Northwest Fishing Reports

This morning on a lake I never fished for trout, as I was heading out into the middle of the lake I kept seeing a lot of water movement, fish where jumping every where.
But I saw some strange water movement, kind of like when a bunch of bubble come out of the water. So I headed over to check it out, Ive never seen so many fish heads sticking out of the water in one spot in a tight group. They had there heads, eyes and 2 inches of there back out of the water, with there mouth wide open scooping the film off the top of the water. There were 60+ heads sticking out of the water, it seemed they were all looking at me to, because I was heading straight for them. I got within 5 feet of them, and then the trout eruption began. It actually scared me, it was so loud and created mass water disruption. Then about hour later, I was changing my wedding ring and got blown by the wind to shore. My back was to the shore, and apparently my boat trapped a 5lb carp between it and the shore. That fish made this huge splash a foot behind me and scared me again. Now I know why its call Eire.:cyclopsan

What got me was when you said, "I was changing my wedding ring". That stumped me. Why would he change his wedding ring. Seeing the second wife and need that ring instead of the ring for the first wife? [img=http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ima ... nfused.gif]t[/img]

Then it hit me, 'wedding ring', trout fishing drag along behind the boat stuff. Hey, don't blame me, I flunked the trout fishing test the other week. [lol]

Amx - I thought the same thing! I was like "ooohhhhh".

That's really interesting behavior. I'll pass it on to some of my co-workers see if they've heard anything like that.

Now, I've had the beejesus scared out of me by big sturgeon bumping into the shock boat at night. That'll make you think of scary lake monster movies and consider wetting your drawers!

Just jump in the lake and go swimming for a couple minutes. No-one will know how they REALLY got wet.

Those are carp! I should have realized that initially (long day!) but my coworker pointed that's just a scum run. They and even bluegill will skim the scum.

They were trout. The carp scared me right next to shore

That's interesting. Normally trout don't group like that, but carp will.

i was golf'n some years ago....pull'd a shot left close to the lake.....was lay'n on good grass but the fairway get'n to it was a lil muddy....so i tip toes out there....get set 'n wack it 1...well the ground be'n wet it made a pretty loud noise....and a 100 ft of shore line "erupted"....was ? 100s of carp...'n i spooked 'em...scared the snot(or somethin) outta me...so i look up and my play'n partner is about 25 yards into the next fairway walk'n bk towards his bag...i just duck'd/cringed lololol...he had drop'd his bag 'n run like heck...group play'n behind us were roll'n on the ground laugh'n

That is funny!

I was fishing at scriber lake in Lynnwood yesterday evening and saw trout behaving in a similar fashion. There are cutthroat trout in scriber lake, they aren't stocked, or haven't been for a while. But they would run around the top of the water like you described, with their heads out. They didn't freak out like you described, but they were grouped up and skimming the surface. Weird.

Sounds like a large hatch was coming off.

Marc Martyn wrote:Sounds like a large hatch was coming off.

I was thinking planktonic activity possibly.

Stacie Kelsey wrote:
Now, I've had the beejesus scared out of me by big sturgeon bumping into the shock boat at night. That'll make you think of scary lake monster movies and consider wetting your drawers!

Sitting silently in the river or slough and having one of those slosh around right near you are breach out of the water will make you about jump OUT of the boat, lol.