Finally got a chance to hit one of my favorite Western Washington lakes today! Launched at 9am, after taking my daughter to school, and decided to stay all day. Water temps in the north end were 59-61 degrees and as you went down by Geneva Point it dropped to 56-57*. Wind started calm and reached maybe 6mph by the end of the day. The sun was out to start and the day would see a couple sprinkles and building clouds. I fished all my favorite spots in the north end starting right next to the launch in "stump alley". Threw a chart/wht spinnerbait and burned it through the shallows past logs to see how agressive the fish were? That was a bust so I switched to a green grub on a 3/8oz jig head and fished that for about 30 minutes from 5-25 feet around pilings, didn't even get a nibble. Headed north and noticed a HUGE school of some type of small silver minnows jumping all over the place out in the main lake, this made me switch up my crankbait colors and tie on a lipless crankbait in green and silver. Fished out in front of the swim area for a bit with a crawdad colored diving crankbait, nada, but had 2 follows on the spinnerbait by the pilings in the northwest corner of the swim area. I switched to the lipless crankbait around the docks as I started to head east...2nd cast and caught the fish in the only pic of the day (forgot to charge my phone) she was a very fat 3.5lbs and spit up guess what? minnows! Caught 3 more in the next 100 yards of fishing, a dink, a 1.5lber and another at 2.5lbs. Had a bass boat coming at me fishing the same area, so I ran back south and fished the west shore down to the rock hump. Caught 3 more in this short jaunt before passing another basser in the same area. Fired up and headed east to the shallows were the spawners concentrate and there were definately fish on beds. I fished the shallower pilings and picked up a couple more in the 3.5lb range and a dink. Tried Geneva Point, but couldn't find a fish on anything from a drop shot to a spinnerbait.

I did catch a couple on a texas rigged lizard in shallow water near rocks, these very well could have been spawners as I had one smallie jump off a bed earlier in the day and short strike my spinnerbait I was burning just under the surface...gotta love smallies! and good sunglasses!!

By the end of my day, about 4:30pm, I had boated 17 smallies in sizes from 1lb-3.9lbs definately worth the drive as usual, fishing should even pick up once the spawn runs it's course!

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