Late season fishing on the pond has been good. It's a time of year I look forward to each year. Outings have been productive and each time on the water we see big fish come into the boat. And, that's why missing two weekends ago was so tough. The lake let us know who's boss by whipping up some steep seas and forcing the National Weather Service to issue a small craft advisory. No point in beating up the boat and risking our lives in that. So, the boat sat in dry dock and got a good weekend's worth of waxing and cleaning. That needs to get done, too. A clean boat is a happy boat and happy boats catch fish... it's good fishing karma.
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| Deep water king in the low teens. |
This past weekend the weather cooperated and fishing was decent. Two anglers managed to catch 6 wild lake trout between 23 and 33 inches. There was even a double-header on lakers. A couple nice wild kings up to 32 inches were also boated. No humpies were caught as most of them are in the rivers spawning. Cohos and steelhead have had a lack-luster showing this fall; but, reports were good earlier in the year.
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| Double-header... 24" and 33" wild lakers. |
The weather on Saturday was brisk. Air temperatures started out in the upper 30's and peaked just shy of 50 degrees F. Strong winds blew out of the north making boat control challenging in a strong broadside wind. Recreational trollers that didn't keep their bows in blew off trolling runs and hosed up other boats. With the strong offshore wind comes nearshore upwellings... and one was beginning to set up along the coast. Surface temperatures dipped a couple degrees closer to shore where the upwelling was developing. A one mile per hour lake current had lures dancing. But, the fish didn't like the nearshore upwelling much and moved offshore suspending deep off the first big drop-off. Not many boats figured that pattern out Saturday. Some of the fish boated were stuffed with lake herring, which was great to see.
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| 33-incher. C&R |
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| 31-incher. C&R |
