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Had the boat in the water at around 1100. Fished for three hours or so. Didn't put a ton of effort in, as we mainly just went out to enjoy the sun while we have it.
No luck bottom fishing, but a mid size all silver Dick Nite sure did the trick. Started picking off the little planters doing a cast and slow retrieve. Just anchored up on the log sticking straight out of the water on the north end.
The battery for my trolling motor took a dump while we were on the north end. Paddling the sled back to the boat launch (against the wind, of course) with kayak paddles was fun. My fault I suppose. ADVENTURES IN BOATING.
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Fished Lake Riley, the small bass haven, but actually got a couple largies around 3 pounds on Thursday. I always take the ultra light stuff to this lake, so those 2 felt like 6 pounders on the fight. C&R'd about 35 bass, most around 10" long. Lots of baby bass minnows from recent spawns all over with trout and bass gorging on them. Talked to a trout guy who was doing well trolling a fly (he said one he got was 17"). So I dinked around with some power bait (after the bass bite died) and got a couple 12" trout for lunch before I left. Beautiful morning and great fishing!
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First time fishing Riley. Fly fished from the ramp across the lake to the houses in my float tube. Lots of activity in the morning, C&R 6-7 in a couple of hrs. The bait guys that were still fishing seemed to be doing OK as well. Nice little lake, even tried for some LMG along the shore, caught 1-small one, and also hit a couple more trout in around the weeds. Definitely worth a trip back in the summer and hit those bass again.
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Hit lake riley on sunday, caught pleny of 1 lb. plus/minus bass, mostly males, was a lot of fun, but I have a more seroius topic to discuss with everyone. All of you serious bass fishermen know that we have a ton of lakes in Washington that hold bass, in fact its tough not to find one in snohomish county that doesn't hold bass. Over the years I have noticed a trend that I would LOVE to see reversed, and that is that a lot of these lakes now are full of Stunted Fish! What that basically means that there are way too many bass in any given body of water. 3 lakes for instance, Loma, Howard, Armstrong, all used to have nice sized bass in them, but just don't anymore, and I am thinking Riley is in the same boat.
I have been fishing Snohomish, Island, Skagit, Whatcom, and King county lakes for 20 + years, and can tell you for a fact that some of these lakes are suffering from way too many bass. I know this is going to be a sore spot for some of you, but let me say 1st that I am a catch and release fisherman, and do believe in protecting our resource. But, THERE are times when it is a good thing to take bass out of a lake. If you are out on a lake and catch 20 dinks before noon, why not pluck 5 of em out? If we all did this, in 3 years we would all see a return of some of the great bass fishing we had here in the early 90's. Believe it or not, if there are too many bass in a lake, they actually shrink in size. do the research, I DID.
Why don't all lakes suffer from this? I don't know, but lakes like Rosiegner, Bosworth, Flowing, Goodwin, Whatcom, American, Terrell, Cambell, and Big lake for instance don't seem to be effected. I do think that this problemn is mostly a small lake thing, but wouldn't it be nice to go to ANY of these small lakes and know that you have the chance of at least hooking into a 5 plus pound fish? Used to be that way . . Can be again, if we all thin out some dinks . .
O.K. I'm done ranting, thanks for reading . . . .
AB
aka LipRipper
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Weather was perfect, slight off and on breeze. Spent about 4 hrs boated 3 avg. 10". Fly fishermen did well.
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The in-laws are in town from Guam, so I decided to take the father in-law to one of our fav. lakes. Launched out around 5:30-6:00 a.m. Didn't take long for him to hook his first trout which was pretty cool because he never caught trout before. Ended up only being 8 inches and was released. Caught trout pretty consistantly for about an hour ranging from 10-12". Then he hooked into something a little bigger. At first he thought he was hung up on a log, but then the log started to move. The fish surfaced multiple times and then shot back down to the bottom. After about 5 mins of battle we got him in the net, which barely fit. The fish ended up being 28" long and estimated around 8-9 lbs. Pretty cool being his first trip trout fishing and only using 4lb main line and an ultra light rod. Now I have a new record to beat because the biggest i've ever caught here is 20". All in all it was another good day on the lake.
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Decided to put off household projects again and go fishing with my brother, and 2 year old daughter. We got to the lake around 12 or so. Wind was a little strong, but the sun was out finally which was nice. Started fishing the usual shallow spots we had fish from the last couple weeks. We released a few there around 10-12" but it was slower than it had been. We decided to split up and try to find where the fish were. I trolled around for a little while and released a few more which was cool, because I usually never troll. Water temp was around 64 so I went a little deeper and targeted the choppy water like when river fishing. Set the anchor and casted my worm. Felt some resistance so I set the hook, only this one was different. I knew I had something with size because it didn't surface fast like the others did. Got the fish near the boat and realized it was a monster rainbow. Once it realized it was hooked it started to run. Finally got him in the boat after a few mins of him putting my 4lb line and ul rod to the test. Ended up being a 20" rainbow... biggest I ever caught. Casted out again after that and got another one the was 15" that was released. My bro caught and released some nice ones where he was fishing too. All in all it was a good day of fishing for us.
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We took a gamble with the weather and decided to fish Lake Riley. When we got there around 3:00 there was only 3 or 4 other boats in the water. Water temp was 3 degrees cooler than the last time we were here (53 degrees) so I didn't expect to catch much. First cast and I had a fish on. After releasing the small 10" rainbow, casted out and got another one. Played this game until about 8 fish then the bite died. Decided to relocate to a spot that my brother said was good the other day. Anchored up and had non stop action till we were ready to go. Ended up catching and releasing around 25 rainbows all around 8 - 12". Nothing very big, but still a lot of fun to catch.
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Headed out to Riley about noon-thirty. First off, Google maps shows you can access this lake from Oso via Oso Loop Rd. Not true. Turned around, went back to Trafton and took Jim Creek Road. Lost about half an hour of fishing or more thanks to that. (Wife and newborn have me on a timer when it comes to fishing lately.)
Got to the lake, got in my tube and started trolling the middle of the lake with a red wedding ring tipped with a little power bait weighted with an egg sinker. Same setup that's been working wonders at Cavanaugh for me. Didn't work on this lake yesterday.
Thought I'd try for a bass so I went to the reeds, put a crankbait on and tried that for a while. No luck.
Figured I'd head home... put the wedding ring back on and trolled back to the launch and got a bite but couldn't set the hook. It was just enough luck to entice me to try a few more casts. But no luck. Decided I would try a rooster tail for just fifteen minutes (I was already an hour later than when I told the wife I'd be home). Landed a nice 14-inch rainbow on the third cast and took it home for dinner.
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We went out on a row boat in lake riley (no gas motors allowed). I was bottom fishing with a worm, and didn't have any luck. My girlfriend caught 8-12" rainbows consistently, casting off the boat and reeling in trolling gear and wedding ring while anchored (could not get an electric motor in time). This lake is always good for catching fish, not always very large.
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