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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2002
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I am a little worried about Sprague Lake. The water temperatures are starting at 54 deg. (1 foot depth) and reaching into the high 50's to low 60's. This should have the Walleye on a serious bite. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2002
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2002
Hot Spots: 0
First time Walleye fishing with a friend and caught a 19 and 16 within 3 hours around 10 am. The weather was very bad, windy, rain, and 3 foot swells. Using black and silver jigs with a bit of worm ju...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2000
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Water temp was in the low 60,s.Windy with a heavy chop. We landed 15-20 walleye.11of them keepers. The fish were caught in three to six feet on the tops of the points. We caught most of them on crankb...
By: pbwade
Posted: 5/21/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, When i heard they were planning on killing this lake off in the fall i about had a heart attack. I have been fishing this lake for 17 years now faithfully. I just fished this lake the other day a...
By: Kfedka
Posted: 10/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/27/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the lake after 3 pm left before 6pm. First hour no bites, the last two hours couldn't keep the fish off the bait!
Used pink marshmallows and a small piece of worm to cover the hook. Would reco...
By: Troop of Three
Posted: 11/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Despite the Rain, we fished Sprague for the first time since the Treatment. Caught several 1.5lb rainbows trolling dodger and flies near the surface. We may have done better working baits along the ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Beautiful day to be out on the water. Was our first time fishing at Sprague lake, started out windy, with lots of fish on the fish finder. Ended up with water like glass and not much action. I caug...
By: familyman509
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out Saturday morning with the fam for the trout derby not knowing what to expect.(First timer) My dad landed the first nice one, an hour later I caught one that we knew would put us in the runn...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 12/16/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
At age 60+, I finally went ice fishing for the first time. I am lucky to work with some good people and they convinced me to give it a try. Even with a near "Death March" hike across the polar-like ic...
By: devin.fisherman
Posted: 1/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/4/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Caught 2 16 1/2 inch rainbows. One I got using a red powerbait nugget with a worm. The other I got was on a wooly bugger tipped with a worm, both were about 1ft-2ft off the bottom. The ice was about 1...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 3/12/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake about 9:30 we had to use the public launch on the west end. We started out around Harper Island marking a ton of small fish but no bites. We trolled east and started picking up fish at...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 3/13/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to Sprague late morning launched at the state launched at the state launch again. We trolled the same patterns as the day before with the same great success. Today's color was pink with a pi...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 3/14/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
A little tougher day Thursday, we didn't get on the water until 1:30(we had gone to Liberty lake but the launch was to shallow to get our boat in) and the fish didn't seem as aggressive as they had th...
By: Southpaw
Posted: 3/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We tried those Sprague Lake Rainbows this morning arriving at the lake at first light. we trolled around the east end with only a couple strikes to show for our time so we trolled towards the west end...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 3/25/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day on Sprague Lake. This was our seventh trip since the ice left the lake and we have put 64 fish in the boat. The trip Monday we got nine in the boat and missed and lost at least that ...
By: troc
Posted: 3/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We hit Sprague lake on Sunday at around 0800 and started trolling J-9 orange bellied Rapalas close to the bottom on the downriggers. After 2 hours of no hits trolling close to the shore on the West en...
By: Chadzilla
Posted: 4/12/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to sprague lake this morning. Started fishing about 9 am. Fished at the docks at sprague lake resort and limited in 2hrs. Tried powerbait with no luck and switched to night crawlers. Immediately ...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 4/14/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wonderful day on Sunday, fishing with my wife on Sprague Lake; three football shaped rainbows, all 18" long, mint bright and great fighters on light/UL gear. A fourth fish spit the hook and just my lu...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
In a word…WINDY! Fishable at the start of the morning, but blown off by 10:30 AM. In spite of the breezy conditions, the wife was able to hook and land another mint bright 18 1/2" rainbow; a real figh...
By: Spokanee
Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This trip was slated to prove out / set-up the TR-1 Gold autopilot I bought used and installed on my boat, with fishing being a bonus. Well, the Fish Gods were smiling on us because it worked flawless...
By: quantumcloud509
Posted: 6/18/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Hit Sprague Lake after grabbing an awesome breakfast at the Viking in Sprague. Fished from shore at the last boat launch area. Found a cool outcropping someone made and set up there. Many orange and r...
By: Landshark II
Posted: 11/21/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sprague Lake at 7:00 Am and the lake was a sheet of glass. NO WIND at all. We put out 2 leaded lines with perch colored flies tipped w/worms and then ran out 2 long lines at 225'. Caught the firs...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 2/16/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well from the now almost never ending crowd, I guess I feel O.K. posting a Sprague Lake report. With the wind blowing from the East and a late start, I didn't expect much today…WRONG. My first fish wa...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
At a pre-dawn, air temp. of 16 F. at the house, the wife and I almost said, "No way", but after waiting for a bit; we decided to give it a try…Glad we did. Slow at first, but with the rising air tempe...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 2/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well a super slow morning at Sprague Lake. Not many people fishing; although one Eastern European angler thinks spacing up to three rods down the bank at a considerable distance is THE TACTIC. A call ...
