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Decided to hit Lake WA on Friday. Got onto the water about 8:30am and slow rolled towards to the S end of Mercer Island. Put the FishHawk temp probe down to the bottom in 100 ft of water to get a reading. Water temp was 59 degrees on top and 52 at the bottom with a slight acceleration in temp change about 50ft down. Trolled the entire S end of Mercer Island with a dodger and a Gods Tooth 50/50 with a pink grub on the hook, nothing. After reaching the West end of Mercer I switched up to another dodger and a Macks cripplure. Once again nothing. After about 3 hours of not a single bite went to a wedding ring double whammy setup with a pink maggot on the hook. Trolled for 30 mins and nothing. Went back to let the downrigger down from 45 to 65 feet and wham, we had a winner. A nice 14" trout. Re-rigged and continued trolling between the S end of Seward Park and Mercer, nothing. Decided to troll the main S body of the lake towards Boeing. That's where fish #2 came. It was a nice healthy fat chunky 16'" trout. Fished for another 45 mins and got off the water at 3:30pm.

The fish were very scattered. There was practically nothing on the fish finder all day. Saw a couple of small schools of fish possible bait fish around 25ft a few times but they produced nothing at all. Fishing was slow but it was just nice to get back out there again. The weather was absolutely perfect.Be safe out there! -G

rmrauscher

5/18/2020 1:49:22 PM

Any day fishing is better than yard work. The big lake can be a tough stingy mistress for sure. Thanks for the report. Last time down for us was pretty much a mirror image of your report. We will be down first part of next week to give it a another go.

salmonbarry

5/18/2020 5:35:40 PM

Thanks for the report! You probably saw my buddy breaking in his new boat out there. I met him at the launch at 1 pm and gave him some lures and tips for trolling and said he had 2 takes over by the houses along the mouth of the Cedar then that was it. Last time out there all mine came trolling north to south from west tip of Mercer to Boeing plant . Still feels good to be on the water again and thanks for the tip from the fish hawk! I've got one too and love it this time of year to find the sweet water column spots!

ScottinMilton

5/25/2020 5:25:07 PM

SW corner of mercer in the middle 28-35 hit Koaks and cuts with a white hootcie with a red blade spinner behind a dodger bent to provide action 75 feet back on wire with corn limits to be had and they are nice fish

gcban

6/4/2020 8:36:38 PM

Thanks, Will give it a shot tomorrow while I’m out there. -G

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