More of the urban/wilderness experience at Green Lake! Met Pete at o'dark thirty (4:45 AM) on the south shoreline... lines in the water a bit after 5:00. Temp at outset, 57 degrees... broken clouds with a beautiful sunrise. Lake a flat calm. Could see lots of fish rising... some big splashes (aside from the Carp!). Water temp at the shoreline was 68 degrees. Began with a piece of nightcrawler under a slip float on one rig, Hatchery Nugget Power Eggs on the other (4' leader). Very slow at the beginning, didn't have a hit until 5:45, when the float dipped a couple of times, set the hook and, fish on! Reeled in a nice fat, 12" Rainbow. Nothing for the next two hours, then about 8:00, a hit and reeled in another 'Bow of about 10 1/2". (fl. orange PE). Persistent breeze had developed, making float fishing more difficult, so had changed up to PE presentation, 3' leader.
Pete hadn't had a hit, and the bite was obviously slow, so we decided to change sites, and moved to the eastern shoreline, just north of the 65th St dock. Two hours later, without a hit and his back bothering him greatly, Pete left and I continued on. About 11:00, a good hit (pink & white "Mice Tail") and reeled in my third fish, almost 13"). Twenty minutes later, reeled in my fourth, another 12" er, (fl. orange PE), then just before noon, my fifth (P & W MT).
All in all, not a spectacular day, but persistence does get rewarded in this particular sport. Was feeling "crappy" all morning due to a bad cold, but any time spent fishing will have a therapeutic effect on one's psyche, if not the body!! PTL!

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