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By: Noah
Posted: 5/5/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Aaron and I started fishing at 6, just after sunrise. Fish were jumping and water depths are all over, from 5 to 50 feet so we mainly trolled the top 15 feet. Started catching 6-9" rainbows immediatel...
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By: E-10
Posted: 9/17/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake about 11:00 with my friend Jake (from state farm) we ended up between Bunkers and Klinks, dropped anchor and started boating fish. We had a good time and the weather was just great. We...
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By: bmc02
Posted: 6/4/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Spent mid morning through mid afternoon on Williams. Had a blast, lots of action. Trolling wedding rings and bottom fishing power bait were both productive. Seems like they'd take anything. Caught 15 ...
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By: bodin9151
Posted: 5/18/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
got to the lake around 9 and fished til 3. got 4 rainbows in the boat with one being steelhead size. trolled 1.5 mph one rod with a hook that had a worm and corn, the other rod a lure. 3 on the worm a...
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By: killq
Posted: 5/12/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took the drift boat out sans motor to fish chironomids but wind was blasting straight down lake so we did lake version of back trolling and rowed into the wind to the end of the lake and drifted back ...
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Posted: 5/11/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the lake about 3:00 p.m. and got our boat in the water. I was surprised to see how many boats were still on the water. We started out trolling worms but we had only got one bite on that, so ...
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By: Fishrader
Posted: 4/30/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got the lake @7.30 am beautiful morning started trolling down the lake using ford fenders and small Dodgers with pink minn squid with corn
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Posted: 4/25/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Williams Lake for the 14th year in a row and as usual, we weren't disappointed. We trolled at 1.5-2.0 MPH long lining spoons and Rapala floating minnows. Fishing was very good with several ...
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By: CMRC
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Got the pontoon ready to go and was at the boat launch by 7:15. The boat launch wasn't crowded at all and only waited for one person the put in before me. The water was really high and a bigger boat...
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By: Purdypog
Posted: 4/22/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Ok, opening day at Williams - I was lazy and didn't feel like getting up early so got there at the crack of 10am. Fished until 1. Caught 4 had 3 other bites. Still fished worm and powerbait on my fl...
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Posted: 4/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Williams for the opener and was a little worried about how the fishing was going to be since they killed off the lake last fall and replanted it this spring. I expected the fishing to be very ...
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By: tonyk206
Posted: 8/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I was fishing for trout since that's what I thought was only in the lake, besides sun fish but pulled this 14 inch 1&3/4 pound Tench out from the bottom of the docks.
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Posted: 8/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My dad and I went to Williams lake yesterday to have a great time and we did. I caught four nice size rainbows. The big surprise was that my dad used a 1/8 ounce crappie jig and he hooked a four poun...
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Posted: 6/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Me and my dad decided we were going to try fishing for our birthdays so we actually went on the 20th midday on my birthday and we rented a boat for half day and spent three hors and only caught 1 but ...
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Posted: 5/23/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Me and my dad went to the 2015 trout fishing opener and we had the best time (except for the cold temps) we got on the lake at midnight, some people were catching fish but the big trout were still at ...
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Posted: 5/22/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of dinks ... probably this years plants. Lead line 3+ colors, 1.0 mph and pinched wedding rings. Despite what the "locals" said, back to basics and lots of small fish. Kept one for dinner - 20...
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By: Scorp13d
Posted: 5/17/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2015
Hot Spots: 2
We trolled both sides of the lake using a variety of spinner & Wedding Rings. The Wedding Rings were the only thing we caught fish on & they were ALL rainbow spring stock. My son caught the fish while...
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Posted: 4/28/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We fished for 2 1/2 days at Williams. We were trolling using Protroll Kokanee Killers in Silver color as our main weapon of choice. Between 5 of us we caught 105 fish releasing all but 20 of them. Thi...
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By: Purdypog
Posted: 4/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 10-2 PM so I probably picked the worst time to go out. Weather was very nice, scenery was lovely, quite a few boats out as to be expected in the first week of the season. Having fished this l...
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By: ruthven78
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Tree 11, where else? Tried using a powerbait color that worked well a couple years back (last time I was there) but nothing, then an elderly cuple motored up and was knocking them dead. All I could ...
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By: kdcottage
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Started about 7:30 and my son and I both limited out by 11:00. He caught a couple of nice ones of about 14 - 16 inches and the rest were about a foot. we were just off good old tree #11 using worms w...
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By: Blycker
Posted: 5/24/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After getting skunked on opening day, I was eager to return to Williams Lake for vengeance or dignity. A buddy and I each took one of our daughters with us. We hit the water on a rental motor boat at ...
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Posted: 5/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Float tubing with flys, 3 of us caught about 40 trout between 06:30 and 10:00 am and took home nice limits each. Biggest was 16", several 13" to 15", and lots of 11" to 12". Good fighters with lots ...
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By: CMRC
Posted: 5/18/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids out for a few hours yesterday afternoon. Windy at times but not to bad altogether. We ended up using small drop shots with a #6 hook and a worm. Fished in the back corner away from the r...
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Posted: 5/15/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My Dad and I went an fished Williams Lake this morning and he caught 5 and I caught 4 trout, not bad for a two hour morning before breakfast. It was a beautiful day out today!
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