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By: Diehardfishing
Posted: 4/28/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2023
Hot Spots: 0
The water was 54 degrees. Mike and I have never fished this lake. We fished using two hybrid lead core set ups and a topwater rod. We pulled flies, spoons, plugs, spinners and rolled worms. We onl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2020
Hot Spots: 2
Got there about 7:00 for the Corona Opener. Tons of boats, launch was full; I got the last parking spot. Cloudy and light wind. They stocked this lake with 600 Triploids and 5,200 1lb Rainbows. It...
By: anetrush
Posted: 12/3/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled 3 hours starting 11 am. Caught one 12 in, lost about 14 incher at boat. Trolled flies mostly. I think too shallow. Switched to flash lite attractor and bait to get the bites. One other boat, I...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 3/30/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I rode with my buddy Allen to Lake Nahwatzel this morning in hopes of catching a nice holdover or at least a few chunky rainbows. Well we arrived at the lake at about 10ish and after getting my gear r...
By: tmanh2o
Posted: 4/10/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I figured with the only one day of decent weather for a week that I would hit Nahwatzel. Left early and got to the ramp around 7:15am. One other boat on the water. Bank fishermen on both sides of...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 11/27/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fall rainbow trout fishing continues to be good at Nahwatzel. We caught our limit of 10 in a couple hours and took home 6 to filet before the wind and rain hit hard. NWFR member Denny recommended Ol...
By: cubmaster
Posted: 11/13/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My schedule is booked for the next few weeks so yesterday was the only day that I could get out (Rain or Shine)!
I used my new set-up, a Rocky Mtn. Tackle Dodger and my own color combination of a M...
By: tmanh2o
Posted: 10/24/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I saw that Nahwatzel was stocked first week of October. It is one of my favorites for bigger trout. I was solo on this trip. So I trailered my 14' Mirrocraft from Bremerton to the lake. Launche...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 5/28/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to go back to Nahwatzel and take another cast at it. This time I was with my daughter Jennifer and my long time friend Allen, and we arrived about 9ish in the morning. I think we must have ...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 5/11/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My second visit to Nahwatzel in the past month and again the fishing was pretty sweet. I pulled into the public launch area just after 11ish and immediately threw out some rainbow power bait with a ch...
By: Snodgrass
Posted: 4/30/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I was at Nahwatzel lake with my youngest daughter Jennifer for about two hours and was fishing near the public boat launch with two other folks. For the first hour I pulled in nothing but balls of aqu...
By: cubmaster
Posted: 11/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
During the last month or so I have fished Lake Nahwatzel (twice) with good results. I have been trolling slow at about .5knots -1.0 knots using a 27" lake troll flashing system and wedding ring with ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 10/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Caught 10 and kept 8 in the 13 - 16 in range. Lost a couple. Fished from 3pm - 5pm under mostly clear skies with the girlfriend and 2 dogs. Trolled flies again tipped with rainbow power eggs. Work...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 10/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took my girlfriend's father out for some rainbow trout fishing on Saturday. Weather stayed dry and we had a blast catching healthy rainbows. We stopped at 5 keepers 14 in or larger and managed to la...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for 2 hrs and limited quickly. All kept were in the 14-15 in range and well fed. Trolled an orange tube fly behind a wiggle fin disk at 1.5 mph. 70 ft back with 3/4 Oz weight. Rained the w...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/31/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 2 fish over 14 in in just under 2 hrs (16 and 17 in) so called it a day. Trolled wiggle fin tube flies with a smile blade about 8 in up. Fish caught were likely about 10-15 ft deep. Lots of ...
By: HereToFish
Posted: 11/9/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got stopped by the WDFW for a vessel inspection at the boat ramp (no violations) then spent a few hours trolling trying a few different colors of wedding rings with a worm. I had a couple of bites and...
By: Bow_Slayer
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up 40 min before sunrise, loaded up the canoe, and headed toward the boat launch frombour friend's cabin. Three of us trolled across the lake and I picked up three tiny bass and an 11 inch rainbo...
By: wmaxwell48
Posted: 4/13/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Lake Nahwatzel was fantastic. Weather was better than you should ever get in mid-April. Water temp was 52. Air temp was 61. Water was clear with a tint of green.
2 boats on the water from WWWC clu...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My two bro's and I fished Nahwatzel for the first time yesterday. This will be a short report - we got skunked!
Tried trolling various spoons and wedding rings and spinners - zip. Tried bottoms fi...
By: fintime
Posted: 6/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Buddy and I tried Nahwatzel for the first time. We got there late at about 10AM while the sun was still behind cloud cover. Only a couple of other boats were on the water- both trolling for trout. We ...
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fast day of fishing, I don't think we've ever had a day when the fish were so cooperative. We limited in about 1 hour, 15 minutes. At one point we had three fish in the net as I didn't have time to st...
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the lake for 3 days this weekend, limited out each day, lots of fish for family and the smoker. largest one was the fish I caught, 2 lbs.,14.7 ozs. after bleeding, puts it over 3 lbs.All fish w...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take a day off due to the fact that Wed. was the only positive day weather and wind wise for fishing this week.Tried trolling, fish are still finikey about chasing anything. After 10 or 15 ...
By: Bob R
Posted: 3/31/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Really nice weather yesterday, went to the North coast for an early morning clam dig, limiting out in a half hour.We then went to our favorite year-round lake. We had only one strike while trolling, w...