Hunting Washington Forum
Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: Parasite on May 19, 2020, 11:03:49 PM
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Hey guys, when do the bluegills spawn in this state? Also, any lakes within 45 minutes of Olympia I can go after them? I need some flyrod practice.
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This month is the time. Most of my experience is from eastside lakes though. I have caught bluegills in Sammamish along with crappie and perch. The pic is from the wdfw site. There is a list of statewide lakes for bluegills.
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Thanks! I really need to spend more time on the wdfw website. There's more information on there than I expected.
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Just about all the lakes in Thurston County that I can think of have them other than Capitol and maybe Offut and Summit. Macintosh, Hicks, Pattison, Munn, Chambers, Black should all have them plus some crappie in a few of those lakes too.
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And spawning is probably a couple weeks to a month away. Bass will finish first then the gills and bullheads give it a go. Bass are 60's to mid 70's. Gills will want that Mid 70 and up I believe.
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This month is the time. Most of my experience is from eastside lakes though. I have caught bluegills in Sammamish along with crappie and perch. The pic is from the wdfw site. There is a list of statewide lakes for bluegills.
I have fished Franklin Roosevelt Lake in Stevens County for 25 years and have never seen a bluegill.
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Buckcanyon pretty scary the wdfw can't tell the difference between pumpkin seed, and bluegill growing up on Rosie myself fishing at least 3 times a week for 20 years minimum never seen one either. Have you seen any of the snapping turtles, because they are in there.
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Lake Roosevelt has bluegill? I've caught trout, salmon, baby sturgeon, pikeminnow, pike, whitefish, walleye, smallmouth, perch, burbot, carp and even a crappie. Never even heard of there being bluegill
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There are no bluegill in Roosevelt, there is quite a few crappie in there though.
