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By: C-dro
Posted: 8/31/2021
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cooper Lake for about 2 hours and boy did the results turn out amazing! Launched my Tamarack Fishing Kayak at first light, Since Cooper lake prohibited any motor of any type to be used on this ...
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By: TMBob
Posted: 6/15/2019
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I have been looking at Cooper the past few weekends and finally I saw a light wind day forecasted so I made the 1 hr 45 minute drive up there. FYI, though I only saw 3 cars on the road to the lake, it...
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By: TMBob
Posted: 6/15/2019
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I had Brown Trout fever all week after last Sunday’s out and headed back out for some more even though more wind then I would have liked was predicted. My two sets were slightly different this tri...
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By: TMBob
Posted: 8/12/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Been at Cooper the past two weekends hoping for more Browns like the one I caught in my last report. Quick report from last weekend....fly rod had Intermidate line instead of type 6 sink. Spinning ...
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By: TMBob
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Still having the Trout bug I fugured I’d hit my first High Lake. I almost stopped at this lake coming home from my Antilon trip in late April but was worried about the wind and lack of any planting of...
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Posted: 7/21/2018
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with fellow NWFR member, Kevin. Sorry, I forgot your online name. We had 45 Min on Cle Elum, before the wind blew us off, and went up to Cooper. We have both purchased HobiecMirage drive kay...
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By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/3/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Made the trip to Cooper Lake and put-in a bit after 8am. The wind was blowing from the north so I thought I would use my energy from breakfast/coffee to row up to the NW side of the lake where the Coo...
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By: cwbraue
Posted: 10/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I was wandering around Cle Elum on my day off looking for some fishing, but there are big signs up on the Cle Elum river that you can't fish due to salmon spawning. I found Cooper lake around 3:30 and...
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By: tframe
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went camping with a buddy out to cooper lake this past weekend and brought the poles, along with a inflatable kayak. Fishing was very good with the rainbows averaging 10-12 inches. Landed one 16 inc...
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By: marcosis
Posted: 6/5/2014
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Went with my friend to cooper to get in one last trip in before the snows came. We decided to camp for a couple of nights to get the full experience. Fished the first evening by the outflow (cooper ri...
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By: Ezlivn89
Posted: 6/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2012
Hot Spots: 1
We got a couple bites, and one snapped my line but that was literally it. Fairly shallow from shoreline for 20ft out at least. Lots of sticks.
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Posted: 8/4/2009
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled from my kayak with some flashers and a small wedding ring. Used a 2 ounce lunker to get it down a little. In the first 5 minutes I got a 12" brown trout, then trolled for another 2 hours and...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
yum yum yum we had fun!!!!!
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/18/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/14/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Beauty of a day, hi 60's, no/little wind, flat surface. Are you sure it's October?? Fished a few minutes from the bank just left of the boat launch. Cast out under the large snag, floating half a ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2006
Hot Spots: 0
went to this lake and caught my first fish there and it was a 8"brookie i had to cut the line about a inch inside of its mouth so it would live with a hook barbd' in fow a few weeks while it rusted ou...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 3 eveings out on the lake with my daughter. Trolled the perimeter of the lake all three evenings. The first night we caught two 10" brooks and one more the next evening. Got skunked without a bi...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2005
Hot Spots: 0
well got on to copper around 9 am and had little success. i tryed my new float tube out and the wind was not bad at all, thank god. lots of little trout were jumping but nothing was really biting. i c...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2004
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/29/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Started out trolling (rowing) up the west side of the lake. When we got about 2/3 of the way up, I landed an 8" Brook. We then trolled back down the east side, not getting many bites and went into t...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Cooper Lake for the first time last Thursday evening and Friday morning with my Dad. Cooper Lake is one of those narrow, deep lakes that squeezes between two ridges. That topography facto...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/23/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling around 7:30am, no action, no action on other boats 'cept for a 14 inch brown caught on a wedding ring. Could have been the cold front that came through the day before or maybe the 230...
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