It may be a little early. I myself have had pretty good success after plants, usually a week after in the past. Was there any surface action? Many times the trout will be in the upper water column, but the depth right there is about 20-25'. I like to float a crawler on one line and Power egg (rainbow, chartreuse) colors and a chunk of worm on the 2nd pole. I use a 5-6 4# leader. If the surface action is evident a fly and bubble setup works well. Olive Woolly Bugger is my favorite. Fishing is fun, but catching is everything especially for your daughter. Don't give up! Tight lines!

Well its good to hear I'm not the only one not catching any fish this year. I've been out 3 times on Green Lake and out on Ballinger today with out so much as one hit. Normally after planting I can get at least a couple if not double digits catch and release. I see a little bit of surface action but no luck trolling small spinners or Kast Masters yet. I think the water is just too cold yet.

Thanks for the thoughts guys. I have not seen any surface action, no. According to my charts of Green Lake, the West Bank is between 5 and 10 feet deep, but next time, maybe I will put a night crawler on a bobber to cover the upper water column too, as suggested by TBear_fishin. I'm using 8 pound flouro carbon, I guess I could step down to 4 or 6 pound, but I doubt that is making the difference.

Seattlee... Has been a strange Spring. I fished Silver Lake earlier this week and was able to pick up one Rainbow in a morning's fishing. Saw two other fish caught by more than twenty other fishermen. What I did see, was a flock of at least 150 Cormorants fishing the lake, and witnessed at least 50 to 60 Rainbows devoured by these birds, right out in front of me. Doesn't take a mathematical genius to conclude that if these birds are consuming that many fish every day, 5,000 fish doesn't leave many for the fisherman. Green Lake is notorious for huge flocks of Cormorants in the earl Spring. I would suggest that the same thing is happening there. When the Cormorants feed like that, they disperse the trout and keep the fish from a normal feeding pattern. My faith in the WDFW to make sensible decisions is at an all-time low. All the WDFW is accomplishing, is to maintain a well-fed super abundance of Cormorants that pillage our lowland lakes. Wasting all all license fees to feed birds. By mid-spring, there will be no fish left in our lakes to fish for! If the WDFW were to wait another month before planting the fish, the Cormorants would be at their nesting sites in the Sound and would leave the lakes alone.

small dicknite (half gold and half silver) spoon, 100ft behind the boat, flat line, troll at a snails pase along the shoreline 15-20ft of water.