Spent the morning with an old friend from Blaine trying to catch rainbows but with little success. We used power baits and live worms and an occasional lure tossed toward shore. We caught 2 small largemouths and released them. Took a break around 1pm to stretch legs and decided to do some trolling in center of lake. We decided to fish for another two hours and call it quits. I jokingly told my friend that lunar tables stated that best time to fish was between 1:30 - 3:30pm. We took a path straight across the lake from the launch area. At 1:35pm my friend landed a 12" rainbow on a small silver spoon. Not thinking we would catch anymore fish, we released it. I kept using my small silver spinner. We came to other end of lake and turned around to go back up center of lake. At 1:50pm, my friend landed his second rainbow (@10 inches) in the area of first fish. Made another pass over area and at 2:10pm my friend landed his 3rd rainbow (another 12"er) and asked me to PLEASE switch lures and try a silver spoon. Reluctantly, I switched lures. On next pass over area at 2:20pm I landed my first rainbow (@ 10 inches), and at 2:35pm my friend landed his fourth rainbow. No more bites within the next 30 minutes so we decided to call it a day.
Spent the evening drinking beers and talking about how my friend thought it was his silver spoon that attracted the fish and I professing that it was the lunar tables that made catching the fish possible. As good friends, neither of us would admit that it was probably the combination of both things that made for a fun day of fishing.

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