I will be moving to the Seattle area sometime next month.

After spending a month researching it I have just about decided to make Lake Washington my new home lake. I will not know for sure until I am there and actually fishing it but it looks to be the best of the nearby freshwater lakes with the most marinas. I need a marina for my boat as it is just too hard for me to launch now.

While I will always chase crappie I am looking forward to catching native rainbow trout and walleye again. It's been 30 years since I fished for them when I lived in El Paso. I would go to New Mexico one weekend per month to fish for them.

I am looking for suggestions for marinas on Lake Washington as I need a slip for my 24' pontoon. It is just too hard for me to launch a boat now so I keep it in a slip.

I am also looking for some new fishing buddies that are familiar with Lake Washington and would enjoy going out with me to fish for crappie, rainbow trout, and walleye. I am also willing to fish for the other species on the lake occasionally but only occasionally. However, I do not fish for catfish and largemouth bass.

While I love to eat catfish they have this habit of "spineing" me when I take them off the hook so I try not to catch them. I don't like the taste of largemouth bass and the lack of manners of tournament bass fishermen turned me off from bass fishing years ago.

I'm looking forward to comments from those who fish Lake Washington (Washington, Not Mississippi. Youtube doesn't seem to understand the difference between the two) I am also looking forward to those who would be interested in going out with me on my pontoon from time to time once I arrive. It is rigged as a crappie fishing maching.