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Martha (WB) Fishing Reports

By: fishon
Posted: 3/26/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished two hours till sunset on this selective gear lake. Found the recent plant of eleven inch trout. Casting my fly towards the shore and stripping back. Landed my first brown trout of the year. I...
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Posted: 7/3/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to give Martha Lake a try. This lake is under selective gear rules and as such, took me a few lost fish to figure out how to bring them in. Used Elgin Fishing God's Tooth spoons with the mos...
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Posted: 8/28/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Another trip to Martha! I am really starting to love this lake. It is so much unlike any other lowland lake I've fished, yet still shares that "W. Washington lake" feel that our other bodies of wat...
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Posted: 8/21/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Here's a report for a very unique fishery on the west side of the state. Many people know about the brown trout stocking in Lake Martha, and most of them are caught as by-catch by other anglers fis...
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Posted: 3/24/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Long time no report, however, this trip is certainly something worth breaking my silent streak. After having done a marathon fishing day of hitting two sub-alpine lakes earlier in the day and fishing ...
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Posted: 12/12/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went in search of a new species today and had success. I am more of a warm water angler and had never caught a brown trout. The 4 is for having success. I only fished for about 2 hours and caugh...
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Posted: 3/3/2015
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 2pm heavy winds, decided to drag a worm tipped dick wee on/near the bottom. Wind was strong, couldn't stay on top of the marked schools so I gave up after a few hours. Gave a 3+ du...
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Posted: 2/25/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 10am and fished till 5pm. Marked large schools of perch in 40-50 feet of water. Dropped worm tipped jigs in their face most of the day till the bite picked up around 3-4pm when I ...
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Posted: 7/20/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
15 jumbos and a dink I gill hooked earlier, couple more went to the eagle for some fresh perch dinner. Same spot same time like clockwork the school of jumbos come in to feed. I also landed 2 small la...
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Posted: 7/2/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First day on WB Martha lake was a good one! I decided to try new waters after spending most of my time recently at lake Cassidy where I have had great luck with small pan fish. I arrived at Martha ...
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By: jonb
Posted: 6/29/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at martha lake at 8:30, tried for trout, pulling plugs, no luck tried trolling a carey special, no luck on that, i trolled a rebel bumble bug, and caught a couple fat perch and a dink bas...
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Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for a few hrs on Martha.. trolling wedding rings with worm.. not even a hit. others coming out of the lake said it was really slow.. I guess they were right!
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By: george883
Posted: 5/5/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8:30 to Noon and had a great day, I lost count after 20 plus fish. I was using olive wooly buggers with gold and red bead heads.
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By: jonb
Posted: 10/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the raft at 12:30. Trolled plugs in search of German brown trout. Made one pass along the woodsy side of the,lake along the whole length trolling about 40` from shore all the way to the end. ...
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By: JuLeeKea
Posted: 8/30/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for an hour on my lunch. I was testing the Gulp! Nightcrawlers. First I cast out with real nightcrawlers and caught a perch right off. So I cast out a real crawler again and same thing. Then ...
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Posted: 7/29/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 2pm with the wife and son. Started trolling with a orange and black flat fish...no luck. Made a few passes around the shore and then dropped to some deeper water and still no luck....
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By: jonb
Posted: 1/31/2013
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at Martha lake (wb) today around 11:00 am, my target; German brown trout. I started off using a gold CD5 rapala, 3Rd cast in I get a violent strike, but I missed the hook set.. I continued ...
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By: jonb
Posted: 1/5/2013
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got there at 8:30 trolled a gold size 5 countdown Tanaka, I caught 2 friend got skunked, fished for 3 hours, fish are 11" and 13" I missed a few bites too, we were the only ones at the lake :)
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By: tallt187
Posted: 7/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried my luck at 6am this morning and the fish were not having it! Tried flies, pop gear, and spoons for about 2 hours with 3 poles and not a single bite. Would have liked to try some worms but forg...
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By: mitchard
Posted: 6/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Great dray of fishing at Martha on Thursday. Between three people, we just about limited out. Right when we got there, two were in the boat from bottom fishing directly in the middle, straight out fro...
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By: stever
Posted: 6/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Flyfished for a couple of hrs. early this morning. Lost a couple, but saw little activity. The gear guys all seemed to be working the east end of the lake and I couldn't see how they were doing.
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Posted: 6/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Martha for the 3rd day in a row, sorry I gotta fish haha. Anyways long story short we double limited. 5 nice trout a piece. Martha has been good to us.
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Posted: 6/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Martha Lake again today, was there for about and hour and a half and had my limit. All were over 10 inches. Makes for a decent meal haha.
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Posted: 6/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well my buddy and I fished from 10:30am to 8:45pm. Yes I know thats a long time but I wanted to fight at least one. My buddy got a small 5 incher around 1pm I had one on it jumped once I caught a glim...
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By: jonb
Posted: 5/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
hit martha with my friend, caught our limits of stockers on wedding ring and worms, was windy as hell but still caught fish consistently, twas a nice day on the lake. got lots of trout for the smoker ...
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