Two teams of two set out early in the morning. I was in boat two trolling crank baits with my boat buddy doing the same. We trolled mostly the south end of the lake after a few runs around the north end. We wound up with four good looking rainbows and one monster perch. The guys in the other boat were trolling wedding rings and spinners and had ree trout on in no time. Good fun had lots of fish spit the hook and went home with two 13 ouncers and two 10 ouncers. The perch weighed in at about 9 ounces!

Wow... what fun with 10-12" bows using black wooley bugger trolled on a light fly rod... bigger fish at the southeast end for sure, but fish everywhere! Kept 3, released a ton... a surprise for this lake!

Another great day on the water at Desire. Took a good buddy out to catch some fish around 1:30pm or so and got off the water by 3:00 pm. We trolled slowly with flatfish and brought 6 rainbows in the boat, with another 3-4 breaking off while trying to reel them in. Biggest fish were a couple of 12", still waiting to land the 14" plus lunkers out here. Coming back tomorrow.

Fishing was good to me today. Though the weather was nasty for this time of the year, I had my limit in a little over an hour. One of which actually snapped my line about 10 feet from the dock. Looked to be at least 16". The size range caught was from 10' to 14+". All of the guys on the dock were getting hits. Barely could get my gear setup before I got a bit. Best day I have had all season.

Got onto the water at 6:15 am, nice overcast conditions but the air temp had to be in the low 40's... glad I brought a beanie and warm jacket. Trolled for a solid 2 hours and snagged a couple decent rainbows (11"-12") within the first hour. Mainly using an F-5 flatfish and letting out plenty of line to try and get deep to find the lunkers. The second hour was rather uneventful with one fish getting hooked but lost on the retrieval and only a couple of nibbles besides that. Both fish returned to get caught again. Got off the water around 8:15 or so and by that time the parking lot was getting pretty full. I saw maybe 4-5 boats on the water and around 6 guys fishing off the dock. Oddly, I only saw maybe 1 or 2 risers... not sure if it was too early or if the conditions made a difference.