Saw a lot, but not really going after much. My buddy had one follow up and that was it for the day. Still it was a nice day on the lake.

Went shore fishing at Ike Kinswa State Park small sandbar area. Not an experienced angler I used an 8ft rod with 15lb line and 10lb leader, swivel sinkers with Power eggs. My first cast hooked what looked like a muskie. (so much for the "fish of a thousand casts"). It was 11" so it was released. then we immediately hooked on to a 12" rainbow trout. We also lost what seemed to be a big one. The rest of the morning was quiet other than snagging on either rock or stumps.

Any suggestions as to how I can fish from shore and be more successful is welcome.

Took a couple of friends fishing for tigers hoping to get at least one of them on a fish.They were looking for their 1st's. Did a little better than that. Put a 35,36.5 and a 38.5 in the ol'frabill. Not only did I get them their 1st but a 2nd and 3rd..whoohoo for them! I missed a good fish with several head shakes. Today was all about them. Great day on the water. An honor to be able to net their fish. Water temps 56-59 degrees. Fish hit hard and all away from the boat. Head shakers and weed divers awesome day!

Fished with my boy today. Beautiful day. Great morning cool and calm. Saw a bunch of fish. A few followers but nothing in the frabill today. Bummer but a great day to fish with the little boy again. Ha! Not so little anymore. Water temp was 65. No fish moving. Water was kinda dingy. Must be the "spring turnover".. copper corn was the hot bait today..lol Later guys

We camped at Tacoma Power's Mayfield Park, choosing a site that allowed us to put the boat right next to the campsite. We had had a great evening the night before with a good dinner and beautiful sunset. The morning brought us a surprise: the lake really does drop two to four feet! We had received notification that this was a possibility but decided that we'd be OK. Wrong. Dan woke up about six and told me not to bother getting up because the boat was sitting high and dry. A little hard to get back to sleep, so I got up and inspected what was obvious from the pop-up trailer. The short version of this was that we noticed that the level was slowly rising (good news!). We had breakfast and played cards until about noon, when the water level was back up enough to muscle the boat back onto the lake. After lunch we motored back down to the boat launch and started fishing down towards the bridge. We no sooner had started then Dave had one on. A nice 14" rainbow with healed adipose. We continued towards the bridge just a short ways and Dave caught another rainbow (11"). He wanted to head back to where he had caught the larger one (very close to the boat launch) and so we did. Nothing. We trolled back and forth in that area for awhile longer and decided to go try Riffe.