Decided my freezer has enough coho and pinks to last all winter, and wanted to see what one of my favorite fisheries was looking like, fall trout fishing. Something about the cool mornings and the relative solitude you get on the lake in the fall.

The fish seem to be starting to get active. Water temp on the surface was between 65-66 degrees. I noticed a relatively small hatch had started when I launched about 7:30am Within 5 minutes of getting my gear down, 1 line at 25 feet and the other at 15, both lines got and I had landed 2 already, releasing 1. I thought that maybe this would be a 20+ fish day! It didn't quite work out that way, but there was enough action to keep me on the lake for 3-4 hours

In the end I think I landed 9, and kept my 5. I was using a green Doc Spratley fly, an olive Woolly Bugger, and a 50/50 God's Tooth spin kokanee rigged, all trailing 16 inches behind a Mack's sling blade and a Yakima Bait FST. The Woolly Bugger got most of the action, but that might have been because that line stayed at 25 feet all morning while I searched around with the other.

Video shows most of the action from the morning.

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