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Quinault Fishing Reports

Quinault
By: anetrush
Posted: 8/31/2018
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First time we were fishing lake. Took a while to find the area to catch in. Monday arrived and started fishing around 3 pm until 8 pm. Launched at Willaby, wasted 2-3 hours at south end of lake, caug...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/24/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay in posting this report, really been busy with our veg. garden. This report covers Monday and a previous trip last week. On that trip we caught 13 fish with two dollies being ove...
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Quinault
By: buc
Posted: 8/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Made it over to see some old buddies from college and do some fishn. Fished for some trout for the smoker caught around 15 or 16 had some kind of lice and fish where soft yuk! I didnt eat any my frien...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/17/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary Friday night and Saturday at Lake Quinault. After hearing massive rain in the middle of the night we awoke to clearing skies. Fishing was good alt...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't posted in a while, busy with garden, computer issues,etc. We fished from about 7:00 a.m. 'till 11:45 a.m., we caught 15 fish, which is one limit on this lake (tribal regs.). We had enough fi...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a nice day on the water despite strong winds which brought us in early and kept us from eastern end of lake. Weather report was for calm winds becoming 5 to 9 m.p.h. Ha! We went out early to take ...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/25/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, best day ever on Lake Quinault even though I only took one fish home. It was my birthday so the fish gods gave me not two but three great gifts 2 being fish and the 3rd being a lovely wife who l...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/11/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First report for Lake Quinault this year, beautiful day on the lake, lake surface was like glass for most of morning. Dollies were hard to keep off the hook, only caught 2 cuts as compared to 8 (!!) ...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/9/2014
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I decided to go to Lake Quinault again as the Chehalis River has a lack of fish and high water temps.Fishing was good,we caught 7 Dollies and 3 cutthroat trout. Dollies were a good size wi...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/1/2014
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We went to Lake Quinault for one day this holiday weekend, weather reports were shakey for saturday and tuesday, (a day off this week for Melanie) so we forgot about camping and hit one day, Labor Day...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/18/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake today, we caught a total of 8 fish, two cuts and 4 dollies, plus two small cuts that were lightly hooked and released. Bite has transitoned to the afternoon and early evening, typical for...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/6/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the lake is open again, permits for boats are issued after inspection by an employee of the Quinault lodge, his name is Regan. They are worried about invasive species, particularly mud snails wh...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/17/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This isn't a fishing report, just a heads up that the Lake will not open for the fishing season, tribe has closed the lake due to pollution believed to be from failing septic tanks(!). I'll try to fin...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the trout bigtime today, caught 15 fish, 14 cuts up to 18 inches (biggest cut out of the lake for us!)and one dolly about 1 +1/2 lbs.Spoons on downrigger, 25 to 40 ft. down.Will break in new bbq. ...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/26/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We caught 5 fish, 4 cuts and this 3 1/4 lb. Dolly, heck of a hard fighting fish, thought he'd go 5 lbs. or more from the way I couldn't lift him off bottom easily.One trout was a nice sea-run, 13+ inc...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we wanted to catch a Dolly for the 1st annual Chehalis River Basin fisheries task force meeting and potluck at the Satsop springs hatchery, after a slow morning we connected with two dollies i...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/22/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a banner day at Quinalt on Saturday,gibbs spoons were the hot ticket but we saw fish taken by a couple of other boats that were using the two bladed pop gear type set-up that is legal on the lake,...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the dog to Quinalt as the fireworks were driving him crazy in our neighborhood and they are not allowed in the national forest or park. I caught my biggest dolly of the year, didn't ge...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Only caught 4 cuts today, slow fishing but quality fish, this is the biggest trout we've caught in this lake, great fight, went airbourne twice, threw the hook as Melanie slid the net under him.No d...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/26/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled with the downrigger for these two dollies and one cut about 12 inches. The dollies weighed 3 lbs. on Melanie's and 2 3/4 on mine. Both were caught on little cleo spoons down 30 ft.I believe th...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/9/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the Quinalt derby was today and it was tough fishing with the rain yesterday and the water temp. being colder due to snowmelt from that rain. Water level was up higher then last week, took from ...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Quinalt to prepare for derby next week, thought it was this week until we called prior to leaving, always has been held the 1st saturday of june, but the Lions club is not sponsoring it thi...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, went fishing solo on Friday as we wanted a particular campsite with privacy and shoreline to pull the canoe out of the water and Melanie had to work on Friday so she dropped me off Thursday even...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day at Quinalt, great morning, rainy afternoon. First Dolly and biggest was caught by Melanie, 22 1/2 inches, released a small cut, caught one other cut and 3 other Dollies. Sunday caught 4 fi...
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Quinault
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/26/2011
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After catching a few small sockeyes (under 5 inches) even at depth switched to some larger spoons and it paid off late in the day with a nice sea-run hen cut-throat of about 13 inces and a Dolly Varde...
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