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By: Diehardfishing
Posted: 5/27/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 0745 and started out day speed trolling. We trolled at 3 mph with lead core line set ups. Took one within 10 minutes on a bait fish Kastmaster 1.5 colors deep. Slowed down to 2.2 ...
By: Diehardfishing
Posted: 4/30/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Mike and I hit Steilacoom lake for the opener. All the fish came in between 105 feet and 120 feet on lead core line. The most successful presentation was a mag lips 2.0 in orange and s trigger spoo...
By: Andy
Posted: 10/8/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Steli. with Mike from 9:30-2:00 Really calm Sunny day. Started out shallow in a couple of spots getting a lot of hits from small fish using crankbaits and plastics. Caught 3 shorts 6"-7". After...
By: Andy
Posted: 5/3/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 10:30am-3:00pm at a WINDY Steilacoom. Water temp 56*, Visibility 3'-4'. Calm to 12-14 mph. Seemed like we only caught fish when the wind was blowing. 2nd cast with a 4" Swimbait and a nice...
By: Andy
Posted: 11/2/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty tough day, only caught two fish. 1 bass and 1 trout both on crankbaits. Water Vis. about 6'-7' with light winds. Water temp. 52*-54* which is about 10* colder than 2 weeks ago. S/B perfect for ...
By: Andy
Posted: 8/17/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Out to Steli. Pretty nice out, light wind, Wa. Temp 73.5. Vis. 5'-6'. Started out catching a few 6"-8" and ten a 2 lb. 3 oz Largemouth. Then a few more dinks. Lots of minnows in the water, they kept ...
By: j_maxwell
Posted: 10/20/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I was casting spinners with my ultralight trout gear from the shore and managed to pull in this pig of a smallie. This fish was photographed and promptly released.
By: Andy
Posted: 8/10/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Lake about 8:00 am. only one there, YEAH. Needed to do some mapping so I spent a lot of time doing that. Did manage to catch 8 smallies and 4 rock bass all on Senko's. Wa. temp. 72-73. Fish...
By: Andy
Posted: 10/25/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day on Steily, only caught one and lost a big one. The one I caught was only 10"-11" but had to weigh at least a pound. Really fat fish. Missed one about 10 feet away from the one I caught that ...
By: Andy
Posted: 9/28/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It was Windy, boat control a bit of a problem. You could get one or two cast to an area and that was it. We only caught four and Ron got the big fish of the day, a nice 3 lb. 3 oz. Largemouth. After a...
By: Andy
Posted: 5/24/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day fishing! ! ! A 3 lb. 15 oz. Smallie, a 3 lb. 7 oz. Lg, a 3 lb. 5 oz. Lg, a 2 lb. 15 oz. Smallie and many others. Got lucky and picked the right day and the right presentation even tho...
By: mike_hanshaw
Posted: 6/10/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I bought a kayak and of course needed to try it out so I hit Steilacoom lake for 3 hrs or so. I had never fished it before so I asked some locals that were fishing what species were in there and got t...
By: aceofspades
Posted: 5/1/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Great day on the lake we got 2 and we called it a day we put in 3.5 hrs for the 2 we got kept one let the other go
By: 16reddevil20
Posted: 6/19/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out run the motor it had problems with with carbs only ran with chke on we trolled around still fished a lil marked fish all but had to be moving cleaned them had snails in guts so gonna use snai...
Posted: 5/10/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again Friday afternoon to see if we could locate a few Kokanee. The weather was terrible just nasty out there (wind, rain, hail). Trolled the south end hard with mostly Pink hoochies and red ...
By: Travesty 85
Posted: 3/31/2014
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I took the kayaks out today even with heavy rain showers. Been awhile since I've last fished here so wasn't sure how well it would turn out. Every time it down poured fish on. So what the hel...
By: Adkinsfamily
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake kinda late not bites nice day on the lake kinda windy had fun tho me and the kid on the lake she likes but she likes catching witch we dont do much of lol so I was told to here and ask fo...
By: oracle
Posted: 8/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the lake around 6pm. Used a bobber and warm and drifted from the cove on the south end. Not a bite. Trolled from the cove to nearly the south end. Hooked onto a nice trout, maybe 13". Set up 2 ...
By: dontknowanything
Posted: 5/26/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Was hot till all the boats started racing around a lot of little ones two keepers the bass are picking up they was hitting everything we threw behind us then the big boats came out it just stopped.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Went to steilacoom lake though i do a little trout fish in the old floattube put on my castmaster and got one rainbow was 8inc and two cutthroat trout one was 12 and 15inc.
By: dontknowanything
Posted: 5/5/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
came to the lake didnt catch nothing then we started getting nibbles then it statred to rian on us and with kids that sucks so if someone can give me a few piots o how to catch something in this lake ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/19/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Just went bass fishing at steilacoom lake in my float tube caught 2 largemouth bass. All where caught in 3 feet of water using a jig.
By: huevos22
Posted: 8/23/2011
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the boat at about 1:00 and came back at 2:00 caught 7 rock bass and2 yellow perch. The rock bass were really aggresive, after releasing one i put my hook in the water so i could reach for ...
By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
beautiful day on the lake. caught a few decent size perch and some other little things trolling around. you can find a few decent spots without all the pleasure boats but first thing out into the open...
By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
good day on the water. got there around 5ish and stayed till dusk. all the action came at dusk. trolling seemed to be the best method that i experienced. steep boat ramp, but nothing near as how sket...