I've been out of the country for a couple of weeks, just returned on Wednesday and was hankering to do some trout fishing, so gave Pete a call and we decided to hit Green Lake on Saturday morning. Met Pete at 6:00 AM on the north shore... very, very dark, so waited until about 6:30 to get our lines in the water. I knew that the forecast called for lots of rain and lots of wind, at a quick look at the plummeting barometer before I went out the door indicated that this was probably not going to be a very good "catching" day. Day started out at 45 degrees with heavy overcast... water temp at the shoreline a warming 52 degrees. Started out with brown (hatchery nugget) Power Eggs on one rig, tried a piece of nightcrawler under a float on the other. Wind started to pick up almost immediately and it was soon apparent the the float was being swept along too quickly to be of any use, so changed up to a bottom rig with chartreuse PE. About 7:15 had a hard hit on the chartreuse PE and reeled in a feisty, silvery and football-shaped Rainbow of 11 1/2". That would be the only fish caught. By 7:00 the rain had started and each passing minute it seemed to grow stronger, becoming a torrential downpour by 8:00, with winds gusting over 20 mph. By 8:30 Pete was soaked through and called it a day, having had a couple of hits, but no hook-ups. I stuck it out until noon (thank goodness for quality raingear from Cabela's!!), had a couple of hits but no more hook-ups. Hard to control casts or to discern bites when the wind gusts were now reaching 30+mph.
Watched a flock of cormorants numbering close to 50 trying to fish, but even they were having difficulty in the wind. Was interesting to see hundreds of swallows skimming over the lake's surface, obviously feasting on emerging midges, of which I was able to spot several as the wind blew them ashore.
Not a great day for fishing, but am very glad to be home, and any day I can be out pursuing the sport I love so much is a joy to me! PTL!

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