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Offut Lake Report
Thurston County, WA

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02/22/2016
46° - 50°
Trolling
Rainbow Trout
Power Eggs
Orange
Mostly Sunny
Mack's Wedding Ring
Morning
41° - 45°
02/23/2016
3
3396

After taking a week off from work to look into some heart arrhythmias I've been having, I couldn't resist heading out for a few hours on such a beautiful day. If I'm going to have a heart attack I might as well be doing something I love right? I used some of that free time to spruce up my little 12 footer with new electronics, carpet and other little goodies. Even built "Seahawks" planer boards and a homemade mast! I'm on a mission to show what can be done with this little old boat this year. But for now just a short drive to Offut Lake where a recent cutthroat stocking got my interest.

On the water by 9am, crisp and beautiful with a slight wind. New Garmin worked beautifully and I marked fish all over the water column. Fishing was slow with no bites on a variety of spoons, flies, worms, power bait or spinners for the first 3 hrs. Those fishing from shore were reporting the same. I usually am a hardcore troller for trout but I tried drop shot and jigging too....nothing.

Then I rigged an orange Macks wedding ring tipped with an orange power egg on the lead hook behind a rainbow dodger and 5 min later a fat 18 in. rainbow slammed it and put up a decent fight. I was on the downrigger, 15 ft deep, 50 ft back in 22 ft water trolling at 1.3 mph. Not long after that I landed a 15 in Brown on my long line. She bit at a rainbow colored spoon with no dodger or weight set 150 ft back. Gets a bit tricky setting that far back in shallow water but I've had more success that way.

Two fish in the cooler on 2 bites then landed 3 small baby bows in the 6-7 in range safely released. The orange wedding ring was the lure of the day.

Had to leave the lake by 2 to get fitted for a 30 day heart event monitor, ugh, just when it was getting fun.

Although the bite was slow I had to rate it at least a 3 as I'm back on the water doing what I love and hopefully can continue to do for many more years to come. Even caught my first Brown! This new hobby/lifestyle started last spring and I've fished in over 30 lakes in less than a year!


Comments

Reelemin22
2/24/2016 2:07:00 AM
Thanx for the report. Your're right, do what you love. Fish on !!!
fdelgado17
2/27/2016 1:39:00 PM
Nice brown. You have to work to get those guys.
fdelgado17
2/27/2016 1:39:00 PM
Nice brown. You have to work to get those guys.
'OL GREY DOG
3/7/2016 7:39:00 PM
i've had the best luck casting wedding rings to shore from as far out as you can throw them for them cutty plants... put a inch or two of nightcrawler with scent behind it... right around the ramp both directions if they havent been in there too long ... go around the point to the right if theyve had time to spread out ... change color scent 'n speed of retrieve till ya find one they like
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