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By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I attempted to go out on Lk. Wa. for some smallies, but when I got the boat loaded I saw I had a failed tailight... so I packed the float tube out to lk. Ballinger. I put in and headed straight out t...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Nice morning on Ballinger, but a little slow for action, from 7:45am to 1pm. Released three 11-13 inch trout. Missed a couple more. Tried a green wedding ring for a while, behind some pop gear, but on...
By: CaffOMHW
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at 4:00. It was slow going at first but there was a good bite today between 5:30-6:30. I landed 3 and others on the dock were caching 1 or 2 themselves. Seems that using a white powere...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Ballinger from 2:30 to 4:30pm, with the kid. More fish blood was spilled in the porta-bote. Took 30 minutes before we started hooking into them pretty good. One spot seemed to be hot, on the ea...
By: justinc210
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the lake for a casual afternoon of fishing starting at 1:00 PM. My buddy and I quickly got into the fish and ended up catching a total of eleven in the next two hours. The fish were all on the sou...
By: CaffOMHW
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I arrived at the lake a little before noon. Went out to the dock were there were already 2 people fishing. The water was calm, very little wind and overcast. I stayed till 3:00. I caught 1 and had 2 o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to Ballinger about 1400 and fished off the dock, little windy so I grabbed my pole setup for lures. Met another man fishing using lures and had the same train of thought due to the winds. He...
By: Art of the Mix
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the dock. They were jumping all around and even following my lures, but could not manage to land one. No luck for the other folks on the dock either, who were bottom fishing and sending ...
By: Dorado
Posted: 4/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After Saturdays adventure (see report for Washington) we decided to stay close to home and went to Ballinger to test out our new fish finder we never used the day before. There were a few people on t...
By: vongoebel
Posted: 3/11/2008
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I didn't fish today but I read an article in the Edmonds Beacon which can be found at local establishments. I got mine at the Subway near Aurora Village. It mentioned that Lake Ballinger has a "dead ...
By: trucknmusic
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit ballinger in my little boat today from about 9-2pm. 1st time on the lake and was trying for bass but had no luck. Fished all over and tried all kinds of methods - dropshot, jig, jerkbait, spinne...
By: KingSalmon08
Posted: 2/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the last day of the Seattle Home Show with my dad and checked it out. it was interesting. Came back around 2:30 pm and had a few hours of daylight left so we decided to go fishing somewhere n...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 10/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got home from work and the rain has stopped for awhile, so I took the dogs and ran over to Ballinger for awhile. Tried different colors of PB from the bottom and nothing was interested, so I switched...
By: justinc210
Posted: 6/29/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got of work early and decided to get some casual relaxing fishing in before dinner time. Started fishing at about 2:30 and caught one on a Rapala right off the bat on the northern side of the island...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/1/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my boat out on Lake Ballinger tonight for it's maiden voyage. Had a blast of a time... compared to my previous Bayliner Capri, this 14 ft. Lund was a breeze in and out of the water. The M...
By: justinc210
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a casual afternoon fishing trip close to home. The water was mostly calm with a slight wind coming out of the North. My girlfriend caught a keeper sized trout only after about 10 minutes ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake with my cousin hoping to catch some trout and crayfish. Fished the dock starting at 6:30. Two other people there nothing. Nobody caught a thing. Not even the people in their boats caught ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/20/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We went sunday, tried trolling and with power bait, got nothing, were there on boat about 2 hours. will try again, ive been big fish there and heard stories. Mark
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/16/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The lake that hates me continues to. Saturday I caught one fish after hanging around the lake for a little over two hours. You'd think I'd know to leave when the rain gods start piddling on my one ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/8/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I caught this nice 14" rainbow bout' 30' off the public fishing dock. Everyone on the dock went mad when I landed it. They all ran around looking for tape measures. It was pretty funny to see the look...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2007
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Dead, that's one way of describing conditions here lately. Lots of waterfowl, but I don't think you can hunt here, HA!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/25/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/25/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I got out on the lake about 4pm and trolled around the South end with a wedding ring and power bait. I was getting soundings on my fish finder but no bites., It was my favorite spot on the west side o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/16/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the lake around 5am. Trolling a ford fender with a wedding ring spinner. Caught a few lilly pads on lilly pad lane. Fished for another 2 hours with a couple of trout. Was gonna head in whe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/28/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at about 6:30 with our small aluminum boat, launched it and started trolling south along the lil pads, with rooster tales and a chunk of worm, no luck, bout an hour later we headed out towards...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2006
Hot Spots: 0
My first fish caught in the state of Washington was a 17inch Rainbow Trout. Needless to say, I left with a smile the size of Lake Ballinger. I used Nightcrawlers because I'm old school. I will return...