Sprague Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Cutthroat Trout

Target species: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout, Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Black Crappie
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Sprague Lake, 1 lane.

The lake

Sprague Lake covers 1,797 acres in Washington, across 2 counties: Adams and Lincoln. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 15 feet (4.6 m). Our records hold 14 species for this water.

7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass

  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
  • Cutthroat Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.

Also recorded here: Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Green Sunfish, Redfin Pickerel, Pumpkinseed, Brown Bullhead, Common Carp.

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Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 15 ft (4.6 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 107 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–2 ft: 5.7% of the water
  • 2–4 ft: 6.9% of the water
  • 4–6 ft: 10.1% of the water
  • 6–7 ft: 6% of the water
  • 7–8 ft: 5% of the water
  • 8–9 ft: 5.7% of the water
  • 9–10 ft: 7.6% of the water
  • 10–11 ft: 6% of the water
  • 11–13 ft: 8.3% of the water
  • 13–15 ft: 38.7% of the water

Stocking: 9,009,806 fish, 1996–2026

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife records list 9,009,806 fish released into this water from 1996 to 2026.

  • Walleye: 545,617 in 1995–1999
  • Black Crappie: 184,025 in 2008–2010
  • Bluegill: 79,094 in 2008
  • Channel Catfish: 57,583 in 1997–2026
  • Largemouth Bass: 8,353 in 2008

3 more species on the stocking list.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Sprague Lake — 1 lane, restrooms. WDFW. website wdfw.wa.gov/places-to-go/water-access-sites/30904

The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

What is hard here

Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Washington State Department of Ecology — Washington State Department of Ecology: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
  • Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.