If you're the type of angler that looks at Spring NOT as the season of birth and renewal, but instead, as the time of year when your favorite fishing holes become infested with those darn "Fair-weather" fishermen trying their hardest to give you a new piercing via errant back casts.... Well, then you would have loved Lone Lake yesterday. Cloudy, cold, wet and wind blowing gusts hard enough that ol' Bill C. would call it, "Just plain delightful" ... oh, and hungry fish to boot!
In the afternoon, there weren’t more than 5 people floating the lake, and one of them, a very friendly Australian transplant, was just doing laps in his red sea kayak. (If you see this guy paddling and have any questions about kayaking the Puget Sound, I recommend stopping him to ask him about his adventures. He's a very interesting and knowledgeable fellow... but back to the fish...)

I was out yesterday doing a little reconnaissance before a trip this weekend with some buddies, and hoping to find the right combo of fly and technique so that I might properly out-fish my friends. (I'm not competitive; it's just that I don't like to loose...) I found the hungriest fish at about 4-6 feet in and around the area of the lake that is 10 ft at it's deepest. (look at the topo-map at the bottom of the page) Dark, unweighted flies on a medium sink-tip line got me to where I needed to be. If I tell you any more, I’d take the fun out of it for you.
One last thing; The fish I did land were about medium feisty... I believe that once the water temp adds a few more degrees, there'll be some great "Catchin" to add to the always perfect "Fishin!"

Fish on.

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