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Up at 0430 out the door at 0507 on the water at 0732, Ozette special regs apply additional to State regs as it's in the park. No bait, single hook, no barbes, perfect for Dons Dandy Crappie jigs and spinners. Second cast to the edge of the reeds and hawg on, this went on for about an hour and then turned off like a light switch. Water temp 56 with fog giving way to sunshine calm giving way to the standard light westerly, sun now on the water and now the most beautiful Cut Throat Trout show in the world began , as of yet surprisingly no squaw fish. I do not keep the bass or the cutties so I needed to find some Perch for shore lunch, thats when I began to catch the squawfish, by this time the eagles were cussing me out for not having fed them, but they got more than their fill believe me as in between every Perch came a dozen or so squawfish. I love the aerial acrobatics and the wooshing of the air slipping as the eagles come in for the morning feast, I almost hit one with a flying fish and he almost got it mid air, meanwhile you can hear the juveniles cheering on ma and pa, and a distant Loon speaking Minnesotan to me, I love this lake! Triple tap zing and Perch on, slowly the cooler began to beat the drumming sound of success keeping time with the low humm of the troll motor filling in between the high notes of the Eagles clammoring for more. Dang where did the time go? Lunch time already, so headed to my favorite shore lunch spot and soon enough the heavenly smell of fresh fillets filled the air mixing with the memories of shore lunch pasts, I suddenly realized I had taken on some sun on my upper thighs, yikes kinda sneaks up on ya! Long pants on now the wind was pushing good from the west as is usual dropping the temp a notch, time to hit up my favorite drifts. As is usual a beautiful day had passed into memory, but what was not usual was I had no Gigantus Perchus Ozettes as of yet, only the common fare pushing the 10" mark, try as I might to eeke out the last hopes for the big one, I conceeded a beautiful day had passed and I began to take note of my sore tired muscles from trying to teach dead squawfish how to fly; just how many I can't say for sure, I lost count somewhere past 60. Klahowya!

MR_A

6/27/2011 3:48:00 PM

Right on BMGW!! looks like you had a blast. and the lake conditions look like they were better for you than they were me.

BMGW

6/27/2011 4:09:00 PM

Well it did get to blowing pretty good, almost to the point of white capping for a couple hours as the front blew in made it a little tough to work the electric troll motor effectively. Lets plan a trip!

ChrisB

6/27/2011 9:59:00 PM

Nice report ! Will be looking forward to reading the reports for this lake from now on. Come on big mama bass, you know you want to bite for MR_A and BMGW.

BMGW

6/28/2011 9:17:00 AM

Heya ChrisB this lake has some absolutely astonishingly huge LMB in it, they are very well fed and they have shoulders. That said they are shy to bite and the lake is very cold so they are not as active as a warmer water lake until mid July through Sep. If your looking for a fight from one of these, I am sorry to say they are not with it, hardly ever a blow up, a run maybe two and they come right in. I believe the state record is in this lake, my personal best is pushing 14#. You want to fish for these guys very early morning, very rare to get one much past 9am...

ChrisB

6/29/2011 8:01:00 PM

Thanks for the info. Have you visually seen the BIG ones 8-12#'s ? I might have to make a trip over there, sounds like August would be the best time. What state did you catch your 14 pounder in ? Thats a hell of a fish, congrats to you.

BMGW

6/29/2011 10:19:00 PM

Catch them on occasion in my own pond... The fish I referenced earlier was caught near 20 years ago in Ozette...

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