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Fishing solo today I headed for Lake Stevens and had the boat in the water by 7:00. My initial stop was out on the ledge out in front of the cove. The AM water temperature was floating between 48.7 and 49.4 degrees rising to 52.3 in the afternoon and there was an occasional flurry of jumping fish. Unfortunately the jumping fish were not biting fish but all was not lost. Knowing there were roving schools of kokanee I tuned up my Side Imaging and went looking for the kokanee. The SI was very effective at locating the schools of kokanee and when I had the SI sensitivity on a higher setting I was even able to identify a number of what I think were clouds of plankton blooms. Cool technology but it didn’t make the kokanee want to come out and play so I went looking for trout.
The trout fishing was, fishing… I had 3 solid bites but didn’t put anything in the box. I was pulling a variety of Rapala type stick baits on one rod and a smiley blade worm harness with a baby crawler on the other rod. The stick bait got two hits and the trussed up crawler got the other. I was running the stick bait at 25 pulls and the crawler 50 feet behind the downrigger clip at 6-12’. Trolling an exaggerated “S” pattern I had the SI range set at 120’ either side so I saw a lot of water on the meter. It was a desert out there today. I fished for trout in water depths from 8’ to about 30 but never found any marks that I would say for sure were trout. I did see a couple schools of what I assume were perch but no takers.
Whether trout or kokanee, I threw the box at them today and could not establish a pattern or locate any consistent fishing. The weather was spectacular and I bumped in to a fishing buddy so we swapped stories while trolling alongside each other for an hour or so. All in all, making for a great day on the water.
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