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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2007
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As with most of the lakes right now, Kress is stocked with a lot of trout. This is a small lake and is very popular. I was in a boat trolling and caught 6 Triploids along with many 8-10 inchers. Al...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/28/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/23/2007
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Caught some nice Steelhead right at boat ramp using Olive Leech Size 10. 2 fish in 45 minutes. Also caught a nice fish on Sunday!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/11/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/11/2007
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Lots of dead and dying steelhead with a few dark ones jumping. Somewhat of a grim picture. The new trout plants are beginning to show up in catches. This exposed shallow lake should warm up quickly....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/8/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2007
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Terry caught this one on a Flatfish. This was payback for rowing the young guys around and around the lake.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/8/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2007
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Got to Kress at 10am. Fish started biting about noon. First Rick on the shore caught and released a nice one at noon the Terry in the boat caught his about 1220pm. (see photo's) Rick use a Blue Fox s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/31/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 12/31/2006
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Was able to get back to Kress this afternoon for a couple of hours. My son Matt nailed this one using a red Brad's Wiggler. We got the outhouse douched out with soapy water & Chlorox.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/29/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 12/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Was alerted by WDFW that 486 steelhead had recently been planted in Kress so I decided to make a short trip from Vancouver to check things out. One fellow reportedly caught and lost a couple of steel...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2006
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lots and lots of big triploid trout with many baitstealers as well
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2006
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Got to the lake about 5 AM with my buddy Micah. Started on the peirs and couldn't keep the trout off! Later in the day we fished the far side of the lake to see what the Bluegill were doing, still w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2005
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tried Kress Lake for the first time. Found blue gill, perch, lm bass and some small trout. Could not find the schools of blue gill and ones i did find were small. still caught and released 10 + fis...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/8/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2005
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Saw 3-4 small bass in the shallows intermixed with a billion tiny perch. Just as I was getting ready to pull up (11am) saw a 20" bass cruise by me about two feet away. The millfoil in Kress is horri...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2005
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Incredible! That's the word that describes the fishing at Kress Lake today. Not only were the fish plentiful but also very decent in size. I took my 14 year old son there this morning, we arrived a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/18/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/18/2005
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Kress is a good lake but too much weeds. Saw lotza steelhead jumpin,but all were ugly,most had white all over them. didnt catch anything me and me dad had a few good bumps but noting. too early in the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2004
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Kress lake was good but to many bugs which are good for fish bring repelant. all fish small but they were blue gill some bass and crappy. some folks were using bread dough to catch trout and did good ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/8/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/8/2004
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While traveling up I-5, I decided to stop and make a few casts at Kress Lake. The day was warm and sunny. Lots of anglers were fishing for trout. I tried to stir up a little interest in one of th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/2/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2004
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The state fisheries department is preparing early this year. They have Planted 91 steelhead on the 18 or 19 of Feb. and 300 Brood and Tri-Locks around the 26 of Feb.. the fishing seems to be good I ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/19/2004
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/19/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for posting so long after, I just keep forgetting to. anyway I headed out to do some steelheading on the Kalama, only problem was when I got there I realized I had used the other vehicle th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2003
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Kress is the coolest spot to fish on the HOT days in the late afternoons with the tall trees on the west side shading from late afternoon. No real bank action until about 8pm, have been able to catch ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/1/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2003
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This Lake has enjoyed the States generosity of planting steelhead returning to the hatchery that are not required for breeding purposes and a decent planting of trout. Fishing from shore has been a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/24/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 12/24/2002
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Heard Kress Lake had received 77 steelhead in the last week of Nov. so we headed up to give it
a try. It was cold and windy and rainy but we trolled our big fluorescent orange qwikfish around
anywa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2002
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Another first for one of the best "little" lakes in Washington. Fishing with one of my favorite lures (Firetiger Rat L Trap) and got a nice hit. Figured it was one of the Largemouths I was fishing f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2002
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I arrived at Kress about 0800. I did not bring my boat this trip
and just fished from shore. Kress has excellent shore access. The
shore was very busy with anglers fishing with bobbers and some d...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/13/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/13/2002
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We fished the lake with hardware hoping to pick up a steelhead. Didn't catch any of the monsters. We switched to our standard wedding ring on one pole and 0000 dodger on the other and caught a ga...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/4/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/4/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Kirk and I put boat in about 0830. Before putting the boat in we observed several Steelheads in shallow water near boat ramp. They were all fungi covered with white fungus. The steelheads were our p...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/10/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2002
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The lake is full of steelhead from 6 to 10 pounds. We could not get them to hit anything. I saw one kid snag a fish, and we caught 2 small trout, but that was it. I talked to some local guys that use ...