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By: Stuffy
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Easy limits of tasty little animals and the kids got one Brood stock 18 incher and one triplod 15 incher. Two hours.
By: Bo
Posted: 5/3/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fantastic fishing day. Lots of fish, only kept the ones that we hurt. Trolling about any lure worked. Super fun for the kids.
By: Bo
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We hit Phillips again this year for the opener. Love this lake, its where we used to fish 30 yrs ago too. still really good to us. String of spoons was productive, solo wedding ring was good. A solo d...
By: eddieg1
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to try Phillips for some LMB for the first time this year. Me and my gf arrived at the lake at 0800 with the weather cold and foggy. We started fishing the docks with senkos and a silver rapa...
By: tfguy
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After spending a weekend at Ocean Shores, (in which we lost two MONSTER trout at Duck Lake) we hit Phillips on our way back, trying to redeem ourselves. We did somewhat, having about 20 hook-ups, all...
By: eddieg1
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What an AWESOME day to be out in the water! My girlfriend took the day off and decided to head to Phillips since she's never been there. I had some success fishing for LMB last sep/oct but never fishe...
By: Thor
Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On our annual fishing trip / reunion we tried Phillips Lake and had a blast. Before I could even figure out which direction we were going to head from the launch we had a fish on. As the rest of the...
By: 8Fish_box
Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My father & I decided to fish Phillips Lk today. Started on water about 7:45am motored about half way down lake on SW side. Dropped anchor in 20ft of water. My dad used rainbow powerbait & used pi...
By: JS
Posted: 10/17/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
first off, it kinda sucks that you can only post two pics. this report is for the 16th and 17th. went down to my buddy's property on the lake. we got there about 9 am on saturday and started to catch ...
By: eddieg1
Posted: 10/7/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to come back to Phillips after having some success last week. I went to the same spot where I caught fish last week. I had my drop shot rig ready for action. The fish weren't in the same spo...
By: wscotthall
Posted: 10/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the lake just to look it over and try to catch a few bass and locate perch. Started the day fishing shoreline cover with worms and senkos, no luck. Switched to drifting a chunk of nightcrawl...
By: eddieg1
Posted: 10/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time fishing this lake. The weather forecast was for sun and 72 degrees but when I got to the lake it was overcast and windy. I almost turned around and went home because I wasn't su...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started day 5:45am motored over to our honey hole.... Five mins go by we have 3 fish in boat, at this time fish stop biting. Switched from green power eggs to green GLUP eggs...WOW i dont think dynomi...
By: bob johansen
Posted: 8/23/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing buddy Mike L. and I launched the old Bass Tracker onto Phillips Lake about 8:00 AM to look for some bass. Fishing was tough. We had fished hard for quite a while and were approaching a shall...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/13/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
After a hiatus from fishing for a couple to years to focus on my golf game I finally hit the water with an old fishing buddy, Bob Johanson, who is a regular on this site. We arrived at Phillips lake ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Got to spencer lake too late for tourney (looked like small wgts)
Went to phillips for my 1st freshwater bass lesson.
about 2 pm casting black speckled worms along docks hooked a lunker that brought...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing partner and fellow writer Bob J. and I hit Phillips lake about 11:00 am. I was late as I blew a trailer tire on the way and had to run back into town to buy a new tire and wheel. Always look a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/20/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2005
Hot Spots: 0
After moving from Nahwatzel Bob J and I fished Phillips from 11:45 to around 1:45. The fishing was better - more action and more followers seen. We used the usual assortment of gear but again could no...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/28/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to head to Phillips after hitting up Mason lake to not much success, and to the fact that Spencer Lakes boat launch was blocked by a van that was out of tranny fluid and couldnt move. So we h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Please read Bobs report on Spencer lake because that is where we started the day and caught 20 bass. After a quick ride down the rode we relaunched the boat again and once more started to fish. The la...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I never thought dock fishing could be so fun! The water is so clear you can see the bottom up to about 15’ deep. I saw plenty of 6”-9” bass that will normally eat anything in sight. With the water ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/3/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8-10am in wet conditions with Bob Johansen. Bob Warned me that the fishing might be kinda slow but we were into the bass pretty good. I had good luck with a floating crank bait while Bob w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/27/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Phillips lake this morning for about 4 hours. Lose a 2 pound bass right at the boat and had a monster bass fight me so hard he broke my rod in half, stole my best lure to boot. Man what a fish,...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2003
Hot Spots: 0
The state must have put that 23 million somewhere else or not at all. We fished Phillips for two days and caught a pair of small trout . Don't go there unless you just want to enjoy a boat...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/2/2002
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 3 year old grandson out for his very first fishing trip. We went to Phillips lake and stayed within 100 yards of the boat ramp. I rigged him (Adrian) up a float with sinkers so it just barely ...