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Silver
Silver
State: WA
County: Cowlitz
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 232
Bathymetric Maps: 2
Rating: 
Updated: 4/14/2024
2,996 acres: This large lake is reached off I-5 going east on Hwy 504 to the west end of the lake. Public access is just past Kerr Rd. There is a boat launch there as well as several resorts in the ar...
Banks
Banks
State: WA
County: Grant
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 491
Bathymetric Maps: 2
Rating:
Updated: 4/9/2024
Banks Lake (24,900 acres): This is the best walleye water in the region and is popular with anglers statewide. Kokanee have been planted for several years, but have received only light pressure from a...
Black
Black
State: WA
County: Thurston
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 175
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating: 
Updated: 3/17/2024
Black Lake (570 acres): This lake 4 miles southwest of Olympia is slow for 9- to 11-inch rainbows, better later in the summer for cutthroat, largemouth bass, perch and crappies, with a few brown bullh...
Munn
Munn
State: WA
County: Thurston
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 55
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 2/5/2024
Munn Lake (34 acres): Munn is fair for 8- to 10-inch rainbows, good for largemouth bass and bluegill as the water warms. Located approximately 1 mile southeast of Tumwater, it has a state access with ...
Thomas
Thomas
State: WA
County: Stevens
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 14
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 1/9/2024
Thomas Lake (168 acres): Prior year's plants of cutthroat and rainbow trout should provide good catches this season. Thomas is another Little Pend Oreille chain lake, and has a Forest Service campgrou...
Alder
Alder
State: WA
County: Pierce
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 249
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 1/6/2024
Alder Lake (2,931 acres): This large reservoir covers parts of Pierce (1690 acres), Thurston (1117 acres), and Lewis (124 acres) Counties. It has several boat ramps and good bank access. Primary speci...
Kitsap
Kitsap
State: WA
County: Kitsap
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 201
Bathymetric Maps: 2
Rating:
Updated: 12/31/2023
Kitsap Lake (240 acres): Located just outside Bremerton, Kitsap offers good fishing for rainbows, cutthroat, largemouth bass and other warmwater species. State access with boat launch and two toilets...
Washington
Washington
State: WA
County: King
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 2176
Bathymetric Maps: 0
Rating:
Updated: 12/21/2023
22,138 acres. Located in Seattle's backyard, Lake Washington is over 15 miles long and offers a vast array of recreational opportunities for it's visitors. The lake holds most all species of spiny ray...
Blackman's
Blackman's
State: WA
County: Snohomish
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 336
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 12/21/2023
Blackman's Lake (60 acres): Blackman's Lake is located in the town of Snohomish. There is access on the south shore and city park, with a disabled-accessible fishing pier on the northeast shore. Rainb...
Sammamish
Sammamish
State: WA
County: King
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 1122
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 12/20/2023
Lake Sammamish, King County, 4,897 acres. Developed shoreline. Reached off I-90 west of Issaquah. Take exit 15 north 1/4 mile to SE 56th street then east 1/2 mile to a left turn to the State Park laun...
Potholes
Potholes
State: WA
County: Grant
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 741
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 11/24/2023
Potholes Reservoir (23,000 acres): Expect good fishing for rainbow trout, largemouth and smallmouth bass and walleye in this year-round water. Yellow perch, crappie and bluegill populations have decli...
Cushman
Cushman
State: WA
County: Mason
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 47
Bathymetric Maps: 0
Rating:
Updated: 11/5/2023
Mason County’s Lake Cushman (Reservoir) is located about 4 miles NW of the town of Hoodsport. It covers about 4000 surface acres, reaches depths of about 200 feet and lies at an elevation of 735 feet...
Riffe
Riffe
State: WA
County: Lewis
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 464
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 10/21/2023
Riffe Lake is a 23 mile long reservoir that holds a variety of species including rainbow, brown trout, landlocked coho, bass, bluegill,crappie, and perch. There are launch points at the SW and NE ends...
American
American
State: WA
County: Pierce
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 1559
Bathymetric Maps: 2
Rating:
Updated: 10/18/2023
1162 Acres Max. Depth - 90 feet Elev. 235 feet
Fish species include largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, rock bass, black crappie, yellow perch, brown bullhead catfish, landloc...
Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
State: WA
County: Skagit
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 174
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 10/16/2023
Cavanaugh Lake (844 acres): Located 10 miles northeast of Arlington, Cavanaugh has a state access with rough gravel launch area, good for boats to twenty feet, good parking area and toilet on the sout...
Diablo
Diablo
State: WA
County: Whatcom
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 30
Bathymetric Maps: 0
Rating:
Updated: 10/1/2023
Diablo Lake (910 acres): Rainbow trout are the main attraction on this Skagit River impoundment 6 miles northeast of Newhalem, Diablo has a public access and boat launch.
Pictures by Dave and other...
McIntosh
McIntosh
State: WA
County: Thurston
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 115
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 9/27/2023
Thurston County’s McIntosh Lake is located about 4 miles east from Tenino. It covers 116 surface acres, reaches depths of only about 11 feet and lies at an elevation of 336 feet. Fish species includ...
Kachess
Kachess
State: WA
County: Kittitas
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 32
Bathymetric Maps: 0
Rating:
Updated: 9/3/2023
Kachess Lake (4,540 acres): A very popular lake with good camping areas and good boat launching, Kachess should be fair for 8- to 9-inch kokanee by early June. Rainbows, cutthroat, lake trout and burb...
Boren
Boren
State: WA
County: King
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 69
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 9/2/2023
A 15 acre lake that holds rainbow, lg bass, perch, and bullhead. 4 miles north of Renton.
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Long
Long
State: WA
County: Thurston
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 98
Bathymetric Maps: 3
Rating:
Updated: 8/13/2023
311 acres, holds all types of trout and spiny rays species. Located 5.5 miles east of Olympia. Public access. Take Hwy 510 about 1.5 miles east of Lacey, passing Hicks Lake to west shore. Pictures By ...
Newman
Newman
State: WA
County: Spokane
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 363
Bathymetric Maps: 2
Rating:
Updated: 8/1/2023
Newman Lake (1200 acres): This lake 14 miles east of Spokane on Highway 290 has something for everybody: largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie, perch, catfish, plus rainbow and brown trout. Plants of cat...
Cle Elum
Cle Elum
State: WA
County: Kittitas
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 61
Bathymetric Maps: 0
Rating:
Updated: 7/30/2023
Cle Elum is a high Cascade lake of over 4800 acres and hosts rainbow, cutthroat, kokanee, Dolly Varden, eastern brook, whitefish, and burbot. Even said to have mackinaw to 20 pounds. Take I-90, 7.3 mi...
Wenatchee
Wenatchee
State: WA
County: Chelan
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 73
Bathymetric Maps: 1
Rating:
Updated: 7/30/2023
Wenatchee Lake (2,445 acres): This natural lake 15 miles north of Leavenworth should produce small kokanee beginning in April, with a generous catch limit on kokanee. Anglers are reminded to carefully...
Loon
Loon
State: WA
County: Stevens
Type: Freshwater Lake
Reports: 224
Bathymetric Maps: 2
Rating:
Updated: 7/28/2023
Loon Lake (1120 acres): The state record lake trout (30 lbs, 4 oz.) came out of here back in the 1960s, but Loon is better known now for its kokanee. There are also largemouth and smallmouth bass, bro...
