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Cottage Fishing Reports

By: fishon
Posted: 8/21/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for a total of three hours. Tried catching trout on the fly with no luck. Switched to fishing for bass near the docks. landed this nice Largemouth on a Rapala. Saw a school of largemouth ba...
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Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So I decided to test out my 10' Aluminum Jon Boat today since I had nobody to go fishing with me. I wanted to try a local lake that I have never been too and went with cottage. As soon as I launched...
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Posted: 6/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Caught some fish, had some fun! Launched the little jon, trolled for a couple hours, caught 10" stocker bows, 1 - 12" cutt and 2 - 9" perch (while trolling!). LOL those perch must have been hungry t...
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Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Got there at 5:45 before the gate even opened. Got out on the water at 6:15. Went out in my new 4 person inflatable. It worked out great. I had a small anchor i used to stay in this one specific spot....
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Posted: 5/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The bite was definitely slower today than yesterday but I just managed to get my limit of 10" bows and cutts. The 0000 dodger and worm seemed to work the best today. Spoons, spinners and flatfish ha...
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Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the lil jon boat at Cottage today in the rain. Fish were rising and jumping here and there. A bald eagle soared across the lake. Bites weren't fast and furious but they were pretty consist...
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By: Trojans93
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got to the CL with my oldest son and our canoe around 7:30AM. We started out with live worms and powerbait eggs - lots of bites, but no takers as we kept losing our bait. We switched over to trollin...
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By: hydra
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took my uncle out on Cottage lake Sunday, not to busy and plenty of fish! trolled dick nite, needle fish and Flys. all worked! great times!! limited easy, most are smaller in size but really put up a ...
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By: hydra
Posted: 4/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Cottage Lake opening Day!^ 6 boat fleet tolled black fly sinking line biggest fish, dick nite orange silver was the ticket we all had great time! good friends good fishing nice Day...ok Wheres the bbQ...
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Posted: 4/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Stuck close to home base this year for the opener. I expected it to be so crowded that I wouldn't even toss a line in the water. When I got there, I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't al...
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By: gavran8
Posted: 8/28/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Cottage Lake for the first time on Friday evening with my girlfriend for an hour and a half before sunset. We fished the docks, out of my inflatable boat, on the NW side of the lake without an...
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Posted: 8/17/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Hit the water at 6:45 after the gate got opened (thanks King County Parks). I had high hopes and expectations as I started kicking along in my pontoon. Worked counter-clockwise to the far end of the l...
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By: Trojans93
Posted: 7/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Cottage Lake around 7:30 in the morning with my 6yr old. No one else out on the water, but there is 1 person on the dock. Intending to get bass, we head across the lake in our canoe towards the ...
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Posted: 7/19/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my friend went to the dock on the northside. I used a 2 hook and bait method and let it soak on the bottom. My friend got a bird nest right after I casted. I set my rod on the dock and helped h...
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Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I put two 8th ounce on the black lure's line and no weight on the gold line so we were fishing two depths and then just trolled the far bank of the lake and ended up catching 9 in an hour and a half a...
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By: ral
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cottage for 2 hours. Very nice day, sunny warm but windy. Lots of fish just under the surface. Had many many strikes and caught and released 10 fish in 2 hours using black woolly buggers and...
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By: Doug250
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Looks like the fish are getting used to all the fishing, cause they just weren't biting like they were a week ago. We tried spoons, wedding rings, even trolled a fly for a bit. We tried with a flasher...
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Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What works one day doesn't always work the next. Bait fishing was slow so tried flatfish assortment with little positive results. Went to a lil dick nite looking spoon and CnRd for a couple hours, 2...
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Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Best lake since the opener. Had my trout limit in about an hour and spent the next few hours searching for bass to no avail. There are lots of trout rising in Cottage. The launch parking is small, ...
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By: braziertl
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
got out on the lake around 2pm... caught a couple planters 10 inches or so.. Raining pretty hard so was off the lake around 4pm soaked might I add.. good day C&R'd about 6 lost 4 or 5. Tight Lines!
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By: hydra
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
cottage lake was recently stocked so hit it up in the baby orca fish killer 7 foot livingston with a 40 lb thrust min kota trolling my fly around and couldnt keep em off! then went to Dougs Marine in ...
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By: gdbrill
Posted: 10/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for almost 4 hours yesterday afternoon. Couldn't ask for a nicer day. Caught one at 12 inches and 5 more at about 9 to 10 inches. Just one other fisherman until about 5 pm. Water was like g...
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Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We fished at cottage lake most of the summer since the opeaner. We have done verry well there. I do have a question or just a heads up not sure wich. The last few times we have gone the trout have a...
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Posted: 7/30/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
me and my brothe bass fished this morning. he landed a couple small ones the this one, he had one one that was a good 4+ pounds lost it at the boat. i had one on and it wrapped itself around the dock ...
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By: GregC
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I recently have gotten back into fishing after a few years off. A week or so ago I found this site and have really enjoyed reading the reports. My plan now is... to leave my gear in my Jeep and a h...
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