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Pierce County, WA

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05/19/2012
56° - 60°
Trolling
Kokanee
Blue
Mostly Sunny
Dodger
Morning
61° - 65°
05/20/2012
2
881

Left the launch at 7:15 or so. I believe we are hitting it late but with the long drive(an hour or more) and the late opening of the lakewood city launch(7:00) an earlier day was not in the cards. I was about to clip Melanie's rod stacked onto the downrigger when my rod , down about 20 ft, goes off. a nice 12 inch holdover trout. A promising start I thought. But alas, it was not to be. Melanie hooked a smaller trout that tossed a little cleo spoon flatlined off the back. We tried almost everything from wedding rings to pee wee hotchies with sling blades but no soap, no kokes and no more trout. We did see one boat take a couple of kokes but no size and only a couple. Next week, Quinalt!Bob R


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Mike@Bills
5/20/2012 9:45:00 PM
Use the fee launch off of exit 122, it opens at 0500. There is a lot of days when 0715 is when the bite shuts down. As of about a week ago flatlining has not been very productive, most fish are comming out around 50-60ft. Mini hoochies with a dicknite dodger is killing them. Make sure you use corn and maggots to tip the mini hoochie with. These fish in the lake are huge this year you need to get in on this action. My last limit was a 15 incher as the smallest and a 16 as the biggest and all others were in between. There seems to be less fish this year but the quality is amazing. Good luck next time on American.
Bob R
5/21/2012 6:07:00 AM
Thanks for info, maybe during the week if rain lightens up I'll get out there. Bob R
Mike@Bills
5/21/2012 8:15:00 AM
I am taking monday off after fishing the Lake Stevens derby on saturday. I will probably be out later this week. Watch my post I will usually post depths and everything which will make it easier to find the fish.
MotoBoat
5/21/2012 3:18:00 PM
Bob Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr, thank for the report. Giver er another try, luck might be on your side.

M@Bills, how did you do in the Stevens tournament?
Mike@Bills
5/21/2012 5:40:00 PM
Did horrible at Stevens! We only saw 3 fish netted and we only got 1. Almost the worst day of fishing I have ever had. All the fish we saw caught were really small too! Probably wont do it next year, its a ton of money to drive there and back and I can get ones bigger than the derby winner right in my back yard. I know its slow on most lakes this year though. If fishing picks up there I might try it again.
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