Washington

Method: Trolling
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Tackle: Plug
Time: Noon
Rating: 4
Views: 2320

Spent the most of my time on the Lake today working on using my home built planner board. Started out across from Seahawks Headquarters towing a needlefish with an ounce and a half snap weight. Picked up two fish in this area, one cutt (lost at the boat ) and one bow (released unharmed). For the next area I ran down to the mouth of the Cedar and started out pulling a mini cutplug behind a sling blade style dodger. This set up yielded just one chunky bow which was promptly released. Switched over to pulling an Apex by itself and that was good for my last bow of the day, also successfully released. I worked the Apex north towards Mercer Island with no takers and eventually found bait deeper than my planner board/snap weight setup could reliable reach. Switched over to pulling a mini cutplug by itself at 60’ on the downrigger. It wasn’t more than 5 minutes later that my rod was doing the fish on dance and yielded a very healthy 17” cutt which I ended up keeping due to how deep it took the hook. With that last fish I called it a day, packed it up and headed home to catch the last quarter of the Seahawks game. I was happy with the overall operation of my planner board and it seemed to do the trick for fish near the surface. The bows I picked up were all very deep and seemed to have at least one deformed fin, leading me to believe that they were fish released during past kids fishing programs. The surface temps were below 50 degrees, in all areas I fished, with winds out of the north and partially cloudy conditions.


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