Decided to go out to Williams on Saturday.

Loaded in at around 7:00 am. There were quite a few boats on the water fishing and recreating. I worked my way from the public launch along the weed line along the SE bank.

Air Temp: 53° Water Temp: 61° (Surface) and 55° at fifteen feet. Breeze turning to strong breeze later in the day from the SW.

After about 30 minutes without any action I changed to a Stayner Ducktail. I began to catch fish immediately with the Stayner. Over the next hour or so I landed 7 fish including one 22" hog Rainbow and 2 nice 16" Cutthroats.

A pretty strong hatch of large mayflies came on about 9:00 am and I changed to a size 14 brown Teeny nymph under a indicator. That worked pretty well for the next hour with another 5 fish hooked and 4 landed (including a 14" Tiger Trout!).

The wind came up and the indicator stopped working so I changed to a Six Pack after seeing a few damsel flies moving around. I worked the Six Pack along the weed line on my way back to the launch and landed 3 more (all Rainbows).

All in all a pretty good day dodging trollers and jet skies at Williams

Tight Lines!

naskarbo

6/15/2009 7:13:00 AM

I grew up fishing at williams and loved it there. Then some time in the 80's they closed the lake for a year or 2 and that was the last time I was there. 20 some odd years later my step-daughter and her boyfriend wanted to go fishing. I hadnt fished in Washington for that 20 some odd years, fished in idaho and montana. So I got my license and took them to the only lake I knew in the area, Williams. A lot has changed but a lot hasnt either. I took them to Bunkers and fished off the dock. We had a blast!! We caught 13 fish which among them was a nice 13-14 inches. People around us were catching one here and one there but we were reeling them in left and right with good old worm-corn combo a foot or two off the bottom. Williams lake has now got me hooked back into fishing Washington lakes!!

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