Chalk up another tough day fishing to the dreaded rising barometer. The two of us fished the south section of the Lake from 10:30 until 2:30 with only one fish brought to the boat. I’d commented to my partner at the launch that the lake buoy was showing a steady rise in the barometric pressure and that this trip might just turn into a boat ride. Shortly after we started fishing near the south tip of Mercer Island, the boat ride was officially over. I was hugging bottom and had just brought up my gear a bit to make sure it cleared the point we were about to cross and received a major take down. My hook held through a few nice runs and several series of tail walking displays and brought to me a very nice buck in the 4lb range. A quick pic and back into the lake he went, hopefully to delight another angler. The rest of our time on the water was not nearly as exciting and although there was a massive amount of bait in the area, the predators were not on the bite. Shortly before we quit for the day, I did have another fish on for a brief moment and that was all of the action we saw for the day. Interesting note was that there were times that the bait showing on the sonar was so dense and consistent that my partner questioned if it was really fish that we were seeing. Well, he moved his downrigger ball into the mass and you could see an immediate reaction on the screen with the bait quickly moving and repositioning above the ball, so bait it was. I stuck with hoochies for the entire day, while my partner tried a variety of gear including cutplug herring, flatfish, hoochies and a rooster tail variant. The sun broke through a couple of times while we were on the water, but for the most part it was calm and overcast.