Trolled on the surface down to 10 feet from 5am to 6:30am then moved down to 25 feet on down riggers. Trolled green wedding rings 3 feet behind 0000...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started picking up fish in the late AM and then the Wind come up about noon and never quit. We beached the boat after fighting the wind and relaxed in the warm sunshine as the rollers and whitecaps ge...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/14/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Stennes' went up to Palmer with some guys. They trolled Mack's wedding rings with Pautzke's Fire Corn with 2 ounce snap weights at 1.5 mph to catch some kokanee. They noted that the South end of...
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Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I fish at palmer almost every weekend. My grandparents live in Loomis and I have been going there sence I was a kid. As you can tell, the Kokanee are bitting well for the time of year, on account...
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Posted: 7/7/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent several days fishing Palmer Lake and had a great time. Kakanee were in 40 to 60 feet of water at the 20 to 25 foot level. Caught several dozen K and a few perch. Morning and evening were better ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day Saturday. Bright sun to hazy overcast. Fished for smallmouth at first, but had little luck (water temps at about 50 degrees). Moved to Kokanne, and they were abundant and feeding. T...
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By: bzehe
Posted: 2/4/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first experience fishing this lake. I had heard that palmer had kokanee so I took my nephews out.I caught my first kokanee with in seconds!After that it was fish-on as fast as you could ge...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2006
Hot Spots: 0
We are locals and fishing Palmer Lake is one of our favorite outings. When we were up there this week we caught several bass along the shoreline using both topwater and plastic worms. Of course a bass...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I've been fishing Palmer Lake for bass this last week, and the action was much slower than I experienced at Banks Lake. Using a crawdad crankbait along the rocky shorelines, I caught more rainbow tro...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/29/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was pretty good. I got several good bites that spat the hook. I caught one 16" largemouth and an 8" perch. We were fishing near the lilypads at the northwest end. We saw about a dozen otters o...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing at palmer was awesome. We use to only fish from shore and only caught some little sucker fish. We got a new boat this year and we desided to try out Palmer for Smallies. Only got in one fish a...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I caught 4 largemouth up to 1 1/2 lbs. between noon and 1:30 PM. The sunny weather helped because water temperatures are still in the low 60s. These fish were in the grass at the northwest end of th...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/8/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Palmer Lake in Okanogan County has more than just Smallmouth Bass. Palmer also has Whitefish,Kokanee,and Burbot. Palmer actually holds the Burbot state record that was around 17 lbs. Burbot can also b...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great 4 day weekend fishing at palmer lake catching a variety of fish. Hooked 5 smallies over 3lbs and one over 5 lbs, and many many close to a pound and then many more not worth telling about....
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Take Hwy.2 to Coulee City, then go north to Grand Coulee and continue on North on 17 to Omak. From there go North on 97 to Tonasket. Cross the river at Tonasket and continue North on Loomis Orivelle r...
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