I didn't wake up with a plan to go fishing but after checking the weather reports it was going to be sunny with very lite winds. At 5:30 am I was out the door and had 2 poles in the water before 6am on a glass smooth lake all to myself. Because the sun was already shinning I used a chrome Ford Fender with tiny wedding rings I made from 3mm beads on one and a chrome 7 blade gang troll on the other rod w/ Pautzke's pink corn as bait. This is my go to bait that gets used the most and its not something the fish see all the time so it works for me.

With the water temp at 74.6 I opted to long line 70 to 80 feet out with 3/8's ounce of weight on each to get me to the 15 foot depth range. Speed was kept constant at 1.2 mph thanks to the cruse control setting on my Minn Kota {I love that thing} and the auto pilot took care of most of the steering. Lots of hits but not many sticking so I just kicked back and enjoyed the calm waters. BOOM, The bells go off on one rod and I can tell it a nice fish so I start fighting it to the boat and see its a nice brown. I grab the net darn fish jumps and its gone ... Noooo

Picked up 2 nice hold over rainbows and a fair sized brown and lost about 6 so not bad for 3 hours on the water. I have fished this lake many times and that's my 3rd brown trout of the year out of it so far but almost always limit on rainbows. Just remember no gas motors allowed on this lake and my midday in the summer its packed with swimmers.

Kosh