Great fishing top water poppers lower lake hogs all evening and great cat fish at coffeee pot

Fished from the shore at a popular spot near the campground at the lower end of Upper Twin Lake. Used power bait with a small artificial earthworm tail suspended about three feet under a bobber. I also used a small split shot to sink the bait. I Caught 10 to 11 inch Rainbows and had my limit in about two hours. It was overcast and the winds were blowing about 15 to 25 miles per hour. The second day the weather was nicer and a lot more people showed up. There isn't much shore access at this lake, so it's hard to get a good spot when there are a lot of people there. We got beat to our spot the second day and had to find a new one. The fishing was a lot slower, but I caught two 10 inch Rainbows before we called it a day.

Arrived at the Upper Lake to a light breeze at about 9:00. Took trail around to the South end of the lake to a point of land known by many. Hooked up the old faithfull (Lazy Man) rig.........Worms tipped with egg & Worms tipped with Power Bait. Casted with Bobber suspending the bait 7 feet from surface. Love to see the bobber dance, run, and dive........another hook-up. Brother and I took 10 11" fish in 2.5 hours..............one carryover (approx 17") shook free. Saw fly fishers........and trollers.........looked pretty slow for them. Headed home for a trout fry.

Fished Upper Twin today before heading to Coffee Pot. I've had reasonable success here in the past with big late winter and spring carryover rainbows. I guess one could assume that the empty parking lot was an ominous sign upon my arrival. Fished for 2 hours with nymphs and chironimids on both a floating and floating line. Nothing, notta, zip. My fish finder was mostly silent also, detecting very few fish. The past couple springs I've gotten a few each trip but so far this year have not even had a strike in two outings.

I haven't fished many desert lakes yet, but this one located in the channeled scablands of Washington is a beauty. The is little development around the lake and it sets nestled in a cliff surrounded location on Lake Creek.

I tried my tried and true fish locator (green wolly bugger trailing a prince nymph. I had a couple solid strikes right away. no hook ups though. I fished this combo until I hooked and landed a nice (12 1/2 inch) Rainbow. It was a good fighter once it got close to my tube, then it tried to refuse to be landed. This trout was jumping and running for all it was worth. It surprised me because it didn't fight much until close to the dry world.
I hooked and released a couple other sporting fish. One was fairly large (est. 14-15 inches) and it broke off the leader just as I went to net it. It was using every trick in the book to shake the hook or break the leader. It had more tricks than me, so it never left the water.
Here is another lake I will return to. How lucky we are to have such fine water in Washington.
Speaking of water, it appeared the lake was "turning over" and the lake had an incredible amount of algae in it. I could barely see my fins under water??? Is it unusual for a lake to turn over this time of year?
Good luck to all!