Started at 9:30 am from the boy scouts end with a few other boats on the water. I found last week that a green woolly bugger tied with a Matquasdurg Quasar Dubbing (It looks lite oliver with a gold flash) body to really be the fly of choice. This was with a silver scale smile blade in front of the fly on a 6 pound leader. This weeks twist was that the really productive presentation was a slow troll using a sinking tip line. The fish where not interested in the full sink presentation even though the fish finder showed the fish down low. The other challenge was to keep them on the hook. Lost three in a row, I don't use a barbless hook so that wasn't the problem. It turned out that keeping the fish in the water all the way to the boat, putting my pole tip under the surface than playing them into my net which I also put under the surface, solved the problem of losing fish. I had my limit on the fish chain by 1:30, would have been sooner if it wasn't for losings so many.

Bottom line fish on

Don

Launched from the boys scouts end of the lake with a 2nd part of a little experiment in mind. Some history for the reader, I usually use power bait, floating off the bottom. I tie up on the Western most float in front of the boy scouts swimming area and work the area with great success. From opening until early June, sun or rain I'm usually there most weeks in my little beat up 12 foot boat, I limit out on all outings.
I read Uncle Wes's book for fishing the Western Washington Lakes and decided to try "Blue Collar Flyfishing". Last Friday I trolled with a #8 green and black woolly bugger, with really good success. Found that the area along the boys scouts cabins to be extremely productive. I have the two pole endorsement so the green woolly bugger stayed on one pole and experimented with different colors, depths, on the other. It took some time but eventually I had 5 fish in the boat and went home. In case your wondering, the green woolly bugger, down deep, worked the best.
Sunday afternoons experiment was the introduction of the" Smile Blade". I added a silver blade in front of the already proven green woolly bugger, man what a difference. I started with both poles rigged the same, line weight, leader length, fly size and color, the difference being one had the Smile Blade, one did not. The Blade spinning side caught fish the other did not.
Moral of the story, don't be afraid to try new rigs, even if you have something that works.
Bottom line.................limited out in two hours.

Went fishing with friends to a long time to catch the fish but it was fun. i used power eggs and a size 6 hook with a 3 ft leiter was good but fishing picked up around 7 pm fun day wish i catch more fish caught 3 rainbows that are 16in. as biggest.

Hit the water around 830, right before the sun hit the lake and there was a nice fog on the surface. Anchored up in 28 feet of water @ my favorite spot and fished off the bottom with pink/orange (sherbet) powerbait. I caught 2 nice 13" Rainbows, my brother caught 1 and my girlfriend caught a smaller, 8" one which was released healthy, all in about 2.5 hours. Great weather.

Caught 3 - 13" Rainbows off the bottom with power bait and released one of them. Trolled back to the dock and landed another one on a black woolly bugger on top. Didn't have much luck on Tuesday but the girlfriend caught 1 trolling a small dick nite sized White and orange miracle lure on top. The fish seem to be fattening up nicely.