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- Heading roughly south down the Interstate 5 corridor, here are some of the top options we recommend, in part because they’re loaded with catchable rainbow trout: Lake Padden and Silver Lake in Whatcom County Erie Lake and Lake McMurray in Skagit County Flowing Lake, Goodwin Lake, Lake Ki and Storm Lake in Snohomish County
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Rainbow trout can be caught in lakes and streams in every county in Washington. Stocking reports Details on when and where trout are stocked in Washington lakes is available in the annual stocking plan and the weekly trout stocking reports .
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Rainbow trout are native to Washington State. WDFW usually...
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Heading roughly south down the Interstate 5 corridor, here are some of the top options we recommend, in part because they’re loaded with catchable rainbow trout: Lake Padden and Silver Lake in Whatcom County. Erie Lake and Lake McMurray in Skagit County. Flowing Lake, Goodwin Lake, Lake Ki and Storm Lake in Snohomish County.
- Beaver Lake
- Big Lake
- Campbell, Lake
- Cascade River
- Cavanaugh, Lake
- Clear Lake
- Erie, Lake
- Grandy Lake
- Heart Lake
- Mcmurray, Lake
There are a ton of Beaver Lakes in Washington, and fishing at Skagit County’s edition is largely managed by the fish themselves. While it’s not stocked with trout, this Sedro-Woolley area lake has decent populations of self-sustaining coastal cutthroat trout as well as largemouth bass, yellow perch and black crappie. Trout fishing is likely to be b...
This is indeed a big lake (over 500 acres), and it’s capable of producing bigmouths (largemouth bass) to big sizes. The lake, located south of Mount Vernon, isn’t stocked with trout like many area lakes, but it has resident cutthroat. Warmwater fishing is where it’s at starting in mid-spring and going through the warmer months, when the largemouths...
This nearly 400-acre Anacortes-area lake is open year-round to a wide variety of fishing opportunities, from stocked trout to resident bass and panfish. Lake Campbell has been stocked with both rainbow and cutthroat trout in the past. Recent stocking plans called for primarily plants of young cutthroat trout that grow to catchable size in the lake,...
This Skagit River tributary near Marblemount is mostly of interest for modest harvests of hatchery spring Chinook salmon in its very lowest reaches. In recent years, a couple hundred or more of the big salmon have been harvested in June and early July. The stream below the Rockport-Cascade Road Bridge (roughly a mile up from the mouth) also is open...
This large lake within easy reach of Mount Vernon and Arlington is stocked with tens of thousands of young kokanee as well as good numbers of young cutthroat trout. Both the kokanee and trout grow to pan-sized (and occasionally larger) at Lake Cavanaugh, which is more than 800 acres and open year-round. You may also catch a rainbow trout here on oc...
Clear Lake is a popular lake name in Washington. Skagit County’s version is a 220-acre lake near Sedro-Woolley with excellent access and is most enthusiastically fished for stocked trout. Recent stocking plans have called for about 6,000 catchable trout to be planted in the spring (about April), when trout fishing will be at its peak. Cutthroat tro...
Lake Erie (not THAT Lake Erie) near Anacortes isn’t much more than 100 acres but comes up really big for stocked rainbow trout. At last check, WDFW planned to stock 13,000 catchable rainbows in the seasonally open lake, which is just inland from the Puget Sound. The stocking typically occurs for the opener in late April, and springtime offers by fa...
This smallish lake near the Skagit River community of Concrete is popular with campers and nicely stocked with catchable rainbow trout each spring. The lake is open to fishing all year, but access and the trout fishing will be best after the first planting occurs, typically around March or April, and trout fishing should be excellent into May and e...
This seasonal Anacortes lake should offer pretty good odds for rainbow trout limits in the weeks after the late April opener. For being just over 60 acres, Heart Lake gets a whopping 8,000 or so catchable rainbow trout planted each spring. While trout fishing will slow down into the summer months, your chances of catching one of the lake’s resident...
Lake McMurray is a popular fishing lake, modest in size but more than makes up for it with abundant rainbow trout. The seasonal lake northwest of Arlington is loaded with some 13,000 catchable hatchery trout for its late April opener. You also can catch resident species including coastal cutthroat trout, largemouth bass, yellow perch and perhaps a ...
Analytics and data for Washington Rainbow trout fishing Where the Rainbow trout bites in Washington. Places on the map where you can catch Rainbow trout in Washington.
Black lake, Thurston County: 10,800 catchable trout. Rotary lake, Yakima County: 3150 catchable trout. Columbia Park pond, Benton county: 2012 catchable trout. There’s a myriad of techniques you can deploy to catch rainbow trout.
Late spring plants of fingerling Rainbow Trout and Kokanee typically provide good to excellent fishing the following spring for fish in the 12 to 16 inch range. Catchable sized Rainbow Trout are typically stocked as well just before the lake opens.
Rainbow trout are native to Washington State. WDFW usually stocks Mount Whitney rainbow, or triploid coastal rainbow into high lakes. Mount Whitney rainbow is used because it’s unlikely to reproduce in high lakes.
