No rain today. Overcast and a light northerly breeze in the morning. I flat-lined shallow, but got no bites in 3 1/2 hours. Noted 2 or 3 other trollers, including one fisherman who fishes American fairly reglarly. He fished a different part of the lake, and later reported no bites. He asked “Where are the fish?” The WDFW “Catchable Trout Plant Weekly Reports” do not mention any plants in American.

Didn’t see any fish activity on the surface, however the breeze was rippling the surface. Some cormorants were trading back and forth. Didn’t see any eagles today. The scattered sonar fish symbols were hugging the bottom. Were they rainbow or kokanee, or were they the brown bullhead catfish that WDFW says reproduce naturally in the lake?

A weak and dispursed hatch was underway. Six or eight swallows were zipping around north of Silcox, picking off a bug from the surface now and then.

The water temp mearured 48.4 on the surface, and was almost constant all the way down, measuring 47.5 at seventy feet deep. The temps, surface to bottom, have risen 2 1/2 degrees since January 6th.

For many years there had been a net pen at Bill’s Boathouse. It was not there today.

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