Fished rock between 9-3. Nice weather, sunny early, then cloud cover. Got checked by the game wardens for the first time ever on this lake. There must have been about 10 boats out there, and several shore fishermen.
Water was greenish, fishing was kind of slow with about 1-3 strikes per hour trolling. Bites were on a surface rapala and a deep diver. Trolling speed ranged from 1.2-2.2 mph. 6 fish to the boat, and lost a couple. All fish were smallish browns, largest maybe 15 inches. I'm thinking maybe they were doing a lot of following and mainly annoyance striking the baits. Many hits were just slight taps that didn't result in hookups. Many of the fish were hooked outside the mouth. I often got hooked up right after I started reeling in to check my lure. If anyone had it figured out it would be interesting to know what the fish really wanted. I'm thinking of trying a crawler tipped fly next time. Maybe the addition of bait will get them to hang on long enough to get hooked.
Nice day on the water, but not a lot of action catching wise.


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