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By: downriggeral
Posted: 4/9/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to Rock this morning with my brother inlaw. What a beautiful day, no wind and mid seventies under clear skies. Ran up to the inlet end and the water was very dirty with lots of debris and f...
By: tomconant
Posted: 1/10/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/10/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Great day to go to the lake, our son went with us. We must have caught and released forty fish.
We finally started keeping them since they were all the same in size (13") and it was clear no monster
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By: ChuckVH
Posted: 10/5/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went to Rock Lake to get some steelhead action. The report last week said they were in the 16 inch range and biting well. Now the question was, are they biting this week.
So with th...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Ran a quick test of the three new freshwater colors that are featured on our Old Goat Lures blog . Since I'm fishing out of a drift-boat, with a small electric trolling motor, I limited my tests to th...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 10/26/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We launched the drift boat around 10am yesterday on Rock. Beautiful fall day!
By the end of the day, we had two limits (5 apiece). Of these 10 fish, 9 were steelhead plants. The other was a rainbow...
By: brent338
Posted: 10/28/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Decided it was time to hit rock, wanted to let the steelhead get a lil more size to them than earlier this year... Despite the 5hp kicker deciding to take the day off(flooded beyond restart), i still...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 1/24/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Guide Dave Grove, who focuses on Lake Roosevelt, had requested an OG1 lure in a perch color. I'd made a couple for him and continued to refine the pattern. Yesterday, good friend Stan Miller and I put...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 2/15/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Rock Lake yesterday a little after 9am. The water is higher than I can remember seeing it for some time (which makes it easier to launch your boat). However, the downside is that there's qu...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 11/12/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The steelhead, that Washington Fish and Game planted in Rock Lake, are starting to put on some mass! We hit the lake yesterday to test a new color pattern (fluor. pink stripe with translucent body and...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 12/21/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock Lake from apx. 1:45pm until 4pm. Testing a new perch-colored OG1 and pitting it against the tried-and-true colors that have been effective on Rock (fluorescent orange and fluorescent pink)...
By: DatCrazyMongoose
Posted: 4/17/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Finally some nice weather, so decided to try my luck at Rock Lake before opening weekend at my favorite hole. Trolled along the northern edge using green perch, brown trout, and silver spinners. Wife ...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 4/20/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock Lake for several hours yesterday. The silt content in the water is still higher than I can recall seeing in years past during the month of April. But, that said, fish are being caught. Man...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got on the water at about 9 a.m. and left around 3p.m. hoping to catch some smallies and large mouths. I had no luck at all, maybe one bite or maybe I just hooked a rock. I used tubes which rarely...
By: rwl
Posted: 4/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Rock lake is really muddy. Surface temp was around 55 with hardly any wind today. There was some surface splashes not sure if they were carp. Fair amount of floating algae. Got bit a few times on c...
By: Anglinarcher
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The water is down about 6 to 8 inches, but it is still very muddy. The water has less than a foot of visability.
The water temperature was 46 degrees at day break, warming to 55 degrees on the sur...
By: crustyliner
Posted: 12/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Rock today with WA laker ericksg, and another friend. We launched around 9am and motored to the north end as it appeared most of the boats out today were in the lower 3rd of the lake. Started off ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Rock Lake for the first time this year in a jonboat with an electric trolling motor. Seemed like most of the guys fishing the lake headed up to the north end, but I didn't have enought horse...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/2/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I am reposting my previous report about the rescue on Rock Lake because of the recent accident at Rock Lake. A young Gonzaga student died in a tragic kayak accident. Weather and the ability to get to ...
By: crustyliner
Posted: 12/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rock again yesterday with friend that's been out of the fishing game a while. It was sunny and clear at home and as we passed through St. John you could see the fog bank to the west. I didn't ...
By: julbright
Posted: 12/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent another great day on Rock. Water temp was 43, no wind, lots of fog and the bite was on! Caught all 8 browns on sinking rapalas tolled quite quickly in close to shore (35-55 feet of water). Lots ...
By: crustyliner
Posted: 12/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rock lake produced once again and this time the weather even cooperated, nice and sunny and not much wind. We started off on the south end with rapalas and had a decent brown in the boat right out of ...
By: johnny
Posted: 1/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
hit rock for the first time this year and was hoping for an action-packed day with my brother and father onboard the boat. we casted split back rapalas toward shore most of the day. we only managed...
By: zaskar
Posted: 1/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 11th and 12th at Rock. Both days sunny and calm (unusual for that lake). Tried trolling a black crankbait behind a side planer for the first time at that lake. I put the planer about 10-15y ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing to Rock lake yesterday, fishing was good but saving two young mens lifes,off the chart! God bless I was there fishing, I had made plans to go to the Snake river to go for steelhead, but...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/19/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
my friend and i went ouy today to rock. we just walked the shore with our bobbers and worm.worm was about 1.5 ft from our bobber and we justed out about 10 feet off shore and let it sit there. we caug...
