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Sunday and a few hours to kill so we hitched up the tub and headed for Lake Stevens. There was another rowing regatta so we had to drive around the lake and part with another 7 bucks to launch on the other side again. As before there was no solid indication that the kokanee were organized enough to go on the bite and the water temperature had dropped to 48.3 degrees so we headed for the flats to fish for trout before trying our luck with the kokanee. We started in 10’ of water and trolled a gold Rapala type stick bait on one side of the boat and a blue/orange Rapala on the other. Both were run at 25 pulls and consistent with other trips we I was trolling a gentle “S” pattern covering water various depths to about 12’. We were seeing very few marks on the side imaging set at 90’ range but we did see 1 suspended fish so I made a sharp course adjustment and just when I figured the fish was not interested one of the rods doubles over and there was some serious line peeling off the reel. 10 minutes and multiple jumps later I slide the net under a sleek trout Lake Stevens trout. Shortly thereafter we head for deeper water in search of the elusive kokanee.
We should have stuck with the trout fishing. Fishing 4 rods and running a variety of swing blades and dodgers followed by an assortment of kokanee flies, spinners, hoochies, spin-n-glows and everything else in the boat we came up empty. While fishing for the kokanee all lures were tipped with scented corn or Gulp Maggots. We were running one lead line rig at 1 color, one flat line rig at about 20 pulls and two off the riggers running at various depths. I chased meter marks with the riggers and was running them at 6’ to about 38’. We had one hit on the lead line rig towing a 50/50 dodger/custom tied red spinner but it broke us off before we had a chance to see it. Although there was no magic trolling speed today, like always when trolling for Lake Stevens kokanee I stuck with 1.4 mph. We only fished kokanee for an hour or so and then watched the regatta for a bit before heading for the ramp. Although it started out breezy and chilly the sun finally made an appearance and it was a great morning on the lake.
Question; when they are hosting the regatta why don’t they make the Wyatt ramp free to rigs with the WDFW parking pass? I wonder if the regatta organizers have a stack of the passes or otherwise have to pay for the use of the ramp and facilities. I know I am whining but I got a 44 dollar parking ticket in Seattle last night, I had miss read the parking meter and thought that I paid for three hours of parking but in reality I only paid through 3:00. Then this morning I had to pay 7 bucks to use the launch even though I have a perfectly good WDFW parking pass.
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