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By: cwbraue
Posted: 10/1/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2023
Hot Spots: 0
The bite is on right now at Diablo! I didn't get there until 9 because there were tons of slow bastards on the country roads yesterday morning. As soon as I got on the water I was seeing fish feeding ...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 5/22/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2023
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Diablo sunday morning. Conditions weren't great, plenty of wind off and on and lots of runoff made the water murky. I managed to land 4 fish plus a fingerling but it took a lot of work to fin...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 4/16/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2023
Hot Spots: 0
So I am visiting relatives and took a little fishing trip. Weather seemed sketchy when I got there, but I decided to give it a go. The first hour or 2 I didn't catch anything as I paddled up the lake ...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 10/10/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I had to go help my parents with some work again, so of course I went back to Diablo as it's not far from them. I got on the water early before 7 and the first fish jumped at 7:04. I had a good run fo...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/19/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I hit up Diablo lake Saturday morning. Got on the water around 8:30. A few fish were jumping here and there including good sized ones, but not very many. I caught my first fish after about 20 minutes ...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 5/29/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I was visiting my parents in Skagit county, so I took a trip up to Diablo lake. It was cool and windy and I was the only person on the lake fishing. Usually I never catch fish here before July. I had ...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 7/25/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I am back in the state visiting this week and had a couple opportunities to fish. First I took my boys hiking to the Baker river and couldn't find any fish in the river. I then tried fishing a cove on...
By: El Jamon
Posted: 9/14/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Caught roughly ten Rainbows between our group of three people. We launched on paddle board and fished around the entire lake. Lots of action with the biggest fish being ~14 inches. I suggest using sma...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/9/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Driving back from the mountains I stopped to fish at Diablo lake. Fish were rising all over and jumping but they wouldn't touch anything I had including flies and lures. It is warmer than usual, prob...
By: BentRod
Posted: 8/24/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This is a multi-day report. Stayed at Colonial Creek Campground on Diablo Lake. I took the kayak and would get up early.
First day was 8/20. Gorgeous morning and glad I had a sonar....found the...
By: clipko22
Posted: 6/1/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take my brother out on my inflatable raft to troll for some trout on diablo. I heard it was a sleeper lake and held some nice fish. We got on the water at about 9:00. It was overcast and ab...
By: Eddy N.
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went camping at the boat in campgrounds at diablo lake (buster brown) from 8/19 - 8/21 on kayaks with my brothers and my dad. Only trolled macks wedding rings for a little did get some bites but didn'...
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Normally I would be eyeballing the salt right now watching to see if the Coho are starting to show..... so I have been having to find other fishing opportunities to occupy myself with. I've been to my...
By: Bscman
Posted: 9/22/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Seattle light is currently drawing down the level of the lake, which will make using the boat launch pretty much impossible to use through mid November this year!
That being said, we decided to ta...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 7/5/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I was visiting my parents in Skagit country and did some fishing in several different locations. The first night we took my canoe to Diablo lake. I used to catch plenty of fish here, but in the last...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 3
My dad and I fished from the Highway 20 bridge on the upstream side and across from Colonial Creek campground for about two or so hours and caught 6 native rainbows. Most were between 10-12 inches but...
By: MartyMoose
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed the weekend at Colonial Creek Campground, and fished all day on Saturday. I had no luck whatsoever. In the morning I tried the fishing pier, and tried to get my bait into the deep channels that...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We were out the door at 9:30 and in the water at Diablo around 11:30. Because of a persistent breeze we decided to fish the Thunder Creek arm. We started our adventure by setting a couple baited cra...
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First at Diablo this year. Caught 4 rainbows on wedding ring/pautzke gold label eggs combo from dock area near boat launch. Can't wait to go back. Love this lake, always catch decent fish.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/14/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Diablo Lake. It was cold. Snowed on me, a little. The Colonial Creek arm of the lake was my target, but there has been a good bit of flood damage (part of the Colonial Creek Camp Ground was w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/13/2006
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
went to diablo today. Perfect weather, lake was like glass all day. Didn't see another boat fishing only the city light boats. Wife and myself caught limits of nice 12 inch plus rainbows on our secret...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2006
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 3 evenings with only 1 on the line while trolling with flatfish, roostertails and Hot Shot. Did not see much other activity from the few others that were fishing. Lots of variation in lake dept...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2005
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/18/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for 3 days on 4 different occasions. Ended up with 3 fish less than 10", one of which was a Dolly. Nothing worth keeping! We tried everything; fishing in the evening and in the morning, red and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I've heard this was a good lake to catch fish and i was right! I went camping at the local campground got in my boat and went fishing. On my first cast with just a worm on a bobber,BOOM! I pulled in a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2005
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Diablo from the shore at around 1 pm for about an hour. Fished right under the highway 20 bridge. Caught a 3-4 pound dolly on a 1/8 oz black rooster tail. Buddy of mine caught a rainbow around ...
