My goal today was to see if I could get any browns interested. The answer was no, but I did get a lot of interest from recently stocked rainbows. I also went to Cranberry specifically because I did not want to filter though planted rainbows. WDFW site doesn't show a stocking yet, so it must have been in the past day or so. Oh well. Today I also wanted to try out a few of the Elgin Fishing God's Tooth spoons.

I ran one line with a frog pattern God's Tooth, and the other line a olive woolly bugger. Not much on either line going on. I did some playing around for some time and the eventual pattern that worked was the God's Tooth in Brown Trout with about 1/4 ounce of lead on it to get me down about 4-5 feet. Frog Pattern did work as well with the same set up. There was just so much wind this day that I think the weight was needed to get under all of the chop on the surface.

It was a horrible day to pedal a kayak. Most of the time is was a steady 15 mph, with much stronger gusts. Fishing was good considering all of the wind. At times it was hard to keep 1mph, other times I am drifting at 2.5mph.

I've used the God's Tooth spoons on Kokanee and found them to be my best performer. My first time trying them on trout, and on a real windy, choppy day, I think they did well. They outperformed the woolly bugger which I probably stubbornly kept on my line too long. In all, maybe 15 fish I caught, quite a few hits and misses and some get-offs. I did wind up keeping 5 and had a trout fry for dinner.

Video of a few of the fish today.

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