Well, there are quite a few good lakes for trout fishing. Give me an email and I'll give you the rundown on a few. There are a couple yearround lakes that produce some nice trout. You said you were mostly doing bait in a previous post, so the Morning Hatch may be out of your league. It's a good shop, but for fly fishing.

I'd also be very wary about going to some of the "local" sporting good shops around us (I'm from Tacoma also). You get more bad info then you will good info. I have seen WAY too many times customers being sold gear that was not needed for fishing they were doing. Then the rivers and slots they were told to fish were wrong.

As I said, give me an email. I can help you with what you'll need and where to go. I'm up in Brown's Point, so if all else fails we could hookup and I can show you what you need.

Good luck.

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