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Posted: 3/5/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So I have a couple of fellow WA lakers that I have promised to take out on Lake WA soon so thought it was time to get the Tin Cup in the water and make sure everything was running good so we could mak...
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By: Adam B.
Posted: 3/3/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/3/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Not much for a report, but was out testing the Lowrance Elite 7 I just installed and decided to troll a while since I was there. I launched out of the Kirkland boat launch and just stayed on the east ...
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Posted: 3/2/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the afternoon for about 4 hours. Trolled around in 18-30 feet at 1.5-2 MPH in my kayak. Caught 4 nice smallmouth. 16, 18, 18.5 and 19". All very fat and piggish. All fish came on a s...
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By: Reeldeal
Posted: 2/24/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/24/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Had a great day out. Fished the south end of Mercer Island and the west bank from the mouth of the Cedar river and headed north about a mile. Strangely we picked up a Whitefish while trolling for Cutt...
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By: akiviat
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Only had about an hour to pop out on my kayak on the south end of Mercer Island. There were big balls of bait lighting up at around 30-60'. I caught this fat cutty at 60' on my rigger, running a sli...
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By: DjButler
Posted: 2/21/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today was an OK day of fishing. Fished for about 3.5 hours, marked a ton of bait near the south end of Mercer Island. I started trolling my wiggle hoochie in orange and yellow with no success. I switc...
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By: bassman72
Posted: 2/18/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was great with a little breeze from the north. Just enough to make boat handeling a challenge. Water surface temps were about 48 deg. Started throwing football jigs around points in 35-50 ft o...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 2/16/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If I didn't know any better I'd swear it was May. The surface temps on the lake have just about broken the 50 degree mark and just wearing a rain jacket over my long sleeve shirt was too much to bear...
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Posted: 2/14/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
one nice cutt, full of prickback minnows.they must have iron stomach.
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By: danm
Posted: 2/14/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished for perch yesterday for a few hours south of E I90 bridge. They are still there in large number between 50 and 70 feet. Worms, perch meet or 1oz jigs would do the job. Tight lines!!!
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By: DjButler
Posted: 2/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Looking at the weather forecast I noticed today was practically going to be wind free so I decided to dust off the toon and head out to my friends house on the south end of Mercer Island and launch. A...
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Posted: 1/27/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Location: Magnuson Park/ 60 ft dept (approx 200 yards directly from boat launch)/ bottom fishing with 2 hooks setup with a 1 oz weight (used a night crawler to catch the 1st perch, then fillet the pe...
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By: slabman
Posted: 1/25/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Okay, not to beat a dead horse about perch fishing Lk Washington (2 reports I previously posted) but it is still going strong. No, the size has not changed ( still mainly 8 to 9 1/2 " with an occasion...
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Posted: 1/7/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Cutthroat are on fire! Fish are running anywhere between 12-22" with some fatties hitting the net. Working the south end of the lake in 60-110' of water is producing the most action! The Ceda...
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By: slabman
Posted: 1/4/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Lk Wash in the winter months is always a special treat. Not sure what you are going to see and yesterday was no exception. As we headed for the perch area in the cold wind saw several bass boats in d...
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By: slabman
Posted: 12/23/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a big perch fry and they are so good had to go for more. Again went to the south side of Mercer Island and this time the fish had moved 5 ft deeper than a week ago - now at 70 ft. We drop shotted ...
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By: slabman
Posted: 12/17/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/17/2014
Hot Spots: 1
If you have a chance and like to eat perch hit the south end of Mercer Island. Start about 3/4 mile from SeaHawk's training facility and motor toward Mercer Is bridge. Stick to the middle channel of ...
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By: G-Man
Posted: 12/13/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It had been a while since I last fished the lake, or wet a line for that matter. Finally with some good weather forecast and the remnants of my lingering cold all but gone, I headed out this morning ...
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By: bassman72
Posted: 12/5/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had to get out on the water was having withdrawals. Been itching to head to Lake Washington and try the big water. I now know why it took me so long to actually drive up there from Puyallup. TRAFFIC!...
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By: capers26
Posted: 11/27/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Came back to Seattle for thanksgiving break but my main goal was to catch a few fish. I was actually hoping to try catch to a steelhead after finally getting one out in Oregon and hearing that a few ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 11/9/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/9/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Three fishing weekends in a row. This hasn’t happened in a year or so, atonement! The little dude and I dropped the chores off of my to-do list and went fishing. After a late launch at the WDFW access...
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By: slabman
Posted: 11/3/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We have been fishing on all sides of Mercer Island for perch for the last 2 weeks and found huge schools. As you can see on the depth finder picture the schools are sometimes so thick that we cannot ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 10/15/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Busy, busy, busy; it is hard to sit down and type out a report for a Sunday trip. That said here it is, but first a little personal history. I grew up just a short bike ride from the north end of Lake...
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Posted: 10/13/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/11/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Started out early. We were after coho. First fish on was a nice cutt about 3 lbs. No Salmon but caught 2 cutts and a Rainbow. Buddy in other boat caught a really big cutt over 5 lbs. Trolled everythin...
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Posted: 10/12/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 1
On the lake this morning about 7 or so. Fished from Hunts Pt down to Waverly Park. Thought I was fishing Shipwreck there were so many boats out this morning! Seemed like everybody has been reading BJ'...
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