Normally I would not post a report for a ho hum lake day catching ho hum trout. It’s winter though and some folks aren’t able to get out so I thought I’d share.
Piss poor salt reports from @Stonedfish and @Kfish yesterday, plus the big slack tide at daybreak sent me to a local western Washington lake this morning. Overall, chilly, heavy rain, pretty slow morning. Four coastal cuts to hand. I was the only guy fishing. Probably fairly recent stockers but still really pretty coloration.
They all took a small white bugger, retrieved very slowly on a type 3/5 line. Except for one, all were taken towards the end of the retrieve so fairly deep. Saw a little bit of activity near the surface. May have been able to do a little better if I tried fishing chironomids but I am pretty new to still water fishing and have not figured that out quite yet.
Piss poor salt reports from @Stonedfish and @Kfish yesterday, plus the big slack tide at daybreak sent me to a local western Washington lake this morning. Overall, chilly, heavy rain, pretty slow morning. Four coastal cuts to hand. I was the only guy fishing. Probably fairly recent stockers but still really pretty coloration.
They all took a small white bugger, retrieved very slowly on a type 3/5 line. Except for one, all were taken towards the end of the retrieve so fairly deep. Saw a little bit of activity near the surface. May have been able to do a little better if I tried fishing chironomids but I am pretty new to still water fishing and have not figured that out quite yet.
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