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Joy Fishing Reports

Joy
By: Shadow Caster
Posted: 5/5/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Smallies were starting to build beds. Largies were cruising the shallows taking anything that hit the water. Which worked out well for me as I love to fish the shorelines. Still haven't figured out th...
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Joy
By: Shadow Caster
Posted: 9/13/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6:00 until about 8:30. Ended up with 4 LMB and 4 SMB. Could've skipped the first hour and a half as all of the action came in the last 45 minutes after dusk. Used plastics off the end of t...
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Joy
By: Shadow Caster
Posted: 8/24/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started at dawn and caught a total of 9 in 4 hours of fishing. 5 lm and 4 sm. All ranged between a pound to a pound and a half. All caught on plastics. Jigs and swimbait were not working for me, so I ...
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Joy
By: Shadow Caster
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It's nice when you can fish the entire morning with just one bait and be successful. Started out from the freshly trimmed back public access trail (thanks King County or local citizens!) at dawn. Fish...
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Joy
By: ral
Posted: 6/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake Joy for a few hours this morning. Got 7 smallmouths, all in the 11" to 13" range, using spinnerbaits, senkos and deep diving plugs. The only thing they had in common was that all the f...
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Joy
By: chaps
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First off, the trail to get to the lake is pretty overgrown. Made it pretty difficult for my buddy and I to carry a 10ft aluminum boat to the water. Hard but not impossible. First time either of ...
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Joy
By: travy
Posted: 10/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
started the morning throwing some lipless crankbaits and got nothing, then switched to dropshotting 25-30ft and nailed some decent small mouths. 1 every 15-20 minutes pretty consistently.. had a good ...
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Joy
By: ral
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Joy on a cool cloudy morning. Consistently caught small (< 12") smallmouths on watermelon senkos. The surprise for a the day was a 20" largemouth. The fish were all in water 3 - 6 ft dee...
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Joy
By: fishon
Posted: 8/30/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Finally able to go fishing with a friend of mine and his daughter. This lake is very shallow in some areas and the bass were caught close to the shore near the docks and under the docks. Used silver...
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Joy
By: ral
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A nice morning on Lake Joy: water warm, cloudy, light wind and the fish cooperating. Caught 8 bass between 9 - 15" with the most fun from the 12- 15" smallmouths which put up quite a fight on light t...
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Joy
By: ral
Posted: 6/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A perfect day: warm but not hot, light breeze, overcast so no sun on the water. The fishing was perfect too: 16 bass from 10" to 16", 2 largemouth and 14 smallmouth. Caught half the fish on a wh...
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Joy
By: nwsparkey46
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a wet weekend!!! Lake Joy is starting to show some improvement in the nesting of the bass. I dont know the water temp but it has warmed up in the past month (kids did go swimming for the first ti...
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Joy
By: ral
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My first trip to Lake Joy this seaon. Light rain, water temp 57. I was searching for bass and expecting to find them in deeper water. Tried crankbaits and jigs without success. On a odd chance I...
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Joy
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
LowVW, and two other friends hit Joy on Sunday. This is a beautiful lake, with great possibilities. My other friend had come out in February and hooked a decent smallie, so we figured we had a shot ...
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Joy
By: flogguy
Posted: 9/11/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 3:00 to 6:00 on an overcast day and the bite was pretty good I like to troll along the shore and just outside the weeds. Also like to cast just outside the weedbed on the east side of the ...
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Joy
By: ral
Posted: 8/29/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Joy has not been generous to me this year until today. I spent my time working the edges of docks using unweighed senkos and caught 20 bass (16 largemouth, 4 smallmouth) all in the range 8" to 1...
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Joy
By: ral
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I tried for smallmouth at Lake Joy today, but with no success. I tried a variety of jigs, deep running crankbaits and plastics but never even had a strike. I covered the water as well as I could but ...
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Joy
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water with my wife at sunrise and started working the docks and dropoffs around the docks, hooked up with 6 LMB in the first half hour. The average size was just smaller than the first pictur...
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Joy
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Joy from 8:00 to 10:30 AM. (I know, you aren't supposed to fish in broad daylight on hot summer days). Water temp was 76 at 2 feet depth. Took a while to find the fish, but they were all ...
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Joy
By: ryan2202
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went with my fishing Buddy out to Joy in the Evening. Hit the first set of docks...3rd cast, let the senko fall in the water on the outside skirts of the lillies...and WAM! Nice 2 1/2 lb. took off w...
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Joy
By: Shadow Caster
Posted: 7/24/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Joy on this overcast day around 1:00. Left at 4:00. Bass are feisty right now. Fished just one lure all day as it seemed to work quite well. Casted in and around the docks in mostly shallow water ...
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Joy
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out to joy with my new zodiac, from the public access put my boat down looked into the water with my polaroids and saw a 3 lb largemouth swimming in checking me out. ducked down behind the boat a...
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Joy
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake Joy from 8 am 'til noon. Sunny and bright, little or no wind, water warm and visibility about 4 feet. Had consistent action with smallmouths today. Although I tried other lures the onl...
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Joy
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I finally got to try out my new pontoon boat (8 ft one person) and definitely wanted to hit lake Joy. After some fine tuning I was off and casting. I had three rods set up with floating rapala, black ...
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Joy
By: fishnislife
Posted: 5/19/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Lk Joy after getting blanked out at Cottage in the morning. Ended up catching 3 SMB and 3 LMB. 3 came on the D-Shot Roboworm in Oxblood, 2 on a Crawdad Crank and 1 on a Shad Senko T-Rig...
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