Back again to my favorite lake. Arrived as the Ranger was opening the gate at 7am. Lines in the water about 7:30ish. Terrible morning weather wise. Rain most of the time, and worse for me, wind. No fun pedaling into the wind. Surface water temp was a bit cooler that 2 weeks ago, just under 64.

Rods loaded with my standard Lake Goodwin gear. 1 rod with 1/4 ounce lead, Mack's Double D 4in dodger in silver, and 16 in leader to a size 10 green Doc Spratley Fly. Downrigger same set up, but a pink Mack's dodger, and a size 6 green Doc Spratley. 1/4 ounce lead probably puts me 5-7 feet down. Downrigger I started and left at 10 feet.

Started in my typical spot, leave the launch, sharp left turn, fish the cove up to the buoy. 2nd pass, fish on the 1/4 ounce lead line, landed. So maybe 20 minutes fishing 1 in the boat. Nice Rainbow about 14". Kept making passes like 2 weeks ago... nothing. After 3 passes I decided to troll over to the west side of the lake. Action picked up, all off the downrigger. Landed 3 more Rainbows and 1 nice 16in Cutthroat. Took me a moment to realize it was a Cutt. First clue was his teeth gnarled up my fly. Luckily I have lots. All rainbows were 13 1/2 - 14 1/2, and the Cutt was right at 16. All meat as a nice orange. All fish loaded with insects. 2 of the rainbows had itty bitty egg skeins.

Speed today was 1.5 - 1.6. I may have even got a strike at 1.7. Unlike 2 weeks ago where it took me getting 14 fish on to land my limit of 5, today it was 5 fish on, and 5 fish landed. Maybe because most were on the size 6 instead of the size 10.

Rain got on the camera lens a little, plus the rain makes an awful sound on the camera housing.

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