It's hard to give this report a fair rating as we only got to fish for a little over an hour.

JoAnn and I launched out of Magnusen Park and ran over to fish the Kirkland location. There were around a dozen or so boats out as we got out rods set up trolling off downriggers, working the depth contours. Saw a pretty good amount of fish marks so that got me encouraged. Of course, running over non-biting fish is always frustrating and it is often that way on Lake Washington so I had brought my patience along, knowing that the odds were pretty good we'd catch fish if we put in our time.

The starboard rod starting bouncing at around 8am and I handed the rod off to JoAnn as we navigated between a few boats. She did a good job bringing in our first coho of the day, a nice 5 pound buck with a bit of color, not bad at all.

Thinking it was good to have the skunk out of the boat I reset the lines and then - darkness. The fishfinder shut off. Hmmm, that's not good... I checked the downriggers - slowing to a crawl, then - dead. That's really not good!

I fired up the big motor and slowly power started coming back, not enough to fish but enough to avoid having to crank up my downriggers, yuck. Bottomline, someone forgot to charge up the downrigger batteries after the last trip out. Rookie move that cost me a morning of fishing. Oh well, got some work down and watched the Seahawks dominate Dallas. Cleaned up the boat (it needed it) and got those batteries charged up for next week!

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