I got on the water about 9:30am and it took about 10 or 15 minutes to get my first trout. I left around 5. I tried all the spinners from the swap. I found the spinners weren’t very productive today. I did catch a kokanee with mine on the downrigger. I have an issue with the clip not releasing. I saw the rod start to bounce a little and the fish was there.
I caught so many fish I truly don’t know how many but I believe it is close to 50. When I was younger and could remember better I fished Silver Lake and I caught 40. I used the same strategy that I used today. Flies.
I used flies (mostly olive wooly buggers) trolled with just the swivel or a small split shot weight from my ultra light spinning outfit with 4 pound test mono main line and 2 or 4 pound test leader.
I have the 2 rod endorsement and I must have had 4 or 5 doubles on. Or I would slow the boat down to get one fish in and then the other rod would have a fish. I went through 5 flies. 2 fish still have my flies because I didn’t think to change the leader after so many fish and the leader broke. The others were just worn out. It was an amazing day. I released all but 3. I kept the kokanee and the 2 largest rainbows of which one was about 15.25 inches and over a pound.