We got out to Lake Alice late in the afternoon amidst a nice long rain shower. Temperature was right around 60 degrees and the lake had a nice chop to it from the wind. By the time the rain finished and we got the boat in the water it was 6pm.
Just before we pushed off into the water a group of 3 guys that must have been around the 20's in age pulled in on their boat. They had about 20 trout all ranging in size between 8" to 10", didn't see anything bigger than that. They had been out fishing all through the rain and mentioned that they had just sat off of the dock area and caught all of these.
I started out with a spinner, while my wife began with a wooly bugger. 10 minutes after we started she lost the wooly bugger to the ground graveyard, meanwhile I was having no luck with the spinner so I decided to try a good old hook and worm. The wife went back to our last Wooly Bugger and we kept going.
In the next 35 minutes my wife caught 2 trout, both were at the 10" mark so we released them. I was still having no luck with the worm and hook and decided to switch out to a fly.
At about 6:45 pm everything seemed to go dead on the lake, the water got glassy the sun really started to shine out over the trees and it was very peaceful, but no fish action. Around 7:45pm we decided to head back in and call it a day, and as we were heading back into shore the wife hooked another trout. This one hit the 12" mark so we decided to keep it.
Nothing I used got any attention at all but the wife was having a great time with the wooly bugger, wish she hadn't snagged the first one on the bottom.
Hit Fred Meyer on the way home and stocked up on the wooly bugger's, going to hit the lake again tomorrow and see how it goes. I'd like to see some of these trout make it through into the fall and grow big and fat.
If you get the chance hit this Lake Alice, it's a fun lake, nice and quiet. But release those smaller fish!

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