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I decided against hitting the Sound for the ling opener, I’ll wait until halibut opens as well before I give it a go. Now, with the Lake surface temps hitting the low 50s for at least a week, and this being the second day of stable weather, the promise of a hot bite was too much to pass up. As expected, the weather was just fantastic, and when I hit the water at 10:30 the winds were coming out of the NW. I first hit the south side of the I-90 bridge to check out the kokanee action. The kokes were willing biters, but still are just under the 12” size restriction. The kokes closer to the surface seemed to be a bit shy, it was the ones at 35’ to 70’ down that hit my mini Apex repeatedly. I also drug a mini cut plug through the area a bit to see if any cutts had yet taken up residence in the area. I didn’t find any so I ran to try out an area that I haven’t given much time in the past few years (I’m going to keep this area to myself for now). Once I set up shop, it didn’t take long before I had my first cutt of the day 25’ down on my mini Apex. I released this fish and over the next 2 hours picked up 4 more, releasing all but one 21” buck. The fish I kept slammed a Brad’s mini cut plug at 45’ down just as a ski boat was slowly passing by causing the occupants to shout out a cheer. What I found today was that the bait and the cutts were all over the water column, and as typical, the cutts were below the bait. Kokanee and smolts were jumping most of the day and I got to watch an immature eagle try it’s hand at catching a few. Ran into Woolyboat on my way back to the launch. It was nice to meet a fellow washingtonlakes member and I have to say you have a great looking setup, it is going to serve you well.

'OL GREY DOG

5/2/2011 6:50:00 AM

warmer weather has the 'ol broken bk feel'n better everyday...im sure 1 of these nice days i'll be slide'n into the water somewheres....uummm hey...ya know there's blackmouth live'n out there with them lings for the times when the tide isnt right....just say'n....DOG

coretron22

5/2/2011 8:54:00 AM

thats what I'm talkin about! Thanks for the report G-man. packed with info as usual.

Rob G.

5/2/2011 11:36:00 AM

You should do some Lake Wa guiding!

capnhook

5/2/2011 11:57:00 AM

Nice fish. Thanks for the info in your report.

'OL GREY DOG

5/2/2011 1:40:00 PM

he's got it down to a art dont he

EAmon___hoffman123

5/2/2011 4:20:00 PM

Hey G-man we were on the lk that day as well we cuagth 2cutt 2kokes we cuaght the 2 kokes on a wedding ring on the surface 1 was a 13 incher and a 11 incher that we let go and 1 cutt on the surface small 10 incher let it go and a 17 incher 26ft down on a apex we were fishing south mecrer island i dont no if we saw you but we were in the bayliner2452 cirerra

G-Man

5/2/2011 5:41:00 PM

Eamon, I didn't fish the south end on Sunday, but it does sound like the lake has awakened.

snake7676

5/2/2011 6:28:00 PM

Awsome G-man as allways , ill be back out there soon I been doing the kokanee at American lake the last few weeks just slaying them 15 14+ inchers and a few nice bows on saterday and then went 2 samamish on sunday and boated 2 cutts at 17 inchs loks like lake wa. might be good this summer for the cutts ; P thanks for the pics and report one of these days we will run across eacher other on the water till then fish on ! > { {{{{ { ; * >

earchcobber

5/3/2011 11:12:00 AM

Nice fish,great report.Do you downsize the factory 20lb test on the brads?

G-Man

5/3/2011 12:21:00 PM

I buy the unrigged two packs and rig them myself. I run 12lb fluorocarbon and a size 1 Matzuo Siwash Sickle hook on the smaller Brad's lures if I'm using them for cutts.

earchcobber

5/3/2011 6:42:00 PM

thank you for all the information and reports.

RiverChromeGS

5/3/2011 11:06:00 PM

FINALLY g-man!!!!! ive been waiting for you to slay them to get me excited about going back, after i got 4 last time, then none the second time. That big buck makes me wanna troll my lures on my new super light trout rod in my mini downrigger so bad! ill PM you when im headed down next to see if your gonna be out. great report, nice fish. really nice

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