I saw 2 boats on the lake and they were catching nice fish close to renton does anybody know what they are useing? I tried to talk to one of the guys out there and I know he heard me his motor was off and I was probably 50-75ft from him and he just stared back at me and smiled

You can use whatever you normally use for trout. I like to use a frog colored Flatfish right on the surface. I pulled a three lb'er out of the north end of Poverty Rock back in January.

thanks man tried that and I think I tried every other color to the onlything I didn't have was metal pop gear and worms I used the mylar pop gear the smallest hot shots several flat fish down riggers, no downriggers if I don't go after springers this weekend forward my mail to lk wash

ive noticed that spoons tend to take larger trout when im trolling. triple teasers are my personal favorite. i prefer silver or bronze for flash, depending on visibility and depth. im sure other colors would work fine as long as you get in front of the fish you should do alright. you can tip your spoons with bait or foam scent balls if you like, but just make sure it doesnt kill the action of the lure, a little can go a long way.

Thanks for sharing your info I have never had problems trolling for trout or salmon or bass I saw of fish out there in 40ft of water trolled everything threw them except a netI had binoculars and these looked like they were useing metal popgear and a plug couldn't quite see the plug and some other guys looked like they were useing the gear and a wedding ring

Check out this healthy 'bow from Lake Washington.
http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/cgi-bin/pursuits/uploader.pl?action=view&epoch=1015527295

Carl, nice fish!!

thats an awsome fish man but the ones I saw these guys catching out there last weekend were twice maybe three times the size I saw one of the guys dragging his stringer and it looked like sockeye they one guy that would'nt talk was using metal pop gear and some sort of plug two guys in another boat were useing the gear and weddingrings and they weren't doing as good as the other guy but they were getting them these fish were huge I'll be out there all weekend

are lake washington cutts sea-run or are they residents?

I pretty sure they are resident rainbows we caught a few of them sockeye fishing in the same area but I have never really fished this lake for trout

well I made it out there this morning I was marking fish from 15 to 35 feet of water trolled pop gear with everything and jus ran a straight plain flat fish and got skunked until I went to a private lake and my partner got a nice 20" spawning rainbow and we let it go and we culd see that it wasn't gonna make it we were about to go and get and a bald eagle came and got maybe 30ft from us man that was really cool you could hear the wind over his wings... oh yeah I still got skunked

Scrawny-

Check this link. I've been meaning to try some of this stuff. Sounds pretty cool.

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Tight lines,

Rockfish,
Both. Sea-runs come in through the locks and the fish-passage facilities there. At the same time, there are quite a few big resident cutts. The lake has a population of long-fin smelt that, along with the smaller kokanee and other forage species, provide ample food resources for large cutthroat (and rainbows).

thanks for the info PS, got into an internet arguement over it on another website. Ben