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Well, last night I had a choice to make as to which "Green" body of water I wanted to hit. Go down to the Green River and possibly hook into some hard fighting Chums, or make the much shorter and easier drive to Green Lake and check in on the amazing Rainbow Trout fishing going on there. In the end, laziness, being tired and the desire to just have a nice "gimme" day where catching was essentially guaranteed and fishing stress levels were much reduced (as compared to a busy river bank) won out and I chose Green Lake.

I wasn't disappointed.

I arrived at the north east corner of the lake and had my first power bait rod in the water by about 6:35am. I heard that chartreuse had been working well, so I set up my first pole with chartreuse power bait with extra scent on about a 3' or 4' leader. I then tied on a 1/16oz. predominantly chartreuse and gold Rooster Tail with my other pole and started casting. In no time flat I started getting hits on the power bait, but at least four or five times in a row I got a few likely looking taps and set the hook at what looked like a good point only to find out that there was no fish on the other end. They just weren't quite committing. Anyway, I pretty quickly abandoned the Rooster Tail for a 1/4oz silver and orange Kastmaster due to the fact that there was a pretty stiff headwind by this point which made casting anything lightweight very difficult. Not long after I had been there two other people showed up, and it was right about at that point (probably around 7:15 or 7:30) that I finally had my first fish take the bait and was able to get a good hook set. This was a nice fish too! As I was reeling it in I had to tighten my drag down to keep it from running into surrounding lines. It was going wherever it wanted on my light setup. It turned out to be a fat 14.5" triploid; not a bad way to start! Pretty quickly after that I landed another fish with the chartreuse power bait, and by this point I decided that even though bait fishing is kind of boring, and definitely not as fun as lure fishing, it made no sense to keep casting lures when I hadn't had a single hit with them yet and decided to switch my second rod to pink power eggs with garlic scent.

Just about no sooner had that bait hit the water than those trout started nailing it, and for the time period between about 8am and 9pm I think I landed four more fish, while the guy next to me got about that many as well, also with pink or orange power eggs.

Just a side note here, when I picked up my chartreuse power bait I was really after the power eggs, but they didn't have any so I went with the regular bait instead. After having used both for a fair amount of fishing now, I am just about convinced that power eggs are the way to go. They seem to work just as well, if not better than power bait, and have the huge advantages of less mess and a much longer lifespan on the hook before falling off. Curious if other people agree with me on that.

Anyway, after about 9:30 or thereabouts things really slowed down. I ended up getting two more fish on the pink garlic power eggs before I left at about noon, and the guy next to me got maybe 3 or 4 more, but the action wasn't quite as fast.

Definitely a great day of fishing at Green Lake, and I am certainly glad that I went. I came home with 8 nice fish (really wanted my limit of 10 but just didn't have time to stick around), one 14.5" triploid, and one 14", two 13" and four ~12" Steelhead smolts. No surprise that the power bait/eggs were working (2 fish on the chartreuse normal scent, 6 fish on the pink garlic scent), but I was a bit surprised that the lures didn't get any hits after trying numerous Kastmasters, spinners and even a jig. That could have been due to the wind and casting distance though as it definitely seemed like the bait hits were only coming out deeper.

Maybe if I have a little more patience on some of those lighter bait taps next time I'll make it out with my limit of 10. I certainly had a lot of missed opportunities this morning in that category!

Tight lines!

salmonbarry

11/23/2014 4:27:00 PM

So does anyone take a boat out on this lake and if so, where would you launch it? Talking about a pontoon boat~ would be fun to put in the back of my truck this week to work and drop it in if I get done in time to troll around for some of those silver looking trout!

AJFishdude

11/23/2014 10:58:00 PM

Hey salmonbarry. The short answer is yes, people definitely do fish the lake from boats, but it is limited to car toppers. You should be fine in a pontoon boat if you can move it about 100 yards from the parking lot to the lake. I sent you a PM with more details.

whorde

11/24/2014 11:56:00 AM

Whether they follow it, or are actually close, the few times I've stopped briefly at the 65th street dock, most of the hits are either max cast range (3/8ths castmaster) minus about 8-10 cranks of the reel, or they are about 10 feet off the dock. Nothing right on landing, and nothing in between, if my memory serves. So you can definitely get them close to the dock. How that applies to other areas of the lake I dont know, but it does seem that they hit lures more frequently out in the middle cuz I've seen the guys in the rubber rafts just slaying.

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