Margaret Lake, WA

My buddy Dalton was raised in the city of Duvall east of Bellevue, Washington. The cool thing about the area between the Sammamish Plateau and the Cascades is there is a valley that offers numerous rivers and lakes to fish. This particular day started with Dalton and I fishing on the Skykomish River. I have forgot to mention where I have fished. There are numerous places, but popular spots of mine are right out of the East side of Monroe, the mouth of the Sultan River near Sultan, near the corrections facility, and haven't tried yet but looks good by high bridge (this is where the Snoqualmie and Skykomish meet). Anyways, Dalton and I took a break from fishing and went back to his house in Duvall where we loaded up a small duck hunting boat that we could go fish the local lakes. We headed up to Lake Margaret which is located Northeast of Duvall. The shore of the lake is private except for the small public fishing area where you can launch your watercraft. Getting in the boat at first we had no luck. Finally getting the fish finder to work we discovered the fish were way deep with the warm weather we had been having. I was able to hook into on nice rainbow eventually on the woolly bugger. Most the time we were skooting around with no real luck; a few bites here and there. What I learned was that the deepest part of the lake we found was about 40' deep a ways off from the private beach they have for the locals. Most of the fish were hanging out between 22' and 30' of water in the deeper parts of the lake. Dalton has told me that trolling power bait or spoons work well. It was late in the season and a majority of the fish had been caught and the rest were deep. There seamed to be a good population fish still.

Summary:
Location: Lake Margaret, near Duvall, WA
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Rod: 5 wt w/ sinking tip
Tackle: 8 black woolly bugger with a  14 sand shrimp yellow dropper;  wine/brown/green woolly bugger, and emergers.
Fish: 1
Species: Rainbow
Biggest Fish: 13"
Smallest Fish: N/A
Rating: 7/10

 Getting in the Water

 Nice Planted Rainbow