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By: blwoodward
Posted: 10/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 11:30am to 4pm. Lots of small fish jumping and subsurface feeding. Fished an olive woolley bugger and prince nymph on a sinking line for best results. 3 fish to hand-8" to 10". Spoke t...
By: NWFshHntr
Posted: 9/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
All I have to say is that this is a beautiful lake with alot of potential fun but I think I was on the wrong bite after looking at some reports. I think I may have had better luck in the evening. Tigh...
By: fishon
Posted: 9/6/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Once the evening bite was on, had a great time. Landed four trout within 30 minutes. Average 13 inches. Nothing big, but had a great view of the sunset and rising fish. It sure was fun when the bit...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Rattlesnake lake for the first time as part of an outing with my fly fishing club. I liked the scenery, very pretty.
My friend and I trolled flies around the lake. Wooly bugger and le...
By: washingtoncarper
Posted: 6/6/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Fished the evening, as i this lake only produces (for me anyway) on the very last hour and a half before the sun goes down.
typical setup of trawling on slow slow speed with my minakota motor with a ...
By: Stirfryfly
Posted: 5/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Fished but was windy at times. Trolled around and caught only a couple. This is a tough lake to fish. My fish were not deep so used a floating line with black WB. Saw some guys in boats catching a few...
By: Stirfryfly
Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this lake and did not do well. Only caught a couple. Anybody catch anything? Others were there but no reports posted.
By: FinChaserNW
Posted: 3/25/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Trolled Rattlesnake from 7am-10am. Weather was cloudy, dry, 35 degrees and very windy. Several pontoon boats put in and quickly left due to the wind. Water was green with 4-5 feet visibility. We b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for a few hours this morning in rain and wind. I had plenty of action but the fish were all small, 6'' - 9" all caught on a black nymph w silver floss on a full sink line. Tried other lines a...
By: Freshfishflesh
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day fishing the far side of the lake. Trolled from my inflatable boat with decent luck (2 good sized rainbows hooked but not landed) then switched to a dry fly when I noticed a significant...
By: Conky
Posted: 7/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the south end around 5pm. Waded in 3.5 feet of water. Fished nothing but a size 16 Royal Coach on the surface. Had about 60 hits out of 100 casts, nothing but small 2-4 inchers, so none wer...
By: gdbrill
Posted: 6/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It took a while to zero in on the depth and fly but once we did the action was great. Most were about 12 to 13 inches with a couple easily exceeding 16 inches. One broke off my 6 pound tippet. Best...
By: jeremye
Posted: 6/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 6 or so between 7-9 am. Hit hard, fought well but didn't catch any large holdovers.
By: fishon
Posted: 5/10/2011
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is a tough lake to fly fish for me. Landed only one trout on a green, bead head, nymph. It was healthy and a strong fighter. Had three strikes and lost them all. They just kissed the fly and s...
By: flyguy
Posted: 4/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day with mainly calm water on Rattlesnake. Surface water temperature was 48 degrees. The water was very high and clear. Two of us caught 10-12 fish averaging 9". Two fish were a fat 15"...
By: dkelliott3
Posted: 12/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I've never fished on a lake with snow on the beach. It was so serene.
Grandson #1 and I CPR'd 12 in 2.5 hrs, he caught 9 of 'em.
He got a bit chilly, but thanks be to this sweet little catch-and-...
By: dkelliott3
Posted: 11/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was great!
Boated 11 in 3 hours, but the real story is beneath the surface. I got snagged on something out deep in the middle and it may not have been a log or a branch................. it m...
By: dkelliott3
Posted: 11/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This amazing 'catch and release' year-around lake is barely 30 miles from downtown Seattle.
I had a very nice day trolling 'Dick Nites' and 'Triple Teasers'.
Put the 'portabote' in at 9 and out by ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decent day at Rattlesnake Lake. With the shift to selective rules (C&R) flyfishing only Rattlesnake seems to be showing some real potential. J. and I arrived around noonish. Plenty od rises and so...
By: gdbrill
Posted: 9/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My nephew and I hit the lake about 3:30pm and fished until almost 7:00. It was sunny and warm with lots of people using the lake for non fishing activities. Fishing was great. We caught 2 over 17 i...
By: flyguy
Posted: 9/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 12 noon till 5pm. Warm and calm to begin with, water temp 62 degrees. About 2pm started to rain some and then more steady. Fishing was OK, with my buddy and I catching 1-15" ...
By: p.t.
Posted: 8/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this lake from 11:00AM to 2:00PM on a raft using wooly bugger. Caught two trout but didn't know how big are they. Because this lake is catch and release and selective gear rule, so I figured if...
By: fishon
Posted: 6/11/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this lake for the first time for three hours in the afternoon . Had one bite on the fly and that was it. Other fly fishers where also have a hard time landing a fish. Beautiful lake to fish ...
By: gdbrill
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished yesterday afternoon from 3 to 5:30pm. Caught 5 fish the largest was almost 17 inches with the other 4 around 9 to 10 inches. It rained on and off with no wind. Great day.
By: gdbrill
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Light rain off and on with no wind. Caught the first fish after 45 minutes of fishing, a nice 17 trout. The other 4 fish, averaged about 9 to 10 inches, were caught the last hour of fishing.
