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By: epatton
Posted: 6/2/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Black Wholly Buggers with small amounts of shiny dark green where the ticket to catching trout today. Trolled slow with lines 30 ft behind boat. Caught one on a shrimp imitation fly. Caught 10 and kep...
By: AncientBalance
Posted: 5/22/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Not a lot of people at the lake in the morning and set out on my yak to get my troll on. It wasn't long and was able to find the fish and started having a blast. They were really hitting the white p...
By: AncientBalance
Posted: 5/8/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Quite a bit of action with small fish jumping all around the lake. There were a few of us out on boats / pontoons and about a half dozen people on the bank fishing. Most folks I talked to said they ...
By: KiltedB
Posted: 8/18/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I took an extra day off work this week so I igured Iwould go up to The lake with my kayak and paddle around. I made two laps around with a weight and a Macks wedding ring but had no luck so I switched...
By: KiltedB
Posted: 7/30/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the lake around 1945 and it was cooling off to around 65. I paddled around the lake while using a Macks wedding ring with a weight and didn't have much luck. To be fair I think I was too deep a...
By: AncientBalance
Posted: 7/11/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Arrived at the lake at approx. 6:30pm. I was out on my inflatable pontoon about 50 yards to the left of the boat launch. I was bottom fishing using white Power Eggs with a Power Night Crawlers with ...
By: biggestjosh
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Loaded up the canoe and headed to Lake Margaret for the afternoon. Very warm day out. Mostly trolled a green and orange small flatfish with sinking fly line. Girlfriend had a black and silver rooster ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Margaret from 8 am for a few hours. It was warm and sunny and I don't think the sun made the fishing better. The first hour and a half was slow but then the fishing picked up and the catching...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great opening morning. Caught limits in 40 minutes including unloading, loading and rowing time. Nothing over a foot, but lots of fish and a lot of fun. Weather was warm and cooperated nicely.
By: fishon
Posted: 10/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day at Margaret landed 6 cutthroat trout. Nothing over 10". Using sink line with a black leach. Partner landed one. Well, enjoyed the day out on the water. Never the less, at least we were ...
By: woody_george
Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Caught a nice 10 inch Rainbow on orange powerbait after 10 minutes. Went with the two kiddos 10 and 7 and had some fun. Wish we could have stayed longer, was getting some good bites.
By: Duvall Fisher
Posted: 5/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
As a new fisher, I think I found what the fish like at this lake. I used a single pink powerbait floating pellet on a small hook with a couple of sinkers about one foot or more away from the hook. C...
By: theDrifter
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Lot's of fish today - son and I caught 15 - 20 fish - released them all. Wedding Rings tipped with worm was the ticket. Fish actually seemed a little larger than last week. Hard to believe they grow s...
By: Duvall Fisher
Posted: 5/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Perhaps I have to find what they like in order to catch them all, but 4 will do fine for a morning. It's the only lake I've fished in the past few years so I don't have any other lakes to rate this o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/18/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After being skunked at Martha, I decided to go out to Margaret since it's an easy catch.
Started throwing F9 Floaters...it doesn't matter what color. All colors worked equally well; Chartruese/Si...
By: natenez
Posted: 7/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple of Boy Scouts to Lk Maraget to help them earn thier fishing merit badge.
We caught a mix of rainbows and cutthroats, mostly on wedding rings.
One of the boys caught his first fish ...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The guys I work with have been interested in my fishing stories and wanted to try it out. So my whole team got permission to do a team fishing event.
We met at Maraget @ 6am, and got out on the wa...
By: natenez
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son out for a morning of fishing. The rain was comming down the whole time, so we called it quits after 2 hours while we were only mostly soaked.
The fish were pushing 12". Caught in the ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My two teenage boys wanted to hit Margaret again because we had a great time the last two weekends slaying those surface feeding rainbows. We got out there by 5pm this time...45mins earlier than the ...
By: dea
Posted: 6/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After having some luck last week, we decided to hit Lake Margaret again with our floating minnow presentation.
Arrived at Lake Margaret around 530am with my two teenage boys. One auto-n-boat showe...
By: Sthao92
Posted: 6/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Margaret in the morning and with the first two casts I had two fish on. I used a plain ol black wooly bugger and later on saw some sunfish crusin the shore so then I threw a bead head phaesant...
By: dea
Posted: 6/1/2011
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got there at 130pm. My son and I started with Jammin Jigs crippled minnow under a Rocket bobber and a Cheese marshmellow and a salmon egg. Each of us had two hits upon which we lost the bait. These...
By: fishon
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day fishing, in this case catching. Trolled a green colored, gold beadhead wolly bugger and found out the trout just loved the look and feel of the fly. Cought and released over 15 trout...
By: minc425
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went to this lake with a couple of my friends and we caught our limit within the first 30 minutes. The trout were biting like crazy. We were landing fish left to right.
By: natenez
Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Maraget has been hot lately and so I've been there a few times the last week or 2.
Water temp is 52 and the fish generally near the surface. Lots of rises & jumps all around the lake.
We've bee...