So today I thought I would hit Lake Washington again. After my last couple of outings, which were a total bust, I did not have high expectations. Headed off towards the south end of Mercer Island from Coulon at 8am to the usual trolling spot. One good luck sign was once I got to my fishing spot a small bird landed on my ice chest stared at me for about 15 seconds. It then took a dump on top of my ice chest and flew off. I consider that a luck good sign. The fishfinder had very little on it and I was not encouraged. No bait balls, no fish. One thing that was different on this trip from last week was I had ordered some of the Gods Tooth lures from Cabela's and decided to try them out. I had seen on this forum of other people using them and thought I would order some since I did not have any. Put a sling blade flasher and the blue and silver gods tooth spoon on and started my troll. No bait no scent. No more than 5 minutes into my troll the first fish was on. A 14 inch trout. Continued my troll along the south end of Mercer Island and continually got hit about every 10 to 15 minutes. Total fish count for the day was 15. Five were lost before getting to the boat. 10 released, including 2 salmon and 5 fish were retained. All fish were between 14 to 18 inches in size. The bite died off after 1pm or so and I fished till 5pm. Only caught 2 fish after 1pm.

To say that I'm in the I am a believer in the gods tooth spoon now would be an understatement. I have no idea why I have never gotten these before. If you don't have some of these I would definitely recommend you pick some up. I used that spoon most of the day except for a small stretch with the wedding ring after the bite died off but the gods tooth out fished everything today. It was an amazing relaxing day to be out on the water and it even rained for a while which was great. I was the only boat out there on the south end of the lake today trolling. Saw a couple of bass fisherman fishing around docks though. Looks like the south end of Lake Washington is back in business so get out there and go get them. Most productive area was SW corner of Mercer Island (hotspot marked). All fish were caught between 30 to 55 ft. Bigger fish were deeper. Based that depth range from the buoy data and the thermocline. If the bite would have continued all day I would have rated it a 5. It was a epic and funny day of fishing. Be safe. G.