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Rattlesnake Fishing Reports

Rattlesnake
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 2
It was a tough morning on the water at Rattlesnake. Weather conditions were great, upper 40s, calm, partly cloudy. For the day after Opening Day there were not that many anglers, maybe a dozen or so b...
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Rattlesnake
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from shore, 4-5:30 (pm - kuz I'm sane). tossed chrome/orange spoon and purple/pink dick nite. Caught 3 plus a couple long distance releases (saves energy, you see). Fairly slow retrieve was mos...
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Rattlesnake
By: George Anderson
Posted: 10/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty slow day out at Rattlesnake. The water is way down, and most of the fish are really small (< 5 inches.) Kind of disappointing after such a great October of fishing on this lake last year. Tried...
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Rattlesnake
By: ral
Posted: 9/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rattlesnake from 8:30 to 11am. Fished a full sinking line and a soft hackle green fly. Caught 6 fish all 11 - 13". The bite just stopped shortly after 10 am, perhaps because it was very br...
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Rattlesnake
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to the lake for the first time with my boy and my wife's cousin's family. Sunny and warm, a great day to be on the water. Fishing started out a little slow, but we had one hit early in th...
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Rattlesnake
By: howardi211
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Was going to head to beaver, but the shore line was packed, so a few buddies and i decided to go to rattlesnake river. first time there, such a beautiful lake, clear water, great weather. had to walk ...
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Rattlesnake
By: HiFlyinOne
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Holy smokes! Was it cold or what?! I could hear teeth chattering all the way across the lake!! Early morning bite was red hot. By 9am, the show was over. More boats showing up with lots of margin...
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Rattlesnake
By: aerobar2
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Original plan was to go to Wilderness, but too crowded. Had heard Rattlesnake was a nice lake so put it in the GPS and headed out with the fly rod. Winds were awful and it was cold. Decided to swi...
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Rattlesnake
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Opening Day turned out to be cool, a little breezy, and definately off the bite for me. I did once around the lake, switching up several different wooley buggers, trying to find that right color...
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Rattlesnake
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Rattlesnake about 10:30. Wind changed directions during the day with slight surface chop, but at least no rain. Caught and released about a dozen or so, mostly sub-surface with white rabbit lee...
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Rattlesnake
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful late afternoon & evening fishing at a favorite lake. lots of fish in the 15-25 ft water column, but not readily biting. Some fish were rising to the surface most of the time. Sinking lin...
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Rattlesnake
By: RobertW
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Had to give Rattlesnake a try. Got to the lake around 4:00pm. There was a lot of boat traffic on the lake. The fish didn't seem to mind though. I think I landed 8 and lost about that many and had ...
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Rattlesnake
By: patfitting
Posted: 5/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
got there at about eleven (if your boat isn't really heavy you can pick it up and put it in the water but right now the launch is really shallow) i started with a black wooly bugger with a green sink ...
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Rattlesnake
By: flyguy
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Worked the very low waters of Rattlesnake. A few boats on the water as launching was a bit of a problem, but if your trailered boat isn't too heavy you can get it over the rocks. Water was 53 deg...
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Rattlesnake
By: Toad37
Posted: 5/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had my first fishing experience at Rattlesnake Lake today. Wow, what a neat lake. Got there around 1:30ish and the weather was nice. There was a little bit of wind that made my raft somewhat hard to n...
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Rattlesnake
By: kutthroatkilla
Posted: 5/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Swung by a local fly shop in Issaquah and talked to a nice guy and picked up a few flies for the trip up to RS. Got to the lake and managed to C&R about 20 fish myself all in the 9-11" range and my br...
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Rattlesnake
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Fished with KuttTK from 9am to 2pm. The morning bite was very good indeed. Caught around nine and missed many more. Hot flies were a purple wooley bugger and a Montana nymph. Fish in all water levels,...
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Rattlesnake
By: kutthroatkilla
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Went out to Rattlesnake for the first time with Mike Carey. I was a bit late getting to the launch after some unfortunate circumstances in the morning. Once I got there at 8:45AM, we launched the boat...
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Rattlesnake
By: ral
Posted: 10/28/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rattlesnake on Friday 10/26 and Saturday the 27th. Both days very windy but the fish were very active. On Friday I got 9 rainbows 12" to 15" in an hour and a half until the wind blew me off t...
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Rattlesnake
By: ral
Posted: 10/13/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
A beautiful morning on Rattlesnake Lake, no wind clear sunny sky and the fish cooperating. Quite a few fly fishermen on the water. Trolling soft hackle flies with an intermediate line. I fish a two...
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Rattlesnake
By: flyguy
Posted: 9/15/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
It was a fairly calm, cool, drizzly morning, with a number of fish showing on the surface. Fished from 8-1pm. The lake was fairly high for this time of year. Started out with a weighted hairs ear wi...
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Rattlesnake
By: dean
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time at Rattlesnake. The sky was overcast and the wind was blowing at around 15 - 20 mph. I tried spinners, no result. I changed to bobber and fly setup, using blue duns and had a...
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Rattlesnake
By: dean
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful lake, overcast and a little windy, but all in all very promising. No luck on my first time at Rattlesnake but this lake's a keeper. I saw some mayflies in the air so I used a blue dun on a...
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Rattlesnake
By: blackfoot
Posted: 6/11/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
New rule now in place at Rattlesnake! I just came from the Lake:spent about 2 hours cleaning up the mess that the "weekend sportsmen" left from a weekend of fishing in the great outdoors:2 empty pa...
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Rattlesnake
By: flyfshn
Posted: 5/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Caught and released 22 fish in 3 1/2 hours. Fish were at various depths. Anywhere from 35 feet to 10 feet. trolling slow to medium speed with a bead head thin mint. This fly always produces. 3 of the ...
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