Went around with my fish finder looking for a lost school of something. I marked quite a bit on the screen that I feel should have been fish, but mostly I hauled up a bunch of weeds. So maybe I'm a bit slow. With my cellphone dying and the day starting to fade I gave up on the worms. I was fishing a standard perch rig with pink beads and half a nightcrawler on each hook. I have done well for myself in the past with this, but must have offended someone in the school.

After that I trolled a small floating Rapala. Dingy motor has a 2 knot minimum, but still managed to get fish at that speed. First fish landed was a nice smally in the 11-12" range. Right against the West Wall at the terminal. It cleared the water a few times and pulled out some line on my ultralight setup, but in the end got to the boat. This got me all excited and I spent the next hour pulling in 12-14, 5" cookie cutter largemouth. Anyone know what is up with them? They are everywhere! Either that or the one just really wants to be friends. Not sure if this is an every year thing or what, but I cannot stop catching these things. Also hooked up 2 warmouth of equally impressive size.

Finishing up, I went to my favorite hole beneath the Ballard Bridge, where half a dozen bluegill cleaned my hooks and wandered home for the night.

Night before I got 4 perch, 6 bass and at least 18-20 bluegill, just floating around under the bridge.

Not really a keeper fishery, not thinking I would want to anyway, but you almost have to try if you don't want to catch something. Its always fun catching though! Pictures next time.

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