WOW! Green Lake remains HOT for Rainbow Trout... well, maybe Orange, 'cause that's the color Power Eggs they were hitting today. Forecast of rain and heavy winds in the afternoon, plus a plummeting barometer I checked before heading out, left me dubious about today's fishing adventure. Met Pete at the lake in the dark, dark... O'Dark-thirty... actually, about 7:15 AM, temp at the outset was a balmy 52 degrees... water temp was 56 degrees. Wind was already howling and a heavy rain to start... made casting a miserable chore... couldn't tell where your terminal tackle was going to end up! I started fishing about 7:30, using orange Power Eggs, kept my other rig on the shore because I couldn't handle two in the wind. Wind was gusting somewhere around 50 mph and rain was off and on... Green Lake looked like the North Atlantic during hurricane season! About 8:30 I watched my line go from a long arc to a taunt line, picked up my rod and felt the familiar tap, tap, tap of a fish picking up the bait and set the hook... fish on... reeled in a beautiful, chunky 16" Rainbow. It was impossible to see the rod tip move on a strike (it was in perpetual motion in the wind), so I just watched the line, and when I saw even the slightest variation in the movement of the line to the water, I picked up the rod, fed a little slack until I felt the tap, tap, tap on the other end and then set the hook. I landed five Rainbows ranging from 15" to 16 1/2" by this method, and had my limit by 10:30. Used orange Power Eggs on a 2' leader all morning. I had found today's "hunny hole"! Pete was having serious problems in the wind... had one fish on, but between the fish running up the shoreline and the wind blowing it into the shore, Pete's line wound up snagged in the trees and was snapped off. I had my five, and Pete hadn't landed one yet... a little coaching by your's truly, and he got the idea and promptly landed two, including the biggest of the day, a beautiful Rainbow, just a click under 17". About 11:30, he felt a weight on his line, began to reel in and discovered that he had snagged another line... turns out it was his earlier snapped line, pulled it in by hand and a 15" Rainbow was still attached! was able to retrieve his weight, hook, swivel and the fish as well... only fisherman I've ever known to land his fish two hours after he hooked it!
By noon the bite was off, we left the lake about 12:30. The temp gauge in my truck read 45 degrees, so the cold front had definitely arrived and that probably put the fish off the bite.
Fishing today was truly an adventure... amazing to feel the forces of Nature and to watch the ever changing sky, to feel the force of the wind... it was awesome!
These beautiful Rainbow Trout are awesome as well... all of them caught today were 15" and over. They filet beautifully at that size, and most of them have bright orange flesh, perfect for the grill and for filling the smoker! Amazing that we have such quality fishing available in the midst of the great city of Seattle... if you aren't taking advantage of it, you are missing some awesome fishing! PTL!

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