Greenlake Caprs

[Wadin' Boot]

Lots of surface slurpers on Green lake last night, just milling around and sucking down what seemed to be maybe algae. Fired out a couple of targeted casts with a dry. Every landing spooked up a big boil, not a take so much as a get the hell out danger avoidance move, which was kinda fun in itself. I had zero expectations of hooking anything. The refractory period between the spooking and back on the surface was relatively short, like 3 minutes or so. Normally I think of the carp as finning the surface in May, not September. Maybe it's a May September affair though....

 

[Buzzy]

Lots of surface slurpers on Green lake last night, just milling around and sucking down what seemed to be maybe algae. Fired out a couple of targeted casts with a dry. Every landing spooked up a big boil, not a take so much as a get the hell out danger avoidance move, which was kinda fun in itself. I had zero expectations of hooking anything. The refractory period between the spooking and back on the surface was relatively short, like 3 minutes or so. Normally I think of the carp as finning the surface in May, not September. Maybe it's a May September affair though....

I spent about nine years working at Priest Rapids. Often, and if memory serves, except for deep winter, I'd see carp milling around the generator intakes sucking scum, foam and other sh-- on the small vortexes that formed. They steadfastly refused a penny if I dropped one. I should have tried popcorn. Bread.

 

[Wadin' Boot]

carp milling around the generator intakes sucking scum, foam and other sh-- on the small vortexes that formed. They steadfastly refused a penny if I dropped one. I should have tried popcorn. Bread.

OK deep secret of Greenlake, first steady fall rain washes the accumulated goose and duck crap off the swimming platforms...

Turns out that's a food festival right there for certain large scaly barbel-mouthed creatures

A sort of milky white and forest green blob fly, under an indicator....

You will want to wash your hands, more than once, line etc after the excursion. Maybe look into a Zpak or some doxycycline too. It makes fishing the Duwamish Concrete plants look like some pristine mountain stream deep in the Bitterroot Wilderness. Plus now and then there's an E-bike or E-scooter in the water as well