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We arrived at 10 am to an empty parking lot. Calm lake with water like glass, a cormorant, wings spread to dry, silhouetted against the reflection of the morning sky on the water. Looked like the start of a good day of fishing solitude. But as usual another angler arrived and got his boat in the water before we had ours all set up, the disadvantage of an inflatable. Once on the water we found no fish biting for a while. South of the Girl Scout camp, we began getting bites, but they were not bass. Sure enough, we saw a few decent-sized trout buzzing our senkos. Then I got a hard hit and set the hook. After a few drag-screaming runs I worked the fish to the boat. Jayphish netted the beautiful trout, which measured 18" and weighed 2.17 pounds. We continued getting trout bites on our senkos all the way down the east side of the lake. But we were targeting bass and got no bites from them. If we had been fishing for trout we could have boated several and I would have rated this lake a 4. Jayphish had a worm in the water on the other rod all the time and not one trout went for it. He hooked a perch on the worm, that turned out to be at least 12" if not more. It escaped at the boat or we would have a pic. It was a slow day of fishing after the trout and perch, with no bites or action all the way up the west side of the lake.
Tight lines, all.

Golfindan

10/23/2016 9:28:00 PM

Tell me if that 2 pound trout didn't put up a better fight than a bass twice the size. Why people seriously fish for bass in this state where we have such excellent salmon, steelhead and trout fishing is beyond me...

Nice catch.

baiowolph

10/24/2016 9:29:00 PM

Thanks, Golfindan. Only just started bass fishing this summer (because our freezer is full of trout already) and 3 lbs is the biggest I've caught. I think of bass as trucks and trout as sports cars. There's something to be said for speed. As the water cools, trout are still fast. Except not so much for the 5 lb broodstock rainbow I caught in Carlisle Lake a couple years ago. The pond was partly covered in ice and the trout hardly put up a fight. I prefer to catch fish that have tails and fins.

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