Couldn’t resist the chance to give the lake a try after getting back from a weekend family trip. Had my line in the water around 3:30pm on the North side of the 520 bridge. The conditions were great with light winds out of the North, partly sunny skies hardly any boat traffic and zero car traffic on the bridge. I found a ton of fish near midspan so I put my mini UV hootchie tipped with herring down around 70’ and had a strike in fairly short order. This fish ran on my quite a bit and I was beginning to wonder if I had hooked into a silver or chinook headed for Lake Sammamish. I did manage to finally get it to the boat and it turned out to be a nice sized buck sockeye that had already started to turn red and had a fairly good hook nose going. The fish was quickly released and it headed straight down so I’m hopeful that it’s ordeal wasn’t life threatening. I re-rigged the hoochie, put it down again and trolled a bit further out from the bridge which yielded another fish a short while later. This turned out to be an 18” cutt and it also came at 70’ down. She got the wood shampoo and is now getting the dry cure as well. That was it for fish to the boat for the rest of my time out on the lake. I switched up my lures and had a take on a 3” pearl Apex and one on a mini B2 squid behind a wiggle fin action disk. Called it a day around 6:30pm and headed back to the empty launch on very calm waters. If you never have seen the 520 bridge open, here is what it looks like. I was very tempted to troll through the opening but though better of it.