Well, consider this a fresh report from on the water, with eyes on the bottom so to speak.
This is very unkown little lake located behind Shoreline Community College. I have walked to it many times, and always wanted to fish it. You would expect it not to have a sustaining population of fish probably. However there is a recently placed sign (within the last 9 months maybe) which says the lake has become a place where a community group is re-introducing salmon into this lake. In the 1920's the lake was a prvately owned fishing pond held by William Boeing.
There is an inlet from Boeing Creek, and it flows out to Puget Sound. The sign states that fish should be released. No problem with that.
I went in on my float tube. The lake is extremely clean and clear. Most of it is about 6' deep. The far end near the outlet might be 8-9'. It has the cleanest silt/sand bottom. One problem I see for fish is that there is literally no structure in this very clear/shallow lake. The end near the outflow does have a tree down under the water, also this area is under shady trees. I could see into the downed tree limbs, and saw no fish. The far west side has one down tree also... no fish seen under that tree either.
The rest of the lake has entirely clean sand bottom, with a total of 2 pop cans in the entire lake. I trolled a wooly bugger, and threw a silver kastmaster. Saw no fish at all, nor any bites.
It will be interesting to watch and see if this community group I spoke of does in fact introduce salmon/trout or whatever. If they do... of course I won't be able to report this back to anyone. (-:

urbanangler

5/12/2010 9:35:00 PM

nice exploration

MotoBoat

5/13/2010 9:33:00 AM

Does the little lake/pond look like it could be a gem? I read there are two downed or drowned trees for fish to seek cover. Inlet and outlet for constant movement and flushing of water, not to mention cold water options for fish when outside temperature's rise . Sounds kind of sterile. Did you by chance notice any bug hatches when there?

The Quadfather

5/13/2010 11:58:00 AM

Motoboat..
Yeah, it does look like a gem in that it is so clean, and it has incoming flow and outgoing. Like I said, I did see the two trees, but beyond that there is absolutely no cover. I mean no weeds on the bottom or anything. I read the introduced 200 silvers in there a few years ago, but had a huge rain fall 1 or 2 years ago which overwhelmed the pond with run off. The outlet drain is kind of weird.... it doesn't just flow out into a stream.... at the outlet end of the pond there is a 6' diameter circle. When the water rises enough to reach the top of the circle, then it spill over in to this chute, and out to Puget Sound about a 1/3 miles down hill. If there was a large rush of rain run off I could see the added fish being swept over the chute/hole and down the drain they go! I did not witness any hatches.

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