I arrived at silver lake at about 10am on the west side park. I fished the first dock to the left of the lifeguard stand. I first tried plunking power bait in shallow water about 50' from shore, after 20 min with no bite, I moved and casted into deeper water, same set up; 2ft lead 1/2oz casting weight free sliding above a pegged trout bead, size 6 octopus hook. I used rainbow powerbait. my other rod had virtually the same set up, but the lead length was 3'. about 5 minutes after casting both set ups into deeper water, it was on. bite after bite every 2-5 minutes I had bites, and nearly had doubles twice, got hits while I was reeling one in, . I caught my 5, which all swallowed the hook severely and were retained. I left the lake at 11:30

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