Those schooling at the surface and flipping around a good bit ! were prob. rainbows . is the trout fishing good there in the winter? I know the kokanee was off the hook this summer thanks !

The kokes are on the surface at Lake Washington, you can see them jumping all over the place. With the water surface temps below 60 degrees, nothing is stopping them from roaming the entire water column in search of food. They will be wherever the plankton can be found and this time of year it will be close to the surface to get as much of the remaining sunlight as possible. When the water temps plummet into the 40's that's when they will head back down again. Where you running anything in front of the wedding ring like a dodger?

I was running a Seps kokanee pro-troll in front of it. My buddy was running some other type of flasher. Also, I forgot this earlier, but while I was cutting the gills of the rainbow, I got hit by something huge (probably another rainbow) on the downrigger line, the wind was moving me fast enough that it was still active. Anyways, it popped off the DR and took off, started to move my yak, but by the time I could get to my pole, it was too late. I felt a couple could head jerks and it was gone :-\ Snake, the trout fishing is always spotty at AL, but if you're loud, it's non-existant. I do decent, and fly fisherman do really well (my trout was full of bugs) guys drinking and making noise generally go home empty handed, or with a few dumb planter trout.

HEY MAN...some of us can drink without get"n loud

Yeah I know, I'm one of those. But nobody should operate a boat while drinking.

LOLOLOLOLOL YEA I SUPPOSE YOUR RIGHT ......PFFFTTTTTTTT......ME THOUGH IM LIKE THIS ALL GROWN UP ADULT PERSON WHO CAN HAVE A COUPLE BEERS ON THE BOAT AND NOT BE A DRUNK'N IDIOT