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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 2
It was a tough morning on the water at Rattlesnake. Weather conditions were great, upper 40s, calm, partly cloudy. For the day after Opening Day there were not that many anglers, maybe a dozen or so b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from shore, 4-5:30 (pm - kuz I'm sane). tossed chrome/orange spoon and purple/pink dick nite. Caught 3 plus a couple long distance releases (saves energy, you see). Fairly slow retrieve was mos...
By: George Anderson
Posted: 10/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty slow day out at Rattlesnake. The water is way down, and most of the fish are really small (< 5 inches.) Kind of disappointing after such a great October of fishing on this lake last year. Tried...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rattlesnake from 8:30 to 11am. Fished a full sinking line and a soft hackle green fly. Caught 6 fish all 11 - 13". The bite just stopped shortly after 10 am, perhaps because it was very br...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to the lake for the first time with my boy and my wife's cousin's family. Sunny and warm, a great day to be on the water. Fishing started out a little slow, but we had one hit early in th...
By: howardi211
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Was going to head to beaver, but the shore line was packed, so a few buddies and i decided to go to rattlesnake river. first time there, such a beautiful lake, clear water, great weather. had to walk ...
By: HiFlyinOne
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Holy smokes! Was it cold or what?! I could hear teeth chattering all the way across the lake!! Early morning bite was red hot. By 9am, the show was over. More boats showing up with lots of margin...
By: aerobar2
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Original plan was to go to Wilderness, but too crowded. Had heard Rattlesnake was a nice lake so put it in the GPS and headed out with the fly rod. Winds were awful and it was cold. Decided to swi...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Opening Day turned out to be cool, a little breezy, and definately off the bite for me. I did once around the lake, switching up several different wooley buggers, trying to find that right color...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Rattlesnake about 10:30. Wind changed directions during the day with slight surface chop, but at least no rain. Caught and released about a dozen or so, mostly sub-surface with white rabbit lee...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful late afternoon & evening fishing at a favorite lake. lots of fish in the 15-25 ft water column, but not readily biting. Some fish were rising to the surface most of the time. Sinking lin...
By: RobertW
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Had to give Rattlesnake a try. Got to the lake around 4:00pm. There was a lot of boat traffic on the lake. The fish didn't seem to mind though. I think I landed 8 and lost about that many and had ...
By: patfitting
Posted: 5/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
got there at about eleven (if your boat isn't really heavy you can pick it up and put it in the water but right now the launch is really shallow) i started with a black wooly bugger with a green sink ...
By: flyguy
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Worked the very low waters of Rattlesnake. A few boats on the water as launching was a bit of a problem, but if your trailered boat isn't too heavy you can get it over the rocks. Water was 53 deg...
By: Toad37
Posted: 5/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had my first fishing experience at Rattlesnake Lake today. Wow, what a neat lake. Got there around 1:30ish and the weather was nice. There was a little bit of wind that made my raft somewhat hard to n...
By: kutthroatkilla
Posted: 5/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Swung by a local fly shop in Issaquah and talked to a nice guy and picked up a few flies for the trip up to RS. Got to the lake and managed to C&R about 20 fish myself all in the 9-11" range and my br...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Fished with KuttTK from 9am to 2pm. The morning bite was very good indeed. Caught around nine and missed many more. Hot flies were a purple wooley bugger and a Montana nymph. Fish in all water levels,...
By: kutthroatkilla
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Went out to Rattlesnake for the first time with Mike Carey. I was a bit late getting to the launch after some unfortunate circumstances in the morning. Once I got there at 8:45AM, we launched the boat...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/28/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rattlesnake on Friday 10/26 and Saturday the 27th. Both days very windy but the fish were very active. On Friday I got 9 rainbows 12" to 15" in an hour and a half until the wind blew me off t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/13/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
A beautiful morning on Rattlesnake Lake, no wind clear sunny sky and the fish cooperating. Quite a few fly fishermen on the water. Trolling soft hackle flies with an intermediate line. I fish a two...
By: flyguy
Posted: 9/15/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
It was a fairly calm, cool, drizzly morning, with a number of fish showing on the surface. Fished from 8-1pm. The lake was fairly high for this time of year. Started out with a weighted hairs ear wi...
By: dean
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time at Rattlesnake. The sky was overcast and the wind was blowing at around 15 - 20 mph. I tried spinners, no result. I changed to bobber and fly setup, using blue duns and had a...
By: dean
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful lake, overcast and a little windy, but all in all very promising. No luck on my first time at Rattlesnake but this lake's a keeper. I saw some mayflies in the air so I used a blue dun on a...
By: blackfoot
Posted: 6/11/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
New rule now in place at Rattlesnake!
I just came from the Lake:spent about 2 hours cleaning up the mess that the "weekend sportsmen" left from a weekend of fishing in the great outdoors:2 empty pa...
By: flyfshn
Posted: 5/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Caught and released 22 fish in 3 1/2 hours. Fish were at various depths. Anywhere from 35 feet to 10 feet. trolling slow to medium speed with a bead head thin mint. This fly always produces. 3 of the ...