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Nahwatzel Fishing Reports

Posted: 8/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to hood canal to salmon fish in the morning, decided to stop at Nahwatzel caught the last 3 hours of sunlight and just slammed em. landed about 12 LMB, Best five over 20lbs caught most on d...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Nahwatzel with my cousin for his birthday and did well. We caught about 25 fish, most about a pound. My cousin had the hot rod and landed 2 fish over 3 lbs. one almost 4. Not bad considering i...
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By: Ocktane
Posted: 3/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my roommate Josh hit the lake at 5 am, first ones on the water! Fished along the shore with a silver shad plug, Josh nailed a few, one nice 14 inch Cutt. Tried trolling a wedding ring for a l...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled lake starting 6:20am till 1:45. Started with wedding ring and black woolybugger, dad used green most of day.. Picked up 3 within 5min on water.. Breese picked up found shelter. About 9am state...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to lake with wife about 7;15a.m., one hit trolling wedding ring but no hook-up, anchored up and limited in about 3 1/2 hours, nice fish, a couple of 14's, rest were about 12 inches, weather was ju...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bluster day rain then sun then rain. Two nice 13 ~14inch rainbows. One with nice pink meat. Must try to cast past or next to floats in front of lauch..Good day 2 relax, sorry no photos unless you woul...
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Posted: 3/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I hit the lake about 11am and trolled for 2 hours w/o a single strike. We tried wedding rings of various colors, small willow leaf gang trolls and a few other odds-n-ends with worms. At ...
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Posted: 3/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had the fever to fish, though I can't say much for the weather that was cloudy, rainny, windy, with occasional calm spell moments on the water. I tried trolling with wedding rings and notice success...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 2/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I went to our favorite winter lake, fishing was a little slow at times but we did manage to get 9 fish, the last one (mine, of course) was really hard , we had trolled before we settled do...
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Posted: 2/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with the wife for a couple of hours with no luck, tried trolling with wedding rings no luck, then still fishing with power bait again no luck. But we did have a good time on the water!
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By: TBone
Posted: 1/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Never fished the lake we arrived there around 8:30, went straight out from the launch about 50 yds and had a bite, missed that one so we continued on close to shore and the other rod went of and he la...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake at about 3pm. I used blue/green powerbait with a 2.5 foot leader. Most of my bites occured within a minute of being casted. I ended up catching 3 14.5-15 inch rainbows and 2 12 inc...
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By: BrettW
Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished both Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. Both days were very productive. Numerous fish including largemouth and pumpkinseed fish were caught. One guy I talked to caught a 24 inch rainbow e...
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By: BrettW
Posted: 6/14/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Today, I just casted a half of a worm with a slow retrieve. In the 2 hours and 10 minutes that I fished, I ended up catching 10 small sized pumpkin seed fish( Lepomis gibbosus) and a good sized 12 inc...
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Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Showed up at the lake at around 3 PM. It was sunny and breezy and a little cool. Trolled from a 9 foot aluminum sled with a fishing buddy using wedding rings and worms. Caught a couple of fish but re...
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By: BrettW
Posted: 3/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to the lake on Saturday. We got there pretty late. We fished for an hour and a half which ended at dusk. I caught two of the rainbow trout both about 14 inches. My dad caught a 13 to 13.5 i...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 3/23/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day with my wife Melanie at 7:15, air temp. was 27, water temp 42. Caught 7 cuts and 3 rainbows, the state must have stocked some brood stock lately. After 7 hours of trolling we limited o...
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By: BrettW
Posted: 3/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I caught my first cutthroat trout on Saturday. Because it was 37 degrees and a snow/rain mix, we only stayed for about an hour. We were using a half worm with rainbow powerbait combo with a four foot ...
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By: BrettW
Posted: 3/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday I went to Lake Nawahtzel with a friend of mine. The fish would not stop biting. We both limited out in about 2 hours and 30 minutes. It was cloudy with rain showers. The smallest fish was ab...
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Posted: 2/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at about 9:30 A.M., The weather was partly cloudy turning to mostly sunny in the afternoon. Water temp. was between 37 and 39 degrees. We tried some senkos and jigs for bass but didn...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/9/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
On Sunday my dad and I went out to Lake Nawahtzel. Third time in the last month. I had 5 bites but no fish. I think it was because I was using such a small hook. I did however bring a fish in to the...
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Posted: 2/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
After seeing they planted fish at Nahwatzel, I decided to make a trip from Seattle. Never been to the lake so I left the house early to enjoy a day fishing and thinking I would get lost at least once....
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Although I did not catch any fish, I had a lot of fun. My friend and I tried to break some holes in the ice for fishing next to the dock. The ice was pretty thick about 2 or 3 inches including some sl...
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By: BrettW
Posted: 12/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We went out to the lake at about noon. The weather was a lot nicer Sunday then the previous weekend. I brought two friends along. In the end, we ended up catching one trout each. They were all about 1...
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By: BrettW
Posted: 11/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I traveled out here at at about noon. Fourty-eight degrees and light rain. The water temperature was very chilly. It rained the whole time and steadily picked up throughout the time I was there. I was...
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