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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2023
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the lake early, had lines in the water by 7AM. Trolling a size 10 black wooly bugger at the surface about 50 feet behind the kayak from 1-1.5mph produced consistent action for about 3 hours. C/R d...
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By: danyole
Posted: 7/31/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Finally able to fish with a boat! My dad and I used to fish North lake all the time and remember always catching decent bass here. After a few years of not fishing.( Sad, I know) I decided to head ba...
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Posted: 6/30/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Only had an hour and a half to work with. Installed a Garmin striker 4 on the yak over weekend. Wish I would've put it on the bow. Might modify. Definitely helped find the sweet spot. If you have a ya...
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Posted: 6/17/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Bought a new top water on way home from work. Casted over a downed tree and hooked in to only fish. Only took 15 minutes on the lake Top water fish fight so good. This lure will be really productive w...
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Posted: 6/14/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Battled the wind all day. Got to an area with some surrounding vegetation to break the breeze. I really dislike the homes on this lake because they've torn the forest down which allows the wind to be ...
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Posted: 6/7/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Caught right off shore in front of where everyone casts to kill trout with power bait. Released to fight again. Almost broke me off on a run under a fallen tree. Lost a monster.
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Posted: 6/3/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Today may have been my personal record LMB, I'm sure it was well over 5lb. North lake is really putting em out this year and they got size.
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Posted: 5/31/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
If catching big Largemouth was crime.Id be going away for a long time deadstick,watermelon/redflake GY Senco
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Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Decided to go fish from the John boat this morning with a friend from my bass club (Western Bass Club). Arrived just after sunrise and went just to the left of the boat launch with the topwater. Not 5...
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By: Hoptimum
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a buddy and his kid out for some ez limits. We were on the water by 6:30 & off by 8:30 with 3 limits. We trolled zak tackle double hook rubber worm & wee dick nites with the smallest slip sinker...
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By: aquaking
Posted: 5/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Hit North Lake about 8am and had a few people walking away with limits. Threw my line in and ended up giving up by 11am wanting to get home for lunch. Seams to turn off by 10am... get here early and g...
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By: delvis39
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Amazing sunny and warm day on the lake !! Got to finally try out my new 12' Valco on the first real fishing excursion of the season... Hit the water about 8am, and trolled around for the first 45 minu...
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By: gfakkema
Posted: 8/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
North is still producing for being so late in the season. Headed out after I got off of work and was on the water around 5 or so. We got our lines wet and not even 2 minutes later my gf had a fish pul...
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By: jay_dm
Posted: 8/12/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Went to North lake everyday this week, was fishing from the last spot on the shore when you walk down the trail into the woods. caught perch and bluegill the first 3 days and up until today i got skun...
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By: gfakkema
Posted: 6/20/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It didn't matter what I put in the water today. Had fish on almost as soon as I got my line wet. I caught(catch & release, as usual) fish continuously from the moment I got there to the moment I left....
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Posted: 6/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Late report. Fished from kayak. Had to use bobber method and worm because trolling too many fish got off hook before I could set the hook.
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By: Gwendylyn
Posted: 6/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This was the 3rd time we've tried North Lake from shore. No fish and only a small handful of bites between us. Tried every color & smell of power bait & egg in the tackle box. The only people we saw p...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
You could see the fish coming up to the surface, so I tried for bass with topwater rapalas and nothing. I then casted out a worm and bobber with about a 3 ft. liter. Immediatly it started to go under...
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Posted: 5/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Good day of fishing on North Lake. Cast and stripping flies on a intermediate line. Chartreuse crystal bug has been working. C&R about 4-5 dozen on a 3wt. Heard they just planted some more on 5/9. I...
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By: eddieg1
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time fishing this lake. It was hard to troll around in the shallows with all the milfoil. I heard this lake used to be covered in lilly pads and used to have some big bass.I started ...
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By: 8'chris
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went out at about 11:00 and trolled till 3:00 with 3 of us in the boat, caught 8 little finger perch, 1 bluegill, and 5 trout each 8"- 10", lots of fun, sunny day, keep the lines tight.
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Posted: 5/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished North in the float tube. I caught Ten 4 inch perch, one 3 inch lmb, and one 11 inch trout. This lake seems to have a bad milfoil problem along with stunted perch.
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By: stevenjf3
Posted: 7/19/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished North Lake from 12:45pm - 4:45pm and caught approx. a dozen perch. All were small, around 3"-6" although fun to catch. I talked with some other boaters and they too caught some perch. Nobody h...
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By: bigfish23
Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 1
We got there fairly early and the lake was pretty much empty. We started with flatfish and didnt have much luck, but found a hotspot and were catching fish there. The frog finish on the flatfish worke...
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By: FISHINROB
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Hit up north lake after work from 615 to 8 .I managed to c&r 15 nice stockers.I mostly saw bait fishermen and very few trolling .I was using a black woolybugger the hole time except when i tried a gre...
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