George Hu
Fished Cottage Lake from about 11-1. I got a report from a dock fisherman that it was slow, but I found fishing to be good and landed a dozen with lots of nibbles. The fish were mainly in front of the docks. Trolling was most effective. Didn’t have any bites stripping. Had about equal action on a sinking line with chartreuse willy and an intermediate with olive bugger (which I just tied at the fly tying class this week!) As with Pine, about half were about 10″ and half 12″.
paulstp@gmail.com
Fished chain lake yesterday for a couple of hours and I was the only one on the lake. Fishing was on the slow side but I did get a two healthy holdovers to the net a 14 and 16 incher. Indicator fishing was a bust. I caught both fish stripping a black bugger. Picture is a 17 incher I caught March 31.
opitztj@gmail.com
Hi All,
Lake Alice was stocked again for the second time on Tuesday April 6th.
They are still schooled up around the boat launch and are running 8 – 12 inches.
Come and get em.
rodneybr@hotmail.com
I fished Lone Lake on 3/26/2022
Fished 1 to 7 PM
5 fish to net
4 stripping a black micro leech. Type 4 line, 3x leader. Casting and slow stripping. I caught my bigger fish away from the launch. The smaller planters are near the launch, and if you target them you should be able to get a handful.
1 fishing a blood worm about 1 ft off the bottom. This was about 100 yards away from the dock in about 15 ft water.
Fishing was slow, I missed about 4 good takes.
The lake will come alive in the near future, 2-3 weeks from now. It needs to warm up a bit more, I saw very very very few bugs coming off so the good times are ahead for chironomid fishing and some top water emerger fishing. A trip there in mid April should bring you some fishing joy. Keep watching the overnight temperature, if we get a solid week of a team above 50, we will be good for action.
george98034@hotmail.com
Lake Alice was fishing really well 3/17 and Bill Courshon & Francis Huynh reported good fishing last weekend. However, yesterday 3/23 I was warned by several boats before me that they hadn’t caught anything and they were right. It was very unusual to not even get a bump. I did see a few fish on the finder but targeting them didn’t help. Perhaps it was daphnia but I never caught one to find out.
rrolsen@msn.com
Chain continues to fish well with chironomids. Fished March 9 and 16. On 9th some fish deep, then mid depth, then deep again as the hatch changed. When they were rising, the 5 to 8′ level worked. On the 16th, fish were deep, in 18′ of water with ‘mids 1-3 feet off bottom. Mids were larger, so #12 worked, “bombers”. A few on blood worms on the bottom as well. Have fun!
opitztj@gmail.com
Yesterday around 1:00 PM (3/9/21) they dumped a load of fish into Lake Alice .
I do not have any details as to size or quantity.
It usually takes a day a day or two for the fish to get acclimated and figure out how and what to eat.
However I did see several rising right at dusk around the boat launch so I threw a dry for about 20 min. with no luck.
Come on up and see what you can do.
Good luck.
Tim Opitz
rrolsen@msn.com
Took advantage of a break in the winter weather to test the Snake. Only fisherperson there from 11 to 3. Air 41 degrees, water 39 degrees. Fish were active, and in pods. Vertical presentation and very slow strip worked. Blobs, and black leech. Most fish in the northwestern corner in 35′. Fish were uniform 13″, strong but a bit thin.
Cheers, Ron
rrolsen@msn.com
Testing out new PWM, pulse width modulator, for trolling motor. Beautiful day, no wind, sun, 44 degrees, water 40 degrees Burrr. This is what boats are made for. Did manage four takedowns on an indicator, blood worm at 15.5′ in 16′ of water. Fish 13″ to 17″.
If you’ve tubed up your trout rod for the winter, you might want to reconsider and head over to Beaver lake. On December 18th WDFW planted 900+ brood stock from the Issaquah hatchery. Make sure you bring a boat as shore fishing from the boat launch is pretty limited.