I haven't been to Boren since the spring when it was planted. I went this past Friday-Sunday just to see if there are any trout still left (trout fishing is usually dead during the summer).

To my surprise, I caught lots of trout. Limited on 2 of the 3 days. They're not big (8-10 inches) but there were lots of them. It's almost as if the lake got recently stocked, except the WDFW site doesn't say anything about recent stockings. I did better this weekend than during the spring when the lake was planted.

They were tough to hook though. Real bait robbers--they would grab and spit out, or I would miss the hookset. Since they were small, I had a hard time hooking them with with a size 8 hook and power bait. If I tried to use a smaller piece of power bait (to get more hook exposure), then power bait would not provide enough buoyancy to float the weight of the hook. The bait had to be floating to get more visibility and bites.

I finally came up with a solution: I found some fine-wire size 16 treble hooks in my tackle box (really small and lightweight, so that a small gob of power bait would float the hook). I rigged it so that the points of the hook were exposed through the small piece of power bait (the power bait was about the size of a big pea). I then fished using a slack line so that I can watch my line twitch when I get bites. Worked great.

I'd post pics, but who wants to see a stringer of 8-10 inch trout sitting in the sink. LOL

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