Mark Yuasa from the Seattle Times reported that Alice would be stocked a few days before me and a buddy went out. Thought it would be quick limits, but it was cold, snowed on us even. To make life more interesting we decided to go out in our float tubes. I tried some fly fishing, no luck. Caught 5 trout on a red wedding ring tipped with crawler, my buddy got one on a fly. Kept one carryover fish and 2 stockers. On the water about three hours and it took my toes about that long to feel normal again. Fun day none the less. It's a fairly shallow lake so I just ran a straight wedding ring, no weight and no sling blade or other attractors. Had 20 nibbles, but I think they needed a few days to acclimate and warm up. I opened the belly on the big boy and it was full of debris from the bottom of the lake, thought afterward that powerbait off the bottom might have been the ticket, but BORING. Not my style of fishing.

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