When you said you headed up river from the Kenmore launch... I assume you are talking about up the slough? I was just asking on the forum the other day if anyone fishes the slough. The area up near Bothel Landing park looks really nice Maybe you were in that area?

When you said you headed up river from the Kenmore launch... I assume you are talking about up the slough? I was just asking on the forum the other day if anyone fishes the slough. The area up near Bothel Landing park looks really nice Maybe you were in that area?

I was. I think. I spent 4 hours working my way up the slough. Got way the heck up there too. I've had some excellent days of fishing up in the slough, but not this year. This spring i CnR'd a ton of cutties up there. A few were really impressive. In past years i've had some great perch and smallmouth days too but this summer is killin me so far. I even went to my favorite Snohomish County lake yesterday and only caught one. I had some 40 to 50 fish days there last summer. It's the lake i go to when i need to soothe my fisherman ego and feel like a bass pro. I released a 12lber there last fall. Point is: it's a gimme lake. Has been for the 5 years i've known about it. Not yesterday. Anyway, the slough is a beautiful stretch of water but i'm not sure it's worth the work. Are a couple of great days scattered among dozens of bad ones enough to make this a regular fishing spot? It's the place i go when i'm lazy and don't feel like driving more than 10 minutes. Sometimes. My "lazy 10 minute drive" radius has a few other spots too.