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Meridian Lake Report
King County, WA

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03/18/2016
46° - 50°
Trolling
Kokanee
Corn
Windy
Dodger
Morning
46° - 50°
03/18/2016
1
1451

The nice weather the last few days gave me the itch to catch fish. Its been a long winter for me after learning this new (to me) fishery last year.

Was fishing by 8:30am, and gave it up at 10:30, pretty good wind storm blew in about 10. Might be a little too early for the meridian kokes though... Surface temps were 46-47 still, and the kokanee are scattered all over the lake. I did find one school near the north tip of the lake, but no bites.

Long lined one rod w/ various lures, with and without a dodger, and 5-20ft down on the downrigger for the other rod. Hotchies and home made wedding rings for the downrigger rod, with fire corn. .9-1.5 mph. Also got to play with some dodgers that I made out of brass sheet. I was impressed by the action of my dodgers, fish werent though...

Had fun playing with gear that I made, and testing other boat setup/ maintanence projects from over the winter.

Pray for some more warm weather!


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Fish Dawg
3/19/2016 9:59:00 AM
Thanks for the report Sideburns! Took my first prospecting trip of the year on Meridian two weeks ago with same results. Threw spinners, hoochies, shrimp flies, big stuff & small, shallow & deep, quick & slow and they were no more impressed with my offerings than yours. Also my shakedown cruise after winter PM and boat tweaks. Everything functional for me too. Was thinking about Meridian again tomorrow but maybe it will be Lk WA for cutthroat instead. Good luck and tight lines!
DjButler
3/19/2016 11:31:00 AM
Ya still a bit early in sense of water temps. Meridian won't be good until that surface temp is well over 50. I was looking back at my old reports and I actually caught limits during this time. But we also got an early spring. Surface temps were in the high 50's. Anyways, thanks for the report.
It won't be long before we start pulling limits out there. Tight lines brother
Mike10gs
3/19/2016 11:58:00 AM
Hey there you were probably the other boat we came by. Had the same results as you did. It was pretty dead. Water Temps need to come up. I came out going by dj butler last year reports. But I guess Temps were different. Now back to waiting. Tight lines.
The Fisherman
3/21/2016 11:11:00 AM
Thumbs up on the "bite me" spinner!
Sideburns
3/21/2016 8:17:00 PM
Good eye!
working on a subliminal messaging theroy....
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